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they got the A C pumping in, hear Jesus crying, dried out and keep it cold like a taping of a show or something. Yeah, it does. It feels like this is a show where the host Israel temperamental like he's like, Don't you dare let it be hot in there. When we went to the That's Watch the weatherman local weatherman tape eighties cold in that little studio

I would have loved, I would have loved a little five day forecast had called The studio is gonna be That's what prepared a little

low pressure zone in here. I don't think I don't think there's a thermometer that read as low as it wasn't there. I say. It was just above freezing.

I thought some snow

fell on my head while we were.

I think it's no. There was a full front came

through agree. There's no if it was from the A C event that was dusty and it turned to snow or if it was really weather

in there. The Doppler outside, in the back of the truck was going nuts

about the studio.

Here's my question. I love this conversation. Would you rather be too hot? or too cold.

Now that question of this century, that's

my first date. Question. Always to harder 200 to

know what happens

if they give you a certain answer.

Ah, well, I haven't had an opportunity to actually ask it on it Has

never been on a date.

Now set your potential. First,

it's on the list. It's on the list. It's number one on the list.

I'm with you, though. I'm a choose your own adventure dating guy, so I'll ask a few questions. And then, well, that's where the date grows. You were rather too hard to called. The answer is always to something. Eso,

she says. I'd rather be too hot. I say, Well, let's head on down to the canning factory. They don't even have a C in there. I know a guy who works there. I'll give you a little tour or he'll give us a tour and I'll just not along. Yeah, I swear I know him also, I swear I know the guy who owns my question is, why would you be rather too full

or too hungry? And my date is usually like, Ah, well, I'm very hungry because you really skimped on the order. We're splitting appetizer splitting in it.

But you also insist it's on you.

I say is on May. It's on May. And have you heard

what the, uh, will split the spinach, this child spinach dip?

I was going to say, Have you ever found it's a fact that they have

a child? Scampi? Oh, these little Children and this dress, Not our fans. See,

you're talking about the kids Italian restaurant. That's where you take your days. It's a time restaurant, but it's for Children. Bambino's Bambino's

Bambino's? Yes, yeah, Bambino's And a

short to enter, right? How do you do that?

Well, look under a Let's just say they got the knee shoes out. I get the knee shoes out

again. I'll tell you now, Bill, Coffee? Uh, coffee. Do I want coffee and

talked me off. You talk

all right. I'll tell you, Bill, I think you gotta stop. You got to stop doing your version of that door for character

door phone dinner. You're doing door funded weight that's been done. Oh, that's a watery coffee. That's nice. Isn't

that watering? It's barely tented. It looks like water with three drops of Brown. I

can't stand it

when you can taste the beans. I needed to just feel like old water. Yes, that's what coffee is to me. That's what wakes me up. Puts Pep in my step.

You know, I tried the coffee flavored Lacroix recently. Too strong for me, too strong to coffee to deflate.

ISAT Roy Orla crude. I think it's look in France. I think they pronounce it look. Rugs, rugs. Yeah, but I think the key to

good coffee is getting most of the grounds on the outside of the coffee maker. And and it being

you want to smell coffee? I smell hot coffee.

I walked in yesterday morning, a few hours after I had made the coffee, and I like the coffeemaker and someone was wiping down around it off.

Right? And you had made that pot of coffee before. And you what? You dust the counter with coffee and then wipe the filter on it, and that's what you put into the machine.

I'll do a nice wash on the filter. You do a little grounds wash on the filter just to get the essence of ground being in there. I mean, yeah, they've consulted us. Every court house west of the Mississippi is consulted us on coffee. Every mechanic east of the Mississippi. Yeah.

What are the

courthouses on the East of the Mississippi doing, By the way, do they have a guy? Another

Starbucks? It's a classic. Carl's Jr Hardee's West. The Mississippi are ours. Used to Starbucks. That's right. Two unrelated companies. That seems similar. Yeah. Yeah, well, we sued them about it, but we couldn't agree on which court has to have the case. Him?

That's right. Whose jurisdiction? That's right. Maybe one on the on the river. Let's do one. Let's get 1/4. Remember

Boat Quarter? Speaking of jurisdiction, we are the teacher, Right, guys, welcome to the teacher. Can't kick it.

Can't get welcome. Everybody to the teacher's lounge. It's the first, best and only podcast pertained. Issues relevant to the Hamilton High School community. Way, of course, are your hosts. I am Howard Levis, biology teacher all around. Good guy. Don't laugh. But that

all around, just not something you

usually need to convince people.

