1 00:00:00,350 --> 00:00:02,160 Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode. 2 00:00:02,170 --> 00:00:06,380 Ohh, Teach, Sleep, repeat. My name is Dylan and it's just 3 00:00:06,390 --> 00:00:08,900 me, so there's no Aiden this week. 4 00:00:08,970 --> 00:00:11,650 As you know, you've been listening to the podcast lately. 5 00:00:11,690 --> 00:00:14,520 There was quite a big event in Hayden's life, quite a big 6 00:00:14,530 --> 00:00:16,100 thing. He didn't move house. 7 00:00:16,110 --> 00:00:17,620 No, not like me. Moving house. 8 00:00:17,630 --> 00:00:20,820 Very stressful. He had the arrival of his 9 00:00:20,830 --> 00:00:23,580 beautiful daughter in the last week or two. 10 00:00:23,590 --> 00:00:26,320 So whether we like it or not, trying to get a bit of time 11 00:00:26,330 --> 00:00:28,440 aside, he did try his hardest to come along this week. 12 00:00:28,490 --> 00:00:31,670 But things just get in the way and I can understand I'm doing 13 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:33,420 it myself. I'm amazed I've managed to find 14 00:00:33,430 --> 00:00:35,880 this time just to come online with just me. 15 00:00:35,980 --> 00:00:39,400 Anyway, why are we still here? Well, a couple of reasons. 16 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:42,350 I know we've had weeks before we've missed that podcast, and 17 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,410 it's one of the reasons we started the Bite size ones just 18 00:00:44,420 --> 00:00:46,170 to keep you ticking over every week. 19 00:00:46,220 --> 00:00:49,690 If we ever didn't miss one out for our longer episodes, this 20 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:50,780 isn't going to be a longer episode. 21 00:00:50,790 --> 00:00:52,410 Guys, I'm sorry if I click baited you. 22 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,570 I'm sorry if I've tricked you into thinking there's going to 23 00:00:55,580 --> 00:00:57,150 be an hour of good banter with the. 24 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,950 But no, it's just me. There's no Hayden to bounce off. 25 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:02,580 And in fact, I feel really bad doing anything. 26 00:01:02,590 --> 00:01:04,819 Whilst he's not here, I can't do it behind his back. 27 00:01:04,870 --> 00:01:08,720 If anything I'll be talking him up because you know, he really 28 00:01:08,770 --> 00:01:11,500 is an integral part of why this podcast happened. 29 00:01:11,510 --> 00:01:14,420 So a little bit of a reflection first and then I'm going to ask 30 00:01:14,430 --> 00:01:18,100 you for a favour as the title of this episode does kind of 31 00:01:18,110 --> 00:01:20,060 suggest. Now, firstly this podcast. 32 00:01:20,070 --> 00:01:23,280 I thought I'd come on, it's just me and I'm the one who was 33 00:01:23,290 --> 00:01:25,400 pestering Hayden. So I thought I'd just take a 34 00:01:25,410 --> 00:01:28,080 look back at the podcast so far and think about how far we've 35 00:01:28,090 --> 00:01:30,060 come now. Why did we even start this 36 00:01:30,070 --> 00:01:32,520 podcast? Well, like I said, it was me 37 00:01:32,530 --> 00:01:34,760 going on and on and I said to Hayden for probably a couple of 38 00:01:34,770 --> 00:01:37,210 years, why don't we start one? Why don't we start one? 39 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,810 Why don't we start one and go, OK, well, think of something we 40 00:01:39,820 --> 00:01:42,210 can talk about. And to be fair, I never ever 41 00:01:42,220 --> 00:01:44,550 did, which was one of the reasons why it didn't happen 42 00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:48,390 until the teacher strikes. That was the catalyst. 43 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,110 That was the thing where Hayden said, OK, yeah, sure, we can 44 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,610 talk about the teacher strikes. Because I'm sure you can imagine 45 00:01:53,620 --> 00:01:56,980 as two people who decided to strike the media coverage and 46 00:01:56,990 --> 00:02:00,530 the commentary around it was rather frustrating because as 47 00:02:00,540 --> 00:02:03,270 you know, as we've talked about a million times in this podcast, 48 00:02:03,370 --> 00:02:07,040 we do this job for the children. That's what keeps us coming back 49 00:02:07,050 --> 00:02:10,039 is those amazing bonds we can make with them, the help we can 50 00:02:10,050 --> 00:02:11,760 give them. So when that was brought into 51 00:02:11,770 --> 00:02:14,990 question because we dared to strike, we dared to stand up to 52 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,140 the government who you know, do so much for children. 