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
86 episodes
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
Eighth Grade
The middle school thematic unit ends with more adolescent awkwardness. What happens when a girl with no friends thinks she’s a YouTube influencer? Besides many bad choices, there’s Gucci, sex education, mean girls, Ronnie making everything a...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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1:40:03
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