- In college, yes definitely.
But then as a teacher, probably the most.
- What?
(laughing)
- Hi, I'm Vanessa.
And I'm a teacher.
- Hi, I'm Bryant.
And I'm a teen.
- Today we are playing never have I ever.
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- Never have I ever cheated on a test.
- Uh, yeah. - I have.
- I have, yeah. (laughing)
(gasping) (laughing)
- Really?
- Yeah.
- What test was it?
- Which test wasn't it? - What!
- [Maddie] I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
- It was probably in seventh grade, math test.
You know I think I was having trouble remembering
a formula, so I just wrote it on my eraser.
Flipped the eraser upside down.
And that was that.
(laughing)
- That's it, oh man.
Okay. - You've done more?
- Yeah, I've done a lot more.
- I think it was on a history test.
I might've like peeked over.
- Oh wow, did they have the right answer though?
That's the question.
- Probably not.
- I'm really smart, so I have not.
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Never have I ever worked with someone who I've hated
with the burning fire of a thousand suns.
I mean this one's easy, I mean come on.
Really?
- Hate's a strong word.
- Maybe not with the fire of a thousand burning suns.
Maybe a few.
A few burning suns. - A few burning suns?
- Yeah. - Like one or two.
- Yeah.
- Just you wait, Maddie.
Just, one day you're gonna wake up
and you're gonna realize the people you work with
are the scum of humanity.
- I don't doubt that.
- When I was working as a tutor
we decided to do like two on twos,
where there'd be two tutors and two tutees.
And the other tutor was just, I couldn't stand him.
And I had to be in a different room.
I couldn't take it.
- I wouldn't say that about a student because--
- I don't know, some of us can be really annoying.
- That's true.
But there's a difference between being annoyed and hatred.
And I feel hatred.
(laughing)
It's like, teacher goes ballistic.
- [Bryant] Never have I ever lied about a family member
being sick to get out of doing something.
- I think I said, you know, I had to take my mom
to the doctor or something like that.
Or I don't know.
- I don't think I have.
I think I'd probably say I was the sick one.
- Oh, there you go.
- Rather than like a loved one, yeah.
- What'd you say?
I have not. - No.
- Maddie, you and I, it's like looking into your future.
- [Vanessa] Never have I ever made up a lesson plan
or a class presentation on the spot.
- I'm putting mine up sideways
because I have definitely created a lesson plan
last minute, like nail biter situation.
Like finishing my presentation about
20 minutes before class started once.
It went well.
That's what I keep telling myself anyway.
- Pretty much all the time.
I'm a preschool teacher, so we just kinda
have to bring things out as you need 'em, you know.
We call it our little bag of tricks.
- I just have a lot of anxiety,
so if I'm not prepared then I'll just have a meltdown.
- Yeah, that's true.
I also have a lot of anxiety.
So I was having a meltdown while creating a lesson plan,
which was just a great combination.
- Sounds like fun.
(laughing)
- It wasn't.
- [Maddie] Never have I ever gone out on a school night
and regretted it the next day.
- Really?
- Oh yeah, 100%.
- Well, as a teacher, we like to party.
And-- - I've definitely had
those mornings with the crazy preschoolers
screaming in my ears with a splitting headache.
I just swore it was gonna be the last time.
It's probably gonna happen again.
(laughing) - Yeah.
- No. - No?
Oh.
- Well in high school no, not so much, I was kind of boring.
In college, yes definitely.
But then as a teacher, probably the most.
- Sometimes somebody's getting married,
and you sort of wake up the next day,
and you're making a lesson plan 20 minutes
before it to do, and anyway.
Never have I ever gossiped about
a teacher I didn't like.
- Definitely. - Yeah.
- Of course. - Of course.
- Um, okay maybe.
Not too much, I try not to gossip.
Try not to get wrapped up in that world.
- I had a teacher, not who I worked with,
this is when I was still a student,
whose nickname was AB, I'm not gonna say his last name.
The reason he was called that is because you got
an A if you showed up and a B if you didn't, like to class.
- What the heck?
- Well, here's the turning point of that story.
He had found out about that nickname
before I was one of his students.
And then he was like, oh, well now I'm just
gonna be like one of the toughest teachers there is.
And I got like a C minus in his class.
- Oh my god.
- Even though I went every single time.
That one dude ruined it for everyone.
- Oh.
- Yeah, I probably have.
It's probably like, you know, the school culture
of just teens talking to other teens about
what they like, what they don't like, about teachers.
And I'm sure it's come up in situations.
- I had a teacher who, he would take our grades
and post them on the door. - Really?
- And so we would all crowd around the door
and like we would judge each other.
- It's not the school play.
There's probably students who have failed that class, right?
