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The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Amy Silverberg: Bad Teachers (The Andy Richter Call-In Show)

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Comedian (and teacher!) Amy Silverberg joins The Andy Richter Call-In Show this week to talk about BAD TEACHERS! In this fourth episode of Andy’s new weekly SiriusXM radio show, we hear from callers about teachers using their students to run paid Amazon review schemes, a classroom turtle rescue mission, skateboarding instructors, and terrible essay notes - and stick around to hear a call from a listener who attended Andy’s high school! Want to call in? Fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER or dial 855-266-2604. This episode previously aired on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio (ch. 104). If you’d like to hear these episodes in advance, new episodes premiere exclusively for SiriusXM subscribers on Conan O’Brien Radio and the SiriusXM app every Wednesday at 4pm ET/1pm PT.

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0:00.0

Hi everybody Andy Richter, uh, Andy Richter Callin Show here on Conan O'Brien Radio.

0:17.0

Thank you for tuning in.

0:19.0

We've got a fun hour here.

0:20.6

We're going to take your calls and with me today to discuss our topic is the

0:26.6

very funny comedian Amy Silverberg. Thank you for having me. I'm glad you're here

0:31.1

because you are like an expert panelist. I get you know usually

0:36.2

it's just some asshole in here you know that and but you today's topic is bad teachers and you are a bonafide, legit real-life teacher.

0:48.0

I am.

0:49.0

Yes, I'm what we call an adjunct professor.

0:52.3

Which means like a gun for hire exactly it

0:54.7

means you get the least amount of respect you get paid the least but I can really

0:58.6

go anywhere and teach and I teach like college and adults I mean how do you arrange like going like what's the placement where you're like because

1:07.6

you're not you're not like a substitute you're teaching full semesters right?

1:10.8

Yeah yeah it's it's usually when I need money and then like a dog with

1:14.8

its tail between its legs I have to go to every connection I have at universities and be

1:18.9

like do you have a class like teach and then I teach and's fun. I do feel that I'm like not to sound corny, but giving something back.

1:28.0

So if Stand Up could really sustain you, you would not teach anymore?

1:32.0

Well, I feel bad saying that, but I yeah I mean I go and if writing you know I have a

1:36.7

novel coming out and if I go a while without needing to teach and then I always sort of

1:41.4

come back to it and I'm happy that I'm teaching and they give me a lot of material, the kids are funny, they're cookey.

1:48.0

Yeah, I imagine there's, yeah, it's not like bartending. No, no, no, no, no, it's not like, bartending.

1:53.0

No, no, no, no, and it's like I get paid to read and write

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