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Molly: [00:00:00] I would 

Gerry: rather doo-doo my pants than eat a 

Molly: bug I, I mean, I think a lot of people would 

Andrea: No. No. I would rather eat a bug You would 

Molly: rather eat a bug- 

Andrea: Yeah ... than 

Molly: poop your pants? 

Andrea: Absolu- I don't know why it's an either/or situation that is being presented to me. 

Molly: No. Okay, this is a good would you rather. 

Andrea: Right.

Molly: Okay, but not just a bug. Like, a fly, like, okay, fine. Like, whatever 

Andrea: A cockroach. I would rather eat a cockroach. How big is the cockroach? 

Molly: I would rather eat a roach It doesn't, doesn't matter. They're, like, this big. 

Gerry: It's like a Dorito of bugs 

Andrea: How much am I chewing? 

Molly: How much are you pooping?

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I'm Andrea Forkham. 

Gerry: I'm Jerry Potoka. 

Molly: And I'm Molly Dugan. 

Andrea: And I might have lice. Right at the top we need to have this discussion, because I'm real upset and if you guys see me itching my head, I need you to know that every single time I do I am also checking my fingernail to see if there is something crawling on me.

I'm unwell. I'm sorry to everyone who's just, like, on their way to work right now hearing this and immediately are gonna start, like, itching their scalp, but here's the thing. 

Molly: I just got itchy, dude. I know. I'm so so- You can't say that. Oh, I'm not okay now. I, ugh, I feel so bad for you, because that's my biggest fear.

Andrea: So let me give some context for why I think I maybe have lice, and it's a valid reason. So, um, [00:02:00] everyone, I just spent a week in California with my family. Lovely, beautiful time, magical, right? My siblings, so my older brother and my younger sister, have both had children, and each of them have three children, mostly girls.

Like, of the six cousins, five of them are girls. This is relevant information because there's a lot a, a lot of long hair is what I'm saying, um, where we just were. And all of these girls, and my daughter and my son, have, like, spent the entire week, like, snuggled up together, rubbing their little scalps- Sleepovers

together. Sleepovers, like, having the best cousin summer. My mom did, like, all sorts of, like, activities. They have, like, a little zip line in their backyard. They've got a... So they've just been really living their best lives, right? But my children have been with the, like, the other kids every single day, like, constant.

And I got the text when we [00:03:00] got back last night that one of my nieces has lice. Sh- And then- 

Molly: Stop. It's over ... 

Andrea: I, by the time I woke up this morning my mom texted me and said, "Your sister and I both have lice as well." And 

Molly: I- I think it should be biologically, like, illegal. Like, I think we should've, like, evolved so far that when you become an adult your body isn't capable of holding onto lice.

Andrea: Yeah. It's unacceptable. Uh, also, by the way, why is it we can treat dogs, uh, like, put a little, like, stuff under their ear or whatever and then they repel, like, fleas and ticks and lice and all of that, and us apparently we just don't bother. And I am unwell. I've checked so many times in my hair and my kids' hair.

I haven't seen anything. Um, but if you see me crashing out today, that would be why, because I can't, I can't with lice. I think it is- It's so gross. 

Theme: Woo, 

Andrea: woo. And there's so many... It's when you get lice, you have to like... Oh, guys, I'm, I'm [00:04:00] like itching so bad. I can't. Like, you 

Molly: have- I don't think you have it. 

Andrea: I don't think you have it

I, I'm 

Molly: gonna, I'm gonna- I think you do. Gerry, 

Andrea: screw you, man. Tell her she doesn't. If I do, I'm gonna pull off some of the eggs and I'm gonna- And what? ... send them to you in the mail. Send it... You know what? 

Gerry: I'm gonna be okay. What are 

Molly: you talking 

Gerry: about? Steven's got 

Molly: his up right 

Gerry: now. 

Molly: Yeah, because what if, what if my- Yeah

what if my mail cross-contaminate somehow? 

Andrea: Gerry, no, it would... I would never. 

Molly: And- I've got stuff in the mail ... 

Andrea: yeah, Steven is gonna be fine too, 'cause he has about as much, um, hair on his head as you do, and so my husband's fine. 

Gerry: Yeah, exactly. 

Andrea: I do wonder, can chest hair get lice? 'Cause he is a hairy man. Like, can you get 

Gerry: head- But then once I'll be out here and 

Andrea: it'll just look like we're flirting

ugh. I hate- But that's how 

Molly: you flirt, Gerry ... 

Gerry: yeah, I'd just be like- 

Andrea: My Gerry is single ... do it again. Do it again. Dude, Ge- Hey, what's 

Molly: up girl? 

Andrea: I don't like it. 

Gerry: Yeah. 

Andrea: Yeah. Ugh. But 

Gerry: anyway. I don't like 

Andrea: it. Yeah. I- Yeah, 

Gerry: you come here often? 

Andrea: Oh, my gosh. Okay, I do feel like because this is a shared platform between the three of us, I think I'm gonna give Gerry 60 [00:05:00] seconds to nerd out about Spider-Man.

I'm gonna... Hold on, let me start a timer. Because- Oh, shoot ... you were so excited, and I'm excited for you. We can't do spoilers, I guess, right? Because I haven't seen it, and I do wanna see it, so I'm gonna give you 60 seconds to nerd out about it. Are you ready? 

Gerry: Hold on, 'cause- 

Andrea: Okay ... 

Gerry: I'm in, like, prime time. I have a, I have, I have something on my desk right now I wasn't even gonna bring up.

Andrea: Amazing. Are you ready? 

Gerry: It, yeah. 

Andrea: Okay. Go. 

Gerry: All right, so this wasn't even nerdin' out, but look. So I, I got all these down the other day, 'cause I just thought this would be cool, and I set 'em up and was, like, taking pictures. Look at all the figures I have on my... I got Dr. Doom. I got Daredevil. Is that 

Molly: Peter Spider-Man?

Oh. 

Gerry: Nah, but I'll get Spider-Man in a second. Just don't interrupt me. Uh, reset my timer. I got the Punisher. He was in Spider-Man movie. I got the Hulk. This is from the new Spider-Man. I got the new Spider-Man from the new Spider-Man. Um, I got Captain America over here. [00:06:00] 30 seconds left. I got Deadpool. He got Hulk Hands on him like me.

Um, I got Wolverine, and I got Darth Vader, and that's just what's was on my desk already. But, uh, I thought, I, I thought it was good. I, I'm, I... There's... If you release something like Spider-Man, I am going to have some sort of gripe, and I had two very big gripes in my opinion that would spoil the movie. It's like, I leave there and I'm like, "It just felt perfect to me," and then later I'm like, "Now I know why I didn't feel fulfilled when I left."

