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Daniel Tosh
See mint mobile.com hey guys, it's me, Daniel. Do me a solid. I don't ask for a lot but like and subscribe to this podcast also you could rate it highly. I would appreciate, maybe even write a review. Maybe we become best friends. Are you great at staring contests?
Mrs. Sunshine
I mean if I can like cover the one that works. Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Oh, that's. That's it.
Mrs. Sunshine
But otherwise no this baby sensitive.
Daniel Tosh
What's your vision? 2020 out of the one your working night is 2020.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, she's perfect.
Daniel Tosh
Okay, that's good. Yeah.
Tosh Show.
Tosh Show.
Tosh Show Pro show. Welcome to Tosh Show Daniel Tosh. Eddie Gosling.
Eddie Gosling
Sup bud?
Daniel Tosh
Daddy in law? He's not here. But he just got back with us. We went to Vegas this past weekend. Did you have a good time, Eddie?
Eddie Gosling
I did always have a good time, man.
Daniel Tosh
I learned something about my father in law this weekend.
Eddie Gosling
I love when you learn something new.
Daniel Tosh
I never think it's possible to learn something so new every time I hang out with him. But every time I hang out with him I'm kind of giddy because I know eventually something's going to happen that I'm just not going to be prepared for. And sure enough.
We were watching a College football game, sitting on the couch, he's leaning forward. And I go, huh? His skin is really pale in the back. And then I'm like, no, that's not his skin. That's his undershirt. Okay, but why I thought it was his skin was because it was so taut, right? It wasn't like a shirt. It was so taut. It wasn't his outer shirt. It was his undershirt. And it was tucked into his underwear. And I go, oh, no, this must have been an accident.
And he goes, what are you doing? And I'm, like, holding him forward. I'm getting my phone to take a photo of this, and then he starts yelling at me. He goes, I'm not giving you consent. I'm like, what? I'm not assaulting you. I'm just gonna get a photo of it and talk about it on the show. He goes, you can't show a photo of me without my consent. I go, yes, I can. It's the person who takes the photo that has to give the agreement. And I. And it's my photo. And he goes, no, but. But you can't just take a photo. I go, yes, I can. You're in my place. Yeah, I can do whatever I want in my place.
Eddie Gosling
License that photo.
Daniel Tosh
Anyway, it was my hotel room. So I. I'm leaning him forward, he's resisting and saying, stop it. And he goes, you're not going to talk about it? I go, well, then, you know, if you're embarrassed, then you know that this isn't something to do. He's like, I always took my T shirt in my underwear. I go, no, you tuck your shirt into your pants, your undershirt into your pants, and your outer shirt is out. That's nice. Then you don't ever. But now I'm just seeing underwear and a shirt that smells like ass. Beacle Matters on that. I don't all bankers do this or just. No, I don't know what it is. All right, that's goofy.
Eddie Gosling
Goofy. That's a good word.
Daniel Tosh
There's no reason to tuck your undershirt into your underwear. None. I thought he was pranking me at first. Yeah. So the rest of the trip, whenever I came out of my room, I had my T shirt tucked into my underwear, and I had my underwear pulled up as high as I could.
Eddie Gosling
Man, you're the worst person to do something embarrassing around.
Daniel Tosh
I don't think he thought it was embarrassing until I started wrestling him to take a photo of.
Eddie Gosling
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Then he's like, oh, no.
Ed. I gotta thank you.
Eddie Gosling
Thank me.
Daniel Tosh
Okay. I watched that series you recommended, Chad Powers.
Eddie Gosling
Yeah, Chad Powers.
Daniel Tosh
Okay, delightful.
Eddie Gosling
So funny.
Daniel Tosh
Chad Powers. Six episodes. So I thought that was a good thing for me to wrap my head around. I was kind of confused why they would go with Powers when there's already Kenny Powers.
Eddie Gosling
I was too. Absolutely.
Daniel Tosh
And it's kind of the same, like, inbredy dumb type of character that's being played. So I thought Powers was a bold move to do that. But man, there was a couple cold opens in that show that were just hysterical. I mean, like crying, laughing. I was crying.
Where the fly got under his makeup and the cop or the guy that was dropping off the stuff. Are you a fly person?
Eddie Gosling
You're a fly man.
