We drive the listeners crazy because we love them.

I do never say it's being surprised by how bad your spelling is behind the scenes.

It seems like it's not your strongest suit.

I would say that spelling is perhaps my weakest suit.

Way better at socializing at big parties.

Probably way better at skydiving than I am at spelling.

My method of spelling words is just type quickly.

Type quickly whatever comes into your head first.

What I'm about to say, of course, as a former teacher, I would never endorse that students do what I'm about to say that I did when I was a student.

But when I was back in high school and middle school, I would cheat the hell out of spelling tests.

How would you cheat?

One of the years I had a home room class that then rolled over into an English class.

And so I would be able to just write very lightly in pencil some of the spelling words that any were going to be on the test or the likely spelling words that were going to be on the test.

Or I'd conceal them somewhere else.

I think most industrious kids know if you really put your mind to it, it's not super hard to cheat if you're not in a standardized test environment.

And there's any kind of regularity to it.

But here's the thing.

The reason I felt no guilt about cheating is because I could only cheat my way to like a 50% score.

If I wasn't cheating, I would get like a 20% score on the spelling.

It would have been atrocious.

But if I had cheated my way into like, oh, wow, I got an 80% this week, it would be way too obvious.

Right? I would have been caught for cheating immediately because it would be so obvious that there's no way this kid actually did it.

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