Episode 1 - Columbus and Special Sauce with Special Guest Jade Spears

Join Lauren, Linley, Ava, and special guest Jade Spears for the first episode of the St. Joe Sticker Show!

Transcript

Lauren 0:17

Hey everyone. I'm Lauren, I'm Ava and I'm Linley, and welcome to the St Joseph's Tigger Show, the official student-run podcast of St Joseph's Academy in Baton Rouge, where we'll talk about all things SJA and anything else we find interesting. We'll also talk to students, teachers and staff members around campus. So, ava, how about you start off with telling us about yourself?

Ava 0:40

Hi guys, I am a junior here at SJA and, yeah, what's your favorite color? My favorite color is pink, and it's been my favorite color since I've, like literally been born.

Lauren 0:56

Was, like everything in your room, pink. Yeah, my walls are pink.

Linley 1:00

Oh very nice.

Ava 1:01

Yeah, what's your favorite animal? I have a few. I love elephants and turtles, go turtles, and giraffes and dolphins Okay wide range, I know.

Lauren 1:21

Where is the best place you've been?

Ava 1:23

on vacation. Ooh, that's difficult, I don't know. Well, okay, this isn't really a place, but like a cruise that's good, like the atmosphere of a cruise, you know yeah.

Lauren 1:36

I love them. All the different things you get to do.

Ava 1:38

Yeah, yeah, I have a question. Like the free ice cream.

Linley 1:41

Okay, if you like what TV or movie or book character like would you say is most like you I have to think about that. I don't know, like yeah, that's hard, I know that is hard I feel like that shows who you are as a person you know well for sure, but I think I'm like bad at like coming up with it myself.

Ava 2:04

Like we can try to think of one that we think Okay, let's see.

Linley 2:07

You kind of you kind of give Elle Woods, but like a little like muted, like not as like big, bright pink you know, yeah, but like you do, like, want to get things done and like, and also you're very like oh, I'm gonna do my hair, I'm gonna do you know right what's?

Lauren 2:22

a character that always laughs, maybe oh yeah okay yeah, it was definitely our laugher. Yeah your little giggles there. You're in there. Linley, do you want to tell us about yourself?

Linley 2:35

um sure, my name is Linley, I am a junior and also go turtles. Um, my favorite color is orange, just because it's like a happy color, probably. And then my favorite animal is probably a lion, because it's just been my favorite animal since I was little, because my favorite movie when I was little was the lion king, and so I used to watch it like every single night, and so lion has always been my favorite animal. Um, what else is there? My favorite vacation was to the grand canyon, and then my fate, I mean, oh, a character that would describe me, probably Monica from Friends.

Ava 3:12

I feel like yes, I see it okay.

Linley 3:15

I feel like it's like me type a. Yeah see, we took a personality test in my in our theology class and that was like a character that like said, like had a similar personality to me. And then I like watched some of my friends and I like I get it after seeing it wait, I have a question.

Lauren 3:30

Do y'all know you're Myers-Briggs?

Ava 3:34

I think I'm ENFP wait oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's what I am wait.

Linley 3:40

I need to like know what they all I, I'm extroverted, and then you were definitely J.

Ava 3:46

What is J Judgment?

Linley 3:49

Wait, what's the other one? It's.

Ava 3:52

P. I don't know, but I remember you had opposite of me.

Linley 3:54

Okay, then I was J it's perceiving. Perceiving.

Lauren 3:58

Okay, then I'm J. I think it is. What else is there?

Linley 4:01

Oh sensing and observing. Is that one?

Ava 4:04

Sensing, and so Intuitive is one, intuitive is the N.

Linley 4:10

Oh yeah, that's been Wait. I think I'm more thinking, or actually no, I said I was more feeling than thinking because I like care about what other people like. I care about other people's feelings more than like like if someone were to ask me a question, I would be like not brutally honest like I would like that's f yeah I think, I think, I think it said I was f yeah, yeah so what's that?

Lauren 4:28

I don't know. I kind of forgot.

Ava 4:30

It's always like extrovert and then, like I'm in me too, it's like the. So what is the other one?

Lauren 4:38

I don't know, okay, we can skip that one, and then F and then J.

Linley 4:44

Okay, what are?

Ava 4:45

you.

Lauren 4:46

Okay, what are you I-N-F-P I like always have Every time I'm taking the test, it has told me the same thing. Really, I don't know what that says about me. I think I have to read about it again. Yeah, but I like think it was me to a t right yeah, all good, so tell us more about yourself, lauren. Answer the question okay um my name's Lauren, um duh and um I'm a senior, yeah, you are and I'm going to LSU.

Lauren 5:20

If anyone wants to know that, um, my favorite color is green and what else? Um, my favorite animal, I don't really know loki, a dolphin, I guess.

Ava 5:37

Okay, class yeah, I can go dolphins, um, um.

Lauren 5:42

What were the other questions? Vacation, oh favorite vacation, low-key london okay because yeah or I mean it could be new york mm-hmm those I'll low-key say london. Okay, that was changed my life yes, I love that. Yeah, um what else?

Linley 6:11

I don't know a TV or a character to this idea y'all. I have no idea. Okay, I don't think that's like that.

Lauren 6:19

I feel like that's such a hard.

Ava 6:22

I feel like someone else, like, would have to tell you yeah yeah, I let me just know I mean because, yeah, yeah, I'm trying to think, I know I'm trying to think of like. I feel like there's such a wide range of like characters, oh yeah you'll.

Lauren 6:38

I mean, there's definitely someone like each of us. We just maybe we just don't know it yet you're right it's just like a mystery we'll think about that yeah, well, let's move into our discussion topic um what decade would you want to be a teenager in?

Ava 6:56

we'll start with ava me okay. Well, I'm gonna have to say the 80s, because like everything was just like bright and colorful and like it was so fun, you know. At least it looked that way. Yeah, so true, but um, do you want?

Linley 7:11

me to go. Yeah, okay, so I I've actually am torn between two decades and I'll say I'll say them both and I'll explain them both. First, the 80s, like Ava said, because it was very vibrant, colorful, fun, like just the music, like very fun, like get you up dancing, you know yeah second the 50s that was the one that I had in my brain for you.

Ava 7:33

Okay, okay, because I don't.