Daniel Tosh
You a fly man. I was just tickled. I was tickled at that. Have you guys seen it? I haven't seen it. It's worth it. It's six episodes. But it's funny. There's some real fun. And Eddie gave me the tip. Make sure you put the subtitles on, because he's gonna do a dumb waterboy voice.
Did you come from the woods?
You know what's funny about that show too? So you watch a show and then you're like, who are these people? The daughter of it. I find out. Oh, my goodness. She's really good in this. She's really funny. She's married to Mark Sanchez.
Eddie Gosling
Oh, great.
Daniel Tosh
So she's got this new show she's seen as this comedic actor and she's having a moment and then her dipshit husband pulls off this fucking colossal fuck up for whatever cocaine deal gone bad and stabbing. And they just had twins, apparently. Now I know Mark Sanchez's original baby mama. I know that, that girl, she's been, you know, in, in our friend groups for years. That's. That's just. That's just fun to watch a show and then find out who the people are and they're like, oh, no, look what they're going through right now. I just thought they were hysterical. But there's a line where she says, did you just come from the woods? And I. It got me so good because her reaction was so honest, like, what the. The fuck? Did you just walk in the woods?
Eddie Gosling
Did you just walk in?
Daniel Tosh
I was, oh, there's some scenes in that show that are funny. The one thing that you always have to remember when you're watching a comedy like Chad Powers is, oh, yeah. He really had to sit in makeup for three to six hours every day to do that.
Eddie Gosling
Yep.
Daniel Tosh
And I'm like, well, then it's not worth it. Well, what if they paid you.
All the money in the world and it was so hysterical? I'd be like, yeah, no, I don't want to do that.
Eddie Gosling
You would hate that.
Daniel Tosh
That would be my nightmare. So I just. I'm so glad that someone does it, but I would never, ever. I would never want to do that. That is just a horrible day. Somebody just touching around your eyes for hours.
Eddie Gosling
Yeah. Making cheeks. Everything about it.
Daniel Tosh
There's just something about, like, somebody touching you like that, where you're just like, no, it's like the sketch Tim Robinson does in the mall where he's like, get the off me too much. I don't want to be around. It's just because it goes to a dark place.
Eddie Gosling
Right. Such a great idea. And then you're like, ah, no, this.
Daniel Tosh
Is a bad idea. Yeah. Anyway, good show. Funny show. Yeah. I'm mad how they wrapped it up like, oh, okay, so this is going to keep on going forever. Great. That's dumb. It shouldn't have been a movie, but it should have just been like five episodes and 20 minutes each. What's that? Limited series. Yeah. Make a. Everybody wants to, you know, create. Everybody wants to be successful for so long.
Just do something for a little bit and then be done with it. Yeah. You know what? It's on me. I just have to watch shows and then stop watching them when they. When they. When they turn and never watch them again.
Mrs. Sunshine
True.
Eddie Gosling
That's true.
Daniel Tosh
You know, it's on. That's on me.
Mrs. Sunshine
Just bail.
Daniel Tosh
Like this show for. We haven't found our groove yet. But we will.
Eddie Gosling
Yeah, we will.
Daniel Tosh
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Mrs. Sunshine
Yep.
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No, I don't have it hooked.
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My guest today is undoubtedly the most talented one eyed teacher you've ever come across. She believes that children are our future, but will never keep them after class because that's when she makes viral videos in her classroom. Please welcome special education teacher, fashion influencer and disability advocate, Mrs. Sunshine.
Mrs. Sunshine
Hi.
Daniel Tosh
Did I mention she has one eye? First question I ask all my guests, how did you lose your eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
Well, we got to take it back like 25 years. I was five years old fighting with my younger brother. He was three, so it's like he wasn't trying to get my eye. And it was about who would sweep our grandmother's front porch. We're fighting over a broom you both wanted to sweep. I know, we were great kids. I know, I know. We're just servants to the grandmother. So we're pulling on either side of a broom. The broom comes apart like the old brooms. We had to screw them in, you know the like wood to metal just strips it and then I pull it into my own face.
Daniel Tosh
Okay.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah. Brother goes and hides in the woods.
Daniel Tosh
So is he still there?
Mrs. Sunshine
No. But my nana did have to go find him when the eye deflated because she was like, we gotta go. Mind you, we're on a mountain in a cabin.
Daniel Tosh
Where?
Mrs. Sunshine
Wyoming.
Daniel Tosh
Uh huh.
