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This episode features callers sharing wild and unsettling stories about bizarre, incompetent, and boundary-crossing teachers from their school years. Host Dax Shepard and the guest co-host listen as three former students detail unbelievable real-life encounters, ranging from a chaotic co-teacher caught wearing low-rise pants and faking medical or athletic skills to a homophobic advisor and a pseudoscience-spouting biology teacher with a human skull in his classroom. Through humor and disbelief, the hosts unpack the psychological patterns of pathological liars and predators, highlighting the resilience of the students who survived these strange educational environments.
The hosts open the episode, introduce the theme of bad teachers, and promote Quince apparel and home goods.
The hosts discuss the benefits of therapy, share personal anecdotes, and promote BetterHelp as a mental‑health resource.
Chris details how a teacher’s inappropriate questions and assumptions about his sexuality forced him into an uncomfortable rooming situation during a DECA trip to Disney World.
The episode wraps up with gratitude to guests, sponsors, and listeners, and a brief recap of the main stories shared.
The story of Mr. L, a beloved middle‑school teacher who was later revealed to be a pedophile, leading to a viral video, suicide, and widespread community trauma.
The hosts greet the audience, introduce the guest, and set the stage for the episode.
The guest explains their move from a public high school to a charter school focused on the arts.
Discussion of the teacher’s claimed medical background and his role as a father figure to students.
The teacher’s attendance rituals, therapy‑like sessions, and sexualized hypotheticals are described.
The teacher’s inappropriate use of students as examples and eventual dismissal are covered.
A Thong on Displaystory
During an unannounced school observation, an erratic co-teacher bends over the whiteboard with her low-rise pants exposing her thong to the eighth-grade class and the head of school.
Fake Sign Languagestory
A teacher claims she is fluent in American Sign Language to substitute at a deaf school's basketball game, proceeding to make up random hand gestures.
Inappropriate Room Assignmentsdebate
A high school advisor pulls a closeted student into her office to ask if he is gay, using it as justification to bar him from rooming with his friends.
Classroom Trauma Dumpinginsight
A charter school biology teacher turns 20 minutes of attendance into an extended therapy session where he discourages students from taking prescribed antidepressants.
An Unidentified Skullinsight
A pseudoscientific biology teacher keeps an unverified human skull in his classroom and tells students to use inappropriate methods for health issues.
“I don't really remember exactly how it fully came to a head if there was like a couple of other things before this.”
“I wish I had you as an eighth grade teacher.”
“He was a doctor in naturopathic medicine, which is very important.”
“He had a human skull in his room. He did not know who it belonged to. He just kind of had it, which I don't think is ethical.”
“I had transferred out of my regular public high school in the second semester of my sophomore year into this charter school.”
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