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
68 episodes
Pen15 (Season 1 Ep. 1 and Season Pt. 1 Ep. 6)
Ever want to go back and revisit your middle school years but as your adult self? Yeah, the hosts don’t either. Along the way they encounter carpooling, that one annoying teacher who wants to be best friends with students, the meaning of U G...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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1:33:13
Didi
The middle school thematic unit kicks off with this story of a kid navigating social media in 2006 during the summer before high school starts. What were the top social media used in 2006? They get into multilingual households, sibling drama...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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1:32:23
Derry Girls (Season 1, Episode 1 and 3)
They turned on the closed captions and tuned into Northern Ireland for this week’s examination of Catholic school in the 90s. They discuss the Troubles and 5 troubled teens as well as The Cranberries, diary etiquette, jean jackets, new schoo...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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1:22:07
Akeelah and the Bee
Keke Palmer’s not in a raunchy comedy or judging the performance of the House of Mugler on Legendary. She’s an eleven year old going to the spelling bee. Along the way there’s also Ike and Tina Turner, DEI executive order violations, a fame ...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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1:29:01
Beverly Hills 90210 S2 Episode 20 and 21!
Once again, West Beverly is ripe with real issues plaguing education. Just kidding. Instead it’s about a coach in Xanadu drag, shrunken nads, Brenda acting entitled as usual, stalking insurance scammers, roid rage at the Peach Pit, grunting,...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:34:06
Recess!
The playground is not for the weak this week, especially when recess is more Lord of the Flies nightmare than break in the school day. Come outside with us. We have all the ice cream you can eat, rim jobs, comfort vaginas, missing shoes, Qua...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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1:22:03
Juno with Special Guest: Crystal Frommert!
Juno - As far as glimpses into the world of education as light with this film we did learn that giving the pregnant girl side eye isn’t what one does and that cross country coaches should talk to their male athletes about wearing jockstraps....
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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1:49:41
Extra Credit: Listener Thoughts!
There’s some listener mail: a sub who was given shitty lesson plans and a toxic hall pass, an argument with a relative over Christmas, sick leave controversies in Chicago Public Schools, and a question about the best and worst movie teachers...
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1:13:26
Friday Night Lights
Billy Bob Thornton is yelling at students and worried about his coaching career in our pick this week. A far cry from Sling Blade and eating biscuits with mustard on them. This is a sports film, the hosts favorite genre, and it has it ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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1:45:32
English Teacher (Season 1, Episode 1 and 2)
The allegations surrounding the star of the show conflicted the hosts as they truly love the show. And what’s to love about a gay teacher stirring things up at a high school? PTSD, insane workout routines, burnt french fries, sugar sprinkles...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:43:20
Save the Last Dance
Well this turd was picked again by Justin and pee-yew. What happens when Julia Stiles tries to dance hip-hop? Mom drives head on into a semi to avoid having to watch her, for one; and white privilege, Project Runway challenges in the back of...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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1:36:53
Head of the Class
Mr. Moore seems to be the most accurate portrayal of an educator this far in the pod, but his students on the other hand. Sheesh. Get ready for Russian stereotypes, the pimping of a red-head, Quiet on the Set: the Dark Side of Children’s TV,...
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1:26:03
Little House on the Prairie
Miss Beadle was a mess. If she wasn’t falling out of a carriage, she was releasing her students to die in a blizzard. Along the way, we encounter dumb Able, dumb Carrie, popcorn sex, Charles’s fine ass, that bitch Mrs. Olsen, that bitc...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:21:56
The Holdovers
The Holdovers - What do you do when you’re tasked with watching the students stuck in an all boys school over Christmas? Well, besides staying drunk you also: enforce a daily regime, watch The Newlywed Game, break up fights, not investigate ...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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1:50:58
Pepperann
What do you do with a stubborn girl who won’t listen to reason but in the end always learns a valuable lesson? Give her a cartoon on Saturday morning TV. She also gets to watch lesbians play rugby, to hypnotize the town with synth music, ill...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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1:37:36
Bring It On!
Justin admits fault in choosing this stinker. For a film set in a high school with a school cheer team, there is a glaringly obvious omission of adults. A homeroom teacher takes roll and that’s it. Instead we have personal money spent on a m...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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1:22:58
Ordinary People
Justin’s favorite movie so far and Ronnie is having flashbacks to teaching the novel. Is Beth the biggest villain yet? In addition to answering that question, there is a horrible coach, Speedos, a broken plate, photography nightmares, dates ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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1:33:24
Grease 2
Justin and Dalton’s worst nightmare of teens dance towards the camera opens this turd of a movie. Along the way there is sex education, bomb shelter sexual coercion, someone’s schlong flopping out, pox marked bikers, Polynesian appropr...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:50:18
Extra Credit: Listener Thoughts!
Extra Credit: A Field Trip and Classic Back-to-School AdsListener mail: A dick is drawn on a truck, a metal BB breaks the skin, someone doesn’t care for Ronnie’s political rants and just in time for Halloween there’s a ghost in...
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1:18:02
Euphoria (S1 Ep. 1 & 2)
Anticipatory Set: The data from 2023 is in on teen drug use and the numbers, although shocking, haven’t gone up. Can Justin guess the top five teens are into? How many drugs listed did Rue do in the first two episodes of Euphoria?...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:50:18
Rebel Without A Cause
Anticipatory Set: Justin points out that the word “teenager” came into heavy use in discussions of Rebel Without a Cause. They discuss a short history of the teen in film as the 1950s saw teens as a market for film while filmmakers sought to...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:48:12
Fame
Anticipatory Set: A real performing arts school in NYC is losing its drama partner and almost didn’t finish out the season. Can all the famous alumni save it? Not so much. Getting Schooled: Remember my name. (FAME!). Remem...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:52:28
Welcome Back, Kotter
(Season 2, Episodes 18-19 Has Anyone Seen Arnold?).Anticipatory Set: Some teachers lack the skills to help students who are grieving. Ronnie found a good recourse to help and shared the story of his worst day in education...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:33:39