Linley 7:35

I just like, like, like drive in movies and go like dancing in the coke in the um glass bottles. I just think that's so cute. You know, that's so exciting. Yeah, the diners.

Ava 7:44

yes, I just think that's so cute. You know that's so aesthetic. Yeah, the diners, grease.

Linley 7:46

Yes, literally grease, like that's just so fun, yeah. So I think, I don't know, I think either one of those, yeah, that's the one you would rock a poodle skirt. Yeah, okay, maybe I'll say 50, so that could be different.

Lauren 7:57

for me, though, yeah, lauren, what's yours? Okay, I'm also torn between two, but they're very close to each other.

Linley 8:07

So, versus 80s, I feel like everyone says that right it's just so fun.

Lauren 8:09

The music was good, the movies were good right just everything well, I mean, like our parents grew up doing like movie stars were good.

Linley 8:17

That's what I'm talking about.

Lauren 8:18

Yeah, so good and like, like parents were born in the 70s and then they were like like teens and teens and like tweens. Yeah, yeah, teens in the 70s and then they were like like teens and like tweens in the 80s, like that's so good, yeah. But my other one is the 90s. I felt was born in the 90s and then, like, grew up as a teenager in the 2000s. Yeah, because I would love to be a teenager in prime time. One Direction.

Linley 8:49

Yeah, that's fair.

Lauren 8:50

One Direction early Taylor Swift.

Linley 8:53

So good, that suits you.

Ava 8:56

Yeah, like low-key.

Linley 8:58

That suits you very well.

Lauren 9:00

I'm just trying to think of who was born in the 90s. So then I would be the same age as them. So only if I was born 10 to 15 years earlier, it would be perfect. But, it's fine.

Ava 9:15

Lucky also the 70s. I feel like it'd be so fun like disco, I feel like they're all so different.

Linley 9:22

I agree, they're all. Yeah, I like. The way we think about them is very different. Oh, absolutely.

Lauren 9:28

I guess, like the 2010s were too Like from now, like how different they are, which is kind of scary, like what's it going to be in the 2030s? I know, are we going to look back and be like, why did? Why do we do all that Exactly, probably, probably.

Linley 9:43

That's terrifying, I know. I always think like in like 2060, like our like kids and grandkids are going to like have parties and be like, oh, dress in the 2020s Because, like you know how we dressed in like 1980s, like they're going to be dressing how we dressed as like a costume.

Lauren 9:57

I think that's crazy, that's sickening like I know. Baggy jeans and a top like a little lemon scuba like literally it's gonna the basic outfit. Why do we dress like that? Um, I don't know, oh my god, it's crazy.

Ava 10:19

Okay, guys, I have a question. What decade would you not want to be a teen in?

Linley 10:25

um, I would say like the 1930s, because isn't that like prime great depression? Um, especially like late 30s, because that's like, yeah, that just doesn't seem like much fun. Um, a lot of stuff is happening, yeah, um, yeah, I feel like that wouldn't be very exciting, because then also, if you're a teen, then like you, you're about to go to war, like you don't know it, but like you're about to go to war again. It's like all your friends are like being sent off to who knows where to go fight in a war.

Lauren 10:53

Like that's not fun, you know that's not fun, I mean I, I also thought of that's where my mind went to right, like I was thinking like late 30s, 40s probably would not be fine. Yeah, that's like I don't know. But also I, I, I need a phone.

Ava 11:17

Right, I need my phone lauren, even if you were in like the 50s or any of that, you wouldn't have a phone anyway.

Lauren 11:26

That's what I'm. I would not live in the 50s or 60s.

Linley 11:30

No, yeah, she needs her phone, Lauren. What's your screen time Y'all?

Lauren 11:34

don't want to know. It actually has been. It went down since I got a job oh gosh. I got a job, oh gosh. Now, ever since I've got, I'm employed. I can't scroll as long as I normally do, so what is it now? Now I actually got the notification, like yesterday, and it said like six hours something, only six.

Linley 12:06

Y'all, that's. It used to be way higher.

Ava 12:08

Right's yours, ava, oh mine's not that high, okay, but I just feel like six.

Linley 12:11

I was not expecting to say I was expecting. I mean that is a fourth of your day, y'all. It used to be right. 11 hours, lauren, holy cow, like on a school day.

Ava 12:23

We go to school for eight of those?

Linley 12:25

And do you sleep? What in the world, oh my God.

Lauren 12:30

What? 11 hours? That is not Okay. Maybe it is, I don't know what in the world.

Linley 12:38

Oh my God, yeah, I got things to do on my phone Right right, right right.

Lauren 12:50

That's so insane. Gosh, mine's like four hours roughly.

Ava 12:52

What do you do instead? Um homework? Oh yeah, anything other than using your phone yeah, sometimes I go outside like nature you know oh okay that sounded like a diss.

Lauren 13:05

Yeah, I go outside. I don't know about you but Obviously not you yeah.

Linley 13:10

I don't think I mean you might go like outside to like get a better like perception from your phone I go outside and

Lauren 13:17

scroll If my For you page wasn't so good like sorry, right, right, I don't, it's the algorithm. And I have things to catch up on, like it's fine right. I mean I'm up to date. All my friends ask me what's going on on the internet. I know they don't okay, so you're informed. I'm very informed, I think, on yeah, there you go maybe not the important stuff right, but like worldly, worldly things and what's happening.

Linley 13:46

I mean yeah.

Ava 13:48

Trials celebrity gossip.

Lauren 13:49

Trends oh, I know it all.

Linley 13:51

Right.

Lauren 13:52

They come to me yeah.

Linley 13:54

You're our go-to gal for that kind of stuff, Right right, see.

Lauren 13:57

So another thing, we're all so different. Lindley, like you, ask her about the sports, and then Ava has the giggles and laughs, and also she well, let me finish, go ahead and she also loves her fashion and beauty tips perhaps, yeah, does, so she can inform y'all on that. And then, yeah, yeah, lauren as well.

Ava 14:28

Yeah, lauren, like celebrity gossip.

Linley 14:30

Also like yeah.

Lauren 14:31

Oh yeah, I'm your girl.

Linley 14:33

Or like reviews for like anything you can watch or read, or anything Like movies, shows, books, anything like that You've read it or watched it.

