The Robot Baby That Broke a Student’s Will to Live

Lauran: This podcast contains content that may be distressing to some listeners. Please read the description below for content warnings. And now, a poem in the style of Emily Dickinson. 

Jordan: Before you dwell within this sound, a caution must be told. For words like seeds may stir in the ground where tender fears unfold.

Of ills that twist the fragile frame and sickness sharp. Fleet, the stomach storm without a name where calm and chaos meet. If such a thought should press to near retreat without the lay for peace is dear and ever clear. When gently walked away. 

Leslie: I can drive my own field trips and even my kids can be unlimited on field trips.

That is really a good point. So, kind of like Ms. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus, but the black plus size version. We are, we

Lauran: are, Thor! You know what I love most about that one? 

Jordan: What's that? 

Lauran: I asked it. To write a trigger warning for a metaphobia and it called it a stomach storm 

Jordan: a stomach storm That is 

Lauran: my new favorite term You guys will know why we're talking about that later on in this episode when we get to the good stuff But hey guys, how's it going?

How's it going? How are you guys? I hope you're good. I hope you're good I hope you're golden. Hope you stay golden. 

Jordan: Stay golden pony boy. 

Lauran: Always always do that. Uh, but we have The Leslie Robb comedy in the building this evening and I can't wait because she is a trip and you guys are taking it with us and I love her and she makes me laugh constantly.

I literally cried laughing while filming this episode multiple times. So, I hope you guys, uh, are ready for what your ears are about to hear. To hear. 

Jordan: Prepare your ear holes. 

Lauran: Prepare your ear holes. Prepare those ear 

Jordan: holes. 

Lauran: Prepare the ear holes. Yeah. Because we're coming for your ear holes. 

Jordan: Wow, that's a way to say that the podcast is about to start.

Lauran: Well, without further ado,

we're gonna, we're gonna get started with Leslie Robb, and you guys, you just sit back, relax, and get ready to chuckle. The chuckle bus is coming 

Jordan: down the road at 65 miles an hour, so 

Lauran: we'll be right back with Leslie.

All right, guys, I'm so excited because I feel like I say that every single week, but I'm always so excited for who we have on the show. It's 

Jordan: fun. You bring the energy. Oh, 

Lauran: yes, I'm so excited. But this week, I'm super excited because we have Leslie Robb, who is. Absolutely hysterical. Um, my first experience with Leslie was actually my first experience with comedy in general.

I am not, nor will I probably ever be a comedian, but I did like a little five minute stint, uh, just for funsies one time. And I just remember like being in the green room with you before the show. And I was so nervous. I was like, I was like, I'm gonna throw up. I'm gonna throw up. I'm gonna throw up. 

Jordan: And 

Lauran: Leslie was like the sweetest person ever.

She was like, girl, you got this. You're gonna be great. It's gonna be so funny. You're gonna do fine. And then it'll be over. Like, I'm ready. It's going to be over part. 

Jordan: I'm glad, Leslie. I'm glad you were there to calm my wife's nerves, because to be honest, I'd probably be like, Oh, well, there's a bucket there for you to throw up.

Lauran: He's like encouraging the throw up. Yeah. Oh my God. Well, tell our audience a little bit about yourself since, you know, I know you, but they might not. So yeah. 

Leslie: I am Leslie Robb. Um, Leslie Robinson officially. Definitely still just Leslie Robb. Robinson is my mother in law. Uh, so, so yes, I am a high school teacher.

Um, I am, I don't want to say a stand up comedian. I'm not a stand up comedian. I'm a comedic speaker. I would not call myself a stand up comedian because I like that. Yeah. Yeah, like I'm a comedic speaker because I like the balance of like Encouraging people, but in addition to be making them laugh. So it's like if, if a comedian and a motivational speaker had a baby, you got me.

Lauran: That's like the only kind of PD I want to go to, like is where I'm going to laugh and maybe learn something or feel better about myself. 

Leslie: And so, yeah, so that's my jam. Um, and yeah, that's pretty much me in a nutshell. Uh, yeah. 

Lauran: What do you, what do you teach in high school? I knew you were a high school teacher, but what, what, like, subject do you teach?

Leslie: I teach Family and Consumer Sciences, which used to be Oh, that's so fun! Uh huh, 

Lauran: so you know, most people I have to 

Leslie: explain that 

Lauran: it 

Leslie: used to be home 

Lauran: ec. No, no. You gotta get, you gotta get with the times. It's Family Consumer Sciences. 

Theme: Exactly. 

Leslie: But if I say it, by the time I'm done explaining it, I'm like, It's like a form of homework, okay guys?

It's 

Lauran: like Adulting 101. Okay, so like the high school that we went to, we had, so there was, there was a Family Consumer Science class, but there were also like other classes that that teacher taught, so there was, I remember as like an elective my senior year, I took I think it was like parenting and child development where you get like the robot baby.

Oh my gosh. Like, do you guys, is that all part of that class or is it separate? 

Leslie: It's all the same class. So Family Consumer Sciences is like the umbrella and then there's a crap ton of classes below it. 

Lauran: Okay. So yeah. 

Leslie: I just 

Lauran: remembered that, like, so we didn't have the robot baby for very long. It was like a weekend thing and like everyone had it on like a rotation.

So like one week a few people will have it and then the next week. So the week that I had it, um, I remember feeling so awkward carrying it around because people just gave you such dirty looks in public. Uh huh. I was like, guys, it's a doll, and like, don't be so judgy, like, but like, but, so what? Like, don't be, exactly, mind your business.

Right, right, and I just remember, uh, at the, my boyfriend at the time, we took the doll with us to Dairy Queen, and we, I sat at, like, Which, you know, I probably shouldn't have, but I sat the carrier on the ground instead of, like, in the booth we were sitting in with us. Oh my god, you left it on the floor? I put it on the floor.

Jordan: You left your robot baby on the floor. I did. Poor parenting, Lauren. I was gonna say. Hey, the robot 

Lauran: baby was fine. I was gonna say. It didn't touch the floor. In Family 

Jordan: Consumer Sciences, is that nef? Because I feel like that should be nef. 

Leslie: Well, you know what? It is a, a serious deduction of points because it's supposed to treat it like it's a real baby.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, 

Jordan: my teacher didn't 

Leslie: know. Now it does not, the computer does not tell us that part. The computer only tells us if it's Right, but it does other stuff. 

Lauran: Yes. For sure. Yes. Oh my God. Because I remember my baby was so quiet during the day and I was like, Oh my God, it's so it's an angel. So great.

And then at like two in the morning, it would wake up and just scream in your ear. And I remember I had a keyboard in my bedroom and I took the piano bench from my keyboard. And I set it next to my bed and I put the carrier on the piano bench so that I could still lay in bed and I was just like, holding this bottle, like conked out.

Guys, I'm like, I'm not planning on having a kid anytime soon. I just 

Leslie: thought this would be a fun elective. Yeah, you're like, now I'm out. And what's funny is we've had like some craziness happen with the babies. I remember one year, one of my girls, she was in 11th grade and she, you know, everybody's so excited to get the babies.

Initially, and then no lie, like, cause you know, there's different settings we could do. So I am the teacher who doesn't set them all on easy. I mix them up. So you never know. Just like in 

Jordan: real life. Oh God. You never 

Leslie: know. Just like in real life. If you're going to end up with a colicky baby. Yeah. It's baby 

Jordan: roulette.

