For the Love of teaching is a podcast brought to you by teach stata we save teachers hours each week by bringing them quality downloadable teaching resources for their classrooms to make your classroom Buzz go to teach stutter.com Sometimes teaching can be tough but working with students also gives us countless opportunities to smile Joe Dombrowski AKA Mister D is a teacher and comedian who always finds the lighter side in teaching. This is Friday Funnies with Mr. D. Hello Mr. D. Welcome back. How are you going today? I'm doing great. How are you? Yeah good. So nice to see you. Thank you. It's great to see you as well. Happy Friday my gosh. I'm so Keen for Friday this week. I don't know why it's just been a long week. Oh, I feel you. I totally feel you. Well, should we tell jokes and make you feel better? Yes, please. Okay. So after you know, I was on The Ellen Show, right Excuse me. Yes, I do. Dad what it down there. Yeah. That's my only claim to fame. I know Mister D. Who knows Ellen so By removal one point I know Alan that's my whole life. I love that. I love that. Okay. Well spoiler alert to anyone who doesn't know. I was on The Ellen Show can play it twice. It is amazing. Right? Thanks Mom, but I was on the show and once I was on the show everything really started to change in my classroom, but not with that class like not. Class that I had that year. So I actually went to a new school the next year and I had the idea the idea in my head that I wouldn't say anything and I would just kind of like lay low. Well joke's on me everybody already knew like the minute they heard my name they like new so I go into the new school and everything there was pretty normal. But as the years went on I sort of started to like pick up like even more and even more like I had more followers. I started to tour things that like started. Get big and last year. I had one student who was like very into social media and the internet and he followed me and he would always talk about everything I did. I think I'd I'm lying who I was with what I was doing everything and I kind of loved that because like, I don't know like if kids and adults can follow me then like hello. You have a bigger audience whatever. It's all about the follow as Joe it's all about T-shirt that says that plays because I need one write that down in my nose. So one day he comes in a school and he had he gave me a pad of sticky notes and he goes you sign this for me and I did and I handed it right back and then he handed it back again and goes. No, I meant all of them. Like I'm not going to sign all these sticky notes very what are you doing? And he clammed up and didn't say anything and I was like Nathan. What are you doing with these and here? Admitted and told me that he wanted me to sign all of these sticky notes so that he could sell my autograph on Instagram. Then I found him on Instagram. I found him on Instagram and he made a video and he was going on and on he's like the first one the first one to follow me as soon as I get to a thousand subscribers. I will release mccready's autograph and I will give it to like 10 of you as like what your math is not adding up man. Not at all. Yeah that have any tried to sell. My autographed are that is the internet is what if that's not boy. I mean not within that but I remember that happening because you like reposted his video and it just cracked me up. I was like this Nathan. Yes. Got it. All going on. He seems like a really good A little entrepreneur like he could be big business guy one day. I thought of that like it first happened doesn't guys onto something here and then he always started like thinking of ways to make money, which I never really stifled that good. Thought it was really cool that he was like thinking that Advance. Thank you so much for sharing that gorgeous story, and I hope you have an amazing week. Thank you for popping on to the podcast talk to us again with today. Totally. Thank you. Happy Friday everybody. Yes by thanks for joining us for Friday Funnies. Don't forget to subscribe to For the Love of teaching on your favorite podcast app to get updates on all the latest episodes.
We all know that Mr D is kind of a big deal. With over 200k Insta followers, international tour locations and dual appearances on Ellen, he's hit the big time. But it wasn't always that way - find out what happened the day Mr D realised his star was on the rise!Mr D is coming to Australia! Check out ticket info and dates on Mr D's website so you don't miss out!He's a teacher. He's a comedian. He's officially one of Ellen Degeneres's "favourites". Joe (Mr D) Dombrowski is here to brighten up your week with his infectious laugh and hilarious stories. Brace yourself, because when it comes to dishing the dirt on teaching, kids and life in general, Joe doesn't hold back.Join us in our new For the Love of Teaching Facebook group, where we chat about the podcast, feature live vids of guests, and talk teaching!Don't miss an episode! Have you subscribed to For the Love of Teaching? Don't forget! It means you'll be the first to know whenever a new episode is released.For the Love of Teaching is a podcast by Teach Starter. We make quality, downloadable teaching resources that save teachers hours of time and make their classrooms buzz! See you next week for another dose of Friday Funnies! 