Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode.
Ohh, Teach, Sleep, repeat. My name is Dylan and it's just
me, so there's no Aiden this week.
As you know, you've been listening to the podcast lately.
There was quite a big event in Hayden's life, quite a big
thing. He didn't move house.
No, not like me. Moving house.
Very stressful. He had the arrival of his
beautiful daughter in the last week or two.
So whether we like it or not, trying to get a bit of time
aside, he did try his hardest to come along this week.
But things just get in the way and I can understand I'm doing
it myself. I'm amazed I've managed to find
this time just to come online with just me.
Anyway, why are we still here? Well, a couple of reasons.
I know we've had weeks before we've missed that podcast, and
it's one of the reasons we started the Bite size ones just
to keep you ticking over every week.
If we ever didn't miss one out for our longer episodes, this
isn't going to be a longer episode.
Guys, I'm sorry if I click baited you.
I'm sorry if I've tricked you into thinking there's going to
be an hour of good banter with the.
But no, it's just me. There's no Hayden to bounce off.
And in fact, I feel really bad doing anything.
Whilst he's not here, I can't do it behind his back.
If anything I'll be talking him up because you know, he really
is an integral part of why this podcast happened.
So a little bit of a reflection first and then I'm going to ask
you for a favour as the title of this episode does kind of
suggest. Now, firstly this podcast.
I thought I'd come on, it's just me and I'm the one who was
pestering Hayden. So I thought I'd just take a
look back at the podcast so far and think about how far we've
come now. Why did we even start this
podcast? Well, like I said, it was me
going on and on and I said to Hayden for probably a couple of
years, why don't we start one? Why don't we start one?
Why don't we start one and go, OK, well, think of something we
can talk about. And to be fair, I never ever
did, which was one of the reasons why it didn't happen
until the teacher strikes. That was the catalyst.
That was the thing where Hayden said, OK, yeah, sure, we can
talk about the teacher strikes. Because I'm sure you can imagine
as two people who decided to strike the media coverage and
the commentary around it was rather frustrating because as
you know, as we've talked about a million times in this podcast,
we do this job for the children. That's what keeps us coming back
is those amazing bonds we can make with them, the help we can
give them. So when that was brought into
question because we dared to strike, we dared to stand up to
the government who you know, do so much for children.
Obviously the government are always there for our kids.
How could we possibly question them?
Hope you sense the sarcasm there.
But as you can probably imagine, it was quite frustrating for us
as two people who chose to strike when we just wanted to
get our voices heard. Now that was the catalyst.
The first ever episode we did was called Why Are Teachers
Striking? And we were able to hop on and
talk about it candidly and what Hayden always wanted from this
podcast. And it's something I'm really
glad has come to fruition, especially more recently, is
that it was to be lighthearted. It was to be fun.
It was to be the kind of podcast that you enjoy listening to
because although we're in the world of education, sometimes it
can be quite dry just listening to, you know, theories and
pedagogy. And no, we wanted it to kind of
reflect our personalities, which was always up for a laugh.
So that's where it started. We did those really weird
accents. If you haven't watched the first
one, it's worth listening to just to hear us with our
original kind of very stern voices, because we have just
starting a podcast and we need to sound very professional, but
then very quickly descending into doing accents and things
like that. And I guess over the year
almost, since we started doing this at the start of 2023,
what's evolved nicely is that we're just way more comfortable
now in front of the microphone. And hopefully, if you've
listened from the start or if you've just joined us, the most
recent episodes really do sum up how far we've come.
And I guess the end of the reflection was to just kind of
say thank you to you guys because we built up this podcast
from literally nothing. We weren't those people who had
thousands of Instagram followers, thousands of Twitter
followers, been in the education world for so long and been
building up a following. We didn't have that.
It was just us two and we just started a podcast.
So the fact we have hundreds of listeners every single week, we
can't tell you how grateful we are for you guys listening.
So the first thing we just wanted to say was a huge thank
you. Now you probably thinking,
alright Dylan, Jesus, keep going on and on about it.
What do you need help for? What's the title of the episode
about? Well, it's really simple and
it's something I've asked you to do a lot.
If you started off early on and it's just for a review now.
I can't explain to you how much people coming across a podcast
and they see the review number and it really impacts whether
they even give it a go or not. So we've managed to get quite a
lot of reviews, especially on Spotify.