Okay, well, I feel like I'm a pretty decent fella. Just just be who you are. And you don't have to prove anything. My name is Sam. Weatherman. I'm big and buff. Uh, no reason

it's that. Take your own note on that one.

What are you talking about? I am

who I am. Uh, Sam drives it.

I teach drivers at and also student leadership. SB associated Student body

Bill Crave e assistant basketball coach, uh, also social studies teacher and I do not need therapy. Absolutely. Alright.

Tongue Madre theater director. Star of the school play. Ah, doctor and feminist studies. Dr. Uh, he's a doctor or

doctor. An er doctor and

doctor. Doctor ordered studies. Got his degree. God, you ask. God writes like a good husband loving, human and friendly to be around.

I'll say this because I forgot to say it about me. Everybody likes me and it's true.

Yeah, that's true. Well, like we said, this is the teacher's lounge episode. Episode one

one Welcome back for the first time.

Yeah, that's right. We You know, we've done a lot in our lives seeing the world really made our way around this. Ah, this big blue marble in in the universe. And we finally found our way back to what we'd like to call our home. Hamilton High School is where we got our start. It's where we all, uh

you know, when

you land and you're like, Ah, this feels like home. I'm back where everybody knows my bullshit on their sick of me.

My problems are exactly where I left on my room's a mess. You know that good feeling of landing it when you're right when you

get back and you're with your family and your five minutes into the car. Right? And they've already found the thing they hate the most about you.

Yeah. Oh,

yeah. You know, we're here, we're we're back. And we're really excited to get another school year off the ground. That's right. We are. You know, we've spent a little bit of time over the past few weeks, Uh, with a friend

way for those way. Do want to say hello to our attorney turning if you listen to us on

Stand up, slobs. Thanks for comin way that Hello kind new listeners and hello, old

anybody tells you what the show was. There, lying. Don't go back and listen to it. This is a new show for anybody who hasn't listened to it before. This is the same show for people who have already listened to a bunch.

You know, when you try

to change your personality because someone with money is around and you try to kind of like, be better, that's us. Now regular,

we're regular, whereas regulars it gets. And you we needed some time off. We knew we were gonna be coming to releasing our podcasts with our friends at the Ear Wolf Podcast Network, and we needed some time off to even decide if we wanted to do that. We don't so much podcasting. We've lost our mind.

We needed sabbatical.

And so we took a sabbatical. But we like those people did were creative guys and we couldn't just quit working. So we were shooting OJ's Twitter vids, shooting, writing, directing,

yeah, producing. Okay, shame producing, editing. I

was transposed all the golf cart cyber I provided.

I, um, provided set decoration for any time. We would film in the back of like a Ruby Tuesday's at Stroh, a bunch of papers all over with, like fantasy football stuff and a big old Sony via If

you look closely, I am actually playing every person in the background. Look Leslie. You see, it's me in different shirts and sometimes a hat, uh, at the billiards table at the bar, screaming at the football game. That's me.

I was, of course, the key grip. I had my dirty little fingers on every key and necessary, saying, though I was working a lot with Todd on the golf carts because I had all the keys to the car and he had all the cards for the transport. You also really hooked

us up with a bunch of brown furniture. A bunch of like, suede brown, lazy boy. Yeah, big, bad bar

stone. We wanted to make sure in every take, you could smell what the room was

like. Yes. You know, your bird can you smell what the rock is cooking? Yeah, this was Can you smell the furniture that Sam brought it?

I label it beer and bathroom.

Your ambassador

was like beer in here. Fear bathroom. Smells like bear. Stinks like the whole set stunk. Like Penn, Will. You bought all of you know, there's furniture deals where it's like, Do you want to furnish

your how? Your entire house in 30 minutes, you could buy it. All right, here.

That's what you got us a good deal. Well, it was a deal Was appear to right here. Two important. Well, it was peer to export to exports. So stuff that is about to

be thrown into the trash in the ocean?

Yes. It's on its way to the Pacific garbage patch. Yeah, I get it. Right before we spent a beautiful week on way were taking a break. The rates are great. Really good rates. The Pacific

garbage patch. I was hanging out next to 30,000 bottle caps for about two weeks. Just just bacon up out there. Got a nice tan.

Yeah, you had a you and Coke lead had, like, Tom Hanks and Wilson situation and it? Well, it's sadly. Coakley got taken away from seed by Siegel. Yes. Siegel swallowed up

cutlet. And your wife? I

think by the end of the vacation,

it wise we had gotten married.

