August 7, 2025 • 15 mins
Here's the 2025 TRIBUTE TO TEACHERS from Terry Meiners on 840WHAS
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thank you teacher. Serious business. It's just.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, that's a that's a calling. That's just something
you got to be on your game. It's like a
pilot on final approach all the time. You don't get
to relax. You get all these kids, you know, and
it's your job to sort of herd the cats, as
it were, tough.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
When does a teacher's.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Day end the kids all leave. Let's say they leave
school at two thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
When does a teacher's day end.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You think early in the school year, late, much later,
I think until they get things kind of rolling along.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, they do paperwork, it's all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
God love them. All teachers are awesome.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We did the thing last year. We'll probably do it
this year where us here ad iHeart. We always, you know,
look out for the teachers and educators and everybody that's
had that special somebody in the classroom in their life.
And a couple of times we did these Salceerritas giveaway
last year where we got the cater Salceerritas to a
couple of high schools and middle schools and that's that
was really fun to show the staff because you know,
(01:05):
they it makes them feel appreciated. Which they definitely should,
and something like just getting a lunch means a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's true. Glad to be a party.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We all love Pam and her family at sorcer Rita's.
They take care of us. Stalling's family is fantastic, and
I think that's a great addition to what we're talking about.
Because this is five thousand dollars prize is going to
be distributed once here and I think in the next
couple of weeks. But so you can nominate teachers again
and go to iHeartRadio dot com slash teachers. Just put
(01:33):
your favorite public school teachers name in there and then
hopefully I get to shout it out tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
If you guys were to be teachers, were to be elementary,
middle or high school, what would you do.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I love little kids.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
They're funny, they're open, you know, they don't have any filters. Yeah,
they're funny to listen to. But they're also the hardest.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah. I'm right there with oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Except some high school kids get a little you know,
well you gonna do about it, pop so that you know,
I don't know about that either, But you.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Could smoke a cigarette with one of the high school kids.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
And the middle school kids are kind of I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's tough in each face. It is when I think
about my own kids. I was thinking about this the
other day, just the games we used to play when
they were little. I did it with all four of
my kids. You put them on the bed, you give
them a rolled up pair of socks, touch the headboard.
That's the end zone. I'm the defense. They called down
and then poom pum, then you know, and knock them
(02:34):
around a little bit, and then push them and don't
let them get there until fourth down. Of course, I
let them score sooner or later. All they gotta do
is reach out with the socks and touch the headboard.
I've done that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
What do you call game?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I just did it with all my kids, just teaching
them a little bit of you know, bumping them a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Poom puman.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They're just trying to go to room me and then
and then eventually, obviously, somehow amazingly they score.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Unfourth unlockable level on NFL Blitz for the old Nintendo
game you get the Battle Terry Miners.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
They all loved it. Gracie loved it too. Wasn't just
the boys, you know, you ready to go. It's cool,
and then they get into that that's one of our
football season things. Then I also do this thing. I
mean I did it when they were little. I think
about this now because you can't do them when they're
grown up. I would take one kid, put them up
(03:26):
on my shoulder so his head is, you know, right
next to my face, on my say, right shoulder, and
then I would ask the other kid, where's your brother?
And he'd point to him up there, and then I would,
as I'm turning my head to the right, I would
lift him up and put him on my left shoulder
and say, I don't see him.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What are you talking about? He's right there.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And then I would put him back over my head
when I turned to the left and say, what are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
He's right there. You can just pull little kids with that.
Here's another thing you could do with little kids.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You would make a great college teacher. I think you
got great stories to tell. I think you would keep
people that young, those young adults, you would keep their attention.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't know, but here's something else that I learned
from my own father. I thought this was hilarious. He
you know, I have a couple of brothers that are
right around my age. By the way, Happy birthday Lynn,
my little sister Lynn, it's her birthday. To day, love you, says,
we all knowing each other's birthdays are it's fourteen of us.
But I have two brothers who are in close proximity
to me. What do you call them Irish twins? If
(04:27):
you're born within a year of each other and that
the term, Oh, I don't know what my sister Tina
right ahead of me was. I'm eleven months after her.