And some of that is like that you wait for Christmas to get here, you're excited for Christmas, Christmas comes, and then Christmas is over, and you're like, "Yeah, it was never gonna live up to what I built it up to be." All right. So I think it'll age better for me, but- 

Andrea: That was pretty good. 

Gerry: That was well- I'm seeing it again Saturday morning and possibly next Saturday in this thing called ScreenX where it's like a screen- Yeah

and then it wraps around you, too. It's like... And I just wanna see a movie in ScreenX, and Spider-Man happens to be playing in it. 

Andrea: Yeah. 

Gerry: I was like, it was, I was like, "Yeah, I'm a..." So I'll see it, like, [00:07:00] 

Molly: three times. Golden 

Andrea: opportunity. Have... Okay, on, so I haven't seen it, but I also, I don't think I've seen most of the Spider-Man movies, unfortunately.

Molly: Um- 'Cause I've never seen a Spider-Man. Not one. 

Andrea: This is why we had to, we had to cap Gerry's time. 

Gerry: One minute. I have a shelf of Spider-Man up on top. We, we know. Okay, wait- Like, as many figures as I just showed you, I have that many of just Spider-Man. 

Molly: You know, this presents a very, very, um, this presents an opportunity for us, guys.

I think that Gerry, we can give each other homework assignments and Gerry can tell me which Spider-Man I have to watch, and I can tell him which musical he has to watch. Do you like musicals, Gerry? Ooh. 

Gerry: I do. I'm getting into them. I haven't watched them as much. I'm seeing, next Monday I'm seeing La La Land for the 10th-year anniversary- Ooh

in Dolby. I've never seen it. That's a good 

Molly: one. I'm talking, like, on Broadway, too, now a movie. 

Gerry: Like, that's what I'm- Oh, like, um, oh, what's the one that was just out? Um, Hairspray. Wicked. 

Molly: Maybe. Maybe you're more educated than me. Shoe- Look at him. I was gonna say, look 

Andrea: at him with the deep cuts. Oh, wait. Oh. Okay, 

Molly: I'm gonna back out 

Andrea: of this.

Wait. I wanna be a part of this. What are you guys going to assign [00:08:00] for me? Because- 

Molly: I don't know. What's your niche? 

Andrea: Hmm. That's a great question. I don't know. Maybe it's some, maybe something I need to go into that's, like, for young people, like a Gen Z type thing, 'cause I am, like, heavily millennial turning 40.

I am a full decade older than you guys. So maybe it's, like, something that- Like the youths are doing now that I need to do 

Molly: Well, I'm... But, like, we're, we're kind of millennial too. 

Andrea: Yeah. 

Molly: I don't know. I'll think on it. I'll think on it. 

Andrea: Okay. Yeah. I just, you know, I don't, I don't... I wanna play. 

Gerry: I'm 

Molly: already 

Gerry: thinking 

Molly: through- Sorry, but is this just between Gerry and me, actually?

Gerry: I'm already thinking through, like, how do I put her on the Spider-Man movies? I'm thinking of all the science behind it. I know. 

Andrea: Like, 

Gerry: which ones are 

Andrea: gonna- Where we've lost 

Molly: him. Yeah. Wait, wait. Andrea, have you watched... Like, so you don't know Spider-Man either. He can give us the same homework assignment. 

Andrea: So I know the one with, like, Kirsten Dunst from back in the day.

Like, not, I don't, I don't think I've actually sat down and watched any of the ones with Zendo- Zend- Zendoia, [00:09:00] Zendaya's boyfriend. I've ne- not seen, like, any of those. 

Molly: Wait, you don't know his name? Queen. 

Gerry: Tom Holland? 

Molly: You gotta know that. 

Andrea: Yeah. 

Molly: You gotta know that. 

Gerry: Guys, wait. So sidebar, this goes back to something at school.

The other day I was, I've been doing, like, these get to know you things where while the kids are working on their little beginning of the year assignments, I'll ask them, like, these ice break- like funny icebreaker questions. Like, if you had to pick a color crayon to eat, what, which one and why? And I'll call on the kid, have them stand up, answer the question.

And, um, I say, "Okay, guys. We're gonna have a, a, a special guest come in to answer some of these questions." I wouldn't tell them who it was, and it was our principal. I got the principal to come in and answer questions. And they go, "So wait, the special guest never came." I said, "Yeah, they did. It was Mr.

Principal." And they go, "Oh, I thought it was gonna be Tom Holland." They 

Andrea: think you've got connections like 

Gerry: that? And then a ki- yeah, then a kid was like, "Can you get Gordon Ramsay to come answer questions?" I'm like, "

Molly: No." Dude, that'd be so cool. That's- What 

Andrea: if we pulled that off? ... actually crazy. Oh my gosh. Is 

Molly: that why you texted us about Tom [00:10:00] Holland?

Andrea: Didn't you text us and say like, "Let's just have Tom Holland on the pod"? 

Gerry: Either pre or post Spider-Man. I was like, "We can get him on." I did send a DM. He didn't read it. I 

Andrea: mean, you gotta shoot your shot, right? 

Gerry: I feel like I've shot my shot with some people that y'all don't even know I've shot my shot with ever.

You ne- you never, that, I told y'all I reached out to 

Molly: Chalamet. Oh. After Call Me By My Name? Interesting. Call Me By Your Name. 

Gerry: Am I a... Yeah. I, I went on Chalamet kick for a while. 'Cause 

Molly: that's an 

Gerry: interesting, that's an interesting one to reach out 

Molly: after. I watched a 

Gerry: few Chalamet movies. I wa- I'm trying to think of what Chalamet movies I watched.

I thought it was three. That's the, guys, that's 

Molly: the one with the peach. You know what I'm talking about? 

Gerry: Yeah. 

Andrea: No. Yeah. 

Gerry: What were you- 

Molly: An Army Hammer? 

Andrea: I haven't seen any of those. So I, so I mean, I guess for our listeners, if you got connections- ... with either of those young men, we would allow them to come on the podcast 'cause we're generous kind people.

And, um- 

Molly: We could find time ... 

Andrea: we could find, we would find time for them. Yeah. And I think that's, that's really because we're people's character. 

Molly: Yeah. 

Andrea: And you're welcome for that. [00:11:00] Um, okay, so with this lice infestation that potentially could be happening on my scalp right now- Yes ... um, it made me think about, like, different bugs and pests that people have brought into my classroom or into school because I swear every time I do a what are those kids doing, an elementary teacher is telling me that someone has brought in some sort of rodent in a backpack, which is horrifying to me.