53 00:02:18,150 --> 00:02:20,580 Obviously the government are always there for our kids. 54 00:02:20,590 --> 00:02:22,450 How could we possibly question them? 55 00:02:22,890 --> 00:02:24,300 Hope you sense the sarcasm there. 56 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,690 But as you can probably imagine, it was quite frustrating for us 57 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:30,620 as two people who chose to strike when we just wanted to 58 00:02:30,630 --> 00:02:33,290 get our voices heard. Now that was the catalyst. 59 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:35,800 The first ever episode we did was called Why Are Teachers 60 00:02:35,810 --> 00:02:38,600 Striking? And we were able to hop on and 61 00:02:38,610 --> 00:02:42,240 talk about it candidly and what Hayden always wanted from this 62 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:43,780 podcast. And it's something I'm really 63 00:02:43,790 --> 00:02:47,060 glad has come to fruition, especially more recently, is 64 00:02:47,070 --> 00:02:49,040 that it was to be lighthearted. It was to be fun. 65 00:02:49,050 --> 00:02:52,360 It was to be the kind of podcast that you enjoy listening to 66 00:02:52,370 --> 00:02:55,790 because although we're in the world of education, sometimes it 67 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,100 can be quite dry just listening to, you know, theories and 68 00:02:59,110 --> 00:03:01,660 pedagogy. And no, we wanted it to kind of 69 00:03:01,670 --> 00:03:04,240 reflect our personalities, which was always up for a laugh. 70 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:07,030 So that's where it started. We did those really weird 71 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:08,470 accents. If you haven't watched the first 72 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,610 one, it's worth listening to just to hear us with our 73 00:03:11,670 --> 00:03:14,680 original kind of very stern voices, because we have just 74 00:03:14,690 --> 00:03:17,860 starting a podcast and we need to sound very professional, but 75 00:03:17,870 --> 00:03:20,330 then very quickly descending into doing accents and things 76 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:23,650 like that. And I guess over the year 77 00:03:23,660 --> 00:03:26,650 almost, since we started doing this at the start of 2023, 78 00:03:26,740 --> 00:03:29,230 what's evolved nicely is that we're just way more comfortable 79 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,530 now in front of the microphone. And hopefully, if you've 80 00:03:31,540 --> 00:03:34,410 listened from the start or if you've just joined us, the most 81 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:37,810 recent episodes really do sum up how far we've come. 82 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:42,130 And I guess the end of the reflection was to just kind of 83 00:03:42,140 --> 00:03:45,830 say thank you to you guys because we built up this podcast 84 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,810 from literally nothing. We weren't those people who had 85 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:51,230 thousands of Instagram followers, thousands of Twitter 86 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:54,790 followers, been in the education world for so long and been 87 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:56,590 building up a following. We didn't have that. 88 00:03:56,660 --> 00:03:59,330 It was just us two and we just started a podcast. 89 00:03:59,340 --> 00:04:02,930 So the fact we have hundreds of listeners every single week, we 90 00:04:02,940 --> 00:04:04,990 can't tell you how grateful we are for you guys listening. 91 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,920 So the first thing we just wanted to say was a huge thank 92 00:04:07,930 --> 00:04:09,600 you. Now you probably thinking, 93 00:04:09,610 --> 00:04:11,940 alright Dylan, Jesus, keep going on and on about it. 94 00:04:12,030 --> 00:04:14,500 What do you need help for? What's the title of the episode 95 00:04:14,510 --> 00:04:15,980 about? Well, it's really simple and 96 00:04:15,990 --> 00:04:17,579 it's something I've asked you to do a lot. 97 00:04:17,589 --> 00:04:21,860 If you started off early on and it's just for a review now. 98 00:04:21,870 --> 00:04:26,120 I can't explain to you how much people coming across a podcast 99 00:04:26,190 --> 00:04:29,040 and they see the review number and it really impacts whether 100 00:04:29,050 --> 00:04:31,380 they even give it a go or not. So we've managed to get quite a 101 00:04:31,390 --> 00:04:33,160 lot of reviews, especially on Spotify. 