Leslie: It is baby. It's 

Lauran: baby roulette. Legit. It is. Oh my God. I guarantee my teacher did that. I guarantee it because she ended up 

Leslie: getting a colic baby and it was literally because I gave them my number for emergencies like it just in case something happens and one of my girls called me. It was like, like one o'clock or something like that.

And she was like, please, you have got to come get the baby. She was like, I'll take the F, I'll do whatever. Because you know, there's no way to turn them off. So like, she couldn't take it anymore. So I literally drove it. 30 minutes up from my house to go get that baby and bring it to my house, not thinking though, guys, now it's at my house.

My school computer is at school to turn the baby off. So then me and my husband are trying to like, like put a whole bunch of throw blankets on it to keep it Why don't you just put it in your trunk? 

Jordan: I was gonna say, you're suffocating the baby, no? 

Lauran: Okay, may I, may I point out It's a robot. I 

Jordan: know 

Lauran: you should not ever put a real baby in a trunk, or nor should you put a real baby under a pile of blankets.

Leslie: No, my fear wasn't leaving it in the trunk that somebody's gonna think I left a baby in the trunk. And I was like, 

Jordan: This person's watch I was gonna say, oh my god, that's right, because like this person's out for the 5 a. m. run and they're like, oh, this is a great day. Is that a baby crying? Is it coming from a trunk?

Can 

Lauran: you I just imagine that doorbell ring and just opening the door and seeing cops at your house with a baby in the trunk. 

Jordan: And having to explain it's a robot baby. Oh my god. For 

Lauran: sure. 

Jordan: No thank you. 

Leslie: That sounds like a nightmare. So what did you do? Literally, we put it in this because we had a spare bedroom at the time.

So we put it in the far corner closet and then put a whole bunch of pillows over it. You can still hear it enough, but not enough that we couldn't go to sleep because I could not go to sleep because I kept hearing it. Yeah, I feel bad laughing so much at this. I know, 

Lauran: but you can picture it, right? Yeah, 

Jordan: absolutely.

Lauran: I went through it. Yeah, I remember. And then I thought that. The other funny part of that class was we had to, like, design a baby nursery on a budget. And it was like, yeah, one of our projects was like, I forget what our budget was. It was like something crazy, like 10, 000 or something. 10, 000? 

Leslie: I 

Lauran: don't even know.

I, maybe, maybe it wasn't 10, 000. Maybe it wasn't 10, 000, but like, maybe it was, it was like, maybe it was like 2, 000? I don't know. It was something we had some kind of budget and we had to we had to like she gave us like a list of all this stuff we had to have so we had to like search the internet and find all the the bargains for this all these baby products and we're talking like 2012 internet not now internet where it's like oh yeah i see you're looking for this how about all of these it was not it was not a fun time and then we had to like print out you Each of, like, the websites that we got it from, we couldn't just, like, write it down.

Theme: Yeah. 

Lauran: We had to actually prove that we had found a real deal somewhere. That's how I do. Oh my lord, that sounds Ugh, it's bringing back memories. Yeah, you're like, oh, 

Leslie: PTSD, PTSD. 

Lauran: I know. But I, I do wish that I would have taken An actual family consumer sciences class that had like all of the things because I like my mom did when she was in middle school They did and like she learned sewing and like obviously cooking and things like that But 

Jordan: I took the whole next time.

I never learned that. The cooking. Did you cook? Yeah, the cooking class. Yeah. Yeah. 

Lauran: Great. 

Jordan: Uh, I was a I think it was a freshman Did you 

Lauran: pass? 

Jordan: Yes I passed! You had the pancakes I learned to make this past weekend! 

Lauran: I did. I also watched you almost burn them. 

Leslie: So maybe he didn't pass well. Maybe he passed with a D?

I passed. 

Jordan: Yo, everyone's coming at me. I made I make really good pancakes. No, I'm teasing. They were good pancakes. 

Lauran: Actually, I will say, like, so, majority of the time in our house, I do the cooking. Uh huh. But Jordan, when he does cook, I'm like, dude, you need to start cooking all the time. Cause like, one, I don't wanna.

Two, two, like, he makes this like, it's like so simple, but it's I love it. He makes, he makes like a, Like 

Jordan: the Mediterranean pasta I like 

Lauran: a lemon garlic pasta sauce with like, I don't even know what you throw in there, but it's good. And I, like, sometimes I request it, and I'm like, Okay, you're making dinner tonight.

You know the fun fact about that 

Jordan: recipe? Like, it's all on a whim, like, I have, I know, there's no recipes, but it is, I know what herbs and spices I throw in. And I'm just like, I just know it's some of this, some of that. 

Lauran: I, my, my journey to learning how to cook has been interesting. Like, like I said, I never learned how to cook like in a class, like in a formal setting.

Yeah. I, I started trying to cook things like when I was, I want to say in like college. Like, you know, aside from mac and cheese. Well, yeah. Easy mac. Yeah, well, I was trying to make my family dinner this one day. And I, I want to say Is this the rosemary 

Jordan: chicken? It 

Lauran: was the rosemary chicken! And it was, oh my god.

Okay, I am the kind of person Like now, I have a little bit more confidence in my cooking where I can like, ad lib and I can, you know, throw in stuff here and there. Back then, I was very much a, I need a recipe and I gotta stick to it kind of person. You're like, I gotta do it. I gotta do it. And, this, I found this recipe on Pinterest for rosemary chicken.

And, of course, whenever you pick any recipe off Pinterest, the photos that you're gonna see, Are just immaculate. They have beautiful coloring and shame. Oh, 

Jordan: I would say you have a point. Like what you make does not look like the very stylized and retouched photos. However, Hey, Leslie, what color is Rosemary chicken supposed to be when it's cooked?

Leslie: I honestly, okay guys, this is terrible. I was trying to play it off, but I am the home ec teacher who hates cooking. Oh, grilled 

Jordan: chicken. What is grilled chicken? 

Leslie: It's like, it's like a tent of brown, right? Like a tent, like a tent with some herbal, like green in there. Yeah. Cause of the rosemary. Yes, man. I should never admit it.

I didn't know how to cook cause that would have been 

Jordan: good. Okay. 

Leslie: That was your 

Lauran: teacher evaluation. Oh 

Jordan: no. Um, rosemary chicken. Is not supposed to be A grayish blue, when it's done. 

Lauran: On any 

Leslie: level. 

Lauran: No. Yeah. Okay, listen. I followed the recipe, okay? I followed it. I did exactly what it said, and my chicken was gray.

The sauce was gray. I don't know how it turned gray, but it was gray. And then on top of that, I was like making mashed potatoes to go with it, but I wasn't making like, you know, actual mashed potatoes. I was making boxed potatoes. And I even messed that up, because I like I get anxiety, and I get in my head about things, so like, I'm in the middle of trying to make the mashed potatoes, and I think, like, at least from memory, like, when you make mashed potatoes, you like, heat up the water and salt and stuff, and then, after it boils, you like, take it off of the stove, like, off the heat, and then you add all the stuff, and the milk, and whatever.

Well, I, I thought you just, Put it all in there. So I like put it all in there and then it's cooking but I was like Oh, I don't think I was supposed to put the potatoes in just yet. So I didn't but then when I Went to put the potatoes in like a couple seconds later because I changed my mind Yeah, I I didn't I didn't measure correctly I just took the box and started like pouring into the cup over top of the pot and the weight of the potato flakes just Just cascaded into the pot and I just had like a pound of potato flakes in this little pot.

