Think, Pair, Swear

Justin Orscheln and Ronnie Lathrop
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Think, Pair, Swear, a podcast exploring the strange, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes dead on portrayals of the field of education in popular culture. Hosted by Justin Orscheln, former elementary Music teacher turned assistant-principal and Ronnie Lathrop, retired high school English teacher.

  1. 12/15/2025

    Back to School!

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! Ronnie picked the worst movie in the three years they’ve been doing the show and has little remorse. Both hosts are pleased that Rodney Dangerfield is no longer with us. Well, they discover what being a re-entry student who has untapped wealth would do to a college campus which includes Sam Kinnison screaming, fat phobia, DXL shopping, Melon Patch Kids, Adrian Barbeau’s tits, handing towels to men in Speedos, clit paintings, a meatball and deviled eggs sandwich that would make Ronnie’s husband hurl, Lou the live-in companion, Robert Downey Jr’s hair, college lawn frisbee, Cobra Kai, building codes being violated in dorms, Jim and Tammy Baker, jumping off the high dive, women fawning all over a 65 year old man with bug eyes, dating your English professor, a Business teacher’s beard, Edie McClurg’s back from Carrie, Oingo Boingo, Jason’s inconsistency with his father, the audition room from Flashdance, the return of the Dylan Dylan contest, the Triple Lindsay Buckingham, and a graduation speech freeze frame that was the only funny part of the entire movie.  Exit ticket: Justin has some stats on what motivates re-entry students to return to college. And it’s not just to mess up the curve on tests.  Support the show

    1h 50m

  2. 12/08/2025

    Beverly Hills 90210

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! Oof. These idiots really can’t do college, but what do you expect? Certainly not a poorly handled sexual assault storyline followed by one about the preferential treatment of college athletes and a student sleeping with a professor. Well, Ronnie and Justin got all that and Labor Day weekend snow, Brenda’s resting bitch face, the winds of horniness, the (sort of) return of Emily Valentine, Hell Week repercussions, 30 year old frat boys, the introduction of putting “in bed” to the end of a fortune cookie into television history, the Chaka Khan winds of Africa, Donna roofies herself, finally a person of color as a recurring character on the show, a white rose with a 3 foot long stem, Lucinda, a stolen purse, date rape pies, David in his underwear, a racist R.A., blackmailing your Sociology professor, flunking Romantic Poetry class, committing liable live on stage, Rashamon 90210-style, a woman who died of AIDS, staring down Laura, lying about SA, and the real reason behind a take home test.  Exit ticket: Justin is put to the test again with “Which of the following happened to these idiots during their college years?” Dylan gets married and his wife gets executed? An understudy tries to kill Brenda? Tiffany Amber Theison’s Valerie sleeps with the entire cast? Tune in and see how he did.  Support the show

    1h 46m

  3. 12/07/2025

    The Chair (With Special Guest: Dr. Elise Hepworth)

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! They landed an actual university dean to help them sort out this week’s episode, Dr. Elise Hepworth. Listeners may know her better as the person Ronnie co-directed two high school musicals with tales previously shared in other episodes. Well this time they're looking at the college experience through the lens of admin and the spot on yet bonkers interpretation of Sandra Oh and Jay Duplass in The Chair. It’s time to secretly record your professor and see what happens. There’s also a rating of college campuses, getting drunk at the airport, professors in their 80s, ghosts of dead poinsettias, Joan being a great wing-man, riding in cars with students, not checked what’s on your screen before plugging it in for the class to see, the joy of Canvas LMS,PBIS Crypto, being asked to smoke a joint with the principal, Daisy Dukes in winter, Ronnie’s C in American Humor, Title VI not IX, the name “Dafna,” what the hell is a distinguished lectureship, rewarding kids for bad behavior, why getting drunk at faculty events is a bad idea, student protests, and Rufus Wainwright.  Exit ticket: This summer a Texas A&M student secretly recorded a professor, and there was zero fallout from it. Just kidding, it frightened college professors across the country. The panel has thoughts.  Support the show

    1h 48m

  4. 11/24/2025

    The Great Debaters

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! Mmm. Denzel. He’s not shirtless in this one but still fine. Can a movie about debate be compelling? It’s one of Justin’s favorite movies of all time so it looks like it. And along the way there’s trips up Interstate 29 looking for an alternate reality, The Color Purple and literacy, juke joints, Jussie Smolett, a teacher on top of a desk quoting literature again, a white professor teaching African-American Lit, the backroom of Daddy’s, being an alternate, roaming farm animals, dirty dancing, high schoolers in college, union busting, Pam Bondi again, booking a school bus vs driving, Sue Sylvester, Texas ICE agents, [gasp] communism in New York City, the stabbin’ cabin and a marching band, MAGA roadblocks, a sex worker on a school trip, “they didn’t really film at Harvard,” using true stories to win a debate, and why debates shouldn’t be the climax of a movie.  Exit ticket: Ronnie and Justin of a debate over what else? The best Real Housewives franchise of all time. It ended their friendship.  Support the show

    1h 49m

  5. 11/17/2025

    Wicked!