Um, I never had that because I taught high school, but I definitely did have a lot of students who would, like, catch different spiders and bring them in and have them, like, like corralled on their desk, and I c- I cannot with that. Like, I can deal with snakes. I can deal with, like, lots of other critters, but spiders A- absolutely not.

Okay. At the 

Molly: high school level they're doing that? 

Andrea: Yeah. Yeah. 

Molly: Okay. That I couldn't f- immediately know in my classroom. I don't do, guys, I'm a baby. I'm no- I don't do spiders. I don't do reptiles. Anything with scales, I'm sorry, [00:12:00] respect to them, like they can exist in our world, but like I don't need you in my vicinity.

Yeah. Like one time, a kid, I somehow, 'cause I made the mistake of telling my kids I don't like snakes. 

Theme: Mm-hmm. 

Molly: Oh my God, the amount of fake snakes. They put, they found like a t- like a rubber, piece of rubber and like put it in my seat. Like, I can't tell you how many times I screamed that year. It was awful.

Mm-hmm. It was awful. Some kid brought a gecko in. That was kinda bent though. 

Gerry: Yeah. Like the Geico thing? 

Molly: Yeah, like actually it was the Geico one. Yeah. 

Andrea: Yeah. Yeah. He was just there for car insurance reasons. 

Gerry: My mom had a kid, she teaches elementary school, and she had a kid pick up a snake and chase kids around on the playground with it 

Molly: That sounds probably 

Gerry: pretty accurate And that same kid one time came in and, uh, people started going, um, "Such and such got a snake in they pocket."

And they called that kid to the office. Such and such had a snake in they pocket. The snake was just in their pocket and they pull it out and they like, "Yeah." 

Molly: It was mesmerized. 

Gerry: Oh. I was gonna chase some kids around the playground later. 

Molly: Gerry, are you [00:13:00] afraid of snakes? 

Gerry: Kinda. Not, like, it depends. If I know there's gonna be one, it's gonna be fine, but I, they make me feel weird.

I don't like alligators. I don't think they're coming to my school, but I don't like them. 

Molly: Oh. Yeah, I think you're sa- I think you're more safe. Yeah. 

Gerry: If I, if I see a alligator in my school, I'm, it's over. I'm, I'm leaving, man. I'm, I'm going to start selling, selling houses or something. I'm gonna get my real estate license.

I'm out of there. 

Andrea: I mean, that is the- Sell it ... on-ramp for a lot of teachers that are, or a lot of realtors. Like, they go from, like, teaching or other various, you know, heavily lady jobs. 

Gerry: I met a realtor one time who was like, "Yeah, s- somebody brought a, brought a alligator to school. I had to get out of it."

Andrea: What? 

Gerry: I made that up. I don't know. I be lying sometimes. 

Molly: Okay. 

Gerry: My ADHD is ADHDing right now. 

Molly: But being honest, okay, I've heard horror stories of, like- I'm tweaking ... the tiles in the ceilings, like, rodents falling from them. 

Gerry: Yeah. 

Andrea: Ugh. 

Molly: Okay, wait, guys. I have a nasty story for you. Sorry. Yes. That was too enthusiastic.[00:14:00] 

I have a nasty story. So my sister is not a teacher, okay? But she works in the health field, and their office is, like, in a basement of, like, a hospital 'cause it's, like, an oncology, so it's, like, outpatient stuff. It's not, like, inpatient-type stuff. Anyway, in one of their offices, she said the other day they, o- one of their wor- like, coworkers was, I don't know, taking notes or doing something, and a cockroach fell from the ceiling and landed on her mouth.

Gerry: No. How does a cockroach land on your mouth if you just chilling? Like, does she have a underbite and she was like this and it just onto her lip? Or was she taking notes and it was just like, "Oh my God, there's so many notes," and then cockroach, like- 

Andrea: That's a fair question, actually. There's a lot of- You know, 

Molly: I-

Andrea: face structure- Did her mouth fall open? ... that should have hit before 

Gerry: the mouth. I think she made that up. 

Molly: You think it 

Gerry: didn't actually- I think there's a- ... hit her mouth? Yeah. That's probably the same lady who, who quit teaching 'cause of the alligator.

Andrea: Probably, honestly You know, I'm too 

Molly: gullible, [00:15:00] Gerry. I immediately was like, "That's disgusting." Like, I can't believe that happened. I, yeah It could be made up I didn't even think about, 

Andrea: like, logistically how difficult it would be for the limbs- No ... to be the first thing to get hit. Like, not the nose, 

Molly: not- 

Andrea: I 

Molly: was too concerned about the fact that it happened.

Andrea: Yeah. 

Gerry: She probably had just went to Ripley's Believe It or Not or something and bought a little pack of the cockroaches and ate one, then got self-conscious about it. You know how you get self-conscious about something 'cause you're embarrassed? You just overcompensate- Yeah ... and people don't even notice, and you start lying.

I remember one time I pooped my pants in a Target, and I- ... I, I just, like, was, like, standing in line and looking at people and telling, I said, "Yeah, I was riding bikes and I just fell and slid." It's like they didn't even ask. Well, that's- They didn't nothing ... 

Molly: okay, that would be different because it, it's about shitting your pants in public, 

Andrea: right?

Gerry: But eating a bug- I feel like that's a, that's a- I would rather, I would, I would- ... 

Molly: sh- Jimmy, eat it, bro ... 

Gerry: I would rather... We all know that. Land it on our mouth. If it's on your mouth, what else you gonna do with it? 

Molly: Might want a taste test. Would you taste test? Yeah, like- Is that, is what it sounds like ... I would 

Gerry: rather doo-doo my pants than eat a 

Molly: bug.

I, I mean, I think a lot of people would. 

Andrea: No. [00:16:00] No. I would rather eat a bug. You 

Molly: would rather eat a bug- Yeah ... than poop your pants. 

Andrea: Absolu- I don't know why it's an either/or situation that is being presented to me. No. 

Molly: Okay, this is a good would you rather. 

Andrea: Right. 

Molly: Okay, but not just a bug. Like, a fly, like, okay, fine.

Like, whatever. 

Andrea: No, a fly is even worse than a roach A cockroach. Oh, I would rather eat a cockroach. I would rather eat a roach. How big is the cockroach? 

Gerry: It's 

Molly: like, it's like- Okay, it doesn't, does it matter? They're, like, this big ... 

