Holy shit. I honestly can’t believe it. There’s a pandemic and Classroom Crush is back?!? Well we all respond differently to crisis!! I guess this is Season 3 now or something?? Anyways it’s a new day and a new life for me so I’m no longer writing these in third person, because who was I ever kidding. This week I (Rebecca Bulnes) am joined (on the phone) by my stunningly cool and smart and funny friend Aubrey Bellamy! She is of course telling me the stories of her formative elementary, middle, A...
Mar 27, 2020•1 hr 26 min
Hmm...pop quiz, children………..what has layers? An onion like Shrek? A cake like Bake Off? Jeremy Strong’s performance in Succession? This episode?? ALL OF THE ABOVE, KIDS!! GET READY FOR A REAL SCORCHER! This week Rebecca is joined by writer/producer Jack Moore and boy oh boy is he taking us on a crush journey like no other. Crushes are as follows: pre-classroom crush Erin, elementary school crush Heather, middle-early high school crush “Josh” (Hartnet), and early college crush Bianca. We’re talk...
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 30 min
And we mean literally folks! This week Rebecca (who may or may not have been friendzoned?? We’re figuring it out) is joined by hilarious comedian/writer/podcaster/nice person/superstar Joe Kwaczala!! And this is one for the BOOKS baby. School books! Get it? Anyways, Joe is telling Rebecca about his big highschool crush ANGELA (2.0) and things are liable to get a little disgusting (Succession ref) but NOT in a sexy way. We’re talkin: emotionally and physically debilitating OBSESSION, monogamous c...
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 23 min
This week Rebecca is actually freaking the freak out because she is joined by the absolutely legendary Natalie Walker!! Natalie is taking us on a true journey through her days as a crush chameleon- from her earliest romantic memories as a lonely weirdo child to her high school musical theater star who DOES make out. There’s simply too much CHAOTIC crush territory to cover so PLEASE buckle in. We’re talkin: tfw your 3 week bf goes to military school and then literally stalks you, a 6th grade bull...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 34 min
This week we are honored and humbled to welcome you all back to Jeremy Strong season but we are even MORE honored and humbled to welcome Tim Platt to the show!! Tim is telling Rebecca about THE GIRL he pined for throughout middle school and crossed over into some transformative high school years and also other formative crushes after her!! There’s really a lot to get to SO let’s just say this ep we’re talkin: tfw there’s a shy girl and you’re a loud boy, when the music identity HITS, performing ...
Aug 21, 2019•1 hr 17 min
This week Rebecca has gone off the rails but thankfully she is joined by the hilarious and good Patrick Cotnoir who handles her chaos with grace!! Patrick “doesn’t really talk about this stuff normally” but this time he IS and he’s telling Rebecca all about his first crushes from elementary school to his first relationships in high school! THE FULL CRUSH TIMELINE BABYYY. They’re talkin: a dad sleepover, an 8 minute 8th grade slow dance, Rebecca wants to be a mom sooooo bad is that fine, a failed...
Aug 14, 2019•1 hr 22 min
CRANK UP THAT AC BABY because it’s SUMMER and this week we got DOUBLE the South Florida heat because Rebecca is joined by writer/comedian/FL boy and new friend Harris Mayersohn!! He’s telling her about the twists and turns of his first high school relationship with DANIELLA, and boy oh boy is this one an instant classic tale with the iconic angry facebook messages to back it. PLUS: Rebecca’s date, natural banter, kissing in a car so much the car breaks, sex shame, boys look good in T shirts is t...
Aug 07, 2019•1 hr 18 min
This week on the podcast, Rebecca is joined by the absolutely lovely Jourdain Searles of the Bad Romance Podcast! She’s telling Rebecca about a collection of young crushes because get this…Jourdain was horny has hell from the jump!! And you know we love that. They’re talkin: when boys have a crush on your best friends but also so do you?, masturbating to your own erotica, being a secret backpocket girlfriend, horny shenanigans at blind camp!, overcompensating, when boys do violence (this story i...
Jul 24, 2019•1 hr 9 min
This week Classroom Crush has finally been sabotaged ...by none other than co creator of HBO’s Animals and podcast bad boy Phil Matarese! In this episode Rebecca tries to trick Phil into talking about his high school crush “C.C” (an elusive older soccer babe) but mostly they’re talkin: Keepin it Keeb, “crazy” boners, when you want to marry a cop, Phil is not comfortable being vulnerable because him and his Boys are emotionally stunted, Rebecca got Mad On Twitter (Justice For Luke Taylor), a SCAN...
Jul 17, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Get ready to witness with your ears the beginning of a beautiful friendship on this week’s episode with perfect guest Tom Phelan! Tom is a gift and Rebecca is so happy he is now legally bound to be friends with her until the day she dies. Tom is telling the story of his formative hot dancer best friend crush “David” and all of the musical theater times they shared PLUS a Serious high school partner whose promposal will leave you truly speechless unless you are singing along because yes there is ...
