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Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

Phone Tap: Suggestions for the Substitute

Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Society & Culture, Improv, Relationships

4.7880 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Phone Tap victim is a substitute teacher and while she’s filling in for a few weeks, Brooke is calling as a concerned parent with a LAUNDRY LIST of critiques, tips, and teaching-adjustments she should make.

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0:00.0

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:02.6

Remember Movie Pass?

0:04.0

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:06.7

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:09.5

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:12.9

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass, who got pushed out of the company he built.

0:18.1

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there. No girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Today we call a substitute teacher who's filling in for a fourth grade class. The original teacher's out on maternity leave, so the new one's only been there for about

0:39.2

a week so far.

0:40.7

But still, that's plenty of time for one parent to come up with a long list of critiques and

0:46.1

teaching adjustments that she thinks she needs to make.

0:49.2

No way.

0:50.1

And Brooks list ranges from the mildly unreasonable to completely insane.

0:56.6

So we'll see how she handles it in your phone tap right now.

1:00.7

It's another phone tap.

1:02.2

And weekday mornings on the 20s.

1:05.7

Hello?

1:07.0

Hi, is this Jamie?

1:08.3

Yeah, this is she. Hi, Jamie. My name is Heather Lowe. My son, Caleb, is this Jamie Cahs? Yes, this is she.

1:11.1

Hi, Jamie.

1:12.3

My name is Heather Loh.

1:13.6

My son Caleb is in your fourth grade class.

1:17.1

Oh, Caleb, yes.

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