So, I've gotten better though guys, I can do, I can make things now. Oh my gosh, Lauren! And they don't turn grey. Mostly. Not mostly! No, I'm really, I'm really not that bad anymore. Like, I, I will admit, I sucked at cooking at first. Like, I was not good at it. And I was like, we are going to be poor because we're gonna get takeout everyday.

Yeah, you're like, this 

Leslie: is how it's gonna go. 

Lauran: Yeah, so I'm like, our budget for dine out food is going to be high. Um, but yeah. Hey, but you've learned! You've learned. I've learned. I have learned. You can attest to the fact that I now have a few, like, staple recipes that you actually are like, you like them.

Yes, 

Jordan: I will agree. 

Lauran: And they are good. 

Jordan: Yes. 

Lauran: Okay. Just 

Leslie: wanna, I just wanna clarify. Jordan's like, Blink, blink twice, Jordan, if you're in a hostage situation. She made me say yes, she made me say yes. 

Lauran: No, but I wish I would have taken those classes because those are some very useful skills that I feel every single like if you're a human and you're you want to live on your own at some point, you need these things like you just need to know how to do this.

So you're not living off of ramen and cereal all the time. I concur. 

Leslie: And yet I not too long ago had a student that said, when are we ever going to use this? I'm like. If any class was classed not to say that 

Theme: in. 

Leslie: It's your class. 

Jordan: That's what I was going to say. Really? That's the class they asked that 

Leslie: in?

Jordan: Yeah. I 

Leslie: seriously thought I was exempt from that question. Yes. But I got it for the first time this year. That is interesting. 

Jordan: That would be like having a class being about drinking water and a student being like When are we really going to need to learn how to drink water? 

Leslie: Exactly. 

Lauran: Oh my god. That's crazy.

I, if I recall correctly, didn't you also drive school buses at some point? Still? Do you still do okay? Yes. Do 

Leslie: you do it every day? So I used to do it every day to as my part-time job. 'cause let's be real. Yeah. Most teachers, we need a second job. So I was like, oh yeah, I might as well do a job. I'm already there for, plus I can drive my own field trips and even my kids can be unlimited on field trips.

So kind of like a good point. Mm-hmm . So kind of like Miss Frizzle from the Magic School bus, but the black plus size version. I love that. I 

Jordan: think you need your own show because I would watch it. 

Leslie: Miss Leslie. Can you imagine? That'd be so much fun. I would love it. Cause I'm forever trying to take the kids on some random field trip and they're like, okay, they're down for it.

That is, uh, yeah, I was driving every day. Um, I had a, a bus route and so I'd literally get up early, go to. You know, do my best route and then drive the kids to the school where I taught at so that way I could drop off, go to my classroom and then do my route in the afternoons as my part time job. But now with comedy and everything, that's made up for the extra pay that I need.

So now I just drive the bus for fun for field trips with my kids. Oh, good. So yeah, 

Lauran: yeah. So what time did your day start and end when you were like driving every day? I had to be 

Leslie: at the school to get my bus at 6, 10. Okay. roughly to leave. Like, so I'm pulling out at 6 10. So I'd have to be there by 5 45 5 30 to get there and get my bus and get my route.

I got the route that was closest to the school. So the county had some grace on me and let me do the route that's closest to the school. So my route was super, super close. It wasn't as long. So yeah, some of the bus drivers have an hour and 45 minute route. I'm like, Yeah, no, I'm good, bro. That's, that's my school, cause my, yeah, my 

Lauran: school, like, so my district is very spread out, and, cause it's very, it's very rural, and, so it's just like, you'll see a house, and then you won't see another house for like, a few miles, and then another house, and, like, the kids live really far apart, and, especially the ones that live, like, out where, like, the farmland is, it's, yeah, one of the, cause, oh my god, can I tell you a horror story, so, One year, um, for like our, like, back to school PD, like the first day of school, um, I don't know whose idea this was, but someone had the grand idea of taking all the teachers, every single teacher, on the buses and driving the routes of the kids In our district, which in theory sounds good, like, okay, let's go see where our students live, like, you know, get some perspective on their home lives and things like that.

Sounds amazing. Well, not when you put a bunch of teachers, some of whom may be motion sickness, uh, car sick, 

Theme: in 

Lauran: like 80 degree weather on school buses with not great ventilation. And so we start driving these routes, and we went on all of the routes. So it was like an hour and, like, maybe almost two hours that we were on this bus.

Wait, I have a 

Jordan: question. 

Lauran: Yeah? 

Jordan: Do buses not have A. C.? No, they don't. 

Lauran: Mine 

Leslie: does not. So like, if you're one of the newer drivers, you got one with AC. I'm a, I'm, I mean, an older driver. I hadn't earned my wings yet, I guess you could say. I didn't get, I didn't get. Yeah, so I was like sweating it out with the kids.

Theme: Yeah, 

Lauran: but they do have AC, so you're correct. Okay, okay, I was gonna say like I didn't know if that was just like an older bus thing or if that was like just Across the board. There's no AC on school buses thing. But yeah, that makes sense then. Okay. Yeah, I like ours They do have AC but it was still hot. I mean, yeah 80 degrees and you got 50 adults on one bus.

It was awful. So then like partially through the ride They, they like had to stop at one of the little, like, turnarounds, and I, I remember my principal, because my principal, she, she's a diva, and she knows she is, and she, Is this a current one? Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, I, I love her, but she, she will.

She's, she's high maintenance and is self proclaimed high maintenance. She will not ride on the bus. Like, she was like, I'll drive behind the bus. She's like, mm, yep. Yeah, no, she's like, couldn't be me, I will not. And so, she drove her car behind all the school buses, so when we pulled into this little turnaround, she stopped her car, and like, three or four teachers, however many could pile into her car, got off the bus and like, got in her car, because they were starting to get sick.

Can't even blame them. Yeah, and the buses, like, no one talks about how bumpy they are. Like, we're sitting here going like The 

Leslie: whole way. You're like, are there any struts on this? Is there any suspension? Yeah. 

Lauran: So yeah, that was a fun time, and then they never did that again. 

Leslie: But you know, believe it or not, that was something that was like the rite of passage for new teachers in our district.

They used to do that. They'd put us all on a bus, and they'd take us on the kids route. For their school for that particular school. They stopped doing it a couple years ago, but they used to do it all the time. They're like, we're wasting 

Lauran: gas. Just here's the route if you want to drive it. 

Leslie: Here's here.

Here's a map. Just just try. 

Lauran: Yeah, that was that was an experience. I'll tell you that much. I So, like, right now, like, I'm almost done with my master's degree for administration. Oh, go girl! Thank you. And I, like, I just am keeping all these mental notes of all these things that I see going on that I'm like, don't do that.

Don't do that. Don't do that. You're 

Leslie: like, 

Lauran: this is one of them. Yeah. I'm like, this is one of those things that, like, like, new teachers do that, like, sounds good on paper and sounds like a fantastic idea. And then. Once it's executed, you're like, that was the worst thing I ever could have planned. Yeah, probably not going to do that again.

Oh my God. For sure. I can't even what I need before we like take a break. I need to know what is your like bus horror story from driving? 

Leslie: Okay. Let's see my bus horror story, which is ridiculous. I need to stop being a punk, but I can't do like, I can't do throw up. I can't. Me neither. I can't either. We're all on the same boat.

