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
94 episodes
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
Flash Gordon!
Justin gets summer schooled on camp, feathered hair and gay bears with wings. There’s also Ronnie’s sexual awakening, the power of football, Ming’s cultural appropriation, Topol, fart clouds, hot hail, Karoline Leavitt, cotton candy butthole...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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1:39:14
Steel Magnolias
Justin gets summer schooled as Julia Roberts dies and we all punch Ouiser. How’d Justin get through gay boyhood without seeing this one, you may ask? We find out with the help of giant hair, Dylan McDermott’s ass, guns in hallway drawers, “H...
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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1:29:38
All About Eve
Justin gets summer schooled this week on divas, the queer-coded sissy, and sapphic power dynamics. There’s also Jafar, fleshlights clued to stumps, a sea of red flags, Phoebe’s suicide, personal assistants, phallic celery, a broken bottle of...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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1:27:59
Muriel's Wedding
Justin gets summer schooled this week on the perils of life for the small town gay, found families and some symbolism for the AIDS crisis of the 90s via the life of Muriel Heslop. There’s also party with laundry room make-shift urinals, whip...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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1:38:38
Extra Credit: Listener Thoughts & Graduation Songs!
Extra Credit: Bad Graduation Songs edition. There’s some listener mail that involves a potential murder, a student attack, an angel teacher, and a media recommendation for student teachers. Justin and Ronnie each bring a song featured at man...
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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1:02:38
The Breakfast Club
Bad principals. Bad students. The bad concept of Saturday detentions, this one had it all. Besides Bender catching a glob of his own spit, we were subjected to an ugly duckling divisive makeover, a girl making out with the man who sexually a...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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1:44:52
Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
The nightmare here isn’t just Freddy Krueger and it’s not just a coach into S&M. Going to high school in Springwood isn’t wise but neither is offroading through Joshua Tree National Park, Jared Fogel, A Chorus Line, racist cereal, fungal...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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1:34:52