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  • I think now is a good time to tell you all that I teach high school.

  • That's my day job.

  • Uh, in Seattle.

  • Don't worry about it.

  • Your kids are fine.

  • Teach high school right out of college at 22 years old.

  • Right out of a conservative Christian college.

  • They're like, "We're gonna have you teach sex ed."

  • Because apparently their philosophy was those who can't.

  • Are you gonna have the lunch lady teach health class too?

  • What's going on here?

  • I teach world history now.

  • I teach world history, which is fun.

  • I like to teach world history.

  • It allows me to teach the kids about things they've never thought of before.

  • Maybe you've never thought of this.

  • They didn't call it World War I at the time.

  • That would have been super pessimistic.

  • "Well, there's gonna be a bunch of these things. So, uh, we'll just call this one, one, and we'll see what happens."

  • Right?

  • What they call it at the time, nybody know? The Great War. That's right.

  • And H.G. Wells, he referred to it as the war to end all wars, which didn't work out very well.

  • Call it World War I at the time would be like, if I would have walked up to you and be like, "Here, I'd like to introduce you to wife number one, gonna be a bunch of these things. So..."

  • I'm not an idiot.

  • I should introduce her as the great wife to be safe.

  • And now the wife to end our wives, cos I'm not doing it again.

  • Teaching history also allows me to teach about race issues.

  • And so it's very important in our country right now.

  • I also recognize not really the right guy to do it, right?

  • Like super bald, super white dude.

  • I'm one neck tattoo away from a hate crime right now.

  • Me and this guy teaching your history class. No way.

  • It's always the wrong people that get on their high horse about race though.

  • It's always like suburban white soccer moms are like, "Mm, I just don't see color."

  • "Oh, that's because you live in Utah."

  • "No, I don't see color. I don't even see it."

  • "Yes, you do. And it's fine that you don't notice color. Just don't judge people based on what you see. It's all."

  • "No, no, no, no, I'm color blind."

  • "No, you're not."

  • Plus that's not gonna work because you know what you still see when you're color blind? Black and white, right?

  • Being color blind just makes Asians gray.

  • But you can still tell.

  • You guys did well with that one. That was fun.

  • Yeah.

  • I love my students in appropriate amounts.

  • Uh, it is important.

  • You ever met that teachers like, "I love kids."

  • "All right, back off."

  • Love my students. They have some weird names which can be kind of awkward.

  • Some weird names and parents are giving out some weird names, which is fine. I think that's great.

  • Give your kid a weird name.

  • You just can't get mad at me if I can't pronounce or spell your weird name.

  • That's all I think, right?

  • A girl got mad at me recently because I misspelled her name on the board for everyone to see which can be embarrassing.

  • I understand that.

  • But her name was Rose.

  • I was like, "I don't, I don't think you can misspell that word, right?"

  • She goes, "Yeah, it's Roze."

  • "Well, I'm pretty sure your parents were wrong. Looks like when they had you, they made two mistakes."

  • Oh, you guys don't do standing ovations for jokes. OK, fine.

  • Another kid, his name was spelled G-a-g-n-o-n.

  • Like Gagnon, like, "Hey man, what are you gagging on. Everything good?"

  • This is kind of a weird name. Whatever.

  • I call him that all year long until the end of the year, I heard his girlfriend, she goes, "Hey, Gagnon, come here."

  • Because it was French.

  • I was like, "Dude, I've been calling you Gagnon for nine months. You didn't say anything."

  • He was like, "I just kind of thought you were being a jerk."

  • "I just thought your parents were weird. I don't know."

  • Nobody cares about spelling anymore. Right?

  • Because we got spell check and we got auto correct, and that takes care of most things, but not everything.

  • Like if you're like me and you get that red squiggly line under a word and then it gives you 10 options to choose from.

  • You're like, "It's harder now."

  • Uh, I didn't know the first time.

  • I'm not gonna know when you give me 10 multiple choice options to choose from. Right?

  • Just throw something in, Bill Gates.

  • I don't know.

  • Like I just got essays back from my students about their future plans; what they wanna do after high school.

  • And a bunch of them were like, "I'm defiantly going to collage."

  • You're gonna angrily do arts and crafts for your Joann fabrics future.

  • That's the big paper mache plan, Brad.

  • I can tell there are people in the room right now. They're like, "I don't get it. I don't, I have no idea what he's talking about."

  • No, you're not.

  • "Definitely going to college, right?"

  • Like maybe community collage but not like, or like Utah State or something, but not.."

  • Don't get upset with me. I just googled the worst college in Utah.

  • It's not on my faults.

  • Did I pick the right one?

  • I don't even know.

I think now is a good time to tell you all that I teach high school.

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