Teachers Off Task

What's the difference between Cacao and Cocoa? How much Chalk is there in Chocolate? One of these questions we will answer. The other will remain a mystery for all of time. Don't even bother googling it. We've tried. Take a listen about how a gross gritty bitter drink became one of the biggest staples of sweets. On-taskness rating: 5/10 If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

Don't be a square. Be a circle. A crop circle specifically. Keep it mysterious and maybe a little hoaxy. In this episode we address the facts and opinions about one of the worlds most interesting theories behind these little round anomalies. On-taskness rating: 7/10 If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

I mean, what else do you want to know about carbohydrates? On-taskness rating: 3/10 Reach out to us at teachersofftask@gmail.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this podcast episode, CARBS! What are these carbohydrates and why do we need them? DO we need them? Questions to be answered in this podcast with Dr. Bob, Paul Ferrar, and the return of our chicken expert Jessica! Get your percent daily value of informative podcasts. On-taskness rating: 7/10 If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this podcast episode, we have a Geophysicist explain to us why we need daylight saving time, Leap years, and different time zones. Yes they are often frustrating, but there's a reason. What even is time? Who knows? Will you just accept that the time changes? Or do you care to know why? This episode was actually a leap back in time for us because we recorded the next episode first. On-taskness rating: 7/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

That is right. We're talking about our clever little feathered friends (fiends), the bird. These guys have an interesting rich history and characteristics that allow them to take flight. Here, we clear up some misconceptions and provide a fun little education chat on the subject. Do modern birds really come from dinosaurs that were actually feathered? Are birds even REAL? I have no idea but I'm gonna wing it. On-Taskness Rating: 6/10 If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we make our fortuitous return to the airwaves.  Paul, Dr. Bob, and Ferdie Dubs, and a special guest kicking it again to give you guys some insight on how to high school in a pandemic.  We've missed you guys dearly and cannot wait for things to come in our sophomore year of podcasting. On-Taskness Rating: 4/10 If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

What are waves? What all is considered a wave? What do you do if you see one coming towards you? Turn and run? When will the questions end? What kind of episode description consists only of questions? Do you just want to know what we're talking about? Well... mattresses, snuggling, and salons going on the news. Also some waves. On-Taskness Rating: 6/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

We're back at it with Dr. Bob's intro into teaching. Not going to lie, we live up to our names as we get INCREDIBLY off task with this episode. But you will inevitably learn a little about THE Dr. Bob. Reach out to us at teachersofftask@gmail.com. On-Taskness Rating: 2/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

Hey everyone. Another week where we weren't able to drop our episode on Monday. Trying to settle into our new routines. It's been a little jarring but check out some podcasts that we enjoy in place of the one we cultivate. Stuff You Should Know Radiolab Reply All Joe Rogan That's it. Everyone Enjoy their April 20th. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

Guess what we're talking about in this episode. You got it. Baseball. Fights. Shanty Towns of Honolulu. Okay maybe you didn't guess it. But in this episode we explore the character behind the PHD. On-taskness rating: 15/12 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we talk about the origin of the quarantine and limits that the federal government has in instituting one. We also talk about our lives and how they have changed. Oh, how they have changed throughout this COvid19 pandemic. Reach out to us at teachersofftask@gmail.com. We have all the time in the world to engage with out listeners so talk to us. Also, recommend us to a friend or something, I don't know. Hope you're all doing alright though. On-taskness Rating: 3/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we talk about how we've been coping with the social isolation. Ferdie's new garden, Paul's new chickens and Dr. Bob's new investments. We also talk about mules. Why and how do they exist? Our first remotely recorded episode. On-taskness Rating: 3/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we get to understand Ferdie Whistlebird. HIs background, his life, and is philosophies. In what might be one of the more narcissistic moves podcasters can make, we turn the topic on ourselves. But we're not here to brag, we're here to celebrate birthdays and the events that brought us to where we are today. Find out how one finds themselves in Chinese medicine as a juxtaposition of recent events. Keep an open mind and an open heart as we take a dive into the life of Ferdinand Whistlebird. On-taskness Rating: 10/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