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 37 min
Surprise! This week Rebecca has been busy being On Set so instead of a new CC episode you get the lovely episode 2 of Jacking Off with Richie and Rebecca and you love it. On this week’s Jacking Off, Rebecca and Richie briefly discuss some of Jack’s minor roles (Demolition Man, Bye Bye Love) and then do a deep dive on The NeverEnding Story III: Escape From Fantasia, and Jack’s one off role in The X-Files (Season 3, Episode 3). What’s it like to watch the third installment of a movie when you have...
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr 23 min
This week on the show, it’s the very funny and good Joe Rumrill and he’s taking us on a journey through his crush past!! We’re talkin formative elementary and high school shit babyyy! We’re talking: being a weird pratfalling kid, late night AIM, smurf dating??, CONFESSIONS, toxic masculinity at its infant stage, kissing seems cool and it is, yes Rebecca and Joe were both Gifted Kids, dating friends, smart girls, when a Music Person pivots to being a Comedy Person, and so much more!! Also you sho...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 30 min
This week Rebecca is getting cancelled but at LEAST she’s not alone because she is joined by the lovely and hilarious Matt Lubchansky!! They are telling Rebecca the story of their high school art camp crush who…after many twists and turns, also currently happens to be their……..wait for it……..literal wife. Yes we are all obsessed. And yes 9/11 is involved in this story and that is JUST the truth. PLUS: sexy Oklahoma! talk, fear/craving of physical intimacy, high stakes AIMing, long distance crush...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 49 min
It’s part two of the SPECIAL EPISODE with Rebecca’s high school crush, “Aaron”. In this part, they’re getting into the nitty gritty of their friendship and fluctuating crushes on each other, and why it didn’t work out. That good shit! That juice!! That real life stuff! INCLUDING: being bad in a band, the idea of tenderness, striving to be someone you aren’t, bad kissing in the back of a car, when things changed, Rebecca losing her virginity to Aaron’s friend (classic), wanting to be someone’s li...
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 12 min
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Jun 10, 2019•3 min
This week it’s part one of a SPECIAL EPISODE in which Rebecca is talking to her very own high school crush!! Dubbed “Aaron” and discussed at length in season one, specifically in “Should We Talk About This??” with Sam Fragoso, Aaron is one of Rebecca’s most formative and lasting teen crushes. In this first part, we’re learning about who Aaron is and actually all of the questions they have about who they are. Aaron is telling Rebecca about an integral early crush, and we’re getting a lot of conte...
Jun 05, 2019•54 min
This week we cannot be calm because Rebecca is joined by film twitter crush royalty, staff writer/menace of Vulture, famous Jackson Maine stan and general icon of the internet and beyond, the one and only Hunter Harris! Hunter is telling Rebecca all about her crush on rude bois SKYLER and yes of course pre-cancelled Johnny Depp because we all have a past okay and Pirates was hOt!! But first Rebecca has to talk about her date with a literal racist sexist stupid ass true bigot because that is a th...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 9 min
Sometimes you wake up and find that what you're looking for has been here the whole time, and in this case it’s comedian Charlie Bardey on the podcast!! Charlie is telling Rebecca about ADAM, his crush from freshman year of college who was also his first openly gay crush! Tfw someone doesn’t reject you just because they’re actually straight?? Smh!! PLUS: have you heard of Lin Manuel Miranda?, when someone writes a personal essay about making out with you, Charlie went to Yale calm down, Charlie ...
May 22, 2019•1 hr 36 min
Not to be controversial but this may be the best podcast episode of all time in which two women with Mother’s Hearts are actively and outwardly horny for Vince Vaughn?? Yeah babe! This week the absolutely legendary comedian/nanny Megan Stalter joins Rebecca to talk about her first high school love and yeah, it was her gay best friend okay!! What is this, the 1998 film The Object of My Affection?? They’re talking: an absolutely insane first kiss story and yes there are cousins involved, codepende...
May 15, 2019•1 hr 42 min
Man oh man are you in for a TREAT with this jam packed episode!! The hilarious and truly wise Marcia Belsky joins Rebecca to talk about her first big love and her first big heartbreak and yes it is DRAMA and yes there were lessons LEARNED. This ep has got it all: relationship attachment styles, persistent hookup situations, Man Ego, loyalty, betrayal, virginity, when a crush is the idea of a person, people online have crushes on US actually?, SOCIETY, older guys, druggy teens, dom/sub stuff, hug...
May 08, 2019•1 hr 37 min
This week it’s the very very funny and good Colin Burgess on the show! Colin is taking us on a journey through crush times involving a particular pattern with a particular holiday and, much like last week’s guest, a lifelong affinity for the cinematic romantic gesture. From second grade’s LIZ all the way to high school’s SAM, can you believe it?? This ep has got it ALL: aspirational crushes, the politics of initiating, the podcast is pro incel again :/ , Wegmans vs Publix, secret note exchanges,...