It really does set us apart now. So all I'm asking you guys to
do, we have hundreds of listeners every week, but we
only have roughly around 80 reviews in total across Apple
Podcasts and Spotify. I just would love you guys to
please leave us a review, whether that's just a five star
review on Spotify or if you're an Apple podcast which are no
more than half of you guys listen on the iPhone.
So if you're on Apple Podcasts, leave us a five star review
please. And if you could write a written
review, just a short couple of sentences.
If you guys sum up what our podcast is like, it means so
much to us and new listeners can read that.
And no, it's not just us saying it's the best podcast the world.
Because why would anyone believe that from the people who run the
podcast? So that is what I want you to
do. Well, at least it's 1/2 of it.
So when I said can you help us? Number one, please leave us a
review, especially if you've enjoyed it.
Of course, if you haven't enjoyed it, we'll just leave US1
anyway and just give us five stars won't hurt you.
But if you've enjoyed it, please do because it helps give us some
credibility, it helps us grow. And I guess that's where the
second part of the kind of Help you comes in, because we would
really love it this week when there is no real long episode.
We'd love it if you could share, share your favourite episodes so
far, Just share the podcast in general.
It goes such a long way coming from you guys rather than from
us. So if you're an avid listener of
the podcast and you've enjoyed what we've done so far, hours
and hours and hours of entertainment and random
ramblings from ours, if that's helped you, if that's given you
some confidence in work, or if you've just found it funny and
something that you have on in the background while you're
doing your commute. Whatever it is guys, if you're
listening to this podcast, can you try and spread the love,
Share it to someone you think would love it as well and it
would just massively, massively help us out.
So if you're doing that, we would be eternally grateful.
And I suppose the last thing I wanted to talk about was just
the amount of messages that we get.
Now obviously as we've grown we get more messages.
So lately we're getting more messages than ever from people
and they are our favourite thing in the world to receive Hayden.
And I wouldn't do this if we didn't love doing the podcast.
But hearing from you guys, that makes it all worthwhile hearing
from you listeners. Now we know.
Again, if we look at our analytics, we know you're out
there and we've not heard from nearly 1% of you in the past,
but every message we get, it makes us This is why we do it.
It could be a message just to say hello.
It could be a message to say actually a very specific thing
you talked about on the podcast has helped me this week and it's
allowed me to question this thing and it's improved my
well-being. Anything we receive, it lights
our face up and the first thing we do is send it to each other.
So I guess this is threefold here.
Can you help us in three different ways?
Can you leave us a review? Can you share our podcast?
And guys, this to me is genuinely the most important
thing. Whether we grow anymore or not
is kind of irrelevant. If you send us a message because
if you're listening already, we're happy with our call
following up and perfectly honest.
And if you want to just reach out and just say, hey guys, I
listen every week, great stuff. Or even if you say I listen
every week, I often disagree with you guys.
But you know it's on in the background.
It doesn't matter. We just want to hear from you
guys. We want to put some names to
your listeners. Do get in touch and we will be
sure to reply as much as we possibly can.
I guess that's it really. I don't want to go rambling on
and on. I don't want to keep you for too
long. Hopefully this is a nice short
one. Again, I could have called it a
bite size then that would be like 4 byte sizes since our last
one. So again, apologies if I've
managed to click mate you or catfish you or you think I've
done you dirty here. And huge apologies to my own
family because I know Hayden is their favourite co-host.
He's not here. So if Hayden is your favourite
cost and you've had to listen to me ramble for this long, I'm
very sorry. If I am your favourite co-host
then definitely do message me and I'll be sure to send it to
Hayden immediately, who I'm sure is ultra jealous that we've
managed to put an episode out without him.
Anyway, guys, thank you so much for listening.
Thank you so much for helping us in advance.
And thank you so much for your future listening because I'm
sure if you've got this far, you're going to listen to us in
the future as well. You can find us on Instagram at
Teach Repeat Podcast. You can e-mail us at Teachmeet
repeat pod@gmail.com. I hope you noticed that without
Hayden here, I didn't want to mess up.
He puts too much pressure on me. OK, Perhaps, you know, we just
get rid of him completely. I'm joking.
I need him back because I wanna bounce off him.
It's very weird. I don't like it.
So I'm going to wrap up there. Guys, thanks so much for
listening and I'll catch you next time and I will be with
Hayden then.