This episode brought recorded March 15th 2020 and brought to you March 16th in attempts to give you the most up-to-date facts about COVID-19, the novel coronavirus plaguing the world today. On-Taskness rating: 8/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we discuss hair. What makes hair, what are the different kinds, what gives it their qualities, and more. Our guest is a hair stylist who has all the ins and outs of how you make hair and what makes your hair you. On-taskness Rating: 8/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this podcast episode, we have a Geophysicist explain to us why we need daylight saving time, Leap years, and different time zones. Yes they are often frustrating, but there's a reason. What even is time? Who knows? Will you just accept that the time changes? Or do you care to know why? This episode was actually a leap back in time for us because we recorded the next episode first. FERDIE IS BACK! On-taskness rating 7/10 This podcast is brought to you by the long way adventures. Find them at thelongwayadventures.com If you want to want to help support us, you can buy our merchandise at www.cafepress.com/teachersofftask Or you can become a supporter! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, Paul and Dr. Bob discuss what makes a disease, how drinks get carbonated, we speculate on how beer came to be, talk about how the beer is brewed, and much much more.  We even talk about how one could possibly manipulate time.  Also Dr. Bridget comes on to give us even more corrections because apparently we suck at research.  More on marsupials.  We push the limits of what is considered "tastefully" off task.  Give us your thoughts, your likes, your listens, and rate us or something.  Is anyone even reading these?  Am I just wasting my time?  I won't know if you don't reach out.   On-taskness rating: 3/10 This podcast is brought to you by The Long Way Adventures.  Find them at thelongwayadventures.com Also check out our merch at cafepress.com/teachersofftask --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

What about chickens? Well, everything. With Jessica as our chicken expert, and farrier, we dive deep into what makes chickens chickens. We also discuss cats, D&D, some school stuff, and whatever. Have a listen and let us know what you think. Also we have a beer chugging contest. On-taskness Rating: 6/10 thelongwayadventures.com Have some merch --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

Dr. Travis joins us again as we discuss conservation of momentum, a physics concept that some tend to struggle with but that's okay. Hopefully you'll get a better understanding of this through listening. On-taskness rating: 5/10 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we explore the rich history of the two conventions for electric current and how we power our homes and devices. Our special guest, Dr. Travis with this doctorate in electrical engineering, walks us through what electric current is, how these two types of electric current work, and the "war" that ensued upon which one our nation should use to power our factories and homes in the birth of the electrical age. On-taskness rating: 9/10 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we explore the distinguishing characteristics of Marsupials and discuss side gigs and how they are stumbled into. Are we Koalafied to educate you on these matters? Probably not, but we're going to go for it anyway. After all, it's okay to fail, but it's not okay not to try. On-taskness rating: 6/10 Australia is in critical conditions due to recent brushfires. Follow the link below to the Australian Red Cross if you'd like to donate to help out those in need. https://www.redcross.org.au/news-and-media/news/your-donations-in-action --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

#5 Water Towers, Long Way Adventures This episode features guests Mike and Terry. We discuss water towers, how they work, why we need them, and so other interesting facts about them. Our new sponsor, Terry, tells us about his motorcycle adventure business The Long Way Adventures. Find their website on the link below. https://www.thelongwayadventures.com/adventures On-taskness Rating: 4/10 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

Episode number 4 coming in to introduce the new year and hopefully take the edge off the day every teacher has been dreading since the 2nd. In spirit of the roaring 2020's, we decided to talk about bears. We also talk about menstruation in dogs, Dr. Bob's dreams, the day back to school that we all want to not happen, but mostly bears. On-taskness rating: 8/10 Cheers to the new year. BONUS! Here's a link to my notes that has all my research: TOT Bears Notes --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

In this episode, we discuss how conservation of energy works and how it contributes to climate change. We also discuss Greta Thunburg and frustrations during semester finals week. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

Topics discussed: Tangential Velocity Chinese Medicine Roadkill College Decisions --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support

An infantile podcast that discusses things like education and tries to teach you something but gets side tracked talking about anything and everything from accidental penis drawings to asian fusion hor d'oeuvres. In this episode, we try to explain the physics behind horizontally launched projectiles. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teachers-off-task/support