I think that means we're Irish twins? Is that the phrase?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Think it is?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Maybe if it's not a whole year span between the
two kids.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Anyway, I got a brother.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He's March on January, so he's actually fourteen months or
thirteen and a half months after me. And so my
dad would say to us, you know, we'd be like
six and five. Let's say, pick him up. So I'd
stand there and then I would grab him around.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The waist and puck him up far there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And then he would tell my brother pick him up,
and my brother would grab me around the waist, you know,
face to face, pick me up. And then my dad
would say, on the count of three, pick each other
up at the same time. Ready, one, two, three, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Go all.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We couldn't figure out that that won't work. That's another little,
good little gag to play with your kids.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You gotta have fun in life and and in storytelling.
I always love that. And teachers get to do that
for young kids, you know, like when I would read
When the Where the Wild Things Are? To my kids,
you gotta animate it, you gotta move around, you got
to you gotta do the whole acting, acting out the
roles or the movements or whatever's being described. And I
(05:50):
think that sticks with your kids. They never forget how
joyous that is. We have some great pictures of me
with the kids when they're little and their their eyes
are wide open and I'm trying to tell them a story,
you know, at bedtime, and then they never want you
to stop because you're you're getting them worked up. But
still it's that's you know, just add a little more
(06:11):
juice to what you're doing, just a little more energy.
I think they remember it forever. That's the best stuff
you can do. And teachers, that's that's a great fun
thing to do in fact that that thing I just described,
I putting a kid on my shoulder and then turn
and then asking because I've done that, like my sisters
have had me speak at their classes before. I've spoken
(06:32):
a lot of schools over the years, but because it
was my sister's class, I felt safe doing that. I
would take a kid and put him on my shoulder
like that, you know, because my sister I already told
her in advance what I was going to do, so
obviously she wouldn't tell me to pick up a kid
who couldn't, you know, who wasn't nimble enough or what
you know, there's certain things and then.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Do that whole thing. Where is he?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And they pull there, all those kids just going be
right there. And then I left them all my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And say where I don't see him here? What are
you talking about? The kids just laugh so much. Little
kids laugh. They think it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But nowadays, you know, I guess everybody just bows to
each other, noise a lot of that stuff, so you got,
you know, the world changes, But that's okay. I've had
a good time speaking to young kids in school too
about life and education, and I'll describe as the best
way I can on the radio, I would quietly ask
(07:30):
the people in charge at the school, a teachers, a principal,
whoever it is, to let me know a kid that
might be having some challenges. Just maybe they're I don't know,
they're just they're not they're not fitting in or they're whatever,
and so maybe they're they just need a little special love,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So what I would do is say.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I need some volunteers on the stage, and kids are all, yeah, me, me,
you know. And then you go out and you pick
a kid who's I said, you have to act like a.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Can you do it?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
May you know, cry or whatever, And then I'd say
I need someone else to act like the oldest person
on the earth, and then to make them make some
sounds like that. And I would put them on stage,
the one kid on when you're looking at the stage
on the left, and then the kid who's supposed to
be old on the right. And then I'd say, now
(08:23):
I need a helper to move through time with me.
And then I would go out in the audience and
get that kid and bring them up, and then you
make them a hero in a story essentially, and I
you know, you never know what you're doing for somebody there.
But those teachers know, they know who needs a little
bit of a boost. And the whole premise of my
thing is, and any of you get a chance of
(08:46):
speak in schools. I think this is great. I made
it up, but it works. You take the kid who's
the baby, and you let them cry and suck their thumb,
and all the kids they think it's hilarious. And I'll
cry like a baby, no, cry like a little baby,
and do all that. You take the kid, the third
one that you've taken out of the crowd, the one
(09:07):
that you were looking for, and they get to do
that too, and they get to act it out through
the stages of life, the baby, the two year old,
no no, no, no, no, no, that kind of thing, And
then you move them to a four year old and
you give them a line to say over and over again,
and the kids eat it up. And then you move
(09:27):
them through and occasionally you point to the old one
down at the end and say, do you're old? You're old?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I can't walk or whoever.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm following and I can't get up, and the kids
all laugh. And then you take that one kid and
you move them down the line of life. But what
you do is it's a spatial thing. You move them
to the end of college, and they're still a long
way to that other kid on the other side of
(09:57):
the stage, on the right side of stage, which is
the end of life. And and then I tell them all,
this is why education matters. If you just hang in school.