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! Break out the giant pink bubbles and blue flying monkeys, they’re back for a third school year. And as Justin learned to say this summer, “Fasten your seatbelts, there are gonna be some bumps in the road” (Look up Summer Schooled ‘25, people, if you missed it). They’re kicking off the season with a block of five movies set in college. Two best friends meet during a fascist take-over of a society. What could be more timely? Well how about roofied housewives, teachers who only teach one class when they find a student worthy of them, Pam Bondi, gays shouldn’t be seen or heard, ICE rounding up Animals, Fiyero’s ass, Ronnie’s sexual confusion at a New Orleans strip club, the library of death and doom, the viral Bok song, a weird music-less dance, opium, a wet dream on a train, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel’s shocking face lifts, citizens having to sit through a daily history lesson, a fascist remodeling everything, a giant cape that just happened to be lying around as they do, and flying into the East that is always a bit more liberal.  Exit ticket:  What are the 10 types of college roommates one can have and which are the worst? The Partier or The Mooch. The One with a Significant Other or The One with a Significant Other from High School? You decide. Support the show

    1h 43m

  6. 10/13/2025

    Extra Credit: Listener Thoughts!

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! Listeners have stories about a drunk PD presenter, a cult survivor (that needs to sell her story to Lifetime), and a fund raiser theft, and a question about staff morale. Then the boys find the most bizarre items in the School Specialty catalogue 2025. There’s everything from fetal skeletons to racist mask making. And all for ridiculous prices. Afterwards they have a two announcements: an upcoming special episode and what’s up first for the winter trimester when they get to college education content. Here are some links:  Justin’s Picks: Infant Fetus Skeletonhttps://www.schoolspecialty.com/eisco-infant-fetus-skeleton-model-2133148?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=22287672392&product_id=2133148&ad_group_id=176056289016&feed_item_id=&target_id=pla-1657343066633&gclid=CjwKCAjw2vTFBhAuEiwAFaScwlaDJkM2iRmHbnjEhEn2ee64gOvRtbF0IwMEm9xxmROcJUS0qUA3RxoCmIcQAvD_BwE&keyword=&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%28ROI%29%20Standard%20Shopping%20-%20Catch%20All&utm_id=22287672392&utm_content=176056289016&utm_term=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22287672392&gbraid=0AAAAADzuAIJ10Ajefq_YQkZ16DheISrpH Male pelvis modelhttps://www.schoolspecialty.com/science-supplies-and-products/forensics/3b-replica-human-pelvis-male-1268650  Animal carcass https://www.schoolspecialty.com/science-supplies-and-products/biology-life-science/dissection-preserved-specimens  Ronnie’s Picks: Marvel Education Friends with Diverse Abilitieshttps://www.schoolspecialty.com/shop-by-learning-model/social-emotional-learning/social-awareness/marvel-education-friends-with-diverse-abilities-set-of-6-256206 Didax Bullies Victims and Bystanders Game -https://www.schoolspecialty.com/shop-by-learning-model/social-emotional-learning/social-awareness/didax-bullies-victims-and-bystanders-game-1283404 Roylco Plastic Make-A-Mask Multi-Cultural Mask Moldshttps://www.schoolspecialty.com/shop-by-learning-model/social-emotional-learning/social-awareness/roylco-make-a-mask-multi-cultural-mask-forms-3-12-x-7-12-x-5-12-clear-set-of-10-651653 Support the show

    1h 3m

  7. 10/06/2025

    Glee

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! So did the filmmaker of The Human Centipede get the idea from Glee? Justin seems to think so. They’re going to make sense of this bonkers high school if it drives them insane. And it almost did. In addition to a Spanish teacher who also does history and coaches a show choir, there’s a curse, Sue Sylvester’s MAGA roots, Rachel’s entitlement, stalking Whoopi Goldberg, Justin’s talent show routine, Rita Pearlman in Flashdance, a Freaky Friday ripoff, texting and death, “The Cellblock Tango,” avoiding suspension for pulling a knife, seniors with Fs magically graduating, singing duets, how Nationals would go down, Artie twerking, Throat Explosion, The Joker’s Toilet, rapey songs, STUCO music videos, and yet another bananas school board meeting.  Support the show

    1h 26m

  8. 09/29/2025

    Law and Order SVU

    Got a question or comment? Send us a text! Unhinged. That’s the word of the day with this penultimate media Ronnie and Justin covered this week. Well we have two different teachers wrongly accused of having sex with students (for once). Along with that there’s children in pubs and breweries, Ronnie coming out to his parents, Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro,” a torn rectum, a porn parody, missing Stabler’s ass, the K-Pop group BX9, Buster Bluth, too many prep schools, never being alone with a student, Waldenbooks pedos, Mr. Happy, a Gone with the Wind bedroom, Martha freaking Stewart, Kim Davis, a janitor going through several pairs of blood pathogen gloves, ghost hunting in a biology lab, what kind of a name is Pippa Cox, the police and gay men, the clap and play box, Cooper’s pooper, falling in a toilet, and two bitchy teens.  Exit ticket: Ronnie has beef with the education microinfluencers out there and found a recent Reddit thread to back him up. A teacher got into teaching in order to finally find her “brand” and boy is she in for a rude awakening. And teachers, stop it with the Pinterest classrooms. Support the show

    1h 34m
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Think, Pair, Swear, a podcast exploring the strange, sometimes ridiculous, sometimes dead on portrayals of the field of education in popular culture. Hosted by Justin Orscheln, former elementary Music teacher turned assistant-principal and Ronnie Lathrop, retired high school English teacher.

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  • Creator
    Justin Orscheln and Ronnie Lathrop
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    93
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Think, Pair, Swear
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