Gerry: it's like, 

Andrea: it's like a burrito of bugs I mean, how much am I sh- how much am I chewing if, in this scenario?

Molly: Like- Or how much are you sh- how much are you pooping? 

Andrea: Okay, let's say, guys, use this for your icebreaker question, is h- like, would you rather poop your pants or eat a bug? Or eat a bug. Or eat a bug. Or eat a, 

Molly: eat a 

Andrea: cockroach. I feel like it should be a cockroach because they're crunchy, right? So I would say pooping your pants enough that you have to go home from wherever you are.

So this is a public pooping pants situation. It is either visible from the outside of your pants or, like, running down your leg. Like, it is- That's 

Gerry: my Target. Was 

Andrea: doing both ... it's, it's like, it's like what you did to that poor Jimmy John's bathroom or whatever it was. Um- 

Gerry: Yeah, but [00:17:00] I made that one out of mud.

It just- Yeah ... it was, like, it was like, it wa- it was like you ever see them stamps, like with the letter grade stamps, where you're just like, "Boop, 100"? I hate this description That's what, that's what my doo-doo 

Andrea: did 

Gerry: to 

Andrea: my underwear. We promised we weren't- We promised we weren't gonna do this to people. So okay, so either pooping your pants in public, you have to go home, all right?

It's gonna be iffy on whether or not people h- people see you, but you are in a 

Molly: public place. 

Andrea: They can probably smell it, but yeah. They can probably smell it, all of that. 

Molly: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

Andrea: Or- It's bad ... a cockroach that is big enough you can't just, like, swallow it without chewing. Like, you gotta do some chewing.

Which one? Can I 

Gerry: get, like, a fork and knife? 

Molly: I'd rather poop my pants. No, you can 

Andrea: do it. No, you gotta, you gotta like pop it. You might be able to pop it. You gotta pop it in your mouth. You gotta poop your pants. Is it alive? I gotta poop my pants. Is the cockroach alive- 

Molly: Yes ... 

Andrea: for this? 

Molly: Yes. 

Gerry: You gotta do it. 'Cause if you just pooped your pants, you could be like, "Medical emergency," and if you eat a bug, it's like everybody saw you do that.

Andrea: Okay. I just, it- I need to point out the fact, Molly, that you and I have enough followers that it is potentially possible that someone would film it and put it online and be [00:18:00] like, "Here's Miss Tugan shitting her pants at Target." Okay. I would rather take the cockroach. Even if it didn't end up online, nobody knew it, any of that kind of stuff.

Gerry: That comment section would be hilarious 

Molly: Guys, the comment section for this, like I don't even wanna know. Yeah. But here's the thing, we have too many- Yeah, no, we, 

Gerry: I gotta be 

Molly: careful what I 

Gerry: say ... 

Molly: episodes. We have too many... I forget people are gonna see this, man. Okay, here's the thing about the cockroach. Like, when I close my eyes and I think about the actual, like I already feel vomit coming up, and I hate throwing up, like viscerally.

Yeah. I immediately- Yeah ... start sweating. Like, I'm not a graceful puker. Mm-hmm. I, I, I'm freaking out thinking... Sorry, I'm freaking out thinking about it. My heart's racing. I would rather- I think- ... poop my pants ... 

Gerry: I think that's a weird thing to say though- Okay ... is like you hate throwing up. People be saying like, "I hate throwing up."

Molly: You 

Gerry: like it? Who's ever been like, "You know what, what, what's kinda like my guilty pleasure? Throwing up." Nobody does that. It's true. Some pe- yeah, but some people are like- So why you saying you hate throwing up? Nobody's ever like,

"Get something to [00:19:00] throw up now." No. 

Molly: Yeah. 

Gerry: No. No, people are always like- 

Molly: No ... "

Gerry: Dang it." 

Molly: Disagree, dude. Yeah. Okay, disagree, because some people like are graceful, like their bodies don't freak the heck out. I have- Yeah, pee ... literally I have friends that throw up pretty easy. It just like happens, and they can move on.

Theme: Yeah. 

Molly: I... Like think about Pam in The Office, you know, when she was pregnant, and she would just grab the bucket and puke a little. Right. Some people can just puke like that. Me, it sounds like a demon is coming out of my body. It feels like a demon's coming out. Like, my whole body's freaking out. 

Andrea: Yeah. 

Molly: And not all people experience that.

Andrea: I've done both. So you'd rather poop your pants. Yeah. Well, 

Molly: there you go. Okay, you guys wanna hear something crazy, though? This is- Yes ... actually crazy. I shouldn't have said it like that. 

Gerry: The, the rest of this hasn't been crazy to you? 

Molly: No. Well, it has been. But we could swap out pooping your pants for this one, because I think this would be an awful experience, too.

Maybe not as bad. Okay. But I've heard people with fantasy football, I knew someone, and the loser had to wear [00:20:00] jeans and fully pee their pants, like empty their bladder. They could like stand in the shower, but like that's an awful feeling. Think about it. Jeans on, you're p- you're not just like peeing a little.

It's like your whole pants are getting wet with urine. 

Andrea: That's... I would rather do that, though, than the cockroach thing, or the 

Gerry: same pants. 'Cause then you can immediately 

Andrea: change. Yeah. 

Molly: Yeah, but it's just a gross feeling. It's 

Gerry: gross. But I, I- Yeah ... but I am, like I don't know that I could stand there and just be like, "All right, guys, gonna piss my pants now."

I know. Like I don't think I could do that. 

Molly: Like, you get the stage fright. It's like- 

Andrea: Yeah. Well- 

Gerry: Yeah ... that's- You're, you're just like, you can't do it. 

Molly: Thanks for the visual. Well, this 

Andrea: was, um, revelatory, I think- This one sucks ... for all of us. We just... It always does. It always seems to. Um, but we have some actual questions about school stuff that were sent in, so we are gonna get to those.

Um, but we're gonna get to them right after this quick break. So be right back.[00:21:00] 

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Welcome back, teacher Bestie Welcome back. Oh my gosh, Gerald. You guys, the way... It's unfortunate we have to do this over Zoom because there would be a lot more punching, I think, that would happen if we were all IRL. Um, okay. So the question that was sent in, I think, number one, as a parent of an elemer- elementary, words, elementary school kid, um, is important to me [00:23:00] because Teachers and schools are doing some crazy stuff with this.

Um, what are the best and worst themed spirit days? 

Molly: Guys, wait, I actually like really need this because, okay, so I've been back at school the last two days 'cause I'm a STUCO sponsor, which is like student council. Did you guys do that in high school? 