Mrs. Sunshine
So we had to drive down the mountain to get to the nearest hospital. But he was afraid. So he did hide in the woods for probably like 10, 15 minutes.
Daniel Tosh
Sorry that that happened to you. I mean, just awful. Had you not lived in Wyoming, had this accident happened in Los Angeles and you were steps away from Cedars, would have the outcome been the same? Could have those doctors potentially been able to save your eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
So I actually didn't live in Wyoming. I lived in Los Angeles. My mom was a model so she would send us off to our grandma's house in the summer so she could Work. She was single mothering it. So I did actually get my eyes seen about at Cedars Sinai. It's where I had 12 of my surgeries. And yeah, so they did everything they could and they.
Daniel Tosh
But. But in the moment of Wyoming, was there something like, oh, had you been here right at this moment, we could.
Mrs. Sunshine
Have done something different, honestly, probably because the local hospital had to just like numb me up and send me to go to Utah because they couldn't do anything for me. So it was a. A drive there and then a drive all the way to Salt Lake City where my mom had, like, flown in to meet us. So that was many hours.
Daniel Tosh
This is what I say to people when they, when they start whining about California. It's like, I know Los Angeles has a million strikes against it. Fine. But when shit hits the fan, God, you want our doctors?
Mrs. Sunshine
We got good doctors here.
Daniel Tosh
How bad does your brother feel for life about it?
Mrs. Sunshine
Well, he. For the longest time, probably till middle school, he thought that he hit me in the face with a broom because we just never talked about it much. I was never allowed to blame him. My mom was like, that was an accident. No, this was just like how it happened.
Daniel Tosh
Your mom's good for that.
Mrs. Sunshine
She was a great mom. But he did internalize that for a while until in high school, I was like, I pulled on it. I was stronger than you. I was five, you were three. What, you. You're holding onto that still? And he was at that point. And then I think he kind of released after that. It did help once I started making content online about the eye, and it was like a whole side hustle. Then he was like, sunshine, come on, give me a good birthday gift.
Daniel Tosh
You know, I do blame someone. It's your grandmother's fault.
Mrs. Sunshine
She was talking on the phone because.
Daniel Tosh
I have two little kids. I got almost a three year old and a six year old, and I watch them all the time when they play. If they're yanking on something, I'm. I'm. Knock it off. I know how this ends. You knock helicopter parenting, but you don't know how much it prevents.
Mrs. Sunshine
Till someone loses an eye.
Daniel Tosh
Till someone loses an eye. Now, are you one of these people? And I say it like that, with that tone that's like, if I could go back and change it, I wouldn't because it's shaped who I am as a person. Or would you immediately change it?
Mrs. Sunshine
I would not change it.
Hear me out. Hear me out. It's cute. At this point, it's like, it's. It's part of my brand.
Daniel Tosh
I get it. I get all of that, but knock it off.
Mrs. Sunshine
It's true, it's true. But if you would have asked me in middle school or high school, honestly, halfway through college, I would have said yes immediately because I hated it.
Daniel Tosh
Because you were way smarter back then is what I'm learning.
Mrs. Sunshine
I was way more insecure back then.
Daniel Tosh
Agree to disagree. But the amount of things that I would change in my life if I could, all I do is replay everything that I've ever done and go, I wish I would have done this different. I don't care how it's affected me now.
Mrs. Sunshine
I mean, I got like eyeball options. Not many people can say that.
Daniel Tosh
I know. We all can get to that point. I just have to take a pen and do something horrible. I know. By the way you say that in middle school, high school kids were awful.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, of course.
Daniel Tosh
It's just horrible.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah. You look different. You are visibly disabled. Like, you're mocked, you're teased, called a freak. So it's hard to like that part of yourself when people around you have made you feel very negatively towards it.
Daniel Tosh
I wonder if your mom felt like this weird thing because she was a model and known for her outward beauty. And then this tragedy happens to her daughter, who's beautiful, and then you're like.
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh, I think I internalized it more when I was hormonal. Cause my mom had always been the hot mom. She was very beautiful, and I felt like I couldn't measure up. I also did child modeling until I lost the eye. And then I was no longer doing that. So there was that kind of. That's what I'm saying. I would've been a totally different person had I not lost the eye.
Daniel Tosh
I know, but it would've been awesome. Huh?
Mrs. Sunshine
My mom did go out of her way to like. She threw me a prosthetic eye party when I had my first prosthetic. She bolstered my confidence as much as she could as a parent. But there's only so much combating a mom's love can do.
