Tales of a Quarantined ESL Teacher

Published: March 29, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

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David Magadan is an MFA Actor, Writer, and Sound Designer as well as the creator of the Scifi Audio Drama Directive.

David Magadan

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TRANSCRIPT Video call set up sounds, the mic on the other side connects and we hear the room tone kick in.

JONATHAN Pat! What\\u2019s up man, how\\u2019s quarantine?

PAT Good man! I finished all those 20,000 piece puzzles I impulse bought and alphabetized my movie collection by the likelihood of being watched again. What about you? You still doing your English teaching for Chinese kids?

JONATHAN Yup! Still teaching the bao bao\\u2019s.

PAT How\\u2019s that going? JONATHAN Uhhhhh

Cuts to a class with Jonathan and Leo

JONATHAN Good job Leo! Dui ya! (clicks) Okay Leo, What do you see on the mountain?

LEO I see Teacher Jonathan. You are on the mountain. You jump off the mountain and you DIE. Big monsters eat you and you are DIE. YOU ARE SO WEAK. YOU ARE SO WEAK.

Leo proceeds to go into a 6-year-old maniacal giggle, cuts back to the video call.

JONATHAN great. Ya. Super rewarding.

This episode was produced by David Magadan of Directive, with additional voices from Clayton Caufman and Fernando Perez.

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