Andrea: ASB is what we called it. Associated- 

Molly: Student body

Andrea: student body. Yeah. 

Gerry: Totally. I couldn't run because my grades were so bad. 

Andrea: That tracks. 

Molly: Okay. Anyway, so okay, and I've, I was never in STUCO as a kid, so like this is kind of new for me. But something about my school is like the school spirit could use some work big time. 

Andrea: Mm. 

Molly: Like- 

Andrea: Yeah ... 

Molly: riddle me shocked on my first year at this school when I showed up for a spirit day full costume, and I was the only person in the school dressed up.

I was fully dressed as Willy Wonka. No one else in the school was dressed up. I'm not kidding. I had a wig on, I had an outfit, I had a [00:24:00] top hat, I had a cane. No one else- Oh ... dressed up. My gosh. Kids said, "Why are you dressed up?" I said, "It's a spirit day." They didn't even know. So anyway, it is like my mission.

It's, I'm dying on this hill at my school to get school spirit up, specifically like get kids to dress up for spirit days. Like, I want it to be that, like, you're weird if you don't dress up. Mm. You know? You're the odd one out if you don't dress up. Yeah. Anyway, so I need good ideas. I'm, I'm desperate- That's-

for good ideas. 

Andrea: Yeah. 

Gerry: I had an idea and then immediately realized how stupid the idea was. 

Andrea: You know what? Maybe it's gonna be on the worst list then. Let's hear it. What was your idea? 

Gerry: I was like, we should have a spirit day for the podcast. I remember people were not looking at us most likely. People were listening to us.

I mean, I'd still be 

Molly: down. 

Gerry: The vibes would be high. So we would just be sitting here dressed up as Alvin and the Chipmunks and- 

Andrea: Listen ... 

Gerry: a- and nobody can see us, and it's just like, like imagine, imagine somebody, the, like somebody watching the vi- video, it's their first episode, and they're like, "Hold [00:25:00] on. What is this?"

Molly: Wait. I actually... Okay, guys. When my spirit days are rolling around, I'm telling you guys, and I'm coming in theme. 'Cause I'm gonna be coming- Love it ... from school to film. I'll be in costume. 

Andrea: I love that. Well, and I, wouldn't it be funny if we did secret spirit days l- but it's just on the podcast? Like, we're not giving any context.

Random. We're just- 

Gerry: I did those when we were start- remember I used to get on here with just stuff on my head- Yeah ... and surprise? 

Andrea: Yeah. Yeah. 

Gerry: You sure 

Andrea: did. And I 

Gerry: r- and then I r- I thought I could keep doing that. I ran out of stuff. That's the problem. I was like, "I only got like three things that go on my head."

Molly: I have a whole costume, costume box, so- I do too ... 

Andrea: I'm ready to 

Molly: roll. 

Andrea: Yeah. I do too- Oh, yeah ... actually, so. 

Gerry: I'm, I've been too fat for costumes. 

Andrea: Well, not anymore. Not anymore. Not anymore. I'm s- s- 

Gerry: still pretty fat, but... 

Andrea: Don't talk 

Gerry: about yourself like that, Gerry. If I lose weight by Teachers Lounge in October, if I'm below 300, I think this was one of my, um- Texts to y'all when I was a little, uh, a little, um, a little out there Where- Mm-hmm

uh, like not a little out there. Cut that part out. That's not where. I think this was one of my texts to [00:26:00] y'all when I was a little, a little having a, having, having a good time. I, uh, I, if I'm under 300, I'm gonna ride that bull 

Andrea: Okay, we gotta give some context here because no one knows what that means.

That's a little, yeah. 

Gerry: It sounds like- Oh, I thought, I thought we talked about that 

Andrea: I don't think... Did we? We might have talked about it. I 

Gerry: think we did. 

Andrea: Okay, so- 

Gerry: So when we were 

Andrea: in 

Gerry: Columbus with, I was in Co- I, I'm doing this part. I'm driving now. When, when I was in Columbus with Teacher's Lounge, we went to this place right there 'cause the Funny Bone's in this little mall, and we went over to this place called PBR, and we had dinner, and we saw a bull, and they were like, "Well, the bull don't open up till, like, 9:00."

It's like, okay, well, we're gonna go hang out, and then we'll come back. And we come back, everybody rode the bull but me, and this was right after I started, like, this was probably when I was at my heaviest. I, I was over 380. I was prob- and the heaviest I remember being was 385, like almost 386. So yeah, I know I had to have been [00:27:00] close 'cause I, like, it was later on I got my crap together.

But I, um Said I'm not riding that bull 'cause you land on like a little, like a little, not air mattress, but like a- 

Andrea: But kind of an air mattress is what it was ... 

Gerry: like a- Like an inflatable ... it's kind of an, it's like a big air mattress but for like if you're in danger and not if you're sleepy. And I landed on one of them.

Or no, if I landed on one of them, I wasn't gonna be able to get up 'cause I, I'm, all my weight was up top. I don't have any balance. But see, now I'm athletic. Like I, I mean, I, I was, I'm, I'm a little athletic for my size anyways, but like today I was like, I was trying to make a point and I hit a little bust down right quick and popped back up.

I've been running up and down the stairs. 

Andrea: Okay. 

Gerry: In, 

Andrea: wait, 

Gerry: in class? Okay. I can move. I have real- Wait, were you teaching? No, I was talking to some, no, I was talking to some teachers and I was trying to make a point- Okay ... and I was aggravated. Yeah. And I, and I just kinda said my point. Instead of mic dropping, I just, I dropped it low.

Andrea: Okay. I need you to explain- And it was like, and somebody screamed ... when you say bust down, you're, it's like, for our listeners, because they can't see what you just did. You want me to do it right [00:28:00] quick? Could you? And also descri- We'll, 

Gerry: we'll narrate it. 

Andrea: So- Hold on. Let me, I gotta move the- Yeah. All right, so Gerry just stood up.

Gerry's standing up. Yep. Go ahead, Molly. What you... 

Molly: Oh, sorry. You go, girl. 

Gerry: Yeah, I j- So I got, hold on. I'm ti- Let me, I gotta stretch first. All right. Oh. 

Molly: Oh. Gerry's stretching his legs. All 

Andrea: we can see 

Gerry: is torso. So then I hit a little, I go- 

Molly: A little hip, and he goes, boom. Oh. And right arm up. Yeah. And he drops his booty low.

Andrea: Mm-hmm. 

