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Joe “Mr.D” Dombrowski studies being social, by being social! Join him as he wittily unpacks the wild world of elementary school.
On this episode, Joe and Fran discuss Fran's least favorite episode, the Tell All, before making predictions and discussing the future of LWTV!By Joe Dombrowksi
This week, Joe learns first hand just how challenging virtual teaching is, before sharing the magic of counting to three, and revealing his biggest kinder challenge yet: Not laughing when the children swear!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Matt and the girls visit their hometowns, and Joe reveals the truly shocking secret that he's a diva who likes attention while Mama Fran sees something she's never seen before in all her years watching the Batchelor!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe has a serial haircutter running loose in his classroom! So he takes the opportunity to chat with Michelle Griffo, AKA @applesandabcs, who tells him where he went wrong and also shares some amazing information on how to use and also create resources on Teachers Pay Teachers!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe and Mama Fran decide to ignore the negativity that is dominating batty naysh, and focus on the positives. Mama Fran wants to give Heather a hug, and Joe explains tantric sex to his mother.By Joe Dombrowski
Joe’s journey in kindergarten continues! It’s been an eventful week in Mr. D’s class, as the kids are sketched out by the year’s first fire drill. But they go nuts for Valentime’s Day and the ghost of Pablo Picasso pays a visit during Joe’s latest kiddie craft project!By Joe Dombrowski
Mama Fran's back! And she has lots of thoughts about how this season is (or isn't) going! Joe finally gets to watch a date that doesn't make him cringe, and they both think there's more to Heather than meets the eye!By Joe Dombrowski
The votes are in, and this week we debut the brand new theme music chosen by Socialite Nation! Joe then shares his trial by fire in his first week in his new role as a kindergarten teacher. He's learned that kindergartners are all selfish liars who can't survive two seconds on their own...and he's never had more fun in a classroom!…
This week, Rod returns and he and Joe take a whole new approach to breaking down the show, Joe is starting to like Matt, and they share some exclusive inside tea on everyone's favorite villain: Queen Victoria!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe shares some fantastic personal news before having an amazing conversation with Owen Bondono. Owen is a passionate teacher who is currently nominated as a candidate for the U.S teacher of the year. Joe and Owen also happen to be friends from high school and catch up a bit before deciding which grade is the worst for teachers, the impo…
Joe is joined by the Millenial King, Rod, while Mama Fran recovers. The guys chat about the new faces, new favorites, and Joe's wacky theories!By Joe Dombrowski
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YTE: Young Teacher Energy with Gabe Dannenbring
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This week, Joe needs your help fine tuning the pod’s vibe, and any changes will be permanent so be sure to make your voices heard!! Joe is joined by first year teacher and rising Tik Tok creator, Gabe Dannenbring, to talk about dirty DM’s, modeling, and the funny story behind Gabe’s unique Tik Tok handle!…
This week, Mama Fran gives a reading of her unreleased erotic novel and Joe is totally convinced that Matt is a producer puppet, but still can't wait to see what happens next!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe is on pins and needles waiting to hear back from his interviews, and to pass the time, has a conversation with “6” one of the most interesting people he’s ever met. 6 is an amazing Drag Queen and fashion artist with an incredible story. From her early days growing up in foster care to her bouts with homelessness, 6 has survived many …
This week, Fran shares the most romantic date she's ever been on! The queen drives everyone crazy and Joe may have a point about Matt being boring!By Joe Dombrowski
Joe bids farewell to his parent's basement and hello to millenial Tik Tok creator Rod! Rod and Joe chit chat about tanning beds, N'SYNC, and all things glorious from the 90's!By Joe Dombrowski
Joe and Fran are still riding high off the romantic fumes of Tayshia and Zac, but they jump right back into it with the 25th season of The Batchelor featuring Matt James. Fran and Joe pick the crazies and the keepers, make their winner-predictions, and prepare themselves for a whole new season of romance and drama!…
On this episode, Joe indulges his midwestern appetites and eats his weight in cheese, before being joined by his college friend and amazing entrepreneur and health trainer, Steph Riley! Steph and Joe talk about planning a wedding during the pandy as well as how to start and follow through on a plan to be healthier in 2021! Link for women’s Boot Cam…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 12
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This episode is the podcast's very first (but not last) season finale Live Episode! Joe and Fran invited patreon subscribers to join them for a live taping that includes games, gifts, and of course all the hot gossip about the new season of The Batchelor! Stay tuned for more episodes of Let's Watch TV in 2021!…
