Think, Pair, Swear
Think, Pair, Swear, a podcast exploring the strange, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes dead on portrayals of the field of education in popular culture. Hosted by Justin Orscheln, former elementary Music teacher turned assistant-principal and Ronnie Lathrop, retired high school English teacher.
Episodes
99 episodes
Extra Credit: Student Paper or AI Paper?
Ronnie and Justin respond to some listener emails including a saucy romp with a professor in the 70’s, a teacher who’s writing some curriculum for a social/emotional learning program, a teacher who is addressing their school board about sex ...
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Season 3
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Episode 22
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1:04:42
Weapons!
A witch has come to a school district and creates havoc in this week’s film. And by a witch this time they aren’t talking about a mom for liberty. How will the district respond to seventeen missing students? Well there’s Hilary’s pizza parlo...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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1:47:47
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
For once, both hosts have read the book AND watched the movie before this viewing, so they have some opinions of poor Charlie. They’ve been poor Charlie. The freshmen year of high school and found friends are explored as well as passing arou...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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1:56:45
Napoleon Dynamite!
Praise be, Joseph Smith, for the LDS approved Napoleon Dynamite. Mouth agape. Plastic boondoggles in hand. And let’s learn some hip hop dancing. Yes, it’s time to discover rural schools in Idaho with these weirdos. Bow to your sensei, then t...
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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1:48:01
Class of 1984
Whoa what a film! If you’re into teachers getting revenge on pain in the ass students, and we know you are, then have we got an episode for you. Alice Cooper sings the theme song of the movie, setting the mood. In addition to that, there’s M...
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Season 3
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Episode 18
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1:47:27
Footloose!
Welcome back from the Holidays, teachers and others. To kick off the second semester of school and the back half of the winter trimester, Ronnie and Justin are gonna cut loose. Footloose. Kick off the Sunday shoes and get into small town sma...
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Season 3
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Episode 17
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1:45:57
Back to School!
Ronnie picked the worst movie in the three years they’ve been doing the show and has little remorse. Both hosts are pleased that Rodney Dangerfield is no longer with us. Well, they discover what being a re-entry student who has untapped weal...
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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1:49:40
Beverly Hills 90210
Oof. These idiots really can’t do college, but what do you expect? Certainly not a poorly handled sexual assault storyline followed by one about the preferential treatment of college athletes and a student sleeping with a professor. Well, Ro...
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Season 3
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Episode 15
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1:45:44
The Chair (With Special Guest: Dr. Elise Hepworth)
They landed an actual university dean to help them sort out this week’s episode, Dr. Elise Hepworth. Listeners may know her better as the person Ronnie co-directed two high school musicals with tales previously shared in other episodes. Well...
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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1:47:43
The Great Debaters
Mmm. Denzel. He’s not shirtless in this one but still fine. Can a movie about debate be compelling? It’s one of Justin’s favorite movies of all time so it looks like it. And along the way there’s trips up Interstate 29 looking for an alterna...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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1:48:41
Wicked!
Break out the giant pink bubbles and blue flying monkeys, they’re back for a third school year. And as Justin learned to say this summer, “Fasten your seatbelts, there are gonna be some bumps in the road” (Look up Summer Schooled ‘25, people...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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1:42:51
Extra Credit: Listener Thoughts!
Listeners have stories about a drunk PD presenter, a cult survivor (that needs to sell her story to Lifetime), and a fund raiser theft, and a question about staff morale. Then the boys find the most bizarre items in the School Specialty cata...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:02:43
Glee
So did the filmmaker of The Human Centipede get the idea from Glee? Justin seems to think so. They’re going to make sense of this bonkers high school if it drives them insane. And it almost did. In addition to a Spanish teacher who also does...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:26:28
Law and Order SVU
Unhinged. That’s the word of the day with this penultimate media Ronnie and Justin covered this week. Well we have two different teachers wrongly accused of having sex with students (for once). Along with that there’s children in pubs and br...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:33:45
Welcome to the Dollhouse
We are Dawn Weiner. We are Weiner Dog. Unite with the host and discover the hilarious trauma of being a picked on middle school student. Along the way there’s Happiness, Owen Mills Picture Studios, baked beans, shitting on command, locker gr...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:40:24
Sex Education S.1 Ep. 1 and Ep. 2
DISCLAIMER: When experimenting with a new filter in Riverside, portions of our audio got cut off. This should be the final episode we this in. We apologize for any inconvenience. Stick with us! We're still learning!Otis an...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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1:27:54
Donnie Darko
DISCLAIMER: When experimenting with a new filter in Riverside, portions of our audio got cut off. This anomaly will happen over the next 1 0r 2 episodes We apologize for any inconvenience. Stick with us! We're still learning!...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:35:10
The Facts of Life
DISCLAIMER: When experimenting with a new filter in Riverside, portions of our audio got cut off. This anomaly will happen over the next 2 or 3 episodes We apologize for any inconvenience. Stick with us! We're still learning!...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:25:30
Ladybird
DISCLAIMER: When experimenting with a new filter in Riverside, portions of our audio got cut off. This anomaly will happen over the next 3 0r 4 episodes We apologize for any inconvenience. Stick with us! We're still learning!...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:36:51
AP BIO (S1 E11 and S2 E3)
Justin and Ronnie were not fans, but they powered through. They tried to figure out why someone who doesn’t want to teach wants to remain a teacher, and oh yeah. There are a lot of teachers in that boat, but not all over them are attempting ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:25:52
Easy A--With Special Guest: Raul Villanueva!
Today the show had adjunct faculty with former teacher and Wheel of Fortune recap podcast Come On Big Money, Raul Villanueva. He joined Justin and Ronnie to figure out if there was anything besides a Southwest style strip mall in Ojai, Calif...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:53:03
Dead Poet's Society
Welcome back listeners to the class of 2025/26. It’s 1959 and Robin Williams is trying to teach critical thinking to a repressed, privileged generation of young men. What could go wrong? Well there’s the extended version of the film Justin w...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:34:24
What's Up Doc?
Unit Exam - What’s Up Doc?: Justin gets summer schooled on the screwball comedy, the art of the car chase and the great Madeline Kahn. There’s also a song about topping, Wanda being manhandled in Manchester, everyone enjoys their rocks being...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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1:35:34