Ava 14:42

Or scrolled about it. Just wait for the Met Gala Ooh.

Lauren 14:47

Met Gala Oscars. That's going to be a good one, a real big one. I'm like so excited. That's soon too.

Linley 14:56

Yeah, I know, I'm so excited.

Casual Chat About Media Trends

Lauren 14:58

I forgot what. I think it's the 1st or 2nd of March and, oh, I feel like it's on a Sunday, though the Oscars, yeah, I have no idea. I think it usually is because I always like, have to like do my homework and stuff, and I'm like, oh, but I have to watch the Oscars or the Grammys.

Linley 15:23

That's how I was about the Super Bowl. I was like I have all my homework done by 5 pm so that I can watch the Super Bowl. Oh, I'm so glad. Did you watch like the whole thing I did? Yeah, I did not. Actually, in between commercials I was also reading a book we had to read for English, but you know.

Ms. Spears 15:45

What do you mean in between?

Linley 15:45

commercials. During the commercials. Why would you do that?

Lauren 15:46

Because I'd rather watch the game than the commercials. Oh my God, lauren only watches the commercials. Goodness gracious, are you all surprised? I don't know, I don't care what's. I mean, I think everyone kind of knew the Eagles were going to win, so I would Did everyone know that. I kind of did, because I feel like I don't know. I had a feeling, because I feel like I don't know. I had a feeling. I guess maybe it was only me, but I, like my scroll breaks were during the game.

Linley 16:13

Wow, maybe that's why my screen time is less, because I was only on it during the commercials and you were on your phone during the actual game.

Lauren 16:19

Yeah, I guess those that runs longer, but the I oh, oh, my God. The commercials were do y'all know your favorite commercial this year? I do, which one.

Ava 16:29

The meta commercial. I thought that was hilarious. Remind me what that was. Okay, it was all Chris's. It was Chris um Jenner. Did I just make that up, chris Jenner? It was Chris, oh yeah.

Lauren 16:46

H, it was Chris Hemsworth.

Ava 16:47

Chris Pratt and Chris Jenner or whatever, and it's the banana on the wall and like one of them was eating it. I don't know, I just love that it was all Chris's and like I don't know something about.

Lauren 16:53

It was just really funny to me wow, it was like yeah, the banana was like duct taped. I forgot the point of it, but I I remember being like oh my God, because whoever like was in it, I love my girl, kris, yeah, jenner, yeah, because they're all Kris's. What about yours? Oh?

Ava 17:14

I don't really remember what book did you read during it? Oh yeah, Great Gatsby, Nice yeah. What was your favorite part of that one? That book.

Lauren 17:30

Of the book? Um, probably the very end, but I'm not gonna spoil it for those.

Linley 17:31

Um, that's your favorite part of those two yeah, I liked it because it like tied everything together, all the themes.

Ava 17:35

I was like, yeah, no, absolutely not the last not, not like the, not the wait last chapter but like the ending of but the first, not the last chapter.

Linley 17:45

Not the last chapter, but like the ending of but the first big thing that happened.

Ava 17:49

I don't know, I liked that I liked.

Linley 17:51

That, did you read? It Like them coming back from them, coming back to the East and West Egg from New York. I liked that that would happen then.

Ava 18:00

I understand.

Linley 18:01

That was my favorite. I don't agree with you.

Ava 18:04

Did you read it? Yeah, what's your opinion on? Like the book On the part Lindley's talking about.

Lauren 18:13

I forgot what I mean y'all, it's been a minute you know, I mean, I'm old Kidding. But um what was your favorite commercial?

Linley 18:22

Old Kidding what was your favorite commercial.

Lauren 18:24

My favorite. For the Super Bowl.

Linley 18:28

I want to remember them because I don't think I absorbed them very well.

Lauren 18:31

I'm drawing a blank yeah.

Linley 18:33

I did too.

Ava 18:34

Yeah, there was one, I feel like a lot of oh my, the one with the tongue was so weird.

Lauren 18:43

Did y'all see that the tongue no, it was for the cold foam. Oh my gosh, I know what you're talking about. It was weird. I didn't like it. I'm trying to think of the there was a few oh, poppy, the one with Poppy.

Ava 18:58

Oh.

Ms. Spears 18:59

I know what you're talking about.

Lauren 19:10

It had all my people in it. It was so Y'all, jake Shane. When I saw that man, the pure joy that went through me, it was so proud of him. I was like he made it. I mean I was like, okay, alex Earl ate too, but like I was so happy for my boy, jake Shane.

Linley 19:23

I'm so glad. Yeah, y'all know who that is right, I'm so glad.

Lauren 19:25

Yeah, y'all know who that is right. Yes, okay, sorry, I mean I feel like I've told it, like a few people that are who just talking about it with my lunch table they kind of got confused, okay, but for those who don't know who Jake Shane is, he is an influencer. He started those videos that was like POV. I'm blank this person and it's like so funny, like I think he one of his. That's how he started. Yeah, do you remember this?

Ava 19:54

yeah, it was like a year or two ago.

Lauren 19:56

It's like like a pencil being broken up with or something, and then it's like, yeah, it's like are you serious, I'm so sure for something like that, like it was so funny. And then, um, I, I'm so excited, I'm just gonna talk about because I'm so excited, I'm just going to talk about it because I'm so excited. He's going on tour and my mom got me tickets. Talk about what? Like talking, yeah, like this. But he's funny and it's like just him Like a comedy tour. Oh okay, he's a funny little guy.

Ava 20:29

Like a podcast tour. Yeah, oh, podcast tour yeah.

Lauren 20:32

Oh my God, You'll have to watch his podcast too. It's so funny, but he just announced that Connor Wood, who also has a podcast, brooke and Connor make a podcast. That one too, but he is my. I'm so in love with him. Sorry, connor Wood, I'm also going to be seeing him, I think. Yeah, I'm like going to cry, like I just found out at lunch.

Ava 20:59

Wait. So are these like comedy? Like, these are like comedy. Like funny yeah, they're funny, no, but like are they like comedy? Like stand-up comedy? Yeah, that's exciting.

Lauren 21:08

And I think it's like going to be like his podcast which, like he has like special guests. So I think it's just going to be him and Connor. Okay cool Is.

