One day (drunken evening) before the really dark time when a piece of shit named J**nny F*des polluted me with her rotting immoral pathological stench, I had some things to say. I formed an outlet for the wisdom and funny that I had been throwing away without recording it. Then I basically forgot it was there. But when I remember I am a broadcast professional (this is true...I still use the term loosely) I break it out at parties and when I meet interesting folks...I want people to like it. ...
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Kevin Currie-Knight talks to a wide ranging group of interesting people about all things to do with school, learning, and how humans think.
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Chicks. Can't live with em. Can't live without em...actually you can do both....but don't
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An educational informational submission ...the educational elements are diluted by chauvinistic viscitude... so listen carefully...--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support…
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If the worst thing in my life ever happened it may be similar to this hypothetical actual fiction
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Disclaimer: this real hypothetical scenario is based on a true story...any idiot that thinks it is about them is probably a guilty piece of shit. Do not be so egotistical....it probably is but that is your fault not my hypothetical creative writing--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport th…
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hey, everybody including me is sick of hearing how genni fydes now Flowerpussy is a twisted pathological lying maniac fuckin scumbag piece of shit filled garbage....but I don't talk about that here.. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
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Wow ... A Moron in Anguish Catches A Break !!! Life is as it should be?!!
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This is the show as it should be! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Is It Ok To Talk To Yourself Cuuuuuz🥴....
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A dialogue with a MORON... Insightful 🤷🏻♂️--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Critical Race Theory, Racialization, and Schools (w/ Ben Blaisdell and Kevin Currie-Knight)
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In this episode, Ben Blaisdell (East Carolina University, Kevin's department-mate) talks about critical race theory (CRT) and its applicability to k-12 education. Ben's research and work in schools relies heavily on critical race frameworks, and at a time where people are so polarized about CRT, Ben explains what it is, what it's not, what critics …
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Ungrading in Schools (w/ Susan Blum and Kevin Currie-Knight)
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In this conversation, I talk with higher education anthropologist Susan Blum (Notre Dame) about her work on how students experience higher education. We also talk about an essay collection she recently edited called Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What To Do Instead). 0:58 - How Students Navigate and Experience School; It Ai…
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Band of miscreants and rapscallions approached a moron
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Band of Miss grants and rapscallions approach tomorrow... Clearly that's not what I wanted to say but look up at the episode title and that's what I wanted to say--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support…
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Critical Race Theory and Antiracism Trainings in K12 Education (w/ Samantha Hedges)
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Kevin talks with Samantha Hedges (Heterodox Academy, Substack) about recent articles she has written criticizing critical-race-influenced approaches to diversity and equity training in schools. They talk about why Samantha believes that these trainings inadvertently stoke racial division as well as the possibility of an alternative "common humanity…
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Academic Freedom in a Social Media Age (w/ David Labaree)
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Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) and David Labaree (Professor Emeritus, Stanford University) talk about the history and meaning of academic freedom. They talk about whether there has ever been a “golden age” where academics were safe to be heterodox (no), and what academic freedom means in an age of social media and the in-group polic…
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What is the Grade Economy and What's Wrong With It (w/ Robert Gressis)
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Robert Gressis (California State Northridge) and Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) hae a wide-ranging conversation about the (fraught?) relationship between schooling, learning, and A-F grading. The discussion centers around an essay Currie-Knight wrote called Against the Grade Economy: https://theelectricagora.com/2020/12/... 00:02:36…
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Met Penn...Penn makes hideous sounds that he confuses as singing I spare you that but we meet him
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Just the type of shit I love random folks be they whatever they want to be decide for yourself--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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What's Wrong with Normal? (w/ Jonathan Mooney)
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This episode's guest is not normal... and that is a GREAT thing. Jonathan Mooney is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and activist within the disability rights community. Before all that, he was a kid struggling in school with various diagnosed disabilities, told that he just wasn't normal. Today we talk about his recent book Normal Sucks, where he…
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In this episode, I talk with Education Professor Doris Santoro about why teachers leave the profession. She distinguishes between teacher burnout and teacher demoralization and argues that, if we want to counteract the persisting and large teacher attrition problems, we need to treat these as different sets of reasons. We also talk more generally a…
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Bobs Last Episode Before He Was Abducted Only To Be Seen Again On Milk Cartons
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The deposit episode before he was abducted and now you can only find him on milk cartons I miss that basterd--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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What Do Racial Disparities in Schools Have to Do with Government Housing Policy? (w/ Richard Rothstein)
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On this episode, I talk with Richard Rothstein (Economic Policy Institute) about his book Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. While the book is not about education, Rothstein’s research is an outgrowth of prior research on racial disparities in education. In the book, Rothstein tells the story of how govern…
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How Does the Other Half Learn (in Charter Schools)? (w/ Robert Pondiscio)
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On this episode, Robert Pondiscio (Fordham Institute, author of How the Other Half Learns) discusses his experience writing about the Harlem Success Academy Charter School in the South Bronx. He spent a year immersed in this school and came away with some interesting insights - both praise and concern - about what life is like at this charter schoo…
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Met Joe--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Pavel means Paul--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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I discover Sasquatch is real--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Interview with John the Inupaik--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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I prophesy I am awesome--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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How Does Interest Work? (w/ Psychologist Ann Renninger)
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In this episode, I talk with teacher-turned-psychologist K. Ann Renninger to talk about the psychology of human interest. How do learners (and people in general) become interested in something? Is interest 'hardwired' and hard to change, or can teachers influence what learners are interested in? How can teachers make subjects more interesting for s…
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What Is School For? (w/ Sociologist David Labaree)
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On this episode, we talk with historical sociologist David Labaree (Stanford University, Professor Emeritus) about the evolution of school in the United States and how that impacts what we think about school. What is the purpose - or really, are the purposes - of school? Why do we ensure that all kids learn a lot of things in common, whether they w…
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Doing stuff part 1--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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The secret asshole episode--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Yep--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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If you don't listen your balls will itch--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Listen to this shit unless ur a loser... unless you don't want to laugh so hard you piss your pants--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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The Pollack...the Sasquatch...and the moron
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Speaks for itself--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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One moron plus two morons equals 17 and 1/2 + 33 1/3 morons squared and then cubed and of course pie
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All right I'll make this very simple if you don't listen your ears will bleed and you'll get covid-19 and accidentally sexually transmitted to your mom stop listen and knock knock I'll tell you the rest of this joke later--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcast…
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Noises that Alicia made that I deemed a necessity to have as a featured artist --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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A new episodelisten to it and decide if it's real shit or just plain dookey--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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That--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Chicken--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Duvall--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Key largo local talkin local shit--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Hijinx that occured at 7 11 on valentines day--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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A fungal escapade intro--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Escipades while fungal--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Shit that is dumb--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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One eyes at 5 a.m.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Lazer surgery part 2...the lost recording
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What continues after laser surgery episode 1 is so rudely cut short--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Lazer surgery in delicate bits--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Chill--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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All--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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Im a moron--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david-blaisdell/support
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