Daniel Tosh
What do you say to people when they stare?
Mrs. Sunshine
I just let him. Or I'll like, tap it. Oh, no.
Daniel Tosh
Tapping is a good move.
Mrs. Sunshine
It's a great one.
Daniel Tosh
That's a power move.
Mrs. Sunshine
It's a. It's a good one. Usually to like the grownups, if it's a little kid, I'll give a wave. But the grown ups, if they're locked in, they're getting a tap.
Daniel Tosh
I mean, but now at this point, they're staring because you've done. It's like a.
Mrs. Sunshine
Looks like a contact or sticker. I've asked how I got a sticker on my eye before or tattoo.
Daniel Tosh
Do they do that?
Mrs. Sunshine
Only when I have the sclera, not white. The sclera is the whites of the eyes. I have some that are like a red iris with a black sclera, and they're like, how'd you get that tattooed? And I was like, well, it started with a broom to my face.
Daniel Tosh
The eye, your glass eye, it kind of tracks with your other eye. It is moving almost the same constantly.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, that's called the range of movement. Everyone's prosthetic will have a different range of movement. Mine is still limited. Like, if I go all the way over here, it won't be able to, but it's still over there. I mean, I see I have muscles in the eye back there.
Daniel Tosh
It doesn't seem like a wonky eye where it's like, out to, you know.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah. No, it's not, like, cockeyed or whatever is the inner one.
Daniel Tosh
No, it really is. It's pretty remarkable because every time it moves, I'm like, oh, that's. It's. It's moving. It's following exactly where you're looking. If you didn't have a star on it, I don't think I would know.
Mrs. Sunshine
Well, you think that, but when it does actually match, it gives, like, uncanny valley because it doesn't look exactly the same and it doesn't move exactly the same. So when your attention is drawn to the fact that, whoa, whoa, something's a little off, it just derails what you'll focus on. And most people do look at the eyes when they talk to people, so it would just be clocked as a lazy eye. Most of the time, no one thought I had two working eyes or they.
Daniel Tosh
Thought you didn't have a soul.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah. Sold half of it. I don't know.
Daniel Tosh
Can you legally drive?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yes, as long as this eye maintains, I can drive.
Daniel Tosh
Are you a bad driver because you are a woman?
Mrs. Sunshine
No. My husband would argue I'm a bad driver because I drive like a crazy person with a. I do the old nut Weevling, where you just vroom, vroom when people are slow. Honestly, I probably shouldn't do that. The death reception is a little off. I would be.
Daniel Tosh
Do you get handicapped parking?
Mrs. Sunshine
I can.
Daniel Tosh
You don't.
Mrs. Sunshine
I'm lazy. I know.
Daniel Tosh
You don't have to pay meters in LA if you have the placard.
Eddie Gosling
I mean, that's Pretty good.
Mrs. Sunshine
Are you serious?
Daniel Tosh
Yeah.
Eddie Gosling
Yep.
Mrs. Sunshine
I didn't know that. I thought it was just for like, that.
Daniel Tosh
You can park in any meter, unpaid.
Mrs. Sunshine
I'm calling my primary tune. Do it tonight.
Daniel Tosh
Do it. How is your depth perception with one eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
Shitty.
Daniel Tosh
Is it?
Mrs. Sunshine
It's real bad. I've got the fat bruise on my shin right now from just, like, walking into my own desk in, like, Mach 9, trying to get the phone, and it was bad.
Daniel Tosh
Do you remember life before that? Do you remember your vision before?
Mrs. Sunshine
Not at all. It's why I think losing an eyeball. If you're going to lose an eyeball, do it as a kid because you won't remember what it's like to be fully sighted.
Daniel Tosh
Do you sleep with the prosthetic on?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yes.
Daniel Tosh
In.
Mrs. Sunshine
Some people have to take it out. Some people are supposed to leave it in. Mine is supposed to always be in.
Daniel Tosh
Is it more comfortable to not have one in?
Mrs. Sunshine
No, for me, it's more comfortable to always have one in. I have a very sensitive little baby under there.
Daniel Tosh
Kids. Are kids bad or good to you now?
Mrs. Sunshine
Good.