Ava 21:16

Connor, another TikToker yeah.

Lauren 21:19

Yeah, he has a TikTok.

Ava 21:21

I don't know, I don't know who this is.

Lauren 21:22

I know. That's why I just informed you.

Linley 21:27

Yes, yes, you did. Yes, okay, wait. So going back to what is your decade that you would not want to live in Ava, my decade is the 1870s. Okay, elaborate.

Ava 21:41

It's just so boring, like I think of the 1870s, and it's like tan and like beige and like drab. Oh okay, like, isn't that, like, so, like, right, yeah, and like isn't that, like, so, like, right, yeah, like, and like everything was like just starting, like, like, isn't it like 1842 when, like, columbus came over?

Lauren 21:57

here, 42?

Linley 22:01

Um no 14, 1492. So close, Ava, ava, ava, you were right there. Wait, ava, avaa you what, what, when did you say? Because I you do realize, like abraham lincoln's era has passed.

Ava 22:20

Like all of these people, no, but I do genuinely mean the 1870s. I don't want to live there. Okay, good, just did not mean that you didn't mean christopher columbus she.

Lauren 22:33

She was thinking about christopher columbus girl.

Ava 22:35

I was thinking of the state song and I was like in like, but like in 1842 no, columbus no, was it 14.

Linley 22:45

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492 whoa in 1492 we sailed the ocean blue.

Ava 22:53

That's what I was thinking. But next week we'll see Columbus in Ohio, except I was thinking 18 spring that song back, 42. Yeah 1842 we sailed the ocean blue.

Lauren 23:01

Yeah, no that's not it.

Linley 23:03

Good try, but no.

Ava 23:05

Okay, but anyway, the 1870s were still so like drab sounding.

Linley 23:09

Right, like. Would you want to be like in America, or like?

Ava 23:14

in Britain. I wouldn't want to live in America, probably Britain.

Lauren 23:16

Well, I think, isn't that like Bridgerton time? I think so.

Ava 23:19

That time. I think Maybe a little before. That would be so fun. Oh now, no, not in America.

Lauren 23:25

Still, I'm pretty sure it was like before the 1870s, but around that I think If I had to live there, I'd want to be rich, though. Well, yeah, at that time, Like the dresses, yeah, right.

Ava 23:35

I would not want to be just like an average person.

Linley 23:38

Right At that time, you want to be rich.

Lauren 23:41

She wants to be a duchess.

Linley 23:42

With the big ball gowns.

Lauren 23:45

Yeah, a viscountess.

Ava 23:59

Goodness, gracious, goodness, gracious, poofy dress. Honestly, I feel like, yeah, yeah, do you?

Lauren 24:01

want to be like a, like a average person at that time. No, no, no, I just wouldn't like a fast you'd be like a factory worker.

Linley 24:05

I feel like, wouldn't you?

Ava 24:08

no, you were like the industrial revolution, oh yeah, no, yeah, I wouldn't no, but like you wouldn't work, no, okay she wants she's you're rich, I forget, I forget, she wants to lay in the sun.

Lauren 24:23

Yeah, just sit around, oh I would love that tv, but I wish I need a phone. Not to mention that again, but you know, just had to make it known, which is fine lauren would be like in, like, like the renaissance era.

Linley 24:39

She would like have like the pigeons, like sending messages get this to them now. Yeah, no, I can't wait that long you'd have like a whole like flock of pigeons just constantly bringing you messages.

Lauren 24:51

Yeah, just talking to all my friends yeah, yeah, yeah, via pigeon. No, I don't know, never mind. Back to the decade question. What, like, if we were here at SJA? What decade would you want to be here in? Like the uniforms and stuff Right now? Nice, maybe, if you couldn't pick that Ava.

Linley 25:22

Pick something different, then, like 2010s, like Okay, I don't want to go back to like long skirt, like yeah, I guess I'd agree with you, although the nuns' outfits are kind of fire you know, back in the 1870s, Okay

Ava 25:39

so actually they were only around for two years in the 1870s.

Linley 25:46

Not 1879. Facts Okay, just kidding.

Ava 25:54

Still probably had long skirts.

Linley 25:55

So hey, I think that you know for that time.

Lauren 26:04

I feel like that was pretty hip, you know. Yeah, I feel like I did a like project in English this year, like at the beginning, and we had to like write about SJ and like the history year, like at the beginning, and we had to like write about sj and like the history and a few people did like like may die hall and we had to do it on a building and like some people did, may die and like you know how, there's like pictures. We were looking at the pictures and like they're old, like the library used to be the gymnasium, like and it looks so fun I don't know, what year that was, I think.

Lauren 26:33

I think like maybe like the 50s or I don't know.

Linley 26:36

Yeah, I'm probably so wrong, but I mean even when, even when my mom went here, it was so different.

Ava 26:41

She said oh yeah yeah, crazy I know like that's why I wanted to be now. Yeah, okay, now we can take classes like journalism right, you're right're right.

Linley 26:52

So true, so true.

Ava 26:53

Couldn't do that in the 1870s Right.

Lauren 26:57

Well, yeah, god is there.

Linley 27:00

Yeah.

Lauren 27:00

Well, we've shared our thoughts. We'd also love to hear yours. You can text us anytime from the link in our show description. You can leave your name and class or you can remain anonymous. You can text us what decade you'd love to live in or not, or maybe your screen time to help me feel better.

Linley 27:16

Yes, please give us your opinions. We want to hear them all.

Ava 27:20

And make sure you guys stay tuned for our exciting interview with Ms Spears. We'll see you after this.

Linley 27:35

Did you know that St Joseph's Academy now has a podcast?

Lauren 27:39

That's right. The St Joseph's Sticker Show is the official student-run podcast of SJA.

Ava 27:43

In each episode we'll talk about whatever's on our mind and what's happening on campus. Plus, we'll sit down with SJA students and faculty to dive deeper into their thoughts about the latest happenings and we want to hear from you. You'll be able to send us your thoughts and ideas about what we should discuss on the show and we know you'll have some thoughts about what we say and we want to hear those too.

Linley 28:02

So join the three of us Lindley, lauren and Ava for the St Joe's Sticker Show.

