Craziest Substitute Teacher Stories We’ve Ever Heard!

Teachers Off Duty

Bored Teachers

Comedy, Stand-up

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

From hungover hall monitors to barefoot subs and stolen chargers—this episode proves that sometimes the real lesson plan is survival.

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This week’s episode is a rollercoaster ride through the absolute chaos and comedy that comes with substitute teachers. From barefoot subs walking out in stilettos (yes, really) to subs using the school as their personal Tinder, the crew dives into the wildest, weirdest, and most unforgettable sub stories from the classroom.

Bri, Tyler, and Brandon reflect on their own time as subs—Tyler literally falling asleep on the job—and reveal the fine line between a legendary substitute and a disaster waiting to happen. Plus, what happens when a sub steals your snacks? Or your iPhone charger?

Also in this episode:
- The best ways to manage your class when a sub is in
- Sub training (or lack thereof)
- AI in the classroom and how to catch students using ChatGPT
- Teacher appreciation shoutouts
- And Brandon’s new initiative to reward teachers with actual prizes

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Subbing is not for the weak—and this episode proves it.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You teachers who are hired should not look like my friends from college.
0:04.0	He was like, do I have your class today?
0:06.0	Do I have your class today?
0:07.0	Is it today?
0:08.0	Do I have your class?
0:09.0	And I said, whose sandals are these asking the kids?
0:10.0	Who's sandals?
0:11.0	James you think you would never have to say.
0:12.0	Right?
0:13.0	Oh, that's the sub sandals.
0:14.0	So I said, wait a minute, if the sub sandals are here, How did she get... They were like, she didn't wear shoes. We had a sub come in and pretty much ask every male at our school out on a day in the day that
0:25.1	she was there.
0:26.1	She had on a skimpy outfit and they sent her straight to the house.
0:28.1	I don't know.
0:29.1	She's using your school as Tinder.
0:30.1	These teachers come in and they're like, all right, chop, chop.
0:32.6	They're like you're going to run a four-minute mile, you're going to score a 2,400 on the SATs. I'm going to turn you guys into soldiers today.
0:38.9	Hey, first of all, what you're not going to do?
0:41.3	No, you jumped out.
0:42.8	Hey, first of all, I even going to let him yell at me like that.
0:45.6	I'm about to blow your mind.
0:46.7	Okay.
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