Molly: And 

Gerry: he drops it low. But this morning, this one this morning was on fleek 'cause I busted down, ass popped right back up. Like it, it was like, it was like booty cheeks on the heel. Wow. I even surprised myself. I was like, "Yo, I didn't know I could do that." And I'm like, "Nah, I just-" Did you twerk a little?

Nah. Yeah, I, I hit that. 

Molly: Wow, 

Andrea: that makes sense. Yeah. 

Gerry: Wow. Someone who I was, was in front of me audibly screamed- ... and everybody had to walk away. 

Andrea: I think my reaction might be the same because anyone, number one, anyone just dropping it low like that, any, in a professional environment as an educator, that would already kind of probably send me.

But then also for it to be you would [00:29:00] also probably send me because that's, that's wild. Yeah. But I think it'd 

Molly: be the best part of my week. 

Andrea: Yeah. Honestly. And- 

Gerry: When I was in high school, I was like 280, so about 50 pounds lighter than I am now. Yeah. And I could almost do a full split. I could get like- 

Andrea: That's 

Molly: impressive.

Okay. Are you 

Gerry: Kinsey 

Molly: from Love Island? If, 

Gerry: if this is the full split, I could get here. 

Andrea: Whoa. 

Gerry: Dude. Wait, 

Andrea: the 

Molly: goal line. I'm confused. 

Andrea: I just 

Gerry: couldn't, I couldn't hit the ground. I could get here though. 

Andrea: I'm confused. 

Gerry: I'm confused how 

Andrea: you 

Gerry: could get 

Andrea: there and 

Gerry: not there. Or like this. Like 

Andrea: this. You oversplit. Like, like this.

Molly: This is 

Gerry: over... 

Andrea: Guys, he's got his two fingers- I could get to 

Gerry: about 82%. I could get to about- 

Andrea: He's 

Gerry: touching 

Andrea: tips with his fingers and 

Gerry: he's in- Is it, is, this, this is 90 degrees. That's 180. 

Andrea: Are- 

Gerry: What's the people's? This is 180. What? I can get like- 180 there ... I can get like 85% of the way here. 

Andrea: Got it. Impressive.

I'm 

Gerry: very impressed. If I, if I can get that up, I would have to just tip over and then, like, jump up off the ground. 

Andrea: Okay. Well, Molly 

Gerry: needs- I'd almost do a full split ... 

Andrea: Molly needs more, um, spirit week [00:30:00] ideas, guys. I do. We've gotta lock in. We've gotta lock in because I've ... There were some ... Like, I think anything but a backpack day is silly.

Molly: It's always good. 

Andrea: Easy. It's 

Molly: always good. Yeah. I like anything but a water bottle day. I think that one's funny. 

Andrea: Yeah. 

Molly: And they're easy, 'cause here's the problem. My kids, I talk to them about it. I'm like, "Why don't you guys dress up? Like, what? Like, give me feedback. Like, what's going on here?" And this is where they, they start to make me mad, is they'll say, "Well, I'm not gonna

Some of the themes are too hard, and I don't wanna go spend the money that I'm making at my part-time job on a costume- Yeah ... for school." And I'm like, "That's valid." So then we make them easier, and the kids are like, "Oh, well, it was lame. That was a lame one." And I'm like- 

Andrea: Yeah ... 

Molly: at some point you just gotta do it, you know?

Andrea: Right. 

Gerry: It's like, "Stop." If you, if you make it too easy, it takes, like, the, the cre- creative part out. 

Molly: Right. But then it's like- Yeah ... okay, so, so I will say, like, one of them that we're doing ... I'm trying to think of some of the good ones that we've done that are kinda in between. Like, we've done some where it's like you can probably go, like, raid your parents' closets for [00:31:00] stuff.

Yeah. We've done, like, decades. Um- Nice ... you know, Y2K- What about dress like a 

Andrea: teacher day? ... 

Molly: things like that. 

Andrea: Do 

Molly: you have to do that? I think dress like a teacher day, yes, but then ... And then we do teachers who dress like a student. Again, they just- Yeah ... like, don't do it. But I think I'm gonna keep pushing for it.

Gerry: Yeah. 

Andrea: I think it's 

Gerry: fun. 

Andrea: It's funny. 

Gerry: No, a couple months ago was, a few years ago, about bald caps. 

Molly: Which is iconic. 

Andrea: That's great. That's great. Could you, could they do, like, a pop star one where ... B- that made me think of the, um, the bald caps that people wear when they go see- Pitbull ... uh, yeah- Pitbull ... Pitbull. Yeah.

Molly: Because I was Justin Bieber last year. 

Andrea: Were you? 

Theme: Anyone 

Andrea: bald caps? Wait, I 

Molly: remember that. I looked so good. I mean, I was kind of an ugly Justin Bieber, but, like, my costume, holy, it was so good. I like that. I had these, like, light-up shoe... Oh, it was awesome. 'Cause I remem- I don't remember, I think it was celebrity day.

Mm. Or just, like, any celebrity, and I was JB. It was iconic. Okay. I've had some good costumes. 

Andrea: What about, like, fictional character day? Making it super broad where they could just be, like, a movie character or a book [00:32:00] character, something like that. That's a good one. I feel like the ones that I used to have when I was in high school, we didn't have them that often, first of all.

Second of all, some of them were a little questionable. I- 

Molly: Like what? 

Andrea: Oh, gosh. Like, uh, cowboys versus Indians. 

Molly: Oh, yeah, like we can't, that's, yeah, 

Andrea: it's not- We can't be doing that. Right. That's not, that's not great, you know? Um, but I mean, it was like the early 2000s. People were- Yeah ... people were just out there.

It was- They were making choices. 

Molly: Um- Before anyone cared about stuff. 

Andrea: Yeah. I'm trying to think what other ones we did that now I think about and I'm like, "Oh- Probably not ... we probably shouldn't be doing that." 

Molly: Well, part of it, too, is I went to a Catholic school, so we wore uniforms every day. So spirit days, everyone, I mean, I didn't know a single person, 'cause the only other option was to wear your uniform.

Right. So everyone did it. Of course. And it was, like, this huge thing, and it just isn't... It's different in public school. Yeah. But I'm trying to get it somehow to that, where it's [00:33:00] just like a cultural thing. I feel like I just need one senior class to go all in, and then everyone will follow. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Andrea: For 

Molly: sure. What are some bad ones? Like, ones that- 

Gerry: I hate pajama day. 

Andrea: I was just about to say, 

Gerry: I hate pajama day. 'Cause I don't need to wear pajamas. I hate pajama day. Like, I, I've had to go buy pajamas, and it's kind of funny, but it's like if there's no dress code, a lot of the kids are wearing pajama pants anyways.