Lauren 28:07

Available on Spotify, apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Welcome back to the St Joe's Sticker Show. Joining us now for an interview is our guest, the Mission Integration Director here at SGA, ms Jade Spears. Ms Spears, welcome to the show. How?

Ms. Spears 28:28

are you today. Thank you all so much for having me. I'm doing great today. It's a Friday, it's chilly out, nothing to complain about. I'm so glad.

Lauren 28:37

So have you always had your role at SGA.

Ms. Spears 28:41

No, actually this is my eighth year at St Joseph's and it is, I guess, technically my fourth job in those eight years. So I was originally hired to teach theology to freshmen and sophomores and then I got out of the theology department temporarily and was assistant campus minister. I taught social studies, so I taught civics and African-American history for a while, and then I was campus minister, most recently, I guess and while being campus minister taught church history, and so now I am mission integration director. So a lot of jobs. Do you still teach? Yes, I have one section of church history every morning I get to teach my sophomores. Do you still teach? Yes, I have one section of church history every morning I get to teach my sophomores.

Linley 29:24

Do you have a favorite position that you've had? Probably the one that.

Ms. Spears 29:28

I have now. It has been a good challenge for me. In all my previous roles here, I really focused on the student experience, and my new role gives me the opportunity to engage with students every single day, but also to get to know the faculty and staff a lot, lot better, and so I'm really grateful for that.

Ava 29:52

That's awesome. What other job would you want to do like at SGA if you didn't have this one? If you didn't have this one.

Ms. Spears 30:01

I don't know if there is a job that I could point to and say, oh, that would be like a dream job, maybe a combination of things, some of them that I already do, some of them maybe that technically fall under someone else. Right now, I really love events and event planning, and so I joke all the time that if I did something that wasn't at SJA, it would be to be an event planner. And so I don't know, maybe if there's, you know, an event planner job at SJA, maybe that'll be next.

Lauren 30:35

Yes, that sounds fun, I'd do that probably.

Ms. Spears 30:39

Yeah, I think it would just be so fun to work with everyone.

Linley 30:41

Yeah, I agree.

Ms. Spears 30:44

What brought you to SAA. So when I was finishing up grad school, saa actually came to LSU. There was a recruitment event, and so a lot of local schools were just in the ballroom at LSU and I am really type A. So the night before the like interview, I guess, segments opened. You could like go in and schedule your interviews, and so I knew that I wanted to work in a Catholic school. I knew I wanted to teach theology, and so I scheduled a couple of practice interviews with schools that I would not have seriously considered, because I stayed up till midnight. I got to get the first pick of everything and then I scheduled SJA and immediately Ms Rader was in my first interview.

Ms. Spears 31:36

Ms Rader in the office, um, and it was just the place that I knew. Um, I was supposed to bei actually came to summer camp here when I was a little girl, um, every summer, and so where the activity center and the academy student center meet used to be the carpool lane back in the day, and the academy student center was the big parking lot, and so in the summers my grandma would come and pick me up from summer camp every day, like right at the activity center door, um, and I guess, I don't know we didn't eat lunch in the dining hall. We ate lunch on the activity center floor, and I don't know why, but, um, because I was already a little familiar with SJA. Um, it felt in many ways like coming back home.

Linley 32:23

Awesome, I went to the summer camps here too.

Ms. Spears 32:27

Sizzling summer camp yes, and now I teach at sizzling summer camp. I teach scrapbooking, so it's kind of a full circle.

Ava 32:34

It's so sweet. Okay, so you had said that you knew you wanted to teach at a Catholic school or something. What did you study in college?

Ms. Spears 32:43

So my undergraduate degree is in history and religious studies and my master's is in secondary social studies education. So teaching church history is like a dream. The state of Louisiana, like the Department of Education, considers Catholic church history to be the history of religion, considers Catholic church history to be the history of religion. So I am certified to teach this class through the state. But also to be able to tie in a faith component to something I love is really cool. It's kind of like where world history meets your faith.

Lauren 33:15

Yeah, you literally get to do both. Yeah, that's so fun.

Ms. Spears 33:20

Yeah, I tell people all the time that I got my dream job on the first try. Aw, aw.

Linley 33:26

How sweet Lauren. You had an experience as a teacher. How was that I?

Lauren 33:31

did. She thought we were ridiculous. Well, because me and my best friend Ainsley, we would. I can't. I don't even think I can like. It's really embarrassing, but like we would like, while she was teaching, we would. Ainsley would start making cat noises. Miss Spears would just stop and look around. And every time it was Ainsley Every time, every single time, and then she separated us one day.

Ms. Spears 34:06

Yeah, it was time.

Lauren 34:08

It was time I get it. It had to be done.

Ms. Spears 34:11

But your class also, Ainsley would send me videos of her life. You have to tell them about it. How about?

Lauren 34:16

you say the story.

Ms. Spears 34:19

So I wish that you could all see at home the videos that Ainsley would send me. The first one was about special sauce. Yeah, oh, and the special sauce contained a lot of things I don't know. Lauren might have to help me out. It was like sriracha and ketchup and mayo. A ton of things. Oh, just really not appealing.

Lauren 34:40

And they're all available in Sage.

Ms. Spears 34:40

Every single day Made it right in the dining hall, oh wow, and then the worst part is that it ended with being in the microwave for 30 seconds in a tiny plastic condiment container.

Lauren 34:48

Oh no, I forgot about that part.

Ms. Spears 34:52

And at the end of the video she swirled the sauce around to mix it up with a french fry and ate it on camera.

Linley 35:01

Oh good, good.

Lauren 35:04

She made the video specifically for Miss Spears too.

Ms. Spears 35:08

And I said, coach Liz, someone else needed to experience it.

Lauren 35:15

The scariness of the video.

Ms. Spears 35:17

And there were so many of these videos. It wasn't just the special sauce.

Lauren 35:23

Oh, and then at the end of the year, ms Spears gave us awards, because Superlatives. Superlatives, not awards because we really didn't deserve any awards, but superlatives.

Ms. Spears 35:38

Because we were Lauren's really adding herself.

