Listener Tales 114: Back to School Tales

Ash Kelley (0:00)

Hey, weirdos, I'm Ms. Trenchbowl.

Alaina Urquhart (0:02)

And I'm Ms. Frizzle.

Ash Kelley (0:04)

And this is the Chokey in the Magic School Bus, brought to you by Morbid.

Alaina Urquhart (0:24)

That is a wild combination, the Chokey in the Magic School Bus.

Ash Kelley (0:29)

Yeah, I mean, it could be like good, you know? How? I don't know.

I think I was just like, I was going to say something and then it just never came to fruition. But I said to Elena, I was thinking about it this morning, because I knew I was going to be dressing up like Ms. Trenchbowl. I said, isn't life just kind of like the Chokey right now?

Alaina Urquhart (0:53)

Yeah.

Ash Kelley (0:53)

Like, aren't we all just kind of stuck in the Chokey?

Alaina Urquhart (0:55)

Yeah. So I don't, it doesn't belong on the Magic School bus.

Ash Kelley (0:58)

I know.

Alaina Urquhart (0:59)

That's absolutely correct. That's for kindness and love and happiness. I don't know what I meant.

Ash Kelley (1:06)

I don't know what I meant or where I am.

Alaina Urquhart (1:07)

I loved it because you were just like, that would be cool.

Ash Kelley (1:10)

I said good.

Alaina Urquhart (1:11)

Good. That would be great. Yeah.

Ash Kelley (1:13)

I don't know.

Alaina Urquhart (1:13)

Let's put a Chokey on the Magic School bus.

Ash Kelley (1:16)

It's not even real.

Alaina Urquhart (1:17)

You said, let's torture them kids.

Ash Kelley (1:19)

Who cares?

Don't put that out there. AI is going to be like, let's take her voice to make it that she tortures people.

Alaina Urquhart (1:29)

Yeah.

Ash Kelley (1:30)

Oh, God.

Alaina Urquhart (1:32)

So today is back to school listener tale.

Ash Kelley (1:35)

Yeah. It's September. So we were like Deb picked these and she said, it's back to school. So you guys get back to school and we're back to school.

Alaina Urquhart (1:43)

Obviously, it's back to school again.

Ash Kelley (1:45)

Back to school.

Alaina Urquhart (1:46)

Let's go. Proctober.

Ash Kelley (1:47)

Speaking of Proctober, that means it's almost October.

And that means you need to send us your Halloween listener tales, please. Halloween themed, like an experience that you had on Halloween that is downright fucking scary.

Alaina Urquhart (2:01)

Or like if it's like leading up to Halloween.

Ash Kelley (2:04)

That works.

Alaina Urquhart (2:05)

Like the lead up to Halloween. Try to keep them around. A Halloween party. A Halloween party, even if it's not on Halloween.

SPEAKER_3 (2:11)

A haunted house.

Ash Kelley (2:12)

Yes.

Alaina Urquhart (2:13)

That you went to.

Ash Kelley (2:14)

Yeah. But like, you know, Halloween coded, scary in nature, please.

Alaina Urquhart (2:18)

Yes. If at all possible. That would be great. Please. And just put Halloween listener tale.

Ash Kelley (2:23)

Yeah.

Alaina Urquhart (2:24)

In the title. We'll put you in the fucking chokey.

Ash Kelley (2:29)

Well, I guess she's pro-chokey now. You went from very anti-chokey to very pro-chokey.

Alaina Urquhart (2:34)

For adults.

Ash Kelley (2:35)

Okay. That's what it is. I think we have some kid listeners.

Alaina Urquhart (2:38)

Well, it's not for you kids.

Ash Kelley (2:40)

Okay.

Alaina Urquhart (2:40)

It's not for you.

Ash Kelley (2:41)

Ms. Frizzle would never. Yeah, it would never. Isn't it like a weird thing for your brain and your eyes to like realize that she's Ms. Frizzle, but you know she's going to say some Elena shit during this episode? Isn't that weird?

Alaina Urquhart (2:53)

This is a little weird.

Ash Kelley (2:54)

It's hard to like rationalize.

Alaina Urquhart (2:55)

My kids loved this outfit.

Ash Kelley (2:57)

I came downstairs and they were like, Mrs. Trunchbull. And they were like, they said it to me like I didn't know. They were like, Mama's Ms. Frizzle. Did you know? And I was like, I literally work with her.

Alaina Urquhart (3:06)

Yeah, we are literally about to record.

Ash Kelley (3:08)

Are you going to read first?

Alaina Urquhart (3:09)

Yeah, I'm going to read first. So this one's called Haunted Schools. A school so haunted, it continues to constantly recur in my dreams 17 years after it was torn down.

Ash Kelley (3:18)

Yeet.

Alaina Urquhart (3:19)

I love that people are still putting the yeet.

Ash Kelley (3:21)

It's special to me.

Alaina Urquhart (3:22)

It has such a place in my heart now. Seemzies, I love it. So it says, Hey weirdos, my name is Shelby. And please use my name, because if I hear this on the pod, I will 110% have to change my pants from shitting them.

Ash Kelley (3:36)