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Episode 136: Dude? Dude. 40:52

1y ago40:52

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if you are like us, you think a lot about words and where they come from. and if you're like Mattie you spend weeks researching them. this week we talk about the word dude, where it came from, how it has been used, and how it changed. we also read a VERY long poem.Av Will This Be on the Test?

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Episode 135: Monopolies 22:03

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have you ever played the boardgame Monopoly and wanted to flip the board in frustration? well, what if I told you that you can feel that powerlessness and hopelessness in real-life? all you need is a corporation to form a real monopoly and listen to Austin talk about what happens in real-life monopoly (I'll give you a hint, you can't buy Taylor Swi…

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Episode 134: Hypatia 30:05

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This week Mattie takes us back to Ancient Alexandria and tells us all about the OG woman in STEM Hypatia. hear all about how she learned philosophy, and astronomy, and the creative way she fended off unwanted suitors. we also discuss unions and why we now hate Drew Barrymore more than Ross Geller.Av Will This Be on the Test?

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Epsiode 133: The Kent State Shootings 50:10

1y ago50:10

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you aren't imagining things, Will This Be On The Test is back! and in classic Debbie Downer style, we are celebrating our triumphant return with a tragedy that shook the nation when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed student protestors. so fun... We also talk about finding cats, rescuing cats, and since we recorded this, adopting yet an…

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How to Talk to Doctors 36:07

1+ y ago36:07

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A minisode from Mattie! This is an unresearched ramble about her magnificent life. Well, it's more about how she's finally getting doctors to listen to her, and she hopes it helps some people. We miss y'all, but we're still here! TikTok is the easiest way to find us!Av Will This Be on the Test?

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WTBOTT Season 3 Episode #7: So Long, Farewell, We're Right Behind You, Ted 45:46

1+ y ago45:46

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And so...we come to the end of the road. After much thought and discussion, we have decided that we are at the end of our podcasting journey. Although all three of us loved having the podcast, and loved getting to know and talking to our guests, and loved to know (or hope at least) that we were helping teachers and other folks, podcasting also invo…

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WTBOTT Season 3 Memorial Day Break - Because We Needed A Minute 0:24

1+ y ago0:24

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Miss V went camping, Yo Miss and Scotty went to a barbecue and started to clean out 32 years of crap from their house...and we did not record. We will be back next week though!

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WTBOTT Season 3 Episode #6: "Abbott Elementary" Meets "Succession": Woodland Park, CO, A Cautionary Tale For All Districts, Part 2 1:04:43

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This is Part 2 of our two part story about Woodland Park, Colorado, a bucolic little town in the shadow of Pikes Peak. A place where the schools have been overtaken by a group of people who know little to nothing about education. They also give zero f*cks about the faculty and staff of the school district. It's a crazy story that gets worse by the …

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WTBOTT Season 3 Episode #5: "Abbott Elementary" Meets "Succession": Woodland Park, CO, A Cautionary Tale For All Districts, Part 1 57:03

1+ y ago57:03

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If you heard of a corporation that had secret meetings, non-disclosure of public documents, and a company policy that included a gag order for employees' personal social media, you might say "wow, that's a pretty toxic environment." Now...suppose you found out it was actually a school district? Shocking, right? Well, not so much these days. We are …

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WTBOTT Season 3 Episode #4: Where In The World Should I Teach This Year? An Interview With An International Teacher 1:09:42

1+ y ago1:09:42

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It always sounds so glamorous, going abroad to teach. You get to travel, learn about a different country and culture, try out different food and clothing...great, right? However, just like everything else that is reality and not a fairy tale, there is two sides to the story. Meet Jessica Graham, an international teacher (up until recently) who has …

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WTBOTT Season 3 Episode #3: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Leaving Teaching For A Great Job! 1:06:14

1+ y ago1:06:14

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Last season, we spoke to the creator of the Facebook group "Life After Teaching," where teachers looking to get out of the profession can go to get information, support, and people to cheer them on. In this episode, we speak to one of the members of "Life After Teaching," who left teaching after six years and moved on to a related field, but withou…

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WTBOTT Season 3 Episode #2: Don't Say DeSantis: Education In The Sunshine State 1:01:36

1+ y ago1:01:36

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Education in Florida. What can we say about that? So many things. Book banning, "don't say gay," and the latest, a principal being asked to resign because parents objected to Michelangelo's "David" being shown in an art class. And the leader of this pack, Ron DeSantis, the governor of the Florida and expected presidential candidate, just keeps the …

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Episode 131: Sarah Biffen 26:19