Same exact boat. Same bus. Same bus. I can't do it. Right with the kids. So this kid was like, miss, I'm like, don't, please, please, please. So I'm like, literally, I was like, I literally pulled over in some Random side street. And I was like, basically practice is so embarrassing. Practicing pushing the kid out.

Like I can't help you. I don't want to see it. I just love that. I can't help you. You're on your own, Billy. Because you guys don't think about it. A hot bus. No AC, the kid throws up and the whiff of the window is being open and all we're like, where's that stink going to go? Where's it going to go? 

Lauran: So I remember 

Leslie: getting back to the school that and then the afternoon I told one of the drivers about it.

She goes, honey, let me just show you. She's like, best solution ever. And believe it or not, this is, hey, this is a hack guys. So. You take coffee grinds and you, so you keep one of those big container of coffee grinds and rather than throwing some like smelly, whatever stuff on top of it, because it'll just smell worse.

Like that sawdust stuff they put on it. Oh my, that's exactly what I was talking about. What the custodians put on at school, like the same type of concept. And I'm like, and so, but no, you apparently put coffee grinds on it. It soaks it up. The smell and everything, and you just, it, it literally replaces it with a coffee aroma.

Lauran: I had, oooh. Please throw up, so it can smell like a cafe in here. Yeah, 

Jordan: exactly. You had a big lunch. Yeah. I like you. We're gonna 

Lauran: upgrade to Starbucks, a Starbucks with milk. Yes. Oh my god, that is my worst nightmare. I can't. Same as a classroom teacher, like, I, I have been very lucky. To avoid a lot in my nine years of teaching, and I think I've only had maybe one kid get sick in my classroom, and it was like, not at all.

Like, it was nothing. But, there have definitely been times I've been afraid. 

Leslie: I cannot blame you. It is torturous. I cannot, like, literally if I see it, if I smell it, it's a wrap. 

Lauran: For me, it's so, like, I have a metaphobia and it's like, so bad that even if I hear sounds of somebody, like, like, even, even like burping sounds.

Bother me. They goes down because like it reminds me of people. Mm-hmm . Throwing up, I can't. Mm-hmm . I'm like, I'm sorry I love you, but go take my trash can and run away to the nurse. Like, don't, here you go. Goodbye. Don't keep in here. She went 

Jordan: to school for it. Yes. . 

Lauran: I don't wanna see any bodily fluids outside of your body in my room.

Exactly. No, I cannot handle it. No. I know. Well, you're not alone in that. But, uh, what, speaking of horror stories, when we come back from our break, we're going to play a really fun lesson plan roulette game. So we'll see what you can come up with. We'll be looking 

Leslie: forward to it.

Lauran: Get ready for some chaos because we're gonna play lesson plan roulette. Um, so this is, this is a very interesting game, uh, where each of us were, are given three topics very randomly, um, and we're going to spin the wheel and decide which of the three topics that we're going to be giving a one minute lesson plan on, and the funnier and more creative, the better.

So, uh, usually it's just chaos. 

Jordan: Yeah. 

Lauran: And, um, I don't even remember what mine was the last time we played this. I am not a 

Jordan: teacher, so mine make no sense. 

Leslie: Jordan's like, listen, I'm just along for the ride. 

Lauran: He's like, I'm like that building sub they dragged off the street because they needed somebody that day.

He's like, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm here. You 

Jordan: know what they're doing are all sick too. And they're like, Hey, that guy looks like he might know something. He has glasses. Bring them in.

Jokes on you. I know nothing. 

Leslie: But 

Lauran: I'm just kidding. We love our sub. We love our substitutes. Thank you for being there when we can't. I appreciate it. Yes, 

Jordan: for sure. Oh, the know nothing, that's specific to just me, that is not to anyone else. Yeah, you were like, I was 

Leslie: not spreading that around. He's like, that was me specifically.

That is me and only me. I'm just projecting 

Lauran: about myself. 

Jordan: I'm like, 

Lauran: okay, who should go first? 

Jordan: I think Leslie has the honor of going first. She's the guest. 

Lauran: You're gonna throw, you're gonna throw her right into the fire. I mean, literally. Out of the, what is it, out of the frying pan into the fire? Into the fire, yeah.

He's definitely not a teacher. You don't just throw the new kid into 

Theme: the fire. 

Lauran: Exactly. That's why I was, you know, I was using my teacher brain too. And I was thinking, hmm, this is a new game for Leslie. Maybe one of us should go first. Okay, then I will go first. And then Jordan's non teacher brain was like, nope, new kid, here you go.

Throw her in 

Theme: there, put her in. Get in there. I will go first. 

Lauran: Yeah, I was gonna say, just for that, you're going first. Alright, so, here are the three topics. Well, yeah, cause I wanna read them all, cause they're all funny, but we'll see which one you're gonna give us a lesson on. So, the first topic, um, A. 

Theme: A. 

Lauran: How to pretend you understood a joke when you absolutely did not.

How to master fake laughter, vague nodding, and well placed, oh, I get it now. Yes. Okay, class B that you might teach. Why the last piece of pizza is always the hardest to claim. Investigate social cues, politeness, dilemmas, and strategic pizza negotiations. Oh 

Jordan: my god. I 

Lauran: said that fancy. Pizza negotiations. Or class C.

How to successfully carry 20 grocery bags in In one trip. 

Jordan: Oh, cover this. I want that one. , you're, you're a pro at this. I'm the champ at that 

Lauran: cover arm strength, balance, techniques, and the all important pinky loop. 

Leslie: The pinky loop is the most important part. The pinky loop is essential. 

Lauran: Do you know how many times I've almost ripped off my pinkies carrying in groceries?

Same, I'm like, eventually 

Leslie: I'm going to break it, like, eventually it's not going to go well. 

Lauran: Spin the wheel and see what lesson you're going to teach. 

Jordan: I want to see, alright, I'm going to throw it to the crowd. Oh god, I spun the whole thing! He 

Leslie: literally threw it to the crowd. 

Jordan: It's spinning, it's spinning, it's spinning, it's still spinning.

Lauran: And, oh, you can't. Yes, I can. And, where are 

Jordan: we at? What do we got? 

Lauran: Oh, oh, C! Yeah! No way! It landed on C. It did. That's awesome. Alright, so, Jordan. 

Jordan: Okay. 

Lauran: We're gonna put one minute on the clock, metaphorically, and you're gonna teach us how to successfully carry 20 grocery bags in in one trip. 

Jordan: 20 grocery bags in one trip.

Okay. Are we ready? Yes. Alright. You got it. Hello everybody. I am your professor today. Professor, uh, Strong McArms. Um, you are all here for my thesis and my lecture on how to carry every single bag from your trunk to your kitchen counter. And it's a three fold method. Three. Three simple steps. Three, okay.

First one, you're going to open your trunk. You're going to gaze longingly at your groceries. This is a very important step. Does it have to be a longing gaze? It has to be a longing gaze. Okay. Not, you can't just look at it angry. Yes, it is very, very much. Very emotional. Yes, very emotional. 

Leslie: Yeah. 

Jordan: But the reason is, is you formulate your plan.

You're looking at those bags. You're saying, all right, I know that bag holds eggs. I don't want that next to my milk bag. Those milks just get a slam into the eggs and break all my eggs. You are strategizing here, ladies and gentlemen. It is important. You want the light, fluffy items on the end in the. Big, boxy, heavy items towards your sides.

So they 

Lauran: can jab you in the ribs. Yes. Exactly. 