It's only this little bit of time. Look at all
this time that's left. And then I take the third
kid and I move them through. Oh look here, I
got a job, I got a mom, dad, I got
(10:18):
a job, I met somebody. Oh my gosh, we're.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Having a baby.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And then you move them down the time of life
to till they're grandparent and all that business. But you
just got to move it along fast, and you get
all kids laughing and they think it's hilarious. But it's
a good visual lesson about the value of education in life.
So I love doing that. I've done that one hundred
times over the years. But it always works, never fails.
(10:45):
So any of you who are listening to me, who
have a chance to get on stage in front of
little kids at school, that is a winning ticket every time.
That's a fun thing to do. So that's my contribution
to teaching. I'm too stupid to do a a regimented class,
you know, teaching syllabus, the whole thing, to finish all
(11:07):
that stuff, and I don't know what my attention span
would allow that. That's why I admire teachers so much,
because they're looking at at those faces every day. I'm
just there for a half an hour doing my little
sketchy on stage and then I go home get on
about my day. But those teachers every day are looking
out into those pairs of eyeballs, and every kid's got
a different story.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Oh yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And the teachers give their hearts to all of them
because they all needed at different levels. That's why that
job to me is a gift from the heavens, and
there's a lot of weight applied to it. Because when
we started this conversation and I mentioned your favorite teacher
of all time, Paul, you had some people's faces pop
(11:51):
in your mind.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You too, Austin, and me too.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Right, you think of people that made a difference in
your life because they paid attention.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh yeah, and the teachers take their jobs home with them. Yeah,
they're at home late at night grading papers in the
name on that paper is the kid that's sitting in
that seat right in front of them, and they know
who it is, and so that it never really goes
away the thoughts of those kids and helping those.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Kids, right, But teachers make an indelible mark on students
who you can vertually walk up to anybody and say
who made a difference in your life in school? Almost
every person can say missus Johnson, mister Tigue or whatever
it is you know, and I had several I don't
want to single out anybody because I don't want to
(12:38):
hurt anybody's feelings. There have been several my teachers that
are gone, of course now, but there are still some
that are still at it, and then some who just
recently retired, and they all offered some sort of gift
that is a different, little like ornament on your Christmas
tree of life. They gave you something and it's still there.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
One of my middle school pe teachers is actually one
of my most influential because he is also there during
high school years. He helped coach the basketball team and
brought me on as like a manager and someone that
I could report on the team for.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I was on the school newspaper, and.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
All these years later, he's now up in New York
coaching women's Division two college basketball, and he was just
here a couple of weeks ago for the run for
the Roses, doing some recruiting. So we got to catch
up then. So it was really cool to catch up
from somebody all the way in Arizona. And we're now
continuing our lives here reminiscent about the old days at Roosters.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
My first grade teacher, believe it or not, a nun,
a Catholic nun, is still alive. I just learned that,
not love that recently. So, I mean back then, when
you're six seven years old, do you think these folks
are old people? Right? But she was probably like twenty
years old when she was teaching me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Right, I saw one of my I saw my eighth
grade nun teacher, probably twenty years ago, and she just
looked at me and she said, I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
At least she was being honest.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I still laugh about that look on her face, like unbelievable.
She didn't say it, she said it with her eyes.
Of all the people that came through my glass roots,
I wouldn't have put you in the role that you're in.
H I don't know. It's just funny. But she was funny.
We had great nuns. I mean in grade school, we
had one in the seventh grade who let us have
(14:34):
dance party. If we were good on Monday through Thursday,
we earned a like forty five minutes of dance party
at the end of the Friday school day. Get to
play little songs and everybody get up.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, let's go.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It was just fun. It's a fun way to start
the weekend. It's funny. I remember that all these years later.
It's just fun. And if somebody messed up or we
didn't get we didn't do well on such and such,
you know, no dance party. Oh no, So everybody they
make marks and they stick with you like rings on
a tree.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They're there forever.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
All right, we're way behind time. I'm sorry I went
along on that, but glad you're here today. Congressman Brett
Guthrie is going to be in the house with us today.
We'll talk about baseball too, is Greg Galliet. And if
we have a woman who directed a film about the
Negro League's baseball team. She has a film that's going
to debut soon. I forgot to tell you about the
(15:25):
story of the Cleveland Buckeye. She'll be here later today too.
