Hey listener, it's Mary.

Over the holidays, we are rerunning some of our favorite episodes from earlier in the

year.

And today, I'm going to share a show we broadcast back in September.

That's when many kids were just heading back to the classroom during a lull in the coronavirus.

Back then, I spoke to a teacher in Texas about how he was managing to hold in-person and

remote classes at the same time.

Little heads up, we did curse a couple times.

They're appropriate, given the subject matter.

We're going to get started, but make sure you stay till the end.

I'll give you a bit of an update on how our teacher is doing now.

Christopher Pinto is a high school math teacher outside Houston, Texas.

And these days, he's got this routine.

He wakes up around 5.36 in the morning, pours himself some green tea, and then he cranks

up this song.

A good 80s power ballad.

Starships, nothing's going to stop us now.

You remember this one.

It's just the ultimate power ballad of nothing's going to stop us now, and if this world runs

out of lovers, we'll still have each other, and we'll make it through.

This cheesy pop music, it's one of the few things that can psych Christopher up to do

his job.

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