Lauren 35:40

It's okay. I was just a little sophomore. I've grown, hopefully, my goodness. Yeah, I actually forgot what mine was. I think it was like actually something nice and Ainsley got one that was like really disturbing, kind of it was something, I think, about the meowing, but it was a really good time and we were her only class, so so a lot of special perks. It was very special, and I think it was also eighth hour it was you can imagine that helps.

Ms. Spears 36:20

It was eighth hour. What was? You can imagine? That helps. It was eighth hour.

Ava 36:25

What a way to end the day, miss Spears, so obviously the snow days kept us inside.

Ms. Spears 36:38

Do you have any funny stories from that? I do, but first I have to share that Lauren's superlative was most likely to seem happy.

Lauren 36:47

Never certain if she actually was, but she seemed it. Yes, I think it's because, like after me, and Ainsley got separated, like I would like, ainsley is and she's so loud, so she, she would like say things and I'd just laugh.

Ms. Spears 37:06

And that's true by myself in my chair. Other superlatives from that class include please most likely to make a dolphin sound, most likely to get miss spears off topic, that was Ainsley oh, yes, good most likely to talk about her cat that was Sadie. Most likely to cry while laughing Look at queen Technology whiz. Most likely to ask before getting her phone out and most likely to talk about her dog. It was a wild time Aw seriously one of my faves.

Ms. Spears 37:38

But on the snow days when we had remote school, I worked from home. On the Tuesday, though, when it was actually snow, well, I guess I should back up to Monday. So that weekend I had gone to New York, and our flight got delayed on Monday night and I was like, oh my gosh, they're closing all these things. Like, are we going to be able to make it back? Because we flew into New Orleans and my best friend and I were kind of freaking out, um, because we both needed to get back to Baton Rouge, and so we did make it back. It was fine, but they had already closed several of the like bridges by the time we got back, so a little bit crazy. So after that, um, um, tuesday morning, wake up, it's already snowing, um, but not really sticking to the ground, and so I kind of kept an eye out.

Ms. Spears 38:29

But I was working for my kitchen table and I'm like looking out the window while I'm typing, um, and I went outside a couple of times, um, but I didn't really like. I didn't build a snowman or anything. I was deeply terrified that my neighbor who was like due the next week, was going to go into labor, and I was like, oh my gosh, I'm like if Madison calls, I'm going to have to answer and go help her. And I didn't know, like, if her husband was home or not, because he's a doctor. So sometimes they get, like you know, trapped at the hospital. I didn't know. Um, luckily she didn't actually have her little girl until the next week, like she was supposed to, but I was kind of living in fear when everything was closed.

Ms. Spears 39:17

Um, but, yeah, the snow days were um were something. I don't usually spend that much time alone I was about to say.

Lauren 39:25

I'm sure, like you love just having to stay still.

Ms. Spears 39:29

Yeah, it was kind of nice. And then by Friday afternoon I was like I've got to go somewhere and would you like to know my big exciting outing the post office? Oh fire, I was because, well, I had plans to go other places and then there was like still a little bit of ice on the road and I was like I'm going back in. So I didn't go anywhere, really just the post office.

Lauren 39:52

Yeah, well, aside from all your other things, what are your hobbies when you're free time?

Ms. Spears 40:00

Okay, so I love sports Me too. Yeah, college football through and through. I'm a big LSU fan. So it's baseball opening day today. It is Games in a couple minutes, really. Oh. So I'm going to watch a lot of baseball this weekend. I'm looking forward to it. So I'm going to watch a lot of baseball this weekend, I'm looking forward to it. I have a like a quest I'm on, I guess you could say, to go to every major league sporting event, and so the only thing I haven't done is major league soccer, and so I'm going to try and make that happen this summer. But I went to a WNBA game for the first time last year, um, and so I saw the Las Vegas Aces play the Atlanta Dream, uh, and so, and it was just kind of like a random spur of the moment, like oh, let's do this um, the same girl I was with and we almost got stuck in New York.

Linley 41:02

So you, know, oh good maybe maybe we need to not go anywhere.

Ms. Spears 41:06

She actually came to SJA so yeah, but that's my quest right now.

Ava 41:15

I guess sports um yeah pretty much it's a fun one yeah, what other sports teams have you seen?

Sports, Concerts, and Travel Dreams

Ms. Spears 41:25

um, oh gosh, um. So my I come from a really big sports family and so, um growing up, we would always go, at least once in the summer, to watch the Houston Astros play in a series that's my dad's favorite team.

Ms. Spears 41:39

We always go um, so the most embarrassing thing ever is every time we go. My dad knows all the cheers and the cheers have been the same since he was a little boy and he's like a little kid sitting in his seat in the stadium and I'm like this is so embarrassing. Last summer we went to see the Texas Rangers play, and so it was cool. We got to see Alex Bregman play for the Astros. Of course, now he's been traded to the Red Sox or free agency whatever, and then Josh Smith Catholic High alum plays for the Rangers, so it was pretty cool to be able to see them play against each other.

Ms. Spears 42:19

But yeah, we go to Saints games a lot. My dad really loves football too, so outside of going to Tiger Stadium, I would say the Saints are kind of what we do. We occasionally watch the Pelicans play. Got tickets yesterday during the pre-sale to watch the Chicago Sky play the Brazil national team during the WNBA pre-season. They're playing at the PMAC, oh cool, um, on May 2nd or something like that. Got tickets to that yesterday. Um, yeah, I that in concert.

Lauren 42:58

I would say sports in concerts yeah, yeah, I'm a big concert girl.

Ms. Spears 43:02

Yeah, I had kind of gotten away from it a little bit because there were all the COVID restrictions and stuff. So I'm trying to get back into that this year.

Ava 43:12

What's your favorite artist?

Ms. Spears 43:14

Oh Okay, that's a tough question and it changes frequently. Lately I've really been loving Sabrina Carpenter.

Lauren 43:25

OMG, you know, her deluxe came out today.

Ms. Spears 43:30

I know.

Lauren 43:31

I'm so excited you didn't listen yet.

Ms. Spears 43:34

Did you listen? No, I didn't, I didn't. I don't listen to music on the way to school, usually Like silence in the car.

Linley 43:44

No, oh, I was just wondering. Music on the way to school?