- I think he did put like a failure line.
(laughing) - Oh my god.
That's crazy.
That's crazy to me, I would never do that.
- I stayed in the top five though.
- There you go, that's what's important about the story.
That's bonkers, really.
- Never have I ever lied to the principal.
No, not really.
I don't think like in high school or anything
I was really even called to the principal's office.
- Okay, good to know.
- I think there was one time, when I was in like
seventh or eighth grade, that we knew
we shouldn't be in the auditorium.
But we snuck in there anyway.
Then the principal came in.
So I remember just trying to talk my way out of it.
Like, oh no, like we were trying to help
get something ready, or I don't know, what my lie was.
But I tried to make it seem like,
oh we were trying to be helpful.
I wouldn't do anything bad.
- I respect authority I guess I should say.
And the idea of lying to the principal,
aka my boss, is problematic.
I mean, I've definitely not told the whole truth.
But is that a lie?
Some would say yes.
So maybe I should say I have.
- I don't speak to the principal.
(laughing)
I've never spoken to the principal.
I don't think I've ever even like, wait.
I don't even know his name.
- What?
- [Vanessa] Never have I ever
not read the book before a lesson.
- Yup.
- Yeah. 100%, sure.
Yeah.
You'd probably see me at like seven a.m.,
on my phone, looking at SparkNotes,
like trying to read the summary like as quick as I can,
right before a class starts.
Not knowing exactly what was in the reading,
but like hopefully pulling it all together.
- I will say this, in my experience as a student
there were a lot of times when we would get assigned
almost 100 pages of reading for like a night or two.
And it was like dry, academic texts.
- As a student I remember my dad
bailing me out big time once.
I totally dropped the ball,
did not read whatever book I was supposed to read.
So my amazing dad sat there with me
and he like read through it with me quickly.
I was taking notes as he was reading.
And he saved my butt.
So thanks dad.
- First time I didn't do the reading
was when we were reading Oliver Twist.
So I go in, and the first thing someone says is like,
did you guys actually do the reading?
And then everyone's like, no.
(laughing)
- That's the best, when nobody's done the reading.
And then this poor teacher's just sitting there like,
all right, so what did Oliver Twist say to the man
with the empty bowl after he ate his porridge?
That's from the movie, I haven't read the book either.
- Never have I ever pretended to be sick
so I could miss school.
Yeah, I think I've done this more times than I can count.
- I definitely have.
Both as a student and a teacher.
Every now and then you just need a mental
health day, you know.
I just take an emotional day,
and I'll just call in for that.
- Yup, that's right.
I know what I said before.
And guess what, this is where I said,
I'm sick today but I've had another engagement.
So what I'm really saying is,
I'm not feeling well emotionally,
and so I won't be in today.
But you have not?
- I have not because my mom, I don't think
I have to pretend I'm sick if I don't wanna go,
then she'll say that like I don't have to go.
She's great like that.
- But you don't do that all the time.
- Oh no, definitely not.
I still get like really worried about what I missed.
- I've definitely been fooled by a student.
Even though I work with threes, fours, and fives.
They're smart.
- So there's a difference between, I think,
being fooled and just going along with the charade.
You can't just be like, oh you're clearly not sick.
Sit down, you're gonna stay in that chair.
Because you run the risk of what if they actually are sick
and then they boot it all over their desk.
- Since they're so young it's just kind of,
I'm impressed by them, you know.
I can't really get too upset at it.
It's just like, oh, good job little one.
- You can almost tell right out of the gate
if someone's actually feeling sick
or just a really good actor.
I mean, if they're not even gonna like
commit to it, they're not gonna commit to like
that oh, (grumbling) I'm so sick.
It's like, okay, come on, sick people don't act that way.
- A lot of students nowadays they try to do
like some sort of like trickery with these teachers.
When instead they could be studying, you know.
- Be like him, just be like him.
- I don't think I fooled them, but I tried to.
I was in a musical, I was talking to someone else
while the choreographer was speaking.
And then he yelled at me for that, and I cried.
- Injustice, ooh, I hate that.
I'm sorry, continue.
- I cried and then in order to cover that up
I asked my theater teacher, do you have any allergy pills
'cause I have allergies.
(laughing)
Which probably just embarrassed myself even further.
But it was worth a shot.
- Oh man, that's really good, I should use that next time.
- I think we've had a lot of--
- Yeah, we have a lot of similar things.
- Answers that have been similar, yeah.
- Are you kidding me?
I feel like Maddie and I see eye to eye on a lot of things.
- Yeah.
And like, we're both people.
It's not just like we're solely identified
as student and teacher.
But we both lie, we both do stupid things.
And like we both need to take rest days.
- And that's what being human is all about.
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