1+ y ago26:19

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This Week Mattie tells us all about the amazing Sarah Biffen. the disabled woman artist that did portraits of multiple royal families in the late 18th and early 19th century. That's right, Mattie is doing an art episode this time. everything has gone mad. will Austin do one that contains actual educational value next? Twitter: @onthetestpod Faceboo…

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WTBOTT Season 3 #1: Do The (Side) Hustle: How Blogging Can Make You Money And Possibly Save Your Sanity 1:19:52

1+ y ago1:19:52

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Welcome to Season 3 of "Will This Be On The Test? Teacher Pod!" We are super excited to continue on our journey to bring you content that is honest, informative, and hopefully sometimes amusing! On our first episode of this season, we are so excited to have Stacey Ogden, creator of https://sidehustleteachers.com/! Stacey takes us through the proces…

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But we're on a break! 0:38

1+ y ago0:38

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So we took a little break between seasons...but we're not just sitting around, we are getting all sorts of interesting guests and content for Season 3! We will see you next week with the first episode of Season 3!

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Episode 130: The Tsavo Lions 39:35

1+ y ago39:35

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We're Back! after a long break, we come in with the unofficial themes of our podcast! Animals that kill and the atrocities committed by Europeans. Austin goes into The Lions of Tsavo, the real actual killer lions that inspired The Ghost and The Darkness and whatever that Idris Elba movie that came out last year was. Twitter: @onthetestpod Facebook:…

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WE’RE BACK. 0:28

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Will This Be on the Test? returns this week!Av Will This Be on the Test?

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #26: The Kid Whisperer: Behavior Management For Real Classrooms, Teachers, and Kids 1:17:35

1+ y ago1:17:35

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You know how you sit in PD workshops, thinking about how completely out of touch the presenter is with what really takes place in a classroom? You even wonder if they've actually ever taught in a real classroom-or if they did, for how long. So you might be thinking, "Ugh, are they really having a behavior management 'expert' on the podcast? Who nee…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #25: Your Stories Of School Violence, Threats, and Administration Inaction 1:14:57

1+ y ago1:14:57

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After first grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by a six year old student in her classroom several weeks ago, the question that kept coming up was "How?" How did a six year old get access to a gun? How did no one know he had it at school? Why wasn't something done? And then we heard-it was known. It was reported to administration. And nothing was d…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #24: What's Up With Student Behavior? And Can It Be Fixed? 1:05:25

2y ago1:05:25

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We think that everyone would agree-student behavior is awful. And it's not just apathy, it's not just attitude-it's beyond that. We can point to the pandemic, and the impact that online learning and isolation had on kids and families, but in the end, we're still dealing with kids walking out of classrooms while cursing out teachers, and worse. One …

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #23: The Wheels On The Bus Go Round and Round, Despite Everything 1:21:09

2y ago1:21:09

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We don't know about you, but when we see those massive school buses filled with loud kids go driving down the street, we think to ourselves, "Holy Crap! I can't drive my Nissan Rogue when my two kids are fighting, how the hell do those school bus drivers do it?" Listen as we chat with Miss J., a school bus driver who has dealt with it all-sick kids…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #22: "My Kid Didn't Cheat, She Got The Answers From God" and Other Insane Parent Stories 1:07:58

2y ago1:07:58

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Have you ever, during your teaching career, gotten a response or comment from a parent of one of your students that is so crazy, so unbelievable that you are stunned into silence? How about a request that you think is some sort of joke, and it turns out to be an actual request? If so, then this episode is for you! And if not, this episode is for yo…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode 21: We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Life After Teaching 1:01:49

2y ago1:01:49

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We all have daydreamed about what we'd do if we won the Powerball. But do we have to wait for that 1 in 1 billion chance to leave teaching? According to Zachary Long, the originator (along with his wife, Brittany) of the Facebook group "Life After Teaching: Educator Options Beyond the Classroom" the answer is a resounding NO! This group (https://ww…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode 20: Christopher Rufo Is Not Our Daddy: Parents Fighting For Public Education 54:09

2y ago54:09

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There's a playbook. It's probably called something like "How To Kill Public Education, and Get The Government To Pay For Your Kids' Private School." And there is a lot of conservative money behind this playbook, and the movement it inspires that wants to do away with kids learning about racism, LGBTQ people and stories, and basically anything they …

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #19: You Can't Shush These Librarians: #FreadomFighters Taking On Book Banning 1:04:34

2y ago1:04:34

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Do you ever shake your head and think, "How is it that book banning is a thing now, in the United States?" We do too. Because it's appalling. We spoke to Carolyn Foote, a founding member of the 13,000 follower strong #Freadom, which was started by a group of librarians, with a hashtag takeover of #txlege! This organization is dedicated to fighting …

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #18: The Dream Teacher Project: Helping Teachers To Get Their Money Right, And Leave The Classroom 1:03:10

2y ago1:03:10

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Teachers do not make enough money. Period. But often teachers will stay in the job because they're unable to save enough money to amass the safety net of savings that would allow them to leave. Enter The Dream Teacher Project. Israel Tovar, a former teacher, and his sister Sunem, have made working with teachers to get their money right in order to …

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We’ll Be Back After These Brief Messages 2:04

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We're taking a break! But, we will be back.In the meantime, please rate and review the podcast on Apple, keep your subscription active, continue following us on all the socials @onthetestpod, and letting everyone know they should shiver with antici...*SAY IT*...pation. See y'all soon!Av Will This Be on the Test?