Ms. Spears 43:46

um usually so like silence in the car um no, usually in the morning I listen to a part of a podcast. Sometimes, if I haven't prayed, I'll pray in the car, or my mom will call in the morning. Gotcha, gotcha, silence.

Linley 44:07

Not really big on silence. If you haven't noticed, I know I was like maybe she just needs some peace before she sees people. I wasn't sure.

Ms. Spears 44:12

No, no, I like drinking a cup of coffee at home.

Ava 44:14

Yeah.

Ms. Spears 44:14

Then I can be with the world in the car. Yeah, you do do a lot have I have a lot of silence at home. So when I'm at home, that silent time like won't turn the tv on if I don't have to, kind of situation gotcha.

Lauren 44:31

So yeah, maybe a little, I don't know crazy, but do you have any other besides Sabrina? Or like what's your favorite concert?

Linley 44:43

you've ever been to. That's a good one if you have one.

Ms. Spears 44:49

Okay, so a few answers here. Best like surprise opener. I've ever seen Dan and Shay opened for Hunter Hayes when I was in college and I wasn't originally supposed to go and I had never heard a Dan and Shay song and like very quickly fell in love with them and was like oh my gosh, how have I never heard of these guys? Best overall, I guess, performer that's hard, because a part of me wants to say Beyonce.

Linley 45:21

Right.

Ms. Spears 45:22

But she never comes out on time, which is frustrating to me, because I want to go to bed at a decent time. Yeah, I don't know. A part of me also would say I saw Shania Twain last year and I would have loved to see her in her prime right, yeah. I mean, it's a lot of standing around on the stage now, but you can tell what she once was.

Linley 45:50

Mm-hmm.

Ms. Spears 45:51

Yeah, I saw Taylor Swift in Tiger Stadium, and that is Something I'll never forget.

Lauren 46:01

Yes, I also was there. Yes, me too, but I did forget that day. I don't remember anything.

Linley 46:09

Oh, oh I thought you were going to lore drop, like there's a reason you blocked it out.

Lauren 46:14

Yeah, no, I was just eight and I don't remember that's my second concert ever, but yeah, how fun.

Ms. Spears 46:24

Yeah, I don't know. I have seen a lot of concerts.

Lauren 46:28

Yeah, I once skipped your class for a concert. Sorry, what did? You see, Tell me it was worth it. Yeah, it was. I went to Harry Styles oh okay, I'll forgive it.

Ms. Spears 46:40

Sorry, I'll forgive it.

Lauren 46:42

Secret I've been keeping from you.

Ms. Spears 46:48

Probably no one was here that day. Yeah, maybe I don't know. I'll have to go back and look at the attendance records. I'm cooked.

Ava 47:03

Ms Spears, did you get whoa tickets to beyonce? I did not even attempt actually.

Ms. Spears 47:08

Um, yeah, I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing this summer. Um, so I didn't attempt, but I do know that people were really frustrated about ticket master, because I saw it everywhere, yes, and I get it right, like I've waited in the queue to get into the waiting room to do this to do that you feel like you're jumping through 85 hoops just to get a ticket to a concert.

Ms. Spears 47:32

Yeah, I can understand the frustration, right, but yeah, I didn't try this time. I saw her like 10 years ago, oh yeah, yeah, it was on the run two, I believe and it was Beyonce and Jay-Z at the Superdome. Whoa, yeah that was really good. It was a cool experience, but she came on like three hours late and I was ready to go to bed, so oh my goodness, that's awful.

Lauren 47:59

That's honestly one of the worst things that happened, yeah.

Ms. Spears 48:03

Yeah, I mean, she's not the only one right, but it was pretty frustrating.

Lauren 48:07

Yeah, I feel like you love a schedule right.

Ms. Spears 48:10

Yes.

Lauren 48:11

Absolutely I knew it.

Ms. Spears 48:15

Yes, if I could, I would go to bed at 8 o'clock every night and wake up at like 4.30 and be fine.

Linley 48:20

That's how I am.

Ms. Spears 48:24

I'm definitely a morning person. Yeah, I just. You know that'd be the dream, are y'all? Ava and Lauren? Absolutely not.

Linley 48:27

Nope.

Lauren 48:29

Honestly, though, like I wish I was.

Ms. Spears 48:31

So I'm kind of I'm jealous. Yeah, I think it depends on, like when you want your peace right, like in the morning.

Lauren 48:39

no one's late, yeah you know like, yeah, I love my nighttimes in bed scrolling on my phone. They, they know this. What can I say? Oh, here's a fun one. If you could travel anywhere, where would you go?

Ms. Spears 48:58

okay, so I think it would be Italy, okay, specifically, just like I don't want to say I want to move to Italy, that's a little dramatic, but I would like to be there long enough to really experience it. I'm not big on big cities, like I don't enjoy that usually, and so I guess New York is maybe the exception, and so I wouldn't really want to spend a ton of time in Rome, which is like the most controversial thing you know, I guess, but to just experience the little towns. One of my friends lived in northern Italy right after we graduated from college for like six months or something, and because I was in grad school, I couldn't go. None of our breaks were long enough. So, um, that would have been cool, but yeah, I don't know, I think actually that I probably that will be a 2026 or 2027 um trip for me.

Lauren 49:56

Yes, yeah, but I feel like that's the best place. You could go. Northern Italy, small town. Yeah, that's what I would do too. Yeah, that's the best place you could go in northern Italy, small town. Yeah, that's what I would do too.

Ms. Spears 50:05

Yeah, I just want to you know like live among the locals and struggle through my broken you know ability to speak a foreign language.

Lauren 50:14

Yeah, ride a little bicycle everywhere.

Ms. Spears 50:17

Exactly Some gelato.

Lauren 50:19

Yes, yes.

Ms. Spears 50:20

Absolutely To have a real pizza and fresh pasta Like yes, that's the dream. Where have you been. So I'm also on a quest, a little side quest of mine to go to every state. Yeah, I do love a quest. Okay, I love a quest. I want to go to every state and I'm just over halfway, I think. Okay, um with that. So, um, like, visit them or just drive through them. Okay, I count it if I spend a night there.

Ava 50:50

Yeah, that's fair.

Ms. Spears 50:51

Like not just visiting an airport, not just like I have to sleep there for a night and do something Right.

Ava 50:58

Like I have to experience something.