A news radio wait forty whs
Thank you teacher. Serious business. It's just.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know, that's a that's a calling. That's just something
you got to be on your game. It's like a
pilot on final approach all the time. You don't get
to relax. You get all these kids, you know, and
it's your job to sort of herd the cats, as
it were, tough.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
When does a teacher's.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Day end the kids all leave. Let's say they leave
school at two thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
When does a teacher's day end.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You think early in the school year, late, much later,
I think until they get things kind of rolling along.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, they do paperwork, it's all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
God love them. All teachers are awesome.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
We did the thing last year. We'll probably do it
this year where us here ad iHeart. We always, you know,
look out for the teachers and educators and everybody that's
had that special somebody in the classroom in their life.
And a couple of times we did these Salceerritas giveaway
last year where we got the cater Salceerritas to a
couple of high schools and middle schools and that's that
was really fun to show the staff because you know,
(01:05):
they it makes them feel appreciated. Which they definitely should,
and something like just getting a lunch means a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That's true. Glad to be a party.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We all love Pam and her family at sorcer Rita's.
They take care of us. Stalling's family is fantastic, and
I think that's a great addition to what we're talking about.
Because this is five thousand dollars prize is going to
be distributed once here and I think in the next
couple of weeks. But so you can nominate teachers again
and go to iHeartRadio dot com slash teachers. Just put
(01:33):
your favorite public school teachers name in there and then
hopefully I get to shout it out tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
If you guys were to be teachers, were to be elementary,
middle or high school, what would you do.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I love little kids.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
They're funny, they're open, you know, they don't have any filters. Yeah,
they're funny to listen to. But they're also the hardest.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah. I'm right there with oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Except some high school kids get a little you know,
well you gonna do about it, pop so that you know,
I don't know about that either, But you.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Could smoke a cigarette with one of the high school kids.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
And the middle school kids are kind of I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's tough in each face. It is when I think
about my own kids. I was thinking about this the
other day, just the games we used to play when
they were little. I did it with all four of
my kids. You put them on the bed, you give
them a rolled up pair of socks, touch the headboard.
That's the end zone. I'm the defense. They called down
and then poom pum, then you know, and knock them
(02:34):
around a little bit, and then push them and don't
let them get there until fourth down. Of course, I
let them score sooner or later. All they gotta do
is reach out with the socks and touch the headboard.
I've done that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
What do you call game?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I just did it with all my kids, just teaching
them a little bit of you know, bumping them a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Poom puman.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
They're just trying to go to room me and then
and then eventually, obviously, somehow amazingly they score.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Unfourth unlockable level on NFL Blitz for the old Nintendo
game you get the Battle Terry Miners.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
They all loved it. Gracie loved it too. Wasn't just
the boys, you know, you ready to go. It's cool,
and then they get into that that's one of our
football season things. Then I also do this thing. I
mean I did it when they were little. I think
about this now because you can't do them when they're
grown up. I would take one kid, put them up
(03:26):
on my shoulder so his head is, you know, right
next to my face, on my say, right shoulder, and
then I would ask the other kid, where's your brother?
And he'd point to him up there, and then I would,
as I'm turning my head to the right, I would
lift him up and put him on my left shoulder
and say, I don't see him.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
What are you talking about? He's right there.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And then I would put him back over my head
when I turned to the left and say, what are
you talking about?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
He's right there. You can just pull little kids with that.
Here's another thing you could do with little kids.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
You would make a great college teacher. I think you
got great stories to tell. I think you would keep
people that young, those young adults, you would keep their attention.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I don't know, but here's something else that I learned
from my own father. I thought this was hilarious. He
you know, I have a couple of brothers that are
right around my age. By the way, Happy birthday Lynn,
my little sister Lynn, it's her birthday. To day, love you, says,
we all knowing each other's birthdays are it's fourteen of us.
But I have two brothers who are in close proximity
to me. What do you call them Irish twins? If
(04:27):
you're born within a year of each other and that
the term, Oh, I don't know what my sister Tina
right ahead of me was. I'm eleven months after her.