Jordan: Because you would rather take the pain than your salsa chips being destroyed so you have no chips for your, uh, Taco Tuesday. Okay. Very important. I can 

Lauran: stand by that. I can stand by that. Alright, so we gotta, what, step one is long and gaze. Okay. Long and 

Jordan: gaze.

Step two. You're going to fully extend your arms out and you're going to start, like I said, big boxy, heavy items on the inside. Get them as close to those pits so you can kind of like secure the goods. 

Lauran: So can do, does one use one's pits to grip? 

Jordan: Yes. 

Lauran: Okay. Yes. 

Jordan: Make sure you put on antiperspirant before going to the grocery store.

Nobody wants sweaty food. Yeah. The pit grip. The pit grip. Begin. Stacking the groceries. You're gonna look like a bird with big old wings, and that's a good thing. And you know, it's about perseverance. Because you're gonna look at about halfway through, you're like, you know, I could just go in. I can make the second trip.

No, don't be a pansy. Make the second trip.

Is Pansy okay? I said that so forcefully. 

Leslie: Poor Jordan is definitely not a teacher because the lack of motivation in that area would be so bad. Kids would be 

like, he said 

Pansy! 

They would be like, you would have lost him there. You would have lost him at pits. The pit 

grip. The pit grip would have took him out.

Lauran: I don't know, is Pansy a negative term? I 

Leslie: don't even know at this point. Let's change it. Let's make it a porcupine. Don't be a 

Jordan: porcupine. No, don't be a coward. I 

Leslie: like that. I like porcupine. 

Jordan: She's like, I'm gonna go with the porcupine. 

Leslie: The porcupine pit grip. 

Jordan: Yeah. There you go. Okay, there we go. So you're gonna, you're gonna get halfway through and you're gonna think, ah, I can't do this anymore.

But you know what, yes, you can be a porcupine. Yes. You 

Lauran: can see on her wall for a reason. 

Jordan: Yes, you can do it. You got spikes. You just keep throwing stuff on. You can do hard things. You can do more. Yes, you can. Yes, you can. And finally, the most important part of it all. 

Lauran: Okay. 

Jordan: You need to use the pinky. So you could free your grippers to open the door because many times I have forgot about these grippers, your index, middle, and ring finger, and thumb, because I start stacking stuff.

I was like, okay, I'm gonna hold things here and then I go to open the door and guess what? I'm stranded. Nobody's there to help. 

Lauran: Nobody's there. I'm 

Jordan: staring longingly. I got arms full of bags. I got nothing to take them off. Staring at the garage 

Lauran: door. 

Jordan: Yeah. 

Lauran: Branded a fool. What will they say? 

Jordan: Oh my god. 

Lauran: Monday at school.

Jordan: If all else fails. 

Lauran: Yes. A 

Jordan: way out, if you are stranded, just so, for safety reasons, kick that door now. Just start kicking. 

Leslie: Just, 

Jordan: just, Just start kicking. 

Leslie: Just bolt it all and kick it down. For the convenience of not going to the car 

Jordan: twice. 

Lauran: Let's 

Jordan: break the door. Yeah, absolutely. Break the door with your foot.

Lauran: Teacher, I think you're forgetting one important thing. 

Jordan: What is that? 

Lauran: Okay, you could preemptively install special doorknobs. So that you don't have to use your grippers to open the door. 

Jordan: What's your name? 

Lauran: Suzie. 

Jordan: Suzie.

Lauran: I almost said McBoozy. Susie 

Jordan: McBoozy. Alright, Susie McBoozy, that's a great idea. That's very smart. Get out of here. You're not teaching this class. No. That's my idea now. You get no credit. 

Leslie: Okay. I don't get no credit either. Because I was going to say the same thing. If you have the handles, you can just use your elbow.

That's right. That's 

Lauran: what I do. 

Leslie: That's what I do. Meanwhile, Jordan's like, I'm not sold. He's like, I'm not sold. That was a great class. Good job, Jordan. Well done, Jordan. 

Lauran: Well done. Good job. I loved that, actually. I was entertained the whole time. Oh, thank you. Until I got, you know, no credit. Yeah. 

Jordan: No credit for you.

Lauran: Poor Susie. Poor Susie. 

Jordan: Susie McBoosie. 

Lauran: That was the first thing that rhymed in my head. You're like, it's all I got. It's all I got. All right. Well, here we are. Okay. Leslie. So now that we've seen an I do, do you want a we do, or do you want? I think I can do. I, I just tease it, but that was, that was some really bad teacher humor.

No, but I, 

Leslie: that's the one that we use at school. is I do, you do, we do. Yep. Yep. Yep. We do. You 

Lauran: do. 

Leslie: Yeah. Whoever's doing it. Somebody's doing something. 

Lauran: Someone's going to do something. Somebody's doing it. I don't know what it is, but. All right. So your, your potential topics are class A, how to survive an awkward hug from someone you barely know, discuss hand placements, escape plans, and the infamous one arm pat.

Class B, the secret to looking cool while slipping on ice, Discuss recovery moves, pretend dance routines, and rolling with dignity. Or class C, the ultimate guide to faking Enthusiasm when someone shows you 500 photos of their dog. Learn nodding techniques, the best aww timings, and emergency exit strategies.

I hope you get the slipping on ice one. 

Leslie: Ah, 

Lauran: that'd be so fun. 

Jordan: Okay, we're hoping for B. You're telling me people fake enthusiasm when I show them photos of my dog? 

Leslie: Yeah, for sure. I'm definitely one of those 

Jordan: people. I gotta go talk to some co workers. I 

Lauran: know. Like there are, you know, here's the worst part though, and I feel like we all do this as people.

Sometimes we know that they don't care, but we're still going to show them because we love it, and it's cute, so. It's like, hey, you gotta deal with it. Yeah, I want to look at my dog, so here, look at my dog. Here you go. Alright, let's spin the wheel. I'll hold the base. 

Jordan: Round and round it goes, where does it stop?

Nobody knows. And, I think that's a B. It's a B? Did 

Leslie: you move it? No! Oh, you cheater. I definitely did it. Oh my gosh, that is hilarious. Can you read my 

Lauran: prompt for me one 

Leslie: more time? 

Lauran: Yeah, of course. Okay. The secret to looking cool while slipping on ice. Discuss recovery moves, pretend dance routines, and rolling with dignity.

I 

Leslie: love it. I love it. Okay. So here's the thing, guys. All right. So welcome. Welcome to my class. All right. Yes. I am Mrs. Um, Ice Ice Baby. Okay. Mrs. 

Jordan: Ice Ice Baby! 

Leslie: I'm Mrs. Vanilla Ice.

So in today's class, we're going to talk about how to fall, but not fall. Okay. You're going to fall into the cool zone. Okay, guys, because you ain't going to just fall. Okay. When you're slipping, pretend you're dancing. Okay. Like a little bit of a break dance going on. Okay. All right. So we're slipping on ice.

Do you?

No, 

Lauran: it's more of like a Do you? It's more of just a trying to catch myself kind of move but, I guess it can look like breakdancing. It can look like 

Leslie: breakdancing, guys, because nobody knows any different, okay? You could literally play it off. 

Jordan: Isn't one of the things about dancing, a lot of it is confidence.

Which is why I'm very bad at dancing. 

Leslie: You're not confident in your ability to dance, Jordan? 

Jordan: Absolutely not. Oh my goodness, well this is going to help 

Leslie: you here. That's why ice is essential, okay? Because while you're slipping, okay, you just pretend, whatever your feet goes, you just move in that direction, okay?