102 00:04:33,230 --> 00:04:36,960 It really does set us apart now. So all I'm asking you guys to 103 00:04:36,970 --> 00:04:40,170 do, we have hundreds of listeners every week, but we 104 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:43,490 only have roughly around 80 reviews in total across Apple 105 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:46,630 Podcasts and Spotify. I just would love you guys to 106 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,810 please leave us a review, whether that's just a five star 107 00:04:49,820 --> 00:04:52,650 review on Spotify or if you're an Apple podcast which are no 108 00:04:52,660 --> 00:04:54,360 more than half of you guys listen on the iPhone. 109 00:04:54,370 --> 00:04:56,930 So if you're on Apple Podcasts, leave us a five star review 110 00:04:56,940 --> 00:04:58,660 please. And if you could write a written 111 00:04:58,670 --> 00:05:00,430 review, just a short couple of sentences. 112 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,070 If you guys sum up what our podcast is like, it means so 113 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,030 much to us and new listeners can read that. 114 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,270 And no, it's not just us saying it's the best podcast the world. 115 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:12,070 Because why would anyone believe that from the people who run the 116 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,050 podcast? So that is what I want you to 117 00:05:14,060 --> 00:05:16,860 do. Well, at least it's 1/2 of it. 118 00:05:16,870 --> 00:05:19,870 So when I said can you help us? Number one, please leave us a 119 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:21,620 review, especially if you've enjoyed it. 120 00:05:21,630 --> 00:05:23,580 Of course, if you haven't enjoyed it, we'll just leave US1 121 00:05:23,590 --> 00:05:25,640 anyway and just give us five stars won't hurt you. 122 00:05:25,730 --> 00:05:28,670 But if you've enjoyed it, please do because it helps give us some 123 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,390 credibility, it helps us grow. And I guess that's where the 124 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:33,540 second part of the kind of Help you comes in, because we would 125 00:05:33,550 --> 00:05:37,560 really love it this week when there is no real long episode. 126 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:41,200 We'd love it if you could share, share your favourite episodes so 127 00:05:41,210 --> 00:05:43,400 far, Just share the podcast in general. 128 00:05:43,550 --> 00:05:47,650 It goes such a long way coming from you guys rather than from 129 00:05:47,660 --> 00:05:49,160 us. So if you're an avid listener of 130 00:05:49,170 --> 00:05:51,990 the podcast and you've enjoyed what we've done so far, hours 131 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,470 and hours and hours of entertainment and random 132 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:58,150 ramblings from ours, if that's helped you, if that's given you 133 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:01,310 some confidence in work, or if you've just found it funny and 134 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,180 something that you have on in the background while you're 135 00:06:03,190 --> 00:06:05,780 doing your commute. Whatever it is guys, if you're 136 00:06:05,790 --> 00:06:08,510 listening to this podcast, can you try and spread the love, 137 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:11,290 Share it to someone you think would love it as well and it 138 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:13,270 would just massively, massively help us out. 139 00:06:13,340 --> 00:06:16,800 So if you're doing that, we would be eternally grateful. 140 00:06:16,910 --> 00:06:19,710 And I suppose the last thing I wanted to talk about was just 141 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,040 the amount of messages that we get. 142 00:06:21,050 --> 00:06:23,610 Now obviously as we've grown we get more messages. 143 00:06:23,670 --> 00:06:26,420 So lately we're getting more messages than ever from people 144 00:06:26,510 --> 00:06:30,650 and they are our favourite thing in the world to receive Hayden. 145 00:06:30,660 --> 00:06:33,100 And I wouldn't do this if we didn't love doing the podcast. 146 00:06:33,110 --> 00:06:37,040 But hearing from you guys, that makes it all worthwhile hearing 147 00:06:37,050 --> 00:06:38,680 from you listeners. Now we know. 148 00:06:38,690 --> 00:06:40,570 Again, if we look at our analytics, we know you're out 149 00:06:40,580 --> 00:06:44,480 there and we've not heard from nearly 1% of you in the past, 150 00:06:44,530 --> 00:06:48,230 but every message we get, it makes us This is why we do it. 151 00:06:48,300 --> 00:06:49,990 It could be a message just to say hello. 