Yeah. It's like, yeah, the teachers can wear pajamas, but then we just look silly. I don't like s- I, I like spirit week, I like doing stuff, but then sometimes, like,

Molly: do you know how hard it w- is to, like, to, like, yell at a kid and you're wearing pajamas? Do you know how hard it, how hard it is to yell at a kid dressed like Justin Bieber? Guys, I, I have a full- ... full-ass Scrooge costume. 

Andrea: That's awesome. 

Molly: It's really good. I still don't. But then the kids, like, are like, "Okay."

I'm like, "Fair." Yeah. We don't do anything on those days. 

Andrea: I hate pajama day because a lot of times the girls will literally be wearing, like, lingerie bralette tops and stuff when- Ugh. Yeah, no, that's- When I was teaching in California. No. And I'm like, "I can't." Sh- Like, what are we [00:34:00] doing here? Oh, that's tough.

Right? Like, yeah. So I don't, I don't like that. And also, all of my pajamas are, like, either, like, sweatpants or leggings or something like that. Like, I'm not gonna go get, like, an old-timey button-up pajama set, because again, it's very difficult to Try and be res- like a respectable professional while you're standing out there in, like, it 

Molly: just doesn't work.

Andrea: I was trying to remember the, the times that I've done it, and I do remember the entire time feeling like I wouldn't respect me right now. There's no way. There's no way. And I feel, I don't feel that way about jeans. I think teachers should be able to wear jeans, but pajamas I can't. It's, it's too weird. 

Gerry: So the first fi- That's fair

this wasn't a spirit day thing, but the first five days of school, I, um, 'cause it was when Spider-Man came out, I wore a Spider-Man shirt the first day of school, and that became a, um, that's another student who was in my class who I'd had the year before liked Spider-Man, and she ha- had on a Spider-Man shirt.

[00:35:00] Um, and it became a, like, who can wear the most unique Spider-Man shirt how many days in a row? Like, how many days can we wear a different Spider-Man shirt without repeating? And I'm like, I'm gonna win because I'm an adult and I have money and a car. I can go find more Spider-Man shirts. But she kinda locked in.

We broke it on Tuesday, I think. 

Andrea: Wow. 

Gerry: And I'm like, I had to wear four Spider-Man shirts in a row. 

Andrea: That's a lot. 

Gerry: Yeah. And the kids were just like, "Yo," like, like- Are 

Andrea: you okay? 

Gerry: Like, like, what- Oh my gosh ... like what's up with you? And I'm like, and I'm like, I'm thinking, I've tried, like this one was the one I wore on the last day, and it's got a little face on the back and just the logo.

But the next like couple were like super Spider-Man-y. I'm like, dude- Oh ... I got, I gotta chill. You're like, I'm 

Andrea: running out. Man, 

Gerry: I- Yeah, I'm like, how, like how am I supposed to get these kids to be like, 'cause to like wanna respect me and listen to me is like, this, this dude got Spider-Man, like more Spider-Man shirts than there are movies.

Like- 

Andrea: Yeah. I mean, [00:36:00] and more dolls that he plays with than there are movies. That is- So that's not- ... 

Gerry: straight. You don't need to do that. These are collectibles. Uh-huh. And they're not normally getting played with. They normally on the- 

Andrea: Normally ... 

Gerry: on the, uh, on the, on the, uh, what do you call this? The shelf. 

Andrea: The shelf.

Molly: Mm-hmm. I liked the Deadpool with the Hulk hands. That was- Yeah. 

Gerry: Deadpool's sick. Yeah. 

Molly: That was unique. Did you add the Hulk hands? 

Gerry: No, the whole cans came with it. 

Andrea: Oh. Aw. So amazing. Um, uh, on the topic of the shirts, I, I... There was this guy who came, um, to the conference that I, I did this summer, and he was telling me how he, because his school, their, their, uh, what's it called, mascot, is the Tigers.

And so he got, like, the most outrageous Tiger shirts he possibly could, 'cause he does, like, drop-off line. He's elementary, right? So he wears these really chaotic, like, Tiger shirts, and this parent came up one time, and he was wearing, like, one of the ugliest ones he felt like he had. And the parent came up and was like, "Hey man, love your shirt."

And he's like, "I know. Isn't it just the ugliest thing you've ever seen?" And the parent's like, [00:37:00] "I have that shirt. I love it." And he's like, "M- me too. Me too, man. Like, me too." And so 

Molly: many- Somehow trying to back out. 

Andrea: Right. And then, like, two weeks later, okay, he w- he's wearing that shirt again, and another parent comes to him and is like, "Hey man, I love that shirt."

So then he tells the story about how he thought it, he thinks it's an ugly shirt, and he met this other parent that thought it was actually really nice. Isn't that crazy? And this second parent was like, "I also have that shirt." 

Molly: Shut up. Why wouldn't he learn from the first one? That's on him. 

Andrea: I, I think that's so funny, though, because that's something I would do, where it's like, obviously, like, it's, like, this is such an...

And I looked at the picture of the shirt. It's a really ugly shirt. So the fact that it happened not once but twice was insane. But here's the other thing. This is in Fishers, Indiana, which is where the richy rich people live, and the self-awareness isn't there. You know? They don't, they're not... They're too rich to get bullied [00:38:00] appropriately, I think, is part of the problem.

And sometimes, like, if you're, like, the kid of, of the CFO of, you know, Eli Lilly Corporation or whatever, no one's gonna be like, "Don't wear that shirt. It's stupid." They're gonna be like, "Hey, can we get some grant money?" "Hey 

Molly: man, love your 

Andrea: shirt." "I love your shirt. Here, can you donate, please?" So. 

Molly: That's fair.

Andrea: Yeah. I know. I know. 

Molly: But also, do 

Andrea: you 

Molly: think that the, I guess the- I would think that the rich are dressing better 

Andrea: Usually not. W- money does not buy class from what I can tell. 

Molly: Clock it, girl. Clock it. 

Andrea: Um, okay. So do we have any others? I feel like we've been kinda... We haven't delivered on this, guys. We have not 

Molly: delivered.

I guess I've been less than helpful, respectfully. 

Gerry: I feel like we're doing well. 

Molly: Yeah, we already had the, I already had those ideas. I like it when there's, like, class competition to it. Like, I had a friend tell me that when she was in high school, every year they, for homecoming they would have, um, salad dressing day, where each grade was a different salad dressing.[00:39:00] 

But you didn't have to, like, actually dress like salad dressing. It was like ranch, and so you dress as like a rancher or like- Oh, 

Andrea: cute ... 