This week, Joe is psyched to get an interview to get back into the classroom, and invites Sarah Krajewski to the pod to help him get reacquainted with the elementary classroom atmosphere! Sarah is an absolutely amazing elementary school art teacher and author of the new book, Exactly You: The Shape of Your Feelings. Sara and Joe chat about some tip…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 11
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They did it! Joe and Mama Fran wrap an incredible first season of Let's Watch TV in style as they discuss all the ins-and-outs of the final two episodes. Mama Fran's gets 2 out the final three correct and Joe can't believe he made it all the way through without going insane.By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe doesn’t get to fulfill his dream to become a librarian just yet, but its okay because he gets to have a conversation with Neil and Bryan of Koo Koo Kanga Roo, the Beatles of the elementary dance music scene! Joe and the guys have an amazing conversation about how they started the band, micro-dosing, and why Boris wasn’t invited to th…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 10
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This week is a double episode, and we learn that Fran almost nailed her prediction at the beginning of the season, and Joe learns that Fran things jumping in a pool can mummify your downstairs bits!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe is hopefully heading back to those hallowed and sticky hallway of the elementary school as he tries to become a school librarian. Then he’s joined by the Canadian comedian sensation, Gerry Dee! Who super ironically also goes by “Mr.D!” They chat about comedy, Mr.D the TV show and tricks to deal with kids who know more about a subject…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 09
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This week, Mama Fran becomes BFF's with Jo Jo Fletcher, and Joe is concerned that one of the contestants might be and actual real-life serial killer.By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe keeps going down internet rabbit holes and lands on the award winning HBO show Euphoria, he is then quickly joined by the amazing Nika King who actually plays Leslie Bennett on the show Euphoria!! Joe and Nika talk about teaching high schoolers, Addiction, Euphoria season two, and Nika's new tech resource for aspiring entertainers!…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 08
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On this week's episode, Joe goes full-cynic and thinks he could do a better job producing the show while Fran reveals her deep dark fear of haunted houses and the Noah Bennett drama finally comes to a head!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe has decided that he will win Survivor, and there’s nothing his mailman can do about it! Then he’s joined by two very funny Brits, Lee and Adam Parkinson from the Two Mr. P’s in a Podcast. Joe adds several new British slang words to his vocabulary and the gang discuss Lee’s illustrious acting career, the craziness of the teaching prof…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 07
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There's a lot of drama going on in Bachelorette Nation this week and Mama Fran drops some hot tea on everyone's (least) favorite couple, Dale and Claire! Joe gets in touch with his inner southern belle and Fran tells us the meaning of pegging!By Joe Dombrowski
On the show today, after a long day of hard work, Joe and Jeff unwind and unbox the Mr. D Holiday Gift Boxes before going on an A.D.H.D conversational journey for the ages! They talk about crow gifts, paper shredder haircuts, and why Joe is always nervous in hotels!By Joe Dombrowski
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 06
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We start the show off this week on a struggling foot as Mama Fran and Joe experience several technical glinches (technical term) while trying to watch this week’s Bachelorette episode. Joe decides that Ben looks like a tan B.J. Novak and Mama Fran forgets that she’s being recorded.By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe is having a comedy show to help teachers pay for ppe because lets face it, teachers should get all the support we have to give! Joe is also joined by the amazingly smart and fabulous Dr. Jose Medina. Dr. Jose shares his research and experience as a bilingual teaching specialist, but just as importantly, shares his journey and experie…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 05
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This week, Joe and Fran power through some technical difficulties, Fran has a perfect record guessing the winners of the show, and Joe "does a tea" on Mama Fran!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, you've created a monster!The Let's Watch TV podcast is blowing up, and with it Mama Fran's ego! But even when she's famous she'll still be our favorite Midwestern Mama! Joe talks with an amazing Musician of Tik Tok fame, Sarah Maddack! She tells us about her creative process, the importance of being yourself, and Joe challenges her to an…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 04
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On this week's episode, Mama Fran bids a (not so fond) farewell to Clare and Dale, Joey actually remembers something from the show that Fran can't, and everyone gets real excited for the absolutely stunning arrival of TAYSHIA!By Joe Dombrowski
