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PODCAST

Think, Pair, Swear

Justin Orscheln and Ronnie Lathrop

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.

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All Episodes

108:12

Rebel Without A Cause

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2024/09/30

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: Justin points out that the word “teenager” came into heavy use in discussions of Rebel Without a Cause. They discuss a short history of the teen in film as the 1950s saw teens as a market for film while filmmakers sought to exploit teen rebellion in film. Good thing that stopped happening.Getting Schooled: In the span of one day from late Easter evening into Easter Monday, two teens would die and one would be critically wounded. Oh a...

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112:28

Fame

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2024/09/23

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: A real performing arts school in NYC is losing its drama partner and almost didn’t finish out the season. Can all the famous alumni save it? Not so much. Getting Schooled: Remember my name. (FAME!). Remember, remember, remember. Our hosts would care to forget parts of this 70s fantasia of NYC high school for the arts. Especially Coco’s demise, hot lunch dance breaks, middle of the school day middle of the street dance breaks, an...

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93:39

Welcome Back, Kotter

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2024/09/16

Got a question or comment? Send us a text! (Season 2, Episodes 18-19 Has Anyone Seen Arnold?).Anticipatory Set: Some teachers lack the skills to help students who are grieving. Ronnie found a good recourse to help and shared the story of his worst day in education. Getting Schooled: Oof. This one. Well they go back to the 70s and what did they find? Jeffrey Epstein, Edith Bunker, mustache rides, students who’ve been held back since 1971, obituaries for cast members, blue eyeshadow, ...

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105:16

Precious

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2024/09/09

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: Justin gives a history of alternative schools and their various incarnations over the years. Ronnie shares some alternative school experiences he had in districts.Getting Schooled: Well there’s not much to laugh at with this one, go figure. Instead there is fried chicken on the run, the 100,000 Dollar Pyramid, some references to The Bluest Eye and To Sir with Love, Mariah Carey without make-up, mother of the year Mary, journaling, Sh...

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97:15

Boy Meets World

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2024/09/02

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: A college in California is banning students sleeping in their cars, but what about unhoused students just trying to get an education? With rent and tuition astronomical right now, young people are living out of their cars more, and an LA writer has a suggestion. Getting Schooled: What happens when Ronnie didn’t watch the same episode as Justin? Magic. As well as: the Ford Topanga, special guest stars when they were young, massag...

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93:10

The Teacher's Lounge

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2024/08/26

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: Teachers stealing ideas from other teachers isn’t a new concept, but it’s one often ignored and sometimes ridiculed. And Justin says that shouldn’t be the case. Teachers need to be thieves. Getting Schooled: What happens when a teacher wants to put her students first and ends up destroying her career? Nothing good plus: ugly blouses, kids shrugging their shoulders when you ask if they know what they did was wrong, angry parents ...

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98:59

Big Mouth (Season 2 Episode 8-10)

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2024/08/19

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: Data shows that puberty is starting earlier for children. What does that mean in an era of “It’s the parent’s role to educate kids about sex?” Thoughts are shared. Getting Schooled: Ever wanted to host a lock in at school? Neither do we. Plus: Jay and JD Vance have something in common, Coach Steve sleeps in a trash bag, a wish is made on a pube, a glow worm gets busy, the Shame Wizard has problematic dildos, a discussion of bath...

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109:09

Dawson's Creek (Season 1--Episode 6 and 7)

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2024/08/12

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: Are there alternatives to handing out detentions to students? One assistant middle school principal as 3 suggests and not a one that would work at the high school level. Getting Schooled: Oompa loompa doopity doo. We’ve got another puzzle for you. And it involves yet another student / teacher sexual affair, urinal conversations, a living room full of feces and afterbirth, euthanasia, basketball boners, a creek that’s actually a ...

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118:17

Mean Girls

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2024/08/05

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Anticipatory Set: What’s the real life story behind Mean Girls and who is the real Regina George? Well turns out she’s now a suburban mom, but was she as horrible as the fiction version of her high school life? Getting Schooled: We have another principal doing things no real principal would do. And also: Tina Fey’s bra, Janis - the OG mean girl, Jonathan Bennett lust, wheelchair crowd surfing, baby sex workers in pizza parlors, Project 2025, ano...

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96:27

Summer Schooled: Sleepaway Camp

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2024/07/29

Got a question or comment? Send us a text!Summer Schooled: Camp - Sleepaway CampWhat could go wrong at a summer camp that refuses to close after multiple deaths of campers and counselors? A three foot boiling pot of salty corn, an aunt who talks like she’s in a film from the 1930s, curling irons, literal back stabbers, sit-ups into asses, Judy’s got tits, forced swimming, forced drowning, gay dads, a guy named Ronnie with a tight butt, bees, wicked dumps, and a dick. The proficiency scal...