Daniel Tosh
Do you encourage them to ask questions or anything or. No.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah. So with my students, one of the first things I do when introducing and, like the get to know you day, the first day of school, I do very openly talk about my eye. I have light covers in my room, so I do state that those are my accommodations. I teach in an inclusive setting, so it also, like, opens the door to talking about what you need in a way that's positive.
Daniel Tosh
And.
Mrs. Sunshine
And I don't open the floor to questions in that moment. But since I brought up the eye, I show a couple of the eyes on the little PowerPoint. The kids know that they can comfortably ask me about it, and some do. And they're like, no offense, Miss, but blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I'm not offended. I, you know, I do this for fun. It's because I think it's a fun thing. So they do feel comfy asking me about it. Random kids in the street will just, like, point and stare.
Daniel Tosh
Do you believe in ghosts?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Mm.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, I do. Spirits?
Daniel Tosh
It was just something you saw in a blind spot and you're like, I don't know what that was.
Mrs. Sunshine
No, I sleep with the lights on sometimes. I just don't trust it.
Daniel Tosh
Really?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Ugh.
Mrs. Sunshine
From time to time, scary movie has me feeling some type of way.
Daniel Tosh
Do you like seeing scary movies?
Mrs. Sunshine
Sometimes. I'm coming around to it slowly but surely.
Daniel Tosh
I'm not allowed to watch them. Sunshine. Is that Your birth name, is it really. Your mom named you Sunshine, not because.
Mrs. Sunshine
Of hippiness, but her father's name was Sunny.
Daniel Tosh
Oh, I have a. I have a friend. Their daughter's name is Sonny.
Mrs. Sunshine
That's a good name. She knew it would be my nickname.
Daniel Tosh
Is your nickname Sonny? Mm, that's pretty good. Mine's Dan. Dan the Mustard Man.
Not so good.
Mrs. Sunshine
That's a long nickname.
Daniel Tosh
It's a real. It's a real long nickname. How did you get into having more creative eyes than your traditional match?
Mrs. Sunshine
So I first wanted a fun eye when I was in high school, but my mom didn't want to foot the bill because if I didn't like it, there was no going back. My ocularis would have made me a green eye, so it would have been, like, custom, fun, not matching. So that didn't happen. When I got to my mid-20s and I paid for my very first eye all on my own, I did have, finally, the, like, bravery to go for the green eye. And my theory was that people would focus on the color being different instead of the movement being funky. And that was 100% what happened. Everyone started complimenting my eye, noticing it, saying that it was heterochromia, which was what it looked like. And so that kind of started my fun eye journey. And then from there, since I was posting about it online, I got connected with Rachel McKinsley and Christina. Rachel has one eye. Christina makes the eyes. And so they wanted me to come out. Christina wanted to make me a fun eye. And I was like, ricky, you're going with me, because I'm gonna go meet people from the Internet. And this is. Who knows? So we flew out, and it ended up being amazing. These women are now some of my best friends, and we're on a nonprofit together, so we're, like, supporting other people, getting fun eyes as well.
Daniel Tosh
How many eyes do you have?
Mrs. Sunshine
I have 24 at this point.
Daniel Tosh
How expensive are they?
Mrs. Sunshine
One of my best friends makes them, so I don't know. I got the bestie discount.
Daniel Tosh
Where's your best friend located?
Mrs. Sunshine
Portland, Oregon.
Daniel Tosh
Of course they are.
Mrs. Sunshine
Center for Ocular Prosthetics.
Daniel Tosh
You can't. You can't.
Mrs. Sunshine
They're great.
Daniel Tosh
You can't not be in Portland and do that.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Type of art. Do you call it art?
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh, yeah, 100%. I mean, I painted my own eyes.
Daniel Tosh
Is this all she does?
Mrs. Sunshine
She does matching eyeballs as well, but her passion is for fun, custom prosthetic eyes because it's more empowering.
Daniel Tosh
And how much business does she Get.
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh, she's booked through a year and a half. She's wildly busy. Does very well.
Daniel Tosh
Do you have to get it sized exactly?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yes. So a mold is taken of your like eye hole space, whatever you got working with in there.
Daniel Tosh
Can I see your brain in there? Is that how it works?
Mrs. Sunshine
No, no, I have a little dam. Some people don't have an eye at all. But even then they have scar tissue, not like brain. So they have to take a mold and then from that mold that they take from this burny silicone type stuff, they then are able to have a pressed mold for the eye.
I don't make them. I don't know the legal terms.