And you just shake a little bit. Make sure you just bounce, bounce, bounce, okay? Whichever way you go, alright? You just plan it off like you're dancing, okay? Nobody's gonna know no different. All right, and if it comes down to it, while you're falling, start singing. Matter of fact, start rapping. And 

Theme: then all people 

Leslie: knew is that you, you know, you just got into the dance.

You didn't really fall, you just got into the dance. Yeah, that's all you was doing. 

Lauran: Wow, I never thought of it like that. I could just put on a show instead. So when I'm falling and going, ah, really, I'm going, ah, like, you know, like, Yes, like Frozen, not 

Leslie: Frozen, what is it? 

Lauran: Wicked! Wicked! Yeah! That other Idina Menzel movie.

Yes! Adele Dazeem. Adele. See, you could be Elphaba. Idina Menzel. Yeah. Oh, you need some green paint. Lil G it. Oh! Oh! What would be even better is if I painted my skin green before I went out of the house in the winter, so in case I fall, it will just look like I was headed to my rehearsal of Wicked. Wicked!

Wicked! It's true. 

Jordan: Very true. It's true. I like that idea. I do 

Lauran: wear a lot of black, not today, but I mostly wear darker colors. You're definitely not wearing black 

Theme: colors. I 

Lauran: mostly wear darker colors, so it could just look like Elphaba's costume. 

Leslie: Yeah. I think you're onto something. If you're into a black hat or toboggan, maybe.

I don't know if you're beanie, but it's the same difference. Wait, a toboggan is the name of a hat? Uh huh. Or do you guys call it a beanie? 

Lauran: I like something new. A beanie. You guys call 

Leslie: it a beanie? Yeah. 

Lauran: You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Yeah, like a beanie. You guys call it a beanie? Yeah. No. No, guys. I have never heard anyone refer to it as a toboggan.

You know, that is a huge debate. Is it really? No, it's a huge 

Theme: debate. 

Lauran: Okay, going off topic for two seconds, I took, like, a linguistics class in college. And this was one of the topics that we discussed was just, like, dialect. And like regional differences in vocabulary. And so like now, whenever I meet people that don't live in the same vicinity as me, I'm like, what do you call this?

What do you call that? What do you call it? Cause it's like so interesting to me. I learned another one. I had no idea. Toboggan was a hat. Toboggan I thought a toboggan was a sled. 

Jordan: My mind is broken. Some people, 

Leslie: and it is, literally associate the hat. They call it a toboggan or beanie. And it's always a debate.

Just like poppin soda. Which I'm sure you've heard before. Yeah, that one, yeah. 

Lauran: Wait, okay, wait. Wait, what state do you live in? Virginia. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because, okay, never mind. I knew that. But yeah, okay, so we're not too far apart. We're not too far away from each other. No. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I've never heard it referred to as 

Jordan: a hat.

Lauran: But it makes sense because a toboggan, like, is a sled and if you were going on a sled, what are you gonna wear? You'd call it 

Jordan: outside, yeah. A toboggan 

Lauran: hat. Do they call it a toboggan hat or 

Leslie: just toboggan? Oh, that's interesting. We call it a toboggan, but that would be interesting to say toboggan hat.

Because that would make sense then why you would wear it on a sled. Because it's a toboggan hat. Ah, maybe that's where toboggan came from. Look at you, Lauren, wise without even knowing you're wise. 

Jordan: I know. 

Leslie: Or just, you know, 

Lauran: falling gracefully. Legit, with my toboggan on. As your lesson, as your lesson said, rolling with dignity.

Rolling with dignity. Rolling with the homie. See, you know what I mean? Yes. So, we just take it that way. I love that. I'm gonna use that, I'm gonna use that word now. Jordan, where's your toboggan? 

Jordan: In the shed, where it belongs. Why is your, why is your 

Lauran: winter hat in the shed? 

Jordan: I call it a beanie and I will die on this hill.

You're like, it is a beanie. It is a beanie. 

Leslie: Oh, it'd be so interesting to see the comments on this. That'll be funny. They're like, no, it's 

Lauran: a toboggan. No, it's a beanie. Please. Okay. Also, if you want to put in the comments, what are some other words that you guys use in your area that You know are different from words that people use in other areas.

So like some for us, like the soda and pop one are obvious. Like in Ohio, people say pop, but I feel like soda is now becoming more. Regularly used but for for the majority of people up here. It's pop Uh, and then same with like, okay, like a shopping cart or like a grocery cart. They call it a buggy Oh, yeah, we call it a cart.

Yeah Well, I call I think I call it a cart now, but like when I was little my mom was called a buggy Yeah, it was a buggy. What other ones do we have? Oh, what do you call the thing that Uh babies suck on a pacifier. Okay, I call it a binky. Oh, 

Leslie: some people do call it a binky 

Lauran: Yeah, or they call them something else.

Like, there's so many different ones. There's so many names for the 

Leslie: pacifier. Yeah, so 

Lauran: many. Let me know down below if you have some that you guys use that are different from words that other people use. I love hearing that kind of stuff. Okay, and last but not least, my topics. 

Jordan: Oh gosh, why are you sighing?

She's like, oh here we go. Oh gosh. 

Lauran: Class A, how to eat a taco without it falling apart. Teach crucial tortilla support techniques and strategic first bites. 

Theme: Strategic first bites. Strategic first bites. 

Lauran: Listen, you guys would be lying if you said that you don't take a strategic first bite of a taco. Cause I know everyone does.

Anyway, class B, how to correct someone's name after calling them the wrong thing for too long. That is my nightmare. Oh my 

Theme: God. Or 

Lauran: class C. Oh wait, sorry. The, uh, side notes for that class, discuss recovery techniques ranging from silent shame to dramatic confessions. 

Jordan: Silent shame. That's just a funny idea of like, you're going up to somebody, you call them the wrong name and then you just sit there just awkwardly, just like.

Lauran: You want to know the funny thing? I've done this. And it's not fun. Like, I literally, so I sent an email at work to our one, our assistant treasurer, and his name is Sean, and for whatever reason, in the email I typed to him, I called him Steve, and so I sent him, yes, I sent him this email, and then he, he responded back to me and everything, and I responded a second time, and then like Did you 

Jordan: double down in the second email?

I 

Lauran: don't remember, but then the third time I realized it, I was like, I emailed him back and said, Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I don't know why I typed Steve, I know your name is Sean. Because I think I was talking to I guess I'm redeeming 

Leslie: myself. 

Lauran: I, like, I just owned it because I was like, yeah, I know I called you Steve.

Jordan: When it's on the computer, you have the perfect excuse. Oh, stupid autocorrect, like, make an excuse out of it. I don't think it'll shine as Steve. I've seen weirder ones. 

Leslie: I 

Jordan: accidentally Me and my one, uh, the one person I oversee in my department has a name very, very similar to mine. So I started typing her name, but I didn't look when I clicked, like, who to send in Outlook.

So I just emailed myself. So, oh my gosh. Good job. Poor Jordan. 

Leslie: Jordan, well done. Alright, 

Lauran: and last but not least. Class C. How to stealthily close a noisy chip bag in a silent room. Oh! Study bag crinkling physics and stealth folding techniques. All right, Jordan, hold the base. 

Jordan: The base is held. 

Lauran: All right, let's see.

I hope I get the crinkly bag one. All right. And round and round and round it goes where it stops nobody knows. And it will be class? 

Jordan: B. 