It was arranged. It was an arrangement. It was love marriage.

No, Dr. Pepper's I arranged coke Lied to me. Dr Pepper and Squared and Court are coke about our coke lids Pain because

I was trying to meet Squirt.

Well, you know my deal You got another thing for older women? For all their soda tax?

Yes. Older. Yes. Yes. I

had a fling with Tab, right?

Isn't it amazing how when you go to a place your whole life could be turned upside down? You just joined the culture because we're so open. You go to the garbage patch and you go, OK, these are my people,

and yeah, And the thing is, now that we're back in Hamilton, the same thing has happened. You know, old friends were rekindling our relationships. People. Yes. It seems like there's been enough time away from the school that people have forgotten a lot of the things that they hated about us. But, you know, we're gonna do our best to not remind.

Well, they can tell the new solid energy we brought back this year. Trip to the garbage patch

really reset. My whole closet

did. And while we were there, you know, because they said you can come back to Hamilton. But we're gonna need an apology for some of the stuff you did. You going to school? And so we scribbled one onto our ah phone. Um, yes,

we if you are actually offended by what we did. We're sorry. Yeah, we

said Ah, yeah. We didn't say. We said we just We're sorry. You felt that. Yeah, that's right. We didn't actually. That's a straight up.

Well, I don't want to take responsibility for my actions. No, I just want to say don't

feel that way, right? And like most apologies, we did some good emoji work, I think, in our

Oh, yeah, that was some of the funniest emoji work I've done recently. I think, Yes, we should have had it

in birthday cake. But thank you for letting me get my one. I always get my

one. Everybody has to be a

contributor if you were offended. Birthday cake,

which didn't make it tennis. In which,

Although I have seen that people have started using offended birthday cake on the line. If there are on the line

that's online, we'll find all the pages are arranged in one line.

Yeah, eso You put birthday cake that's

become like jumping the shark. It's like a bad apology is like offended birthday cake.

Yeah, people are posting. They're sort of like plate times that they've been offended and then they just put offended birthday cake at the end. It's become a whole rage on the industry most.

They're not making fun of us. They like it

well, What's spreading? I'll tell you what I'm offended about, and I'm gonna

be really honest here, please, my own past performance. As a teacher,

I have some things that I am ashamed about. I'm a driver's ed teacher, and I crashed a lot of the cars.

Your your driver's at future and you can't drive right?

Absolutely. I can't drive. It's illegal for me. I can't handle it emotionally. So those who can't do, of course, teach eso. I sit in the front seat with the

break. It's a bigger break because I get nervous

and I sit in that passenger seat and let the kids drive, and I'm screaming at them the whole time. What to do we and screaming, Stay calm, stay calm. Don't do whether don't surrender, don't you know? And and I'm not going to do that in. And now this year, my

goal is to make sure that everyone that takes my class gets their license,

and that's we've also we've all tried to do that for this year. We all said, You know, in the past things have been hard for us, You know, for me, I let my personal life sort of infect. Ah, my everyday life. I left my great Well, yeah, You know, my run when I ran for mayor. You know, I got so distracted by that that it just it impeded my progress as a teacher on. I decided this year to focus my entire life on teaching. Every waking moment of my life will be spent trying to better the lives of the 16 to 24 kids who I have in my homeroom and in my AP bio.

I'm gonna let you I'm just gonna let you know a minor concern. I have hearing that. OK, if you put all your life into one thing when that thing fails won't. Okay, well, that's a lot of pressure.

I want a lot of I've decided.

Said every waking moment. Sure you're going to

take some lunch breaks. You're going to take some. You know, meditation is

gonna be a working lunch every day. I'm sorry. You know, I started doing meal prep every night. I do feel perhaps every night you just you make dinner and you bring your left. Now it's it's but I make big meals. I make I make, like, 16 chicken breasts by rest in Brackley.

Hired. Hesitated your if you're eating one and you're putting one to go, where do the other in the team go

fridge will bring. And then But

in? The

what do you bring you? So you are prepping those? Yeah, and your whole house stinks. I am used to the smell. Uh, you got

a big industrial broiler back there in your kitchen. It feels very commercial.

I did some renovations, you know, I got back. My still owned my house here in Hamilton. So I went back and I did some complete renovations. As you guys know, I've lived in a tiny house for most of my life. Uh, but I like a bit simple. My house. Now, I've devoted Teoh

enough for a local pretty much well, uh, pretty much below. People are technically of Islam logo, but it's pretty much no play. Look. And how do you know it was burned in Spanish? I don't know. Said he say. And Frago and Frago help Oyo loco. It's burned chicken. Yeah, Well,

a lot of people are are saying that, but I You know, I like to think that I have set my house up for my needs right now, which is teaching and cooking. So it's a huge industrial broiler.