Joe gives us the rundown on the first super-fan happy hour (spoiler it was AMAZING!) and learns that tights don’t mix well with his COVID fupa! He’s then joined by the very funny comedian Trixx and they discuss the ups and downs of performing for Gen-Z crowds as well as the importance of not Kink-Shaming in glass houses!…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 03
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This week on Let's Watch TV, Joe discovers that he's addicted to trashy reality television, Fran gets sick of Dale, and no one knows how to pronounce La Quinta!By Joe Dombrowski
This week, Joe is little concerned about the lyrics the youth of 2020 are listening to and gives us some examples, before he's joined by the Tik Tok cooking sensation Sunny Burrell! Sunny talks about his rise the culinary world through years of hard-work and how he hopes to use that experience to make cooking accessible for everyone. He also drops …
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 02
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Things are getting hot, heavy, and classless on Bachelorette.....just the way Joe likes it! But neither Joe or Fran are sold on this season's bachelorette Clare as they discuss all the developments with the show this week, both on and off the screen!By Joe Dombrowski
In this week’s episode Joe reminds us that it’s not okay to answer texts during adult activities, before welcoming the incredible Ruth Codd to the show! Ruth is an amazing cosmetic artist and activist as well as being absolutely hilarious! She shares the journey of how she overcame a debilitating childhood injury and shows us that her infectious po…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Episode 01
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On this episode, we join Joe and Fran as they digest episode 1 of season 16 of the bachelorette, and behold the splendor and beauty of the finest La Quinta Inn banquet hall that money can buy! They go over all the unique tidbits that are sure to make this season of the bachelorette one to remember, not the least of which is the fact that it was fil…
Joe is back home in Michigan this week, and he takes a trip down memory lane by looking over his high school yearbook only to find the horror-story that was 2005’s fashion styles! He’s then joined by the amazing teacher-turned-comic Chinedu Unaka and they chat about his experiences with Teach-For-America, when to pick your battles, and how middle s…
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Let's Watch TV: The Bachelorette Preseason Episode
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On the first episode of Let's Watch TV, millenial Joe gets ready to watch an entire season of reality TV with his baby boomer mom Fran and the laughs and sparks start flying! They get ready for the upcoming season of The Bachelorette by discussing the history of the show, before dissecting the trailers and playing a lovely mother-son game of 'Smash…
This week, Joe tries to better himself by taking classes during covid, and gets ostracized by teenage girls and an old Norwegian woman for his troubles. He bounces back by chatting with the incredible comic and podcast host Jared Freid about being a Batchelor super-fan and how to have strong opinions on the internet these days!…
This week, Joe reminds us how no one can frustrate you like your parents and shares the latest shenanigans from the Dombrowski household, before being joined by fellow comedian Jesus Trejo as they have an amazing chat about their childhood influences, telling jokes in two languages, and how to kill the haters with positivity!…
Joe sends out a thank you to A very special someone and previews his forthcoming Batchelor podcast, before falling down the rabbit hole (or in this case pony hole) of people who spend they’re time pretending to be animals...He’s rescued by an Amazing Designer of Project Runway and Tik Tok fame, Gunnar Deatherage and they chat about Gunnar’s incredi…
This week Joe gets lost in the world of prison Tik Tok, before he stumbles onto Tik Tok sensation Casey Hamilton, who used his quarantine time to launch his career in entertainment. Joe and Casey both started in the classroom before going viral and they share how to deal with the haters but also swap stories about how students and co-workers contin…
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Teachers Turned Comedians with Ian Fidance
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This week, Joe takes a trip to Yellowstone and nearly gets attacked by a 2,000 pound bison, before he’s joined by fellow teacher-turned-comedian Ian Fidance. Joe and Ian swap classroom stories before Ian shares some of his favorite moments working on Crank Yankers and Joe tells us how he raised hell in college with nothing but a flip phone and a Mi…
This week, Joe is busy getting ready for his upcoming totally virtual comedy show, but not too busy to have an amazing conversation with one of the funniest, realest, and knowledgeable educators on the planet! Joe talks with Dr. Zeisner on her incredible journey as an educator, the importance of staying relevant with your students, and how to ace y…
This week, everybody’s favorite tour manager returns! Jeff and Joe get really into cults for a hot minute and spill some inside tea about Joe’s upcoming comedy special, before offering you the amazing opportunity to have a once-in-a-lifetime awkward chat with a socially regressed Mr. D!By Joe Dombrowski