Lauran: Class B. Aww. B b b 

Jordan: b b b! Aww, 

Lauran: the thing I sucked at! No! Buh, buh, 

Jordan: buh, buh, buh, buh, buh! Ha ha ha! No, see you just have experience in the topic. 

Leslie: Yeah, sure. Well played. Well played.

Lauran: We'll go with that positive spin. 

Jordan: Finding those silver linings. 

Lauran: Welcome to my, Welcome to my class on how to correct someone's name after you've called them the wrong name for far too long. Now, I know what you're thinking. I should just run and find the nearest closet and lock myself inside it after calling someone the wrong name for too long.

Originally I would have said, you are correct, do that. But now, now I have a foolproof method to avoid avoiding the situation. , 

Theme: to avoid avoiding the situation. Avoid avoiding, ah, yeah, to avoid the situations. 

Lauran: It has already happened. You've already done it. You can't, you can't avoid it. It just happened. You called someone, his name was Mike, you called him Mitch, and, and he knows he is not Mitch.

But, in that moment, you did not. So, what you're gonna do. First, You're going to continue the conversation as usual. You're going to keep talking about Mitch's dog and him showing you 500 pictures of his dog. And you're going to give him the most compliments about his dog and the biggest awws you ever have in your entire life.

Just really butter him up, okay? You really want to really smooth the surface so that when you rip off the band aid, it hurts a little less. Okay, okay. Then, after he shows you his dog and the conversation's wrapping up, you're going to just quickly sneak in there like a, hey, I just wanted to tell you, I know your mic.

I was just teasing. I got you, and you're gonna play it off like it was one big joke. Okay. You're just going to make him feel like he didn't get the joke. So you're going to then shift all the blame from yourself on to Mitch. 

Jordan: So, so I'm getting this, if I'm getting this right, the strategy gaslight to

making them feel that they're in the wrong for not understanding. 

Lauran: The other strategy, okay, the other technique. Oh, there's another technique. There's a second one, alright. Yeah, so that's the first one. Gaslighting is strategy number one. Okay? Gaslighting. Shift the blame. I like to, I like to call it be a jokester.

But if you want to call it gaslighting, you can call it gaslighting. 

Jordan: Gaslighting jokester. Okay, got 

Lauran: it. The second one is another form of gaslighting. But, this time, what you're gonna do Is you're going to sneak into their office or their, their cubicle, their desk, whatever area they have, they have their desk calendar in and you're going, you're going to rip all the other pages off their calendar until you get to April.

If it's not already April, if April has passed, go back to strategy number one. Okay. So if it's April, there's a 

Jordan: flow chart. 

Lauran: Yeah. Yep. Yep. There's a flow chart. If April has passed, go back to strategy number one. Okay. But if it's not April yet, or it is April. You're gonna go to that calendar on April, and you're gonna circle April 1st, okay?

You're gonna put a big red circle around it, and then when they go back into their office, you're gonna make sure you poke your head in, and then you're going to overtly point out what the date is, and you're gonna be like, Ah, April Fools! Remember when I called you Mitch? I know your name is Mike. I got you.

And so it's like, It's still gaslighting, but it's more fun and you're also going to confuse them. So, there's two strategies here. Gaslight or gaslight and confuse. I was 

Theme: about 

Lauran: to say, we're breaking and entering and gaslighting. Um, only if, if, you're only breaking and entering if their cubicle or office space is not open air easily accessible.

If you have to physically, um, like, You know, Bobby pin, Jimmy, you're way into the door, you're breaking it in. So, 

Jordan: like, a lot of classrooms when the teacher's not there, yes, very much. Um, 

Lauran: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what, there's just like this unwritten rule of like, you know, as long as you're an adult, you can be in another adult's classroom.

So just don't touch anything. 

Jordan: You know, I think that's very 

Lauran: close. 

Jordan: I was gonna say, I think that mentality is very close to the societal norm of, you know, as long as you're an adult, you can be in another adult's house without asking. So yes, uh, 

Lauran: okay, maybe not so much. But, um, and then last but not least, the third strategy is just to grovel in shame and tell them, That you messed up their name and you're really sorry, but that one is like the super boring strategy So like yeah, that one's not choose that if you want to but like the first you are the better of the two options For sure 

Jordan: does it help if I like get in the fetal position and cry on the floor 

Lauran: actually it's 

Jordan: required required 

Lauran: Yeah, yeah, so you are actually required to be in the fetal position crying and there must be genuine tears 

Jordan: See, I suck at the genuine tears.

Well, 

Lauran: so then you need to do strategies 

Jordan: Part 

Lauran: of the flowchart Right. Exactly. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Well done. Well done. I don't know how I pulled that one out because I was not sure where I was going with that, but. Yeah, but you nailed it. Yes. Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, Leslie, this has been such a joy.

I loved having you. I hope you come back and. Aw, it's been fun guys. Thanks for having me. I have missed you. Yeah, it's been too long since I've seen you. So I'm so glad that we got to catch up. Definitely. This is the best way to catch up too. 

Leslie: And have fun with it. Oh yeah. So yes. Yeah. 

Lauran: Yeah, nice to meet you.

Finally, Jordan. I've heard so much about you. 

Leslie: I know, 

Lauran: this, this last time, so we went, we went back to Washington in December, and he actually came with me this last time. Oh, you guys were right here and didn't tell me? Wow. I, we were only, listen, it was like a It was a nightmare to get down there. Our car, like our tire popped and like we had to, yeah, we had to like switch cars with my in laws like two hours away.

It was like a nightmare. Oh no! I'm, I'm lucky I even made it. Well definitely say hello to your mother for me because it was nice meeting her. I will. Before you go though, is there any fun projects or anything you want to share that you're working on? Well, I just launched 

Leslie: a women's ministry, um, it is called EPIC and EPIC stands for Empowering Perceptions in Christ because I want women not to perceive how this world perceives them, how other people perceive them, and sometimes not even how we perceive ourselves, but how Christ perceives us.

And so I'm big on helping women to feel safe. seen and loved on and that they're okay just being who they are. So helping them to learn their worth and value is not wrapped up in comparing yourselves to other people. Cause you know, in our world of social media, that's what we all do it. 

Lauran: We all do it. We all play the comparison game.

Leslie: And I used to be one of those women wrapped up in that trap of like always feeling less than, but reminding women that they are enough. And so that's my goal. So that's what I have coming up. And so the tour just launched two weeks ago, and we've gotten requests from all over. We're actually have our next one.

Get this guys. Our next one is in Hawaii. Oh my God. That's so cool. That is amazing.

Oh my gosh. So yeah, uh, a pastor that reached out to us, they want us to come and bring it to their church for their ladies because they really could use the boost. So we're excited. And then we do encouragement. So we do comedy and then we each tell our story. So they know that they're not alone in their struggles and the things that they go through.

So it's really cool. 

Jordan: Is there plans to make that like international or anything? 

Leslie: Yes. Oh, that'll be so great. It's definitely going to be something worldwide. And so you guys, well, you guys, uh, probably see all my social media. I'm always all over, so I'm willing to go wherever. So it's awesome. 

Lauran: Oh my gosh.

Well, please let us know if you're ever in Ohio or like in Cleveland or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, like we're nearby all those cities. So I would love, I would love to come and see you if you're ever nearby. Oh, we'll do, guys. We'll do. That would be awesome. Well, thank you so much for sharing that, and thank you for being here tonight, and I hope you have a great rest of your night.

