Chris Taylor and Brian Van Brunt are back after a longer-than-planned break, and the return goes about the way you might expect. There are blood clots, bad road-trip decisions, tattoos, piercings, Eggs Benedict, coffee cake trauma, breakfast memories, and a brief discussion of whether Brian should be allowed near anyone else’s final bite. Somewhere in there, they also manage to talk about higher education.

The conversation turns to AI, student behavior, early intervention, mandatory sanctions, and the difference between serious conduct concerns and what one former supervisor called “knucklehead behavior.” Chris and Brian talk about why colleges sometimes wait too long to build relationships with students, why consistency does not always require identical responses, and why the lowest-level intervention that actually works may be the better one.

They also introduce a new Show and Tell segment for the video version (did we mention we have video now?) of the podcast, discuss what is ahead for the Higher Ed Breakfast Club, and make no promises whatsoever about becoming a reliably weekly podcast. They are, however, back.

🎙️ New Episode! Part two of our wild ride with Bobby Szabo!

This week, we talk:

🥐 A pastry so buttery it might change your life

🩰 Swing dancing on Tuesdays, D&D on Thursdays, and drunk Shakespeare on Saturdays

🥓 Bacon that’s burnt and wet by design

😵‍💫 Theater trauma, eight-foot cougars, brunch Dracula, and running a sold-out improv company

🎭 Plus: what it’s like to be sober onstage while the audience keeps buying you shots

🎧 Available now on your favorite podcast app.

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🔥 That’s right. Bobby Szabo (she/her) joins us for a jam-packed, laugh-out-loud, heart-full episode of the Higher Ed Breakfast Club, and y’all, it DELIVERS.🍕 Microwave pizza for breakfast.🥔 Mourning the loss of a Cracker Barrel sweet potato.🧠 Teaching refugee students with power and purpose.🎭 Owning a drunk theater company…as a non-drinker.✨ Oh, and swing dancing at Waffle House.We said what we said.🎧 Hit play and buckle up. This one’s warm, weird, and wildly wonderful - just like brunch with your favorite people.👇 Listen now at www.higheredbreakfastclub.com or wherever you find podcasts.

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