Ms. Spears 51:00

That's fair experience something, but outside of the US the only places I've been are Mexico, the UK, france and can take us with you. Yeah, a little like late grad trip, you know, late grad trip really, really late for me.

Lauren 51:31

Yeah, yeah like halfway through college. I would join either way. What's? What's your favorite state so far?

Ms. Spears 51:41

okay, so I grew up thinking that I was a beach girl because my mom loves the beach and so we always went to the beach, right? Um, but I don't know. I I spent a lot of time as an adult in the Carolinas and.

Ms. Spears 51:55

I love the option to have both right like just within a few hours. Yeah, so I like love Asheville, okay, the like Greenville, south Carolina area, like I just, and then to have those coastal cities like Charleston and Wilmington, like I don't know, kind of best of both worlds vibes, so maybe the Carolinas.

Lauren 52:17

Yes, that's the last place I went to was Asheville.

Ms. Spears 52:19

Hmm.

Lauren 52:20

Yes.

Ms. Spears 52:21

What did you do? Did you see the boat more?

Lauren 52:23

Yeah, I did actually go there.

Ms. Spears 52:31

Yeah, did you go there? Yes, I have been there. I went actually. I went to my one of my best friends from college lives in Greenville and I went to visit her last May. We saw Zach Bryan before he got canceled. Nice, we, I mean that's what happened, um, and we drove like I went a couple of days early and we spent some time in Asheville that's it, we got to Baltimore and, yeah, it's fun do you like to hike? Yeah, absolutely every um.

Lauren 52:59

Oh sorry that's why it wasn't my favorite destination, but it was still good, oh yeah.

Ms. Spears 53:06

No, I love like an outdoor activity kind of vibe. I every summer I go on CLE with students. Yes, so we hike a lot on that trip, so it'd be kind of difficult to not like hiking and do that True.

Ava 53:18

Yeah.

Linley 53:21

Miss Spears, is there anything you want to tell us that would like surprise us, that we haven't heard before?

Ms. Spears 53:26

hmm, I don't know um y'all might know this, but I love Broadway too. Okay, um, so I spend a lot of time watching shows. Um, I'm seeing Mamma Mia this weekend at the Sanger fun um, so I don't know. It's the middle of February and I'm seeing my sixth show for the year.

Ava 53:51

Oh, wow, oh my gosh. Yeah, do you want to list?

Ms. Spears 53:54

them that I've seen this year.

Lauren 53:56

Yeah.

Ms. Spears 53:56

Yeah, sure, I saw In Juliet.

Ava 54:00

Was Rachel Ziegler. No, that's not Rachel Ziegler Zegler.

Ms. Spears 54:04

I saw that touring in New. Orleans she's in New Orleans so I saw Angelia touring at the Sanger in New Orleans and then, when I was in New York, I saw Six Book of Mormon, moulin Rouge and Hell's Kitchen, which is the. It just won a Grammy on Sunday. It premiered last year. And then I'm seeing Mamma Mia, moulin Rouge and Hell's Kitchen, which is the. It just won a Grammy on Sunday.

Ava 54:23

Oh cool yes.

Ms. Spears 54:24

Yeah, it premiered last year, so oh, my God yeah and then I'm seeing Mamma Mia.

Ava 54:28

What's the favorite? What's your favorite one?

Ms. Spears 54:31

Like all time, yes.

Ava 54:33

Yeah, or that you've seen both. Just do that.

Ms. Spears 54:37

Okay, favorite one in general is probably Wicked.

Linley 54:45

Duh.

Ms. Spears 54:46

But I don't know, I do love Hamilton as well.

Linley 54:49

Oh yeah.

Ms. Spears 54:50

So probably Wicked and Hamilton. Those are my top two. My favorite new one is definitely Hell's Kitchen. It is absolutely incredible. Alicia Keys wrote it. Ooh, Some of her music that we all know. Some of it was just written for the show and it was absolutely incredible.

Ava 55:07

Did you hear there's going to be a Dolly Parton musical?

Ms. Spears 55:09

Yes, I have been getting all the email updates and I'm trying to figure out how I can go. I love that, yeah, because it's only going to be in Nashville. So actually I was reading about it last night to try and figure it out. Um, my mom also loves Dolly Parton and so, um, she's like, well, we have to figure this out.

Lauren 55:28

Right, we have to go and take a little trip yeah, absolutely so.

Ms. Spears 55:32

Um yeah, that'll just be me. My mom thing, my dad and brother will not accompany us where can we find you on campus? I am upstairs in Mother Alice Hall in the middle kind of of the hallway. It's room 212. Got some comfy couches for students to come in and talk to A little bowl of candy, yeah.

Lauren 55:53

Come anytime. Come snatch the candy. It's been great talking to you. Thank you so much for joining us, Ms Spears. Thank you all for having me. We'll be right back after this.

Linley 56:15

Did you know that St Joseph's Academy now has a podcast? That's right.

Lauren 56:19

the St Joe's Sticker Show is the official student-run podcast of SJA.

Ava 56:23

In each episode we'll talk about whatever's on our mind and what's happening on campus.

Linley 56:27

Plus, we'll sit down with SJA students and faculty to dive deeper into their thoughts about the latest happenings.

Lauren 56:33

And we want to hear from you. You'll be able to send us your thoughts and ideas about what we should discuss on the show.

Student Podcast Farewell Episode

Ava 56:38

And we know you'll have some thoughts about what we say and we want to hear those too. So know you'll have some thoughts about what we say, and we want to hear those too. So join the three of us Lindley, lauren and Ava for the St Joe's Sticker Show, available on Spotify, apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts Make sure you subscribe, you'll definitely want to tune in, and that was our first episode.

Lauren 56:58

How?

Ava 56:59

did y'all feel about that? I think it went well. Yeah, that was pretty good. I'm proud of us. Well, thank y'all so much for listening. Make sure you text us your ideas, any questions you want answered, things you want us to talk about or people around SJA you want us to interview and don't forget to subscribe and leave us a five-star rating and review.

Linley 57:16

We greatly appreciate it.

Ava 57:17

I'm Lauren, I'm Ava and I'm Lindley, this has been the St Joe's Ticket Show. Bye, bye guys, peace out.