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Phone Tap: MENSA Maddie · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: Regardless of how you feel about how much teachers should
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  Speaker 1: get paid, it's definitely not an easy job, grading homework
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  Speaker 1: and tests late into the night, dealing with all types
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  Speaker 1: of kids and their little, unpredictable personalities, and wondering who
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  Speaker 1: threw the stale cafeteria biscuit across the room.
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  Speaker 2: Was it wailing again?
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  Speaker 1: Probably?
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  Speaker 2: Well today we call one teacher who's dealing with all
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  Speaker 2: of those issues and, according to her husband, the most
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  Speaker 2: overbearing extra group of parents you could possibly imagine.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy o.
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  Speaker 2: Still she's managed to keep her cool the entire way
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  Speaker 2: until now. Maybe Ken Brooke push her over the edge.
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  Speaker 2: I know she's always wanted to go after the teachers
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  Speaker 2: of the world, and finally this is her chance.
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  Speaker 4: All my children's teachers are still crying.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make another one cry in your phone?
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  Speaker 3: Tap right now's phone taps on the twenties. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 3: So if I just put in oh are you there?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry. I was just filling out my MENSA
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  Speaker 4: renewal statement.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 4: Is this miss Ashley?
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  Speaker 3: Hi? Yes, it is. Who's this right?
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  Speaker 4: This is Beverly to say, my daughter Mattie is in
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  Speaker 4: your first grade class.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I'm Maddie. Oh she's so cute. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think we've met, have we?
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  Speaker 4: No, we haven't. I've decided not to attend curriculum night
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  Speaker 4: or any teacher meetings.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, I mean that's absolutely your choice. Is there
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  Speaker 3: something I can do to help you?
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  Speaker 4: Actually there is. So I've noticed you have a field
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  Speaker 4: trip scheduled for the fish hatchery coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is. Were you wanting to be a chaperone
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  Speaker 3: on that or you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Just thinking like, what are the kids going to get
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  Speaker 4: out of that? I mean outside of preparing sushi?
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  Speaker 3: Am I right? I mean there's a lot of Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot that goes into the fish hatchery and
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  Speaker 3: how they maintain that wildlife.
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  Speaker 4: Not really not compared to other important things in life.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the first graders do really enjoy this trip. They
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  Speaker 3: look forward to it every year. So we're gonna we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have a great time.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe the subpart groups that you've had in years past.
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  Speaker 4: Would we alway suggest an alternative?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we can't really switch our plans at this point
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  Speaker 3: in the year because it is approved by the school administration.
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  Speaker 4: God as you can, So how about you bring the
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  Speaker 4: children to my house to your house. Yes, So that
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  Speaker 4: way I could actually homeschool them and for one day
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  Speaker 4: out of the school year they may learn something. Oh wow, well,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I okay, okay, I'm sorry, You're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for the offer. Yeah. I applaud
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  Speaker 3: the initiative, but we're not gonna be able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: The school district does need to follow certain guidelines, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what we're going to be doing guidelines.
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  Speaker 4: That's funny, a fun fact. Did you know I had
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  Speaker 4: my first grade daughter take an IQ test before the
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  Speaker 4: school year?
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  Speaker 3: I did not know.
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  Speaker 4: Also yesterday, hmm, turns out she went down in points
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  Speaker 4: since being in your class.
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  Speaker 3: Well, those tests are are a little subjective based on
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  Speaker 3: who's administrating them.
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  Speaker 4: And at that's like three syllables. Do you think you're
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  Speaker 4: using that correctly?
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  Speaker 3: I hearing a bit of a condescending tone, and to
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  Speaker 3: be honest, I'm not entirely sure where that's coming from.
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  Speaker 3: So could you maybe help me figure that out.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to understand why my first grade daughter
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  Speaker 4: has gotten significantly dumber since the beginning to fall.
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  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, I'm not interested in having this conversation anymore.
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  Speaker 3: If there's any other issues you have with me being
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  Speaker 3: Maddie's instructor, You're more than welcome to take that up
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  Speaker 3: with the administration. But I think that this conversation is
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  Speaker 3: no longer productive.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's fine. You want to quit. No, you're to
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  Speaker 4: have that type of attitude.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not quitting. I just know that my time
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  Speaker 3: is valuable.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, your time's valuable. Do you know what Maddie did
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  Speaker 4: with her valuable time? Yeah, she designed and printed an
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  Speaker 4: extension to our kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: That's the exceptional congratulating for Christmas.
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  Speaker 4: Put it to work.
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  Speaker 3: That's great. I'm so glad that she's doing that.
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  Speaker 4: But it is great. She's actually been asked to teach
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  Speaker 4: architecture at a local community college. I believe they haven't
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  Speaker 4: been asked to do that, have you.
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  Speaker 3: I really haven't because I focus on first graders.
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  Speaker 4: So and you're jealous of mine.
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  Speaker 3: You think I'm jealous of your first grade daughter because
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  Speaker 3: she printed an extension of your kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I do know. You asked the class to just
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  Speaker 4: draw a house last week, So that okayute?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, super cute.
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  Speaker 4: My daughter's actually creating a house. There's a difference.
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  Speaker 3: I know, it's not cute. It's this conversation. So thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much for the feedback.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome, and thank you so much for being a victim
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  Speaker 4: of this prank phone call set up by your husband Nick.
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  Speaker 1: What tea?
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  Speaker 4: You're out to lunch? Alert?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you're not You're not bad mom.
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  Speaker 4: No, this is actually Brooke from the radio show Brook
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  Speaker 4: and Jeffrey in the Morning. We're doing a phone tap
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  Speaker 4: on you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh goodness, there's no way this woman is this crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, your husband Nick emailed us and he said that
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  Speaker 4: the parents apparently have been a little extra this year.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh, yeah, so I just thought i'd set the
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  Speaker 4: bar a little higher for those parents.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you sure? Did you read what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: But are you doing calculus later on this semester.
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  Speaker 3: Or no, No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 4: We were hoping for the Pythagorean theorem. Wow, maybe that's geometry.
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 3: Broke in Jeffrey's phone taps on the Swamise