Yeah, We'll be right back, guys.

Jordan: Let me just lay down on the ground and cry in the fetal position now. 

Lauran: You know, see, this is how you know, as a teacher, that someone actually listened to your lesson. 

Jordan: Oh, because I'm regurgitating it to you. Yes. 

Lauran: Oh my gosh, that was such a hilarious episode of Leslie. I can't say enough good things about Leslie Robb.

So if you guys have not checked out Leslie's comedy, you seriously need to. It's wholesome, it's hilarious. You would love it. Uh, Leslie Robb comedy everywhere on social media, so make sure you check that out. She's doing such great things. Oh, I know. She really is. She's a superstar. Um, so now it's time for this week's special bond.

Special bond. Special. We did a lot of like singing tonight. 

Jordan: I know. 

Lauran: I like it. 

Jordan: It's our musical episode. 

Lauran: Okay. 

Jordan: Okay. 

Lauran: Cool. Uh, all right. Well, tonight's special bond. Wow, you seem 

Jordan: disinterested in that. 

Lauran: Comes from Maddie D. During my senior year, my English teacher was basically like a second mom to me. She was one of those special teachers that truly cares about her students.

But I believe we had a special bond. She knew I loved hugs, so she would hug me every day and she would often tell me that she loved me. She was one of the only people I heard I love you from my entire senior year. That breaks my heart! That is so sad. I'm so sorry that nobody else told you that, but I'm glad she did.

Her hugs were one of my most favorite things ever. They were like stress relief for me. She was always there for me, and I know she truly cared about me. The crazy thing is, she was never supposed to be my teacher. I got thrown into her class last minute, and I'm still so grateful for being put in her class.

If it wasn't for her, my senior year, oh, if it wasn't for her, my senior year would have sucked. She not only made my senior year better, she made my life better. 

Theme: I 

Lauran: think that might be one of my favorite special bonds we've read so far. That one was so touching and heartfelt. 

Jordan: Hey, Maddie D, we love you. Just, just have another one on us.

Lauran: We do, we do love you, Maddie. And I'm so glad that you got put See, I believe things happen for a reason. Yeah, 

Jordan: the, the, the karma of it all and everything. So, no, I, that 

Lauran: Yep, the happy coincidence that is you ending up in her English class. That was supposed to happen. So I'm glad that you had that person in your life and that she made your life better, not just your senior year.

So how's the show? Uh, we would love to know. We're, we're in the planning stages, about to launch some fun new ideas. For the show. So we're really excited to get, uh, new feedback on some of those. We got some new games in the mix. Very much, uh, like our Eggbert and his Eggcellent Adventures. Um, those are some of our favorites.

And so, we have some new ones that we can't wait to show you guys. Also! We've got some more fun people coming up on the show soon, so let us know who else you would like to see. Oh yeah. And it doesn't just have to be anyone in education, it can be literally any of your favorite social media stars, any of your favorite, I don't know, TV people, book people, video game people, people!

Just who are your favorite people, and why, who, what, who When, why, what, who do you want on the show? I'm tired. Anyway. Uh, so let us know. You can reach us at human content pods on Instagram or TikTok, or you can also reach out at hello at wearefinepod. com. Oh, 

Jordan: well, where's our next stop on this ever loving journey?

Lauran: This ever loving journey is about to ever love and stop on my YouTube channel because 

Jordan: the YouTubes, 

Lauran: you guys need to watch the video. Yes. You need to, I'm not, it's not a, like a option anymore. You need to, cause you're missing out on some crucial, like how would you 

Jordan: know what color Lauren's cardigan. It's blue.

Why would you tell now they're gonna know see that's the that's the whole point of the visual part 

Lauran: But is it do you how do you know? I'm not lying. You'll have to watch. Oh, are you 

Jordan: gaslighting again? Oh, are we gaslighting? Well, I guess you won't know if you Don't, you'll never know if you don't go to the YouTube channel.

So 

Lauran: go to Mrs. Woolley and 5th and watch the videos, watch the episodes. And there's even some little shorter videos that you can check out that would be fun to watch. So, I would love to see you over there and leave some comments. We love reading the comments, they're funny. They make me laugh. Some of them The 

Jordan: comments make you laugh, that's a good thing.

Lauran: Yeah, they do. The comments make me laugh. And then some of them make me, like, smile. Because some of you guys are saying nice things, or like, saying nice things about your teachers that you've had. And it just makes me happy. So please do that. 

Jordan: Hey, you know what else? 

Lauran: What? 

Jordan: Did you know that you'll Did you know that you Shut up!

I was trying to do that smoothly! 

Lauran: Listen, this whole end of the show is always a train wreck, so we can't try to 

Jordan: keep it on the rails now. I was, I was just gonna go back, I was gonna start over again, so they didn't know because The editors would have cut that out, but now they, now just leave it in because I'm talking about it.

Lauran: Yep. 

Jordan: Did you know that you're a host, Lauren Woolley? 

Lauran: I did. You are a host of this podcast. Did 

Jordan: you know 

Lauran: that you're a host, Jordan Woolley? 

Jordan: I'm a host? 

Lauran: You're the hostest with the mostest. Special thanks to our guest, Leslie Robb. Thank you for being here, Leslie. And make sure you guys check her out, Leslie Robb Comedy on all socials.

Our executive, not executive, executive producers, executives. Yeah. I'm, you know how when you, you shorten a word and you just put the little apostrophe at the front? Yeah. Our executive produ, . 

Jordan: Purdues, I 

Lauran: think I need to go to bed. I'm so tired. I don't 

Jordan: You're just slap happy now. I 

Lauran: am like guys. This is a Hold on.

Jordan: Are you yawning in the middle of a podcast? Oh my gosh. No. 

Lauran: This is a common theme at the end of every episode because by the time we're done filming, it's like almost 8 o'clock at night and I'm sleepy. I'm a sleepy sheepy, so I wanna go to bed. So I'm sorry, I'm going to be tired and yawn through our executive producers, who is me and Jordan, and Aaron Corny, Rob Goldman, and Shanti Brooke.

Jordan: Our editor is Andrew Sims. Our engineer. Oh, I was not done, I want to say. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry, Andrew. I know we throw a lot at you, there's a lot of chaos going on. We really appreciate you. 

Lauran: We do, we do, we appreciate all of you. Yes. Our engineer is Jason Portizzo. And our 

Jordan: music is by Omer Benzvi. 

Lauran: And it kicks butt.

It 

Jordan: does. 

Lauran: It does. I 

Jordan: love her song. 

Lauran: To learn about our program disclaimer and ethics policy and submission verification and licensing terms, go to wearefinepod. com or you can reach out to us at hello at wearefinepod. com. Any questions or concerns? 

Jordan: Yay! Now the serious part. This podcast discusses sensitive and challenging topics including mental health and personal struggles.

If you are in crisis or need someone to talk to please reach out to the suicide hotline at 988 the suicide in crisis lifeline. You. No, 

Lauran: you are not. We Are Fine is a human content production. And I'mma go to sleep. Good night. 

Jordan: What if it's the morning? 

Lauran: Good morning, and I'm going to sleep.

Jordan: Hey you! I love that shirt you're wearing. And you know what would go great with that shirt? What? A nice big virtual hug. And you can get that by hitting some of these buttons down here. Subscribe, like, comment, we'll give you a big ol virtual hug. 

Lauran: Thank you so much for listening and we will see you guys next Wednesday.

Bye! Bye!