152 00:06:50,070 --> 00:06:53,530 It could be a message to say actually a very specific thing 153 00:06:53,540 --> 00:06:56,190 you talked about on the podcast has helped me this week and it's 154 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,660 allowed me to question this thing and it's improved my 155 00:06:58,670 --> 00:07:02,170 well-being. Anything we receive, it lights 156 00:07:02,180 --> 00:07:04,530 our face up and the first thing we do is send it to each other. 157 00:07:04,670 --> 00:07:06,790 So I guess this is threefold here. 158 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,910 Can you help us in three different ways? 159 00:07:09,020 --> 00:07:11,270 Can you leave us a review? Can you share our podcast? 160 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,840 And guys, this to me is genuinely the most important 161 00:07:13,850 --> 00:07:15,440 thing. Whether we grow anymore or not 162 00:07:15,450 --> 00:07:19,140 is kind of irrelevant. If you send us a message because 163 00:07:19,150 --> 00:07:21,480 if you're listening already, we're happy with our call 164 00:07:21,490 --> 00:07:22,740 following up and perfectly honest. 165 00:07:22,750 --> 00:07:25,840 And if you want to just reach out and just say, hey guys, I 166 00:07:25,850 --> 00:07:29,230 listen every week, great stuff. Or even if you say I listen 167 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,920 every week, I often disagree with you guys. 168 00:07:30,930 --> 00:07:32,380 But you know it's on in the background. 169 00:07:32,450 --> 00:07:34,180 It doesn't matter. We just want to hear from you 170 00:07:34,190 --> 00:07:35,340 guys. We want to put some names to 171 00:07:35,350 --> 00:07:37,740 your listeners. Do get in touch and we will be 172 00:07:37,750 --> 00:07:40,060 sure to reply as much as we possibly can. 173 00:07:40,410 --> 00:07:42,700 I guess that's it really. I don't want to go rambling on 174 00:07:42,710 --> 00:07:43,910 and on. I don't want to keep you for too 175 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,840 long. Hopefully this is a nice short 176 00:07:45,850 --> 00:07:47,400 one. Again, I could have called it a 177 00:07:47,410 --> 00:07:50,180 bite size then that would be like 4 byte sizes since our last 178 00:07:50,190 --> 00:07:51,800 one. So again, apologies if I've 179 00:07:51,810 --> 00:07:54,050 managed to click mate you or catfish you or you think I've 180 00:07:54,060 --> 00:07:56,520 done you dirty here. And huge apologies to my own 181 00:07:56,530 --> 00:07:59,160 family because I know Hayden is their favourite co-host. 182 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,720 He's not here. So if Hayden is your favourite 183 00:08:02,730 --> 00:08:05,460 cost and you've had to listen to me ramble for this long, I'm 184 00:08:05,470 --> 00:08:08,020 very sorry. If I am your favourite co-host 185 00:08:08,030 --> 00:08:10,300 then definitely do message me and I'll be sure to send it to 186 00:08:10,310 --> 00:08:13,030 Hayden immediately, who I'm sure is ultra jealous that we've 187 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:14,820 managed to put an episode out without him. 188 00:08:15,130 --> 00:08:17,720 Anyway, guys, thank you so much for listening. 189 00:08:17,790 --> 00:08:19,660 Thank you so much for helping us in advance. 190 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:25,310 And thank you so much for your future listening because I'm 191 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,310 sure if you've got this far, you're going to listen to us in 192 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,650 the future as well. You can find us on Instagram at 193 00:08:29,660 --> 00:08:32,490 Teach Repeat Podcast. You can e-mail us at Teachmeet 194 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:35,830 repeat pod@gmail.com. I hope you noticed that without 195 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,710 Hayden here, I didn't want to mess up. 196 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,250 He puts too much pressure on me. OK, Perhaps, you know, we just 197 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:43,539 get rid of him completely. I'm joking. 198 00:08:43,549 --> 00:08:45,180 I need him back because I wanna bounce off him. 199 00:08:45,190 --> 00:08:46,560 It's very weird. I don't like it. 200 00:08:46,570 --> 00:08:48,580 So I'm going to wrap up there. Guys, thanks so much for 201 00:08:48,590 --> 00:08:51,480 listening and I'll catch you next time and I will be with 202 00:08:51,490 --> 00:08:52,100 Hayden then.