I'm just and a desk. I'm just nervous that your first thing you said was I'm gonna I'm gonna dedicate every waking moment to teaching. And then the second thing we found out about you was you running up way. Look, with house. I feel like a big distraction. But I love your goal for the year, and I'm gonna try to help you stick to it. Just like I know you're gonna help me try to tear to support

each other. If I need you guys to pick up a double every now and then I know that you'll show up on the weekend. I'm not gonna pick up a single. Okay, Well, I know who my real friends are. Who's my real friends? Raise your hands.

Oh, yeah. I can't get my arms in the air, but I would if I could

tie my shoes. Sorry. Okay.

Oh, yeah. I know where I stand

that time. I'm familiar with some of your

gaffes and follies from the past.

What are you going to change this year?

Great question. I don't know what your fringes first gaps and follies, but ah, um uh,

talking about the musical when you did volleys,

I did follies But then I also made it my on a little and I did gaffes and follies But I

think this year made the audience sing I'm losing my mind Well, I didn't

make him sing that they person didn't do I'm losing my mind

before you even I think that's from

Volleys There's a song that I'm losing my mind Which the Yes, the I think Thank abo Teoh Which character in the show is supposed to saying? But apparently the play was so bad that the audience burst into I'm losing my mind. That's

before it even they made it. They weren't

seeing. They were saying the phrase I'm losing my mind. You

all know about spontaneous combustion. Well, I have not had three plays that have caused spontaneous insanity. Uh, and it's something that I'm actually proud of because it makes people think so hard. They go crazy. Interesting. And I think this year. I want to do something. I'm such an artist. And this year I want to do something for the masses. A little more. I mean,

you want to sort of break out, you do something. Need sort of independent. You want to do something that really like, like, goes broad?

Yeah. I want to go a little broader. You know, as you guys know, I am proud of my Raz got. I'm the only living recipient of a Razzie for music, Ian Theatre, film and television. And that is quite an honor. Thank you very much. Thank you. End. You know, I'm proud of that, of course. But now I want to do something that is beloved by people. And so I'm going to use the school play to broaden out a little. A

lot of

people take issue with you just saying the phrase you I'm going to use the school play Todd, because you should. This is about the students. And again, this is kind of dipping into territory you've touched before, which is that you ruined Children's theater experiences by forcing yourself and your perspective into the work. Okay? You

already said you're you are the star of the play.

Well, obviously imagine. Let's say you're trying to learn to play basketball. Imagine you're on a high school team, okay? And you get to play with Michael Jordan. Imagine how much you have to raise

way. Well, are other students in the play? All right.

The pause tells me no scriptural, quick Europe. You should know this.

You want written, Mom? I guess I could cast some students in this. There's me. There's my wife. I guess I can cast a high school play.

Why is that? You don't You don't print your scripts. You hand right The moai,

handwrite, everything. I'm an artist. I was difficult. You know what else? Oh, well, yeah, I handwrite everything. And then I have my assistant type it all of, um, a, you know, would he uses a typewriter.

Right. So you have it. You haven't assistant. Oh, yeah, yeah. Are you Is this a school provided thing? I haven't heard anything about getting assistance. Are we

gonna get through?

This is my daughter, Mary. Uh, wow. You're connected. We reconnected when I moved back, and I, um I figured the best way to reconnect was a employer employee relationship?

Absolutely. You want to know where the boundaries are?

That's right, I've said. And now she knows. Hey, you know what you don't expect from your employer? Consistency in love. And soon as she knows not to be disappointed with what she gets from

And, you know you do expect

from the employer an internship.

That's right. That's right. Unpaid internship. If she's getting college credit, it's just four college. She has to go

to popular college. She has to go to Padua University and a healthy audience Exactly what that is. You

know, Padre, Universities of school. I started online last. There was Padre. Yeah, Todd. Padre. So it's Padre university dot e d x on. And it's an educational institute for anyone who wants to learn theater through Skype. So you could skype with me, and I'll do classes.

Sound like a college, but Okay, well,

you get credit and you got you know, Klatt, you go to class. I have

What kind

of credit, like, do you get a diploma at the end? Are,

um No, it's in turn credit. That's so

from going to

the college, you get intern credit that where is that turned? in or

okay, It's like I'm talking to the government again. You try to help people by starting a college where they watch you do monologues and give you notes,

give you notes, your opened and outs. I

didn't. I was open to them. I said they'd given me because what you have to learn is an artist is how to take people not taking your notes. Absolutely. And so that's a lot of my classes. Is people learning to get yelled at when they criticized May?