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #17 - Fountains of Wayne: A Suburban Grassroots Upstart Takes On The Conservative Education Machine 57:34

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We've all heard about the folks who want to "save education," who put "family first," who want to "keep our children safe." Of course, these are the same people who are banning books, and claiming that teachers are pedophiles who are grooming their students (insert eyeroll here). Enter Mike Gottesman, of Wayne, NJ, who has formed the New Jersey Coa…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #16: A magician, a retired teacher, and a turtle walk into a..... 1:10:40

2y ago1:10:40

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Come join us on this hilarious journey, as we discuss a district bringing in a Las Vegas magician to perform feats of...professional development? A retired teacher, who is a shining example of what in-class support should be for all of us, telling us about kids with challenging behaviors getting the Door Dash lunch treatment. Some regional terminol…

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Episode 129: The Hobo King 37:59

2y ago37:59

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This week Austin fell down a rabbit hole and ended up riding the rails with all his possessions wrapped up in a handkerchief on a stick. (or a Bindle as Mattie helpfully pointed out.) After a brief discussion about how our ghost threw a ceramic pig across a room (oh yeah, there is a MAJOR ghost update.) Austin talks about Hobos, a bit of their cult…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #15: An Interview With Badass Teachers' Melissa Tomlinson" 1:07:02

2y ago1:07:02

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We are super excited to have had the chance to sit down with Melissa Tomlinson, a founding member of Badass Teachers Association, as well as a member of NJ21United and NJEA! We learned a lot about what teachers like us can do in order to move agendas forward - and what unions are unable to do (since we've done some complaining about the union in ou…

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Ep 128: Are the Labor Movement, Great Resignation, & Quiet Quitting the Same 1:09:53

2y ago1:09:53

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Its a solo episode this week and Mattie goes into labor. Let me rephrase that. Mattie talks about the Labor Movement. Like the last 200 years of progress, how Reagan made it all worse, and how in the last 2 years American workers have gone through almost a microcosm of the entire fight for labor again. We also discuss quiet quitting, how unskilled …

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Episode 127: Not Pickleball and Mary King’s Close 52:21

2y ago52:21

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This week Mattie and Austin discuss literature. really, we both read the same book and talked about it, you should read I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, we both liked it. Then Austin starts to talk about Pickleball, but it angers Mattie (she thinks Pickleball is made up,) so he talks about Matthew Hopkins. The Witchfinder General. Then Mat…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #13: The One Where We Try To Have A Positive Attitude About The New School Year 1:10:59

2y ago1:10:59

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Teacher shortage, no subs, book banning....and those are just today's headlines. It's ugly out there. And yet, when we asked "What are you looking forward to this school year?" you did what teachers do - you found something to hang onto, something to get you out of bed and into the classroom. And not just the kids either-new roles, new projects, a …

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Episode 126: Lon Chaney and The Presidential Physical Fitness Test 1:02:22

2y ago1:02:22

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Hello Party People! that was weird, lets try again. This week Mattie and Austin are back to their usual routine with a pretty great Episode Mattie talks about an influential figure in film and makeup that we don't learn much about, Lon Chaney. He pioneered a lot of early film makeup and became one of the first faces of the horror movie genre. Then …

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #12: It Ain't All About The Latitude, and It Ain't Like American Idol 1:03:50

2+ y ago1:03:50

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Have you seen shows/movies like Glee and High School Musical, and wished that you had the talent and skill to put on a show on your school? Do you think "wow, I could discover the next ___________ (fill in talented person here), and they'll thank me at the Oscars..." Well, we have the goods on how high school musicals actually come to be, as we int…

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Episode 125: speed running research 35:25

2+ y ago35:25

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This week Mattie and Austin switched things up. instead of painstaking research over multiple days to put out an episode Mattie and Austin gave each other an unknown topic and then had to research it in only half an hour. that is right, we combined the thrill of video game speed runs with the excitement of reading and taking notes. we are legends. …

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #11: Homophobia Redux: Another Teacher of the Year Says "Enough!" 1:14:32