May 01, 2019•1 hr 27 min
Welcome back to Classroom Crush where apparently it’s Shazam! season? Sure! This week Rebecca is joined by the absolutely wonderful and talented Justin Linville to talk about his first high school heartbreak and tfw you don’t look like Michael Cera OR Kat Dennings! This ep has got it all…...talkin a Valentine’s Day declaration, DADS, self image, grand gestures, crippling fear, white indie spaces, Rebecca cries about Shazam!, Justin gets genuine about being “attached”, a mix CD, needing clarity, ...
Apr 25, 2019•1 hr 11 min
Ohhhh boy oh boyyy have we got a corker of an ep this week! It’s Comedy writer/friend/guy, Dave Horwitz on the show, thank god!! He’s telling Rebecca about “Erica”- his high school crush and the first in a long line of Creative Girls that he’d fall for. On this ep they’re talkin Dave’s UNEXPECTED first kiss, drama in the mosh pit, when you just need someone to be kind, hook up anxiety, infidelity, white girl dreads, is Rebecca a virgin again?, forming your own narrative, “poly under duress”, whe...
Apr 10, 2019•1 hr 32 min
Pour the wine, light the fire…it’s Tynan Delong on the show! He’s telling Rebecca about growing up as a crush crazy, R&B loving, super shy romantic and yeah…..he’s got the VERY DRAMATIC JOURNAL ENTRIES to prove it. But first Rebecca is venting about how men were bad this week spoiler alert literally keep your clothes on it’s so easy to do!! This ep has got it all: childhood fantasies, the line “self esteem? I have none”, a Playboy controversy, when is it fetishization (Rebecca doesn’t know!!...
Apr 03, 2019•1 hr 27 min
Oh my god it’s Louis Peitzman on the show!! What else can be said but it is Louis Peitzman and we love him and he’s on the show?? This week Louis is telling Rebecca about the formative crush idea of older brothers, a livejournal romance, and a sexually prying AIM relationship that was probably creepy and not good but was an awakening nonetheless. PLUS: age differences, trauma at tennis camp, “penis.com”, spin the bottle, preemptive self loathing, crush whiplash, marriage, Rebecca gets something ...
Mar 27, 2019•1 hr 49 min
Yep folks you read it here first this podcast episode is very honest and brave and so is this week’s insanely talented and hilarious guest and we’re obsessed it’s Blythe Roberson!! She wrote the book How To Date Men When You Hate Men so obviously we are blessed to have her on the show. She’s telling Rebecca about ALEX, a literal jock she was in love with for the entirety of high school and who she was “close friends” with because that’s fine and healthy! PLUS they’re talkin: sleeping with guitar...
Mar 20, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Hide your girlfriends because this week it’s Mike Abrusci on the pod and he WILL kiss your girl!! Jk he doesn’t do that….anymore…..! Mike is telling Rebecca about a high school friend/crush triangle involving himself and “JEN” & “LINDSAY” and yes he was a sidepiece!! They’re talking: telling your crush about your crushes, wild girls, masochism, fingering!!, long distance romance, anxiety around initiating, love languages, PLUS cancel culture is in full effect, Strong Season is yes of course ...
Mar 13, 2019•1 hr 42 min
This week we’re back with the famous Fran Hoepfner for her THIRD appearance on the show, because of comedy rules! Jk it’s just because we like her. Fran is telling Rebecca about MIKE, a high school marching band crush and all the late night chats and long bus rides that made her act like his gf. They’re talkin projecting, “emotional labor”, crush badges of honor, Fran is volcel, a truly triggering message confession, relationship imbalances, prom drama, shooting your shot and so much more!! Foll...
Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 30 min
This week we’re back from VDay hiatus and most things are bad but something that ISN'T bad is that on this episode Rebecca is joined by the very funny and very chill Jack Bensinger! Jack is telling Rebecca about his high school English teacher who was very STRONG and RUSSIAN and seemed to UNDERSTAND him. Plus: flirting with mechanical pencils, intangible looming fears, cartoon crushes, Jack’s traumatic life, very smart philosophical questions, feeling rejected by the world, does Rebecca actually...
Feb 20, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Warning!! Two former absolutely FUCKED UP teens are on a podcast together!! This week it’s Jeremy Levick on the show! You know him from Clickhole, The Onion, and obviously Tag and were you laughing so much? Jeremy is telling Rebecca about three vital crushes from 8th grade to high school and all the drama of friends to “dating”. This ep has got it all: when a soft crush becomes a hard crush, society!!, emotionally intelligent teen breakups, when you’re literally deep and have problems actually, ...
Feb 06, 2019•1 hr 38 min
