Episode 0509 – Thoughtcrime

January 28, 2010 · Filed Under Podcast 

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On today’s show: Bad thoughts; teacher meltdown; test of the strange; corruption; counterfeit contraception; crushing disappointment; call us – 214.267.9899.

00:00 Theme music – like a straight flush on the last day of the big tournament.
00:15 Welcome to the show.
00:40 Bad thoughts.
03:10 Call us – 214.267.9899.
03:25 Email us – rwtyshow@gmail.com.
03:40 Teacher meltdown.
04:45 Some kids are awful.
05:40 Well, this is not nice.
06:40 A message for all children.
07:50 This really messes with teachers.
08:40 Sam’s plan is not very nice, but it may be necessary.
13:20 There’s a certain strangeness here.
14:50 No one tells us anything.
15:40 The drawing test.
16:10 Gotta be honest.
17:30 Again with the fail.
20:00 Tale of the mutant.
21:15 She’s not like the others.
21:45 Why we don’t have nice things.
22:40 It’s the corruption, stupid.
23:50 You can’t help some people. You can try, but it won’t work.
25:30 Oh, China.
26:30 Leaking is bad.
26:50 Pre-infected for your convenience.
29:00 How things work in corporations.
32:15 How you know your man is a keeper.
32:30 Sam was, in fact, disappointed.
34:10 Call us – 214.267.9899.
34:15 Email us – rwtyshow@gmail.com.
34:59 Seeya!

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One Response to “Episode 0509 – Thoughtcrime”

  1. Mark BEARDSELL on February 2nd, 2010 8:24 pm

    Sorry I don’t listen to your shows as promptly as I would like, but your listeners that also happen to be teachers, AS WELL as parents, will be only too ready to tell you that Report card time truly blows goats. Not only am I not able to spend time listening to the good things in life (your podcast, for example), but I’m struggling to spend more time with my 5 year old son, so he doesn’t become a mass murdering rapist.

    Anyhow, listening to episode 509, and I heard how Thing Three’s teacher popped a gasket. I CAN’T BLAME HER.

    People seem to forget that Teachers are human (unlike other professions like Lawyers and Doctors), and that they are also the LOWEST paid of the postgrad professions.

    Teachers don’t have ONE master. . . They have MANY masters. Teachers have to answer to their most important clients (kids). They have to answer to guilt-ridden and/or stupid parents (whose ONLY qualification to come in to your workplace and tell you how you know NOTHING about your job) is that their birth control failed. Teachers also answer to principals and vice principals, who are on a back-stabbing journey to the top, and will think NOTHING of taking down a teacher or two with them,
    Teachers also answer to Trustees, who are only in the school board as a political stepping stone to whatever payola-ridden and power hungry objective they are weaseling toward.

    In other words, I wouldn’t have been too amazed to see Thing Three’s teacher go TOTALLY postal. Besides, the mini-breakdown SHE had wouldn’t have even raised an eyeball 25 years ago, when we were sitting in the classrooms. At least she didn’t go postal.

    Most people give no thought to how shitty it is to teach some peoples kids.

    Sorry about the rant, love the podcast.

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