2+ y ago1:14:32

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In this latest episode, we are thrilled to interview Willie Carver, the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, who recently resigned from his position as a high school teacher in a public school, due to homophobia and harrassment. Those of you who listened to our episodes about Bret Bigham, 2014 Oregon Teacher of the Year (Season 1 Episodes 26 and 27) …

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Episode 124: The Raccoon Invasion and Tulip mania 59:44

2+ y ago59:44

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after being super exciting and trendy and taking their cats to the vet Mattie and Austin had enough time in their busy lives to record a new episode! Mattie starts us off by talking about those adorable lil bandits Raccoons (aka Trash Pandas) and how they are an incredibly destructive invasive species that is on an unstoppable march across Japan an…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #10: The Neurodivergent Teacher: An Interview with a Teacher On The Autism Spectrum 1:17:16

2+ y ago1:17:16

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We've all had students who are neurodivergent - ADHD, ODD, Dyslexia, Austism. But what is it like to discover late in life that you, the teacher, are on the autism spectrum? In our latest episode, we interview "Artie," an art teacher who was diagnosed with autism as an adult, and has found it to be a key to unlock some of the questions she's always…

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Episode 123: Zoos and Pregnancy Prevention 1:33:47

2+ y ago1:33:47

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ok, we are a little late getting this episode out, but it is still Tuesday in a few time zones so Mattie and Austin both agree that this episode is on time. mostly. Austin starts this week talking about Zoos. and just a bunch of wholesome animal facts with just a light sprinkling on the exploitative nature of colonialism. He also talks about his ne…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #9: If You Had To Write One Sentence About This School Year, What Would It Be? 1:03:15

2+ y ago1:03:15

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We asked you to tell us, in one sentence, about this school year. The results were consistent, not surprising, in some cases funny - but disturbing nonetheless. What is this fresh hell from which we are emerging?? Listen as Miss V and Yo Miss discuss the results of our completely unscientific survey, including quoting some of y'all, as well as Pop …

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Episode 122: The Randolphs Hearst and DDT 58:40

2+ y ago58:40

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This week, Mattie and Austin have a return guest! you know him, you love him, you want to give him belly rubs, Fezzik returns to purr aggressively right into the microphone while we shout facts and tangents at you! Mattie starts by teaching us about the Hearst family and the exploits, wars, and sensationalism of an American media dynasty. We also t…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #8: If Only Teaching Was As Fun As It Is On Television! 1:09:04

2+ y ago1:09:04

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We've all seen our share of a certain type of teacher TV shows - kids who love their teachers, parents who show respect to educators, teachers who perform miraculous feats with only optimism and gumption as their tools. And then...then there are the shows that portray teaching more realistically. Teachers with no money for supplies. Administrators …

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Episode 121: Godzilla and Father’s Day 1:14:11

2+ y ago1:14:11

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This week Mattie and Austin decided to keep it chill and talk about what they thought were light topics where nothing could possibly be sad. they were both wrong. Austin tells us about Godzilla. a 1954 monster movie loved by millions that has a much darker deeper meaning than he anticipated when he started. He also ruins King Kong while he's at it.…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #7: Special Episode: Heartbreak, Disbelief, Anger..Gun Violence in Schools 45:17

2+ y ago45:17

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In the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 elementary school children and two teachers were murderered, we wanted to put out an episode to verbalize what is going through many teachers' minds. Please reach out to let us know your thoughts; our social media info is below. If you are struggling to cope, there is help available…

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Episode 120: Oops All Diseases 1:14:27

2+ y ago1:14:27

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This episode Mattie and Austin both decided to cover a disease. this was not planned. we just share a single brain cell and it does this to us some times. Mattie starts off by talking about the Bubonic Plague. specifically the American outbreak in the 1900s. that was covered up by the government. that we were never taught about. Then Austin lighten…

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WTBOTT Season 2 Episode #6: It’s My Classroom and I’ll Cry If I Want To: Teacher’s Tearful Tales 1:16:24

2+ y ago1:16:24

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Whether you've cried on the way to or from work, at home about work, or sometime during the school day, it's happened - that crying jag that is as forceful as a middle schooler's odor after gym. Listen as we read your stories, and tell our own, about those days when the tsunami of tears christens the faculty bathroom, or, in Miss V's case, the spac…

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Episode 119: Alchemy and St Olga of Kiev 1:03:16

2+ y ago1:03:16

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This week Mattie and Austin spent most of the time watching Old Enough and wishing we lived in Japan so we could walk to do simple errands in our town without getting run over by a Land Rover. but we also managed to research and record a pretty good episode Austin starts us off with a segment about Alchemy. it was absolute nonsense, but was it actu…

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