Classroom Crush

This week I’m truly thrilled to have my perfect friend Spencer Williams on the show!! She’s a (published ever heard of it) poet and very hilarious and smart which is honestly infuriating and yes, threatening to me. We’re talking about her formative fourth grade CRUSH/BULLY Dustin, AND Brian– a middle school OLDER STRAIGHT MUSICAL THEATER JOCK CRUSH. Much to discuss including: Dad pressure, Dance D...

Punch Up the Jam?? More like Punch Up the DAMNNN I can’t believe our most requested guest is on the podcast this week!! It’s Miel!! She’s so hilarious and cool and you will simply adore her story about long time middle school crush AARON THE JOCK (but he’s Not Like The Other Boys…) that involves not only an email but a nut surgery and a shituation (haha) and oh god I’ve already said too much! PLUS...

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 f...

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...

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)...

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’r...

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 w...

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 slee...

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,...

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...

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 hi...

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 partne...

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...

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 friend...

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. P...

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...

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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 wh...

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 Rebecc...

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?,...

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??...

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 perso...

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 p...

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,...

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,...