1463 Tom Filline "Angry Gym Teacher" + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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My conversation with Tom starts at about 41 minutes today
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Tom is an elementary school PE teacher turned stand-up comedian. He began his comedy career by training at both iO Chicago and The Second City Conservatory before turning to stand-up comedy in 2015. He developed his social media persona (The Angry Gym Teacher) in 2020 and has since gone viral several times with his hilarious videos and sketches, amassing over 400k followers across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Tom has performed in notable comedy clubs such as Zanies, Helium, and Funny Bone both as a headliner and as a feature on the Bored Teachers Comedy Tour. Tom's comedic style is edgy and relatable, with hilariously wholesome stories from his life as a teacher and a dad.
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, it is October 20th, 2025. |
| 0:05.4 | I am Pete Dominic. |
| 0:06.3 | Thank you very much for pressing play on today's episode of my daily podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I've got a great guest joining me today. |
| 0:12.5 | He is a teacher, public school teacher, teaches phys ed in Chicago, and he's also a very talented |
| 0:18.7 | stand-up comedian. |
| 0:19.8 | He is a longtime listener of this show. And now he's also a very talented stand-up comedian. He is a long-time listener of this show. |
| 0:23.1 | And now he's got a pretty massive following on social media, particularly on Instagram and |
| 0:28.2 | TikTok, where you can find him as angry gym teacher. Very excited to introduce Tom Feline to you |
| 0:33.9 | today. We had a great conversation about what it's like to be a public educator. It was a |
| 0:39.2 | thoughtful conversation about his upbringing in an evangelical household. His parents are big |
| 0:46.0 | Trump supporters or Trump supporters. I'm not sure how big they are at this point, but we had a really |
| 0:50.7 | wonderful conversation. I think you're going to like it. If you want to jump right to it, |
| 1:11.4 | you can. It starts at about 41 minutes in today. But I hope you'll stay for it, the headlines, and I've got a great clip show for you. Full coverage of the No Kings Day protests. I was out there for a few hours on Saturday. I know so many of you were as well. Many of you sent me photographs and messages about your experiences. It was so great to hear from you and be in solidarity with you. I went |
| 1:16.7 | live from the Rockland County No Kings protest and you can watch it. It's like kind of a choppy video. |
| 1:24.4 | I think so many people were using the phones, it was hard to get a solid connection. But I did try to go live out there on Saturday, and you can watch some of that there. |
| 1:32.3 | But I've got a great montage of some of the best speakers around the country as well. Names |
| 1:36.0 | you'll recognize that's coming up in the clip show. Just wanted to recap No Kings Day by reading |
| 1:41.7 | a little from Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder, two of my |
| 1:46.0 | favorite writers, historians. And I thought I would go ahead and do that. And it's good. |
| 1:51.4 | It's a few minutes long, but I decided I would be really cheesy and put some inspirational |
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