Daniel Tosh
I got you. Does insurance cover it?
Mrs. Sunshine
Insurance will cover about 80%. The good insurances of matching prosthetic eyes. They don't touch custom eyes, which is unfortunate. So if you want a custom one, you got to pay out of pocket, which is what typically like a thousand to five thousand.
Daniel Tosh
I mean if you, if you told me that's what an eye costs, it's like, well, it's a fucking eye. You know, it's going to.
Mrs. Sunshine
And it takes some hours to paint. It's a, it's a laborious process.
Daniel Tosh
How often do you switch your eyes out for videos?
Mrs. Sunshine
More often than like everyday changing. This is my most comfortable eye. So I will default wear this eye and then if I've got a fun event, I will put an eye in to match with the outfit.
Daniel Tosh
Do you have uncomfortable eyes?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Can you like just shave them down in a corner and be like, all right, that'll feel better.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah. But my girl is in Portland, so to adjust my eyes I have to fly to Portland and then can't you.
Daniel Tosh
Say just make them all match this one?
Mrs. Sunshine
It's tricky cause I have a very sensitive socket and they're all hand carved. So if even the slight like isn't perfect. Yeah, I'll feel it. And since I'm not there when she's making it to do the quick adjustments, I'll typically go visit, hang out with my friends out there, bring like five eyes and then get adjustments on them.
Daniel Tosh
And you brought some of your fun eyes here.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, I have, I have a couple.
Daniel Tosh
Do you ever let anyone else wear your eyes?
Mrs. Sunshine
No. So, okay. Some people do have similar socket shapes.
Daniel Tosh
Uh huh.
Mrs. Sunshine
And I do have a socket twin, but to me that just feels. That's like spitting in each other's mouths. That's gross.
Daniel Tosh
Oh, I was gonna say that's kind.
Mrs. Sunshine
Of hot, Steve, but some people would.
Daniel Tosh
Think that you Want me to touch it?
Mrs. Sunshine
I mean, I'd wash them before I put them in my face.
Daniel Tosh
Whoa. This has been in your hole?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yep, it's been in my eye hole.
Daniel Tosh
Cause I can't put contacts in. It always drives me nuts. And I hate when makeup is put on my eyes. It drives me nuts. So I wouldn't do well with this, right? Or would I just get used to it?
Mrs. Sunshine
You get used to it. It takes a minute to get used to the funkiness of it. If makeup gets on my prosthetic, it hurts, but it sucks. So I have to like, take it out and then clean it. And I also can't put contacts on this eye. It gives me the heebie jeebies to even go near it. But you don't like. Okay, sounds weird. But you don't see it coming. So you.
Daniel Tosh
That helps.
Mrs. Sunshine
It helps, yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Have you ever accidentally poked your own non existent eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, it hurts if I accidentally with my nail. Cause I'll like, use my finger to pop it in and out.
Daniel Tosh
You ever wear a eye patch?
Mrs. Sunshine
Very rarely.
Daniel Tosh
Are they not cool?
Mrs. Sunshine
I've got a weird sensory thing about things touching my face. It's not my favorite. So I have worn them in the past because one of my girlfriends does make really awesome eye patches and I wanted to test them out for her, make a little video about it. And so I wore it in Japan to kind of see the way that people react to eye patch versus fun prosthetic. And if it could.
Daniel Tosh
Yeah, but you're.
Mrs. Sunshine
You're endure.
Daniel Tosh
You're a Westerner girl in Japan. They're going to react to you regardless.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, but I mean, you'd think when I was on a knee scooter out there, they cared more about the scooter than the eye or anything else.
Daniel Tosh
No. Well, now you went techy. They love tech.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Oh, they love tech.
Mrs. Sunshine
I don't think people use new scooters out there.
Daniel Tosh
I like to stereotype everyone. How long am I going to hold these?
Mrs. Sunshine
I don't know. I was like, you're just having a good time with them.
Daniel Tosh
Well, I'm not.
Mrs. Sunshine
I'm just.
Daniel Tosh
By the way, are they delicate? Like, if I step on it, is it going to break?
Mrs. Sunshine
You could drop them, they'd be all right.
Daniel Tosh
I don't want to. I'm just saying. But have you broken an eye before?
Mrs. Sunshine
I have not, but one of my friends cracked their eye, but she's a little reckless with her eye sometimes.