Whenever I'm given notes, I

go Thank you so much, I will carefully consider how do not use each and every one of these.

Yeah, that's right. Fight the note.

But so my police fight the note, the noticed fight, the note. It's more important that people know that you think you're right then that they think that you can listen. So my play this year is called the Reconnect, and I'm basing it off of, um, you know, some of the famous body switch movies.

Oh, yeah, Friday.

Yeah, and so I switch bodies with my wife on. I learned a little bit about what it was like to be her and she learns a little bit about what it's like to be me in the place. So it's got that broadness of a freaky Friday, the change up.

I don't want any spoilers, but do you think your character grows by the end

of it? How does he get taller? Well, yeah,

the character does get taller because the play is much like boyhood. The play takes 12 years old and lives in a

little time. I'm seeing a car. You to do a live play for 12 years.

You know, they said it couldn't be done.

Yes, the lines here. I absolutely agree. Sorry. No, no, it seems like I heard you with Yeah, Yeah, Flip it up. Eso this right

here. Right when your wife goes into your body through, um, it says she looks down, she unzipped her pants, and her first line is Whoa, this thing is huge.

Yeah, Like I said, I'm going a little, uh, governable for the comedy element to you know,

that is hot.

And it is truth in comedy. So what's funny? A guy like me who is already talented and artistic and smart, also having a huge Penis,

I think like that's not gonna get a laugh like maybe if you open up your like,

I guess this will work. I feel like that. I'll get a That sucks. Okay, I'll be honest. That's being like a sort of, like, maybe like self for the joke. What's the drug? If you have kind of like

that, you have raised just you're not conceded

at its whole because it's it's what it's what a man might be thinking from a woman's body or vice versa.

Why is that for Wired awaited Ever be funny for me to

talk to you, doing a great job of disagreeing with the note you and you know where they

say dot your dog too.

Ta. Look, I'm gonna admit something right now. I had a small Penis for a while, but then it got bigger.

Wow, that's a huge admission. I don't think I've ever heard of that happening in the history of the world

happened. In a way. I mean, are you saying when you were a child, you had a small Penis and then you grew up? You know, screw with

you. Uh, you could take that as a yes. You want to. You could take that.

No, I went through second puberty.

Okay, that's how to

think harder to believe that I'm gonna be honest with you. I feel What age did you go through

second puberty? Because you're 77. You look 100 700

70. I'm told I look 100. I'm also told I'm 73. I don't believe in age anymore.

All right, We'll try. We spent enough time talking about you. Yeah, but, Bill, you're you're jumping in to another season now, huh?

Yes. Yes, I am the assistant basketball coach,

which is a

bit of a downgrade if we're being on

it is. I mean, I was a coach for a while. I was fired for throwing a big pan of lasagna at a, uh, opposing coach. I lost my temper. Um,

but your temporal say is also what makes you a good cook fires you up. It brings a lot

of energy. You just have a tough time containing

absolutely I mean, a temper can really get some Children. Go in. You

know, a lot of people have called you reverse Bobby Knight, where you're mostly angry and okay at ah, being a coach.

Yes, I mean, that's I campaigned to get it changed to reverse Bobby Knight from Worse. Bobby. Like it was worse. Bobby Knight for Why?

Worse to reverse. I have that

campaign. Yes, and it caught on, but yeah. I mean, I first time I was a Hamilton. I was teaching Spanish, which did not work out well, because the only word I knew was Banya, which means Callie and Tae I

think I'm still confused.

I get really lost. I

don't have to know that anymore, cause now review social studies, which is what you're the degree one of your degrees is for You should be teaching social studies.

Yes, yes, yes. So, um, in, you know, I'm studying currently to kind of re re ah, getting back some of my knowledge of social studies.

A lot of people I've heard students coming out of your class saying, you know, I've heard I've heard this stuff before, but when

I heard

it, it was a little bit different, was it? Almost seems like kids were saying that you're sort of revising history in your lessons in social studies.

Oh, yes, yes, Yeah, I am. Ah. I don't think the ah I prefer a different, uh, order of the president's. Uh, I thought that around. I just think, like, you know, Taft would have been better followed up by Carter. Right in the Carter eso I'm dime. I'm definitely

history is just the story

of what happened in the past.