I think that means we're Irish twins? Is that the phrase?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Think it is?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Maybe if it's not a whole year span between the
two kids.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Anyway, I got a brother.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
He's March on January, so he's actually fourteen months or
thirteen and a half months after me. And so my
dad would say to us, you know, we'd be like
six and five. Let's say, pick him up. So I'd
stand there and then I would grab him around.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The waist and puck him up far there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And then he would tell my brother pick him up,
and my brother would grab me around the waist, you know,
face to face, pick me up. And then my dad
would say, on the count of three, pick each other
up at the same time. Ready, one, two, three, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Go all.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We couldn't figure out that that won't work. That's another little,
good little gag to play with your kids.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You gotta have fun in life and and in storytelling.
I always love that. And teachers get to do that
for young kids, you know, like when I would read
When the Where the Wild Things Are? To my kids,
you gotta animate it, you gotta move around, you got
to you gotta do the whole acting, acting out the
roles or the movements or whatever's being described. And I
(05:50):
think that sticks with your kids. They never forget how
joyous that is. We have some great pictures of me
with the kids when they're little and their their eyes
are wide open and I'm trying to tell them a story,
you know, at bedtime, and then they never want you
to stop because you're you're getting them worked up. But
still it's that's you know, just add a little more
(06:11):
juice to what you're doing, just a little more energy.
I think they remember it forever. That's the best stuff
you can do. And teachers, that's that's a great fun
thing to do in fact that that thing I just described,
I putting a kid on my shoulder and then turn
and then asking because I've done that, like my sisters
have had me speak at their classes before. I've spoken
(06:32):
a lot of schools over the years, but because it
was my sister's class, I felt safe doing that. I
would take a kid and put him on my shoulder
like that, you know, because my sister I already told
her in advance what I was going to do, so
obviously she wouldn't tell me to pick up a kid
who couldn't, you know, who wasn't nimble enough or what
you know, there's certain things and then.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Do that whole thing. Where is he?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And they pull there, all those kids just going be
right there. And then I left them all my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And say where I don't see him here? What are
you talking about? The kids just laugh so much. Little
kids laugh. They think it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But nowadays, you know, I guess everybody just bows to
each other, noise a lot of that stuff, so you got,
you know, the world changes, But that's okay. I've had
a good time speaking to young kids in school too
about life and education, and I'll describe as the best
way I can on the radio, I would quietly ask
(07:30):
the people in charge at the school, a teachers, a principal,
whoever it is, to let me know a kid that
might be having some challenges. Just maybe they're I don't know,
they're just they're not they're not fitting in or they're whatever,
and so maybe they're they just need a little special love,
that's all.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So what I would do is say.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I need some volunteers on the stage, and kids are all, yeah, me, me,
you know. And then you go out and you pick
a kid who's I said, you have to act like a.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Can you do it?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
May you know, cry or whatever, And then I'd say
I need someone else to act like the oldest person
on the earth, and then to make them make some
sounds like that. And I would put them on stage,
the one kid on when you're looking at the stage
on the left, and then the kid who's supposed to
be old on the right. And then I'd say, now
(08:23):
I need a helper to move through time with me.
And then I would go out in the audience and
get that kid and bring them up, and then you
make them a hero in a story essentially, and I
you know, you never know what you're doing for somebody there.
But those teachers know, they know who needs a little
bit of a boost. And the whole premise of my
thing is, and any of you get a chance of
(08:46):
speak in schools. I think this is great. I made
it up, but it works. You take the kid who's
the baby, and you let them cry and suck their thumb,
and all the kids they think it's hilarious. And I'll
cry like a baby, no, cry like a little baby,
and do all that. You take the kid, the third
one that you've taken out of the crowd, the one
(09:07):
that you were looking for, and they get to do
that too, and they get to act it out through
the stages of life, the baby, the two year old,
no no, no, no, no, no, that kind of thing, And
then you move them to a four year old and
you give them a line to say over and over again,
and the kids eat it up. And then you move
(09:27):
them through and occasionally you point to the old one
down at the end and say, do you're old? You're old?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I can't walk or whoever.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm following and I can't get up, and the kids
all laugh. And then you take that one kid and
you move them down the line of life. But what
you do is it's a spatial thing. You move them
to the end of college, and they're still a long
way to that other kid on the other side of
(09:57):
the stage, on the right side of stage, which is
the end of life. And and then I tell them all,
this is why education matters. If you just hang in school.