Molly: you know, there's like different ways to do it or like, um- Ranch ... Italian dressing and then like, you know, cliche like whatever. Yeah. Just different things like that. But they would give like the freshmen a really hard one like blue cheese and then like the seniors get the easiest one.

And I, see I like stuff like that. 

Andrea: That's cute. 

Molly: Here's the other hard part, is our seniors always wanna do underground spirit days. 

Andrea: Oh. 

Molly: So then the seniors aren't even dressed in the real theme So no one... It's like 

Andrea: this weird- Yeah, it kinda misses the point Yes. Kinda misses the point. Yeah, that's weird. Yeah.

I, so the last time I did spirit day, I did it with, um, like the, with actually Denver, who's been on the pod several times, and she and I would plan out ahead of time that we were gonna do, like, two takes on it. So for biker day, I would come dressed in, like, a leather jacket, and, like, I'm a, like a motorcycle biker.

And then she came [00:40:00] dressed in, like, BMX stuff. 

Molly: Uh-huh. 

Andrea: And as, like, a completely different kind of, like, motorcycle type bike stuff. Um, for tourist day, I came dressed in, like, cargo shorts and, like, a, like, I looked like I was going on a safari- Right ... and, like, man shoes. And she came dressed in, like, a beret. 

Molly: I 

Andrea: love 

Molly: that.

Andrea: And it was, like, so cute. So you could also do something, like, biker day, tourist day. Like, those tend to be a little bit easier, but 

Molly: yeah. I like that. Okay. You 

Andrea: know, sorry we're not more helpful. Hopefully our listeners can throw some ideas out there that work really well, 'cause I feel like crowdfunding ideas for spirit week is the way to go, for sure.

Molly: Yeah, guys, give me a good one that teenagers who think everything is, like, low-key lame will actually wanna do. 

Andrea: Yeah. 

Molly: Give me ideas. 

Andrea: Right, yeah. So 

Molly: if you guys- One time we did... Sorry, one more. On anything-but-a-backpack day, that actually started getting shut down because I guess one time a kid brought their little sibling to school as their backpack.

And made their [00:41:00] little sibling carry all their books. 

Andrea: That's so funny. 

Molly: I'm not kidding. Uh, the, the office was like- 

Andrea: What do we do? 

Molly: Can you call your mom? Like this little, like, second grader was in the high school, like, with their older- Love it ... brother or whatever, which was kinda genius. That's funny. Like, but that's the stuff that gets kids to do it, 'cause they're like, "Remember last year?

That was iconic." 

Andrea: Yeah, I do love that. That's actually- You kinda need those 

Molly: stories- Mm-hmm ... to build the war. 

Andrea: All right. Do we have any hills we wanna die on today? 

Molly: People are boring because they don't embarrass themselves enough. They don't have good stories to tell. 

Andrea: I love that, yeah. I love 

Molly: that. If you feel like you don't, you're not good at having conversations, go do something new that you know that you'll be bad at and you'll be embarrassed about.

Mm-hmm. And then you'll seem like you have a growth mindset, and you'll have a funny story to tell because you embarrassed yourself. 

Gerry: There have been people- Yeah ... trying to get me to go line dancing 

Andrea: Why? 

Molly: Great lore. You should 

Andrea: do it. Yeah. 

Gerry: On 

Molly: a first date, that's a great story to tell. 

Andrea: Yeah, it is. You should do it.

Gerry: Eh. 

Andrea: Come on, Gerry. 

Molly: And it's fun. Actually, line dancing's fun. 

Andrea: It is fun. 

Gerry: I don't, [00:42:00] I don't wanna do it. 

Molly: You don't have to be good at it. 

Andrea: Don't be scared. 

Molly: Hey, actually, guys, there's a, there's a PBR with a bull in it in Kansas City, so Gerry, when you hit that point- Let's go to Kansas City ... group trip to Kansas City, and we'll line dance.

Andrea: Yes. I'm, I'm in. It's a plan. Steven and I will come. Steven will spin you around that dance floor. He's got 

Gerry: your moves. He can dance. She's already a little bit from Kansas City and Indiana. 

Andrea: He can line dance. Uh, what is it, Molly? We figured this out. Guys listening to this- Bro, I don't know ... we'll let you know when this happens.

Maybe we'll do a live podcast recording in Kansas City. That would be awesome. Yeah. 

Gerry: That'd be awesome. I, I- And I'll take you- ... pitched you this idea. 

Andrea: I know you did, but at that point it was just you and me, and I didn't wanna hang out with you, so now we've got Molly, and 

Molly: I'll take you to some real Kansas City barbecue this time.

Promises, 

Andrea: promises. Like the real stuff. Oh my gosh. Um, all right. We need to let everyone get on with their days. So, uh, guys, if you wanna come to a live podcast recording with us, let us know. If you wanna see videos of Gerry trying line dancing for the [00:43:00] first time, let us know, because I would pay so much money to see that.

And 

Molly: if you wanna see Tom Holland- What, you'd pay money? ... on this podcast, slide into his DMs. Let him know. 

Andrea: And, and let us know if you'd rather poop your pants or eat a cockroach. I feel like those are all the, the main takeaways, if you will. 

Molly: Oh, one more: give Miss Dugan some Spirit Day ideas. 

Andrea: Yes. Yes, all of those.

And let me 

Gerry: see your Marvel figures. A 

Molly: lot of homework for our audience. 

Andrea: A lot of work they gotta do. Um, and you can do that on TikTok or Instagram. I am @educatorandrea.

Molly: I am @comedybygp. I am @miss.dugan1. 

Andrea: And you can contact the whole Human Content podcast family at humancontentpods. And thank you to those of you guys who have left reviews. Please do give us a shout-out and five stars. We would greatly appreciate it. Um, you can check out the whole YouTube... The whole YouTube.

All of YouTube. All of it. You can check out all of YouTube, and our full video episodes are up every week @educatorandrea. [00:44:00] Thank you so much for listening. I'm your host, Andrea Forkham. 

Gerry: I'm Gerry Patoka. 

Molly: And I'm Molly Dugan. 

Andrea: And our executive producers are Andrea Forkham, Aron Korney, Rob Goldman, and Shahnti Brooke.

Our editor is Andrew Sims. Our engineer is Jason Portizo. Our music is by Omer Ben-Zvi. To learn more about How to Survive the Classroom's program disclaimer and ethics policy and submission, verification, and licensing terms, you can go to podcasterandrea.com. How to Survive the Classroom is a Human Content production.

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