Why not rewrite that story? Yeah, we just don't want to repeat history. Exactly. A

lot of people are saying you're doing too much history in your social studies class, which is right. I don't And I

challenge all those people to define social studies. It is such a broad

bride. What is it? Because it for a while I was studying friendship, studying? Well, I've seen some of these studies you're doing, and to me, they look more like pranks in public, trying to figure out how people work or whatever

your studies class looks A lot like MTV is boiling points.

That's exactly what I'm saying. Come on, there's lessons involved when

that man eats his sandwich and puts it on the

car. What is the car? The model t T, which

was, of course, invented and produced by,

uh, Taft. Yeah, yes, yes. The model T was made by Taff.

That's why it's called the model teas.

So, um, I don't like this one.

Hey, sometimes you got to skip over where you're going to say and move on to the

next prey. Yeah, but I'm excited to be I mean, the head coach. Very good, Coach, I It's tough for me to play second fiddle, but, you know, I am responsible for the JV boys. We practice after the varsity. Um, once they're tired, they're tired from scrimmaging against the varsity. I take him and we go out on the night court on I got my flashlight and where we're dribbling around

because that question about to be used at night, we don't have any exterior lights. That field is not meant to be a court is what you could.

Hamilton is a little bit cheap. They only they only will turn on the lights

for the varsity team s. So all the other teams are working their way to varsity and they have to practice in the dark

on the correct fields or court pistol. Pete sold jam, which is Ah, haunted gym. Now we're actually playing not the most

Repeat. You think this was a murderer in town that lived in the gym?

Yes, he lived in a gym. We actually, and we're getting good, because I do think this is making the JV boys good. We are scrimmaging against five ghosts right now.

I saw one of those, and it is like they're learning a lot from that specifically how to deal with being haunted? Yes. Um, but also, you know, ghosts play pretty good defense, Air raid, fundamental. They don't show awful.

Are you know what a big weakness the ghost have is They can't set a pick for shit just right through off.

But I can really fly. They could really get up above the rim.

They can. They'll dunk on your ass. Um, so, yeah, but so that's going good. But it is tough for May.

Now, uh, um, I've heard of angels in the outfield, but this is like demons on the basketball field.

Demons in the box? Yeah, eso

Because they're all evil ghosts.

Yes. And how does that really?

It's Jim

Angels in the outfield. Um, some dead angels help a

bad baseball team. Okay, so this is dead. Demons hurt a basketball team. It's very similar.

You're hustling hard and shows your commitment to coaching is up this year. We're showing things. This year is good. For the first

time. The team you're coaching actually does seem to be getting better. Okay, I feel like, you know, like your your methods are unorthodox, Bill. But I think for once in your career, it's working.

Haven't you? Can't say that about all of us. Yeah. Say what you will about our methods, but we definitely get some sort of result at the end.

Yeah. I mean, it's very true because, you know, they're getting very good at ball handling when they are staring in the face of their dead grandmother who's being ah, held captive in hell. Yeah, you know what I mean? It's a tough defender. It stuff.

Well, you know, guys, we are really excited to be back in the lounge, so it's really good to be ah, recording these episodes for you guys, and we hope you like him. Ah, we got to take a quick little break here because we are like to break this news. We got a guest in the lounge, folks. So pour yourself another Camp Ajo, and we'll be back in just a second. Kick it. Yeah. Sounds weird coming out of my mouth. If I'm being honest, guys, I just don't feel like I have You could soul, you know, you got soul

Feel like

I'm a little bit of a coursing.

Of course you are. Maybe

this year I'll try to toughen up a little bit. But, you know, guys, we're not here to toe for me to talk ill about myself. Uh, we're here to you talk, Teoh. Honestly, we're so excited to have this guest on. It's been a long time since we had a chance to sit down with this good buddy of ours. Uh, you all know him? Ah, as the a PPE instructor. Ah, and we know him as our good friend. Original Fig. How you doing? Original.

He's doing it's great. Dio It's great to have his back here. Hamilton, it's good to see Oh,

my God! Buttery voice, Regional fig Coming in with that buttery radio style I

used to figgy It's good to see you, but it's good to see it to say, Hey, I've been good. I've been good, has a liquor store, you know, liquor stores going good It's going really good. Like people like to get drunk and they like to pay for getting for the privilege of doing so. So you know, Rice. Soon as I'm done here, I go right to the store. I'm there until I'm supposed to be in there until 11 PM But I Mac, I got a secret. You got a secret knock. You can get in there like, 34 in the morning.