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85:22

Summer Schooled: Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!

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2024/07/15

Summer Schooled: Camp - Race for Your Life, Charlie BrownWas it a comment on internment camps or a glimpse into a post-apocalyptic world, campers? You decide. We follow the gang from Peanuts on a trauma filled adventure. What could happen in a world with no adult supervision? A menstrual flag, feral children at gas stations, Linus’s deformed clones, a dominatrix cat, George Michael cereal eaten sans milk, Peppermint Patty becoming a fascist, animals presumed dead, a scene from the TV series Y...

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93:22

Summer Schooled: Wet Hot American Summer

Think, Pair, Swear ·

2024/07/01

Summer Schooled: Camp - Wet Hot American SummerHold onto your butts and don’t light those farts on fire, campers. We visit a hot mess parody of 80s summer camp sex comedies. What could happen on the last day of camp? Talking cans of vegetables, anal sex in a shed, horny gum chewing, children giving relationship role play therapy, the skylab crashing to the earth, men wearing the shortest shorts ever, negligent lifeguards, an unwashed child, wind being summoned as a talent, Godspell, and couns...

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94:49

Sumer Schooled: Little Darlings

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2024/06/17

Summer Schooled: Camp - Little DarlingsSummer break continues, campers. What happens when two girls place bets on who loses their virginity first? Gay coding, adolescent lung disease, a staff member with the hairiest back in recorded cinema history, a gas station condom machine exploding, “Miranda?” in the voice of Steve from in the City, a hairless Matt Dillon, a girl seductively playing the recorder, girls sex trafficking other girls, Indigo Girls haircuts, and a girl named Cinder acting li...

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88:29

Summer Schooled: Theater Camp

Think, Pair, Swear ·

2024/06/03

Summer Camp: Theater CampWelcome to summer break, campers. This summer we are covering five films set at summer camps. What happens when the matriarch of a camp for theater kids goes into a strobe light related coma at a production of Bye, Bye Birdie? One man/woman shows for bedtime stories, classes on past life identification, The Crucible Junior, auditions for hell, an original production that has a giant nose snorting coke, Wolf Blitzer’s blister, A Rotary club dinner with Vietnam War flas...

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80:43

Extra Credit: School House Rock

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2024/05/27

There’s listener mail involving Pez dispensers, psychotic nuns, Justin supplying Emily Valentine with rolls of quarters, and teachers that don’t like authority figures. They put two School House Rock songs on trial and Judge Jeff Vincent (Ronnie’s other half) sentences one of them to die as it’s a battle for the worst. Which host presents the best case? Does it matter? Finally it’s revealed what’s up with the summer episodes: It’s summer break as Think, Pair, Swear goes to summer camp. T...

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110:15

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (With Special Guest:...

Think, Pair, Swear ·

2024/05/20

Anticipatory Set: A year after the release of this film, Ronald Reagan sounded the alarm on American education called “A Nation at Risk”: a series of lies and hyperbole that kicked off a narrative of teachers as villains and public education as a failure. Repercussion still felt today. Schooled: Former high school teacher and San Diego resident Matt Michell helps Ronnie and Justin learn about California stereotypes versus reality. The mall in this movie is really a supporting character i...

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105:27

Saved By the Bell

Think, Pair, Swear ·

2024/05/13

Anti Set: Ronnie attempted to have Chat GPT humorously summarize a real lawsuit involving a teacher let go for testing positive for drugs after having an epileptic seizure. Does a school district have the right to drug test teachers? Looks like the Connecticut courts have an answer and the host have an answer for how Chat GPT interprets humor: lots of bizarre similes and metaphors. Schooled: Well your hosts LOVED this sitcom. Hahaha. Nope. This was a mess of over-acting, garish costumes,...

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104:38

To Sir With Love

Think, Pair, Swear ·

2024/05/06

Anti Set: People of color are not going into education and many are beginning to notice. How do colleges and school districts attract diverse hires especially when DEI programs are being demonized by politicians on the right? Justin found an article with some solutions. Schooled: It’s a trip back in time to London in the 1960s and the hosts are drooling over Sydney Poitier’s dance moves, butt in those suits and well basically everything he does. Even though he slut shames every girl in c...

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95:29

307 - Bottoms

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2024/04/29

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105:43

306 - Whiplash

Think, Pair, Swear ·

2024/04/22

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