It's only this little bit of time. Look at all
this time that's left. And then I take the third
kid and I move them through. Oh look here, I
got a job, I got a mom, dad, I got
(10:18):
a job, I met somebody. Oh my gosh, we're.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Having a baby.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And then you move them down the time of life
to till they're grandparent and all that business. But you
just got to move it along fast, and you get
all kids laughing and they think it's hilarious. But it's
a good visual lesson about the value of education in life.
So I love doing that. I've done that one hundred
times over the years. But it always works, never fails.
(10:45):
So any of you who are listening to me, who
have a chance to get on stage in front of
little kids at school, that is a winning ticket every time.
That's a fun thing to do. So that's my contribution
to teaching. I'm too stupid to do a a regimented class,
you know, teaching syllabus, the whole thing, to finish all
(11:07):
that stuff, and I don't know what my attention span
would allow that. That's why I admire teachers so much,
because they're looking at at those faces every day. I'm
just there for a half an hour doing my little
sketchy on stage and then I go home get on
about my day. But those teachers every day are looking
out into those pairs of eyeballs, and every kid's got
a different story.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Oh yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And the teachers give their hearts to all of them
because they all needed at different levels. That's why that
job to me is a gift from the heavens, and
there's a lot of weight applied to it. Because when
we started this conversation and I mentioned your favorite teacher
of all time, Paul, you had some people's faces pop
(11:51):
in your mind.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You too, Austin, and me too.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Right, you think of people that made a difference in
your life because they paid attention.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh yeah, and the teachers take their jobs home with them. Yeah,
they're at home late at night grading papers in the
name on that paper is the kid that's sitting in
that seat right in front of them, and they know
who it is, and so that it never really goes
away the thoughts of those kids and helping those.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Kids, right, But teachers make an indelible mark on students
who you can vertually walk up to anybody and say
who made a difference in your life in school? Almost
every person can say missus Johnson, mister Tigue or whatever
it is you know, and I had several I don't
want to single out anybody because I don't want to
(12:38):
hurt anybody's feelings. There have been several my teachers that
are gone, of course now, but there are still some
that are still at it, and then some who just
recently retired, and they all offered some sort of gift
that is a different, little like ornament on your Christmas
tree of life. They gave you something and it's still there.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
One of my middle school pe teachers is actually one
of my most influential because he is also there during
high school years. He helped coach the basketball team and
brought me on as like a manager and someone that
I could report on the team for.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I was on the school newspaper, and.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
All these years later, he's now up in New York
coaching women's Division two college basketball, and he was just
here a couple of weeks ago for the run for
the Roses, doing some recruiting. So we got to catch
up then. So it was really cool to catch up
from somebody all the way in Arizona. And we're now
continuing our lives here reminiscent about the old days at Roosters.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
My first grade teacher, believe it or not, a nun,
a Catholic nun, is still alive. I just learned that,
not love that recently. So, I mean back then, when
you're six seven years old, do you think these folks
are old people? Right? But she was probably like twenty
years old when she was teaching me.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Right, I saw one of my I saw my eighth
grade nun teacher, probably twenty years ago, and she just
looked at me and she said, I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
At least she was being honest.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I still laugh about that look on her face, like unbelievable.
She didn't say it, she said it with her eyes.
Of all the people that came through my glass roots,
I wouldn't have put you in the role that you're in.
H I don't know. It's just funny. But she was funny.
We had great nuns. I mean in grade school, we
had one in the seventh grade who let us have
(14:34):
dance party. If we were good on Monday through Thursday,
we earned a like forty five minutes of dance party
at the end of the Friday school day. Get to
play little songs and everybody get up.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, let's go.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
It was just fun. It's a fun way to start
the weekend. It's funny. I remember that all these years later.
It's just fun. And if somebody messed up or we
didn't get we didn't do well on such and such,
you know, no dance party. Oh no, So everybody they
make marks and they stick with you like rings on
a tree.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
They're there forever.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
All right, we're way behind time. I'm sorry I went
along on that, but glad you're here today. Congressman Brett
Guthrie is going to be in the house with us today.
We'll talk about baseball too, is Greg Galliet. And if
we have a woman who directed a film about the
Negro League's baseball team. She has a film that's going
to debut soon. I forgot to tell you about the
(15:25):
story of the Cleveland Buckeye. She'll be here later today too.
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