I've been trying to figure out that knocked for seven years.

I hope you get there to help you figure it

out close because it seemed like your hand over hand reached for the door and that ready, and you blew it.

I blew, right? If

that was you Oh, I remember this was like, what, Three weeks ago, I had my hand on the knob because this guy, whoever was an inner side like that not was getting closer and closer cycle has got it. I think you got it. And then the very end Wrong way

and and to be Teoh, to be clear for the listeners, this knock is it's sort of like a like your bank account password. If you get it wrong, a certain number of times locked Get locked out

for others. Froze door knobs froze. It won't turn. And you know what? That what sucks is I'm trapped inside. I can't out its

way. It's also like

a bank, uh, a bank password and that you have to have a special character.

So and that's always tough for me, because I feel like I've gotten the knock

right one or two times. But I haven't had a special character, be it Lee, you know, like, ah,

fun friend or an exclamation mark. I don't know what it is. I haven't deciphered what they mean by special characters. I'm not writing, right. Am I playing a character? Am I holding up a picture of the right character or Yeah, I went one

night and I knocked. Apparently got the knock, right? But they did not like that. I was doing Stuart from Mad TV s, So they

were like a special character. Everybody's got a little kid character. Yeah, I guess that's true. Shook. I feel like I already said too much.

Yeah. We appreciate the hints now original, uh, a lot of people. It's a little

tough to I have such a. And I say this would love cause I'm a CD person as well, but sort of a

CD, sort of, ah, personal life and still be one of the

most celebrated teachers at the school. Well, any balance it

home, I think it's like people, uh, I I think they see me as a special character in a school. You know what I mean? Because a lot of schools don't necessarily have a guy who is ah, just clearly like living on the like, the edge and night, You know what I mean? Like every night I'm in that liquor store and seeing all kinds of human degradation, And I'm not shy about talking about it Like I tell my kids, you know, when we when we you know I'll go in there were start doing park or drills and I'll say, uh, you know, I saw a guy last night Who Ah, he warned he wanted to sell me his prosthetic leg for for a 50 Yeager meister on. I was like, I don't want to do it, but I will do it for the story. I mean, So I got that thing mounted over the counter like it's a fish I caught.

Yeah, it is a good looking. Is

it pretty? Oh, it's not pretty. This'll Legace seen some battle? Like if a prosthetic leg could have a prosthetic leg. This one boy

and I've heard, actually that there it is, sort of like this prosthetic leg. Sort of looks like one of those cars where you get offender from one car. Ah, hood from

another car and is coated in primer. Yeah, it doesn't look in remotely close to believable. You know what I mean? Yeah, if you if this guy couldn't go to the beach and that thing

No, it also seems to I don't know

what that thing's called, but it takes a lot when it's near radiation. But I

had one of those in my book bag

the other day. A Geiger counter on I came in and that thing was going off. Can collect radiation detectors side Teoh. I do. It's a little known fact about how

many you up to?

I got seven.

Okay. We gotta talk sometime.

Oh, yeah, you have some.

I got a few. Wow. I don't wanna I'm not trying a big time you, but I got. I got two dozen Geiger counters. Asked what? All different countries.

Why do you guys have these air? You guys seeking out radiation? That's how it

starts. Of course, Yes. But then after a while, you're like, I love the sleek design I love. I love the ticking. I love the different pitches of dicks.

Yet they it seems like they only made these in the sixties and never made a new one. So it looks really old mine. One of mine is, actually, you know, that guy in Chernobyl that melted down like candy. Jury blank. I have that one that he had

based on a real thing that

happened. It is It is.

And now, much like how the podcast s town followed around a man who fixed clocks. Ah, kind of a unique individual. They start falling. But both of you around assuming because you collect these and fix them that there is something else going on in your lives.

You know, what you get is home. A lot of times, you'll get people falling around who are irradiated, and they just want to be like this one. Show up on the detector like

they want to feel

something. They want to feel something like a few If you're walking, if you're If you're walking down the street and you got one detectors on you and you start hearing this ticket, you turn around and a lot of times you'll see like a guy standings Got a big smile on his face like, uh, you looking for me?

Uh, some people have a type of radiation that has a beat to it. You know, it won't just tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. It'll kind of go to and that I actually it's got a little groove to, and that's cool. And that's cool. That's a special type of ah, of cancers Person.

Yeah, we call him Ebony HMAS.

That's awesome. That's really awesome. I think you are so awesome. You're so advanced. You know, you just teach physical education.

No event advance advance placement. Fiscal Exact park course seems to be, that's

a warm up. I mean, really, until we get started yet thes kids, I put them through amazing feats of physicality. That home I don't I don't know where strictly legal, but as long as the parents sign off on it, um, and school is not held liable than, um, I could make him do whatever I want.

People were pretty excited when you added, Ah, the midterm now is hanging from a helicopter. That's right. And that was a lot of students really wanted to feel like action heroes and do

that. And like we started that we started out easy where it's like the rope ladder. And then gradually they get to the point where they just hanging off the runners on the side. And you know I'm not gonna lie. It's like a lot of kids aren't that good. They're not. You know, they think they should be in a P B. But then once it actually gets down to it, the washout, you know, or die.

Yeah, it's a military. One of

the big things big problems people have with specifically this activity is that there's a huge body of water close by choppers. Yeah, with the choppers, there's a huge what body of water close by. But you actually refused to do this test over water

because the kids are too tempted to let go. If you know if, if you know there's a net look, you start off you start off early with safety precautions, and then after a while, you take those away. Because if you can if you can do it when you know there's a net you're gonna you're gonna know. Okay, I'm not really going to get hurt. That's not good. You gotta reinforcing these kids. You are going to get hurt. So don't let go.

You got to see the consequences to be able to sort of a achieve peak performance.

Yeah, that's why I put the worst kids first in line because I want the good kids t remember like, this is what it's like. This is what it's like.

I want to thank you because I have written off in my fair share of helicopters, firing a machine gun and laughing. And so you knew that about me, and you sent me an email. One to kind of involved me in this whole thing, and I was proud to be a part of it and and use that experience on the kids. You know? I never hit the kids with the bulls grass. It's ah, but I do. They're just rubber bullets. Their rubber bullets don't write any letters that rubber

bullets. Everyone is like outrage culture. You know what I mean? Where it's like Well, okay. Before you get before you, you know your user going around saying your hair. Oh, fire, rubber bullets.

Rubber boots are made for safety. That's why they're not

bullet. So? So what? Like you know, those those mats, they got it. Playgrounds, You know, spongy mats. Are they supposed to be made out of metal? Yeah, they're supposed to be like chrome jacketed mats. Of course not.

You know what? You're into that question. Idiots.

Yeah. You guys are the worst people we've ever tried to entertain.

I'd love to get some of these idiots in my old these

artists. I want to see these fucking losers face to face. Sometimes

stick. I feel like I got blood in my mouth.

Well, actually,

you dio what? Okay. Did you bite out what happened?

I probably did. I eat either my tongue on my cheek

and you don't have feeling in either of those anymore.

Dupe where you're very you're

from a lifetime of chewing to back lifetime a dip yet that a Sorry. And I also knocked my cup over earlier. So if you go in the break room. It's, um there's a mess in there.

I really

liked your documentary student on wire.

Thanks. How was that? Was pretty grueling. Yeah, because you're I don't know if that student, I mean, they seem to

have signed a release, and they were excited. But you're a grueling coach. Of course I'm coached in when Towers, Um, there

are between? Ah, no. When the school

built those, um, twin tower replicas

made to look like the property brothers.

That was your request, right? They

they wanted to do like an ancient Greek day. And I was like, What if we do that style? But they look like the property brothers. So Greeks die hours yet but prop classical Greek style, like the Colossus of Rhodes. Right? But it's to the two property brothers tokens really

smart. I thought it was a good allocation of funds and ah, it was worth it because then we got that documentary and we got you to pull with student across on that wire.

I think that was a big shot in the arm for the school. And dragging that kid on that wire was that was a thrill.

It's interesting that that's how you describe it, because that is actually I was reported in In all the newspapers that covered it was this This child was sort of on on what seemed to be a leash. You were on top of 1 to 1 side, and you sort of just yanked him across the head. Misbehaving doll.

Where to mix it up. Because that one guy walked on the wire friends like the French guy yet, And I was like, Okay, we got to do something different with this. What if you are, you know, you got one harnesses around you like little kids have at the mall and your backwards, so I'm just pulling you across on the wire and you gotta you gotta stay on, you know, on that wire in a certain way. So you don't not only fall off and drag me with you, Not for nothing, but you know, like, if he fell, I would have gone down to

rest for you.

I mean, mitigate risk, cause I was, like, strapped in on

that. You could just let go,

and I could just like, um but, uh, so you can't fall also, he can't like, you know, position himself such a way that he would just be slowly sliced in half by the wire, and I pulled him across.

But he also can't be too annoying up there. He's gonna let