Daniel Tosh
What about writing stuff in there? Do you have any with a favorite lyric? Maybe. Maybe Some scripture or. I mean, or a little knife on the top?
Mrs. Sunshine
No, I don't have anything.
Daniel Tosh
Stop staring. Like something like that.
Mrs. Sunshine
The text would be so small it'd be hard to make out. But there are people that get like their favorite sports team stuff on there. So they have like the tiny little text.
Daniel Tosh
Would you consider a Dolphins logo?
Mrs. Sunshine
No, I don't like sports.
Daniel Tosh
I know, but.
Mrs. Sunshine
So I feel like it'd be squandering one of my eye. Eye shapes.
Daniel Tosh
Get your eye off my desk. I've always wanted to say that.
Mrs. Sunshine
That one's my fancy eye. Special occasions.
Daniel Tosh
Can I put it in my eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
Try.
Oh, my God. It's not going to fit, bro.
Daniel Tosh
I mean, I don't know how to do it.
Dapper dance.
Mrs. Sunshine
Beautiful.
Daniel Tosh
It looks good. It's nice. Okay. All right. Sorry about that.
Mrs. Sunshine
I'll wash it.
Daniel Tosh
Do you always have an extra eye on you?
Mrs. Sunshine
Not always. If I'm wearing my non comfortable eyes, I will keep a more comfortable backup.
Daniel Tosh
And do you have any like cheapy. Like I have cheapy glasses around my house. Do you have any cheapy eyes?
Mrs. Sunshine
No. The process that goes into it's all the same. But I do have some that are more expensive. Cause they've got like gems or more precious stuff in it.
Daniel Tosh
I can't believe we can't think of anything like crazy to do to an eye that she hasn't already thought of.
Mrs. Sunshine
I know, it's.
Daniel Tosh
I mean, you said somebody put lights in it and that's pretty fun.
Mrs. Sunshine
And like a spider.
Daniel Tosh
Yours glow in the dark. Any of them?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, this one will glow a little bit, but you got to like charge her up.
Daniel Tosh
Can you stare directly at the sun with your bad eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
That's a plus. Donald Trump.
Eddie Gosling
What about like a snow globe? Kind of fluid in there.
Daniel Tosh
Ooh, a snow globe.
Mrs. Sunshine
So Christina has tried that two different times. Both times was a flop. It's very tricky. They've not figured that one out yet.
Daniel Tosh
Okay, what about like magic eight ball your eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
That would be interesting. The suspending of stuff just to where.
Daniel Tosh
We have to look straight up and then we get these signs point to yes.
Mrs. Sunshine
You'd have to have a thick eyeball for that.
Daniel Tosh
What about a candy eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
I don't have one like that. That's cool.
Daniel Tosh
Then you pop it. Instead of tapping it, you just pop it out in front of kids.
Mrs. Sunshine
What do you mean like real candy?
Daniel Tosh
Yes.
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh, God, no.
Daniel Tosh
I'm talking about eat it. Talking about eat in your eye.
Mrs. Sunshine
I feel like you'd be real goopy.
Daniel Tosh
Well, I'M not listen, it's a one off. It's like, you know, edible.
Mrs. Sunshine
It's for the bit.
Daniel Tosh
Edible underwear. You don't really. No one gets hungry for edible underwear. It's just something that we know exists. It's like a jawbreaker. I'm wearing a pair right now. Does your husband have a preference?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, he has a favorite eye.
Daniel Tosh
Does he prefer you to have an eye in.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, because otherwise my eyelid just like closes.
Daniel Tosh
How did you meet your husband in high school.
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh my gosh. Not when we were both in high school together. Let me be clear.
We were in the same grade. We actually met at like freshman orientation. He was like 3 inches shorter than me at the time of meeting. Thought he had a cute face. But I'm a staggering 5 4. And he was like, so 10th grade swings around. He's taller than me and I'm just like, done.
Daniel Tosh
That is sick.
Mrs. Sunshine
That's mine. And then he was like, I have yours.
Daniel Tosh
That is so weird to like know that you knew your husband before he went through puberty.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, a little bit. And like me and my best friend talked about which one we were going to get and like, she like, you're shorter. You can have that one. Oh, this is my now husband.
Daniel Tosh
You guys. You did a swap little. An early wife swap.
Mrs. Sunshine
We do.
Daniel Tosh
We did husband swap. How old were you when you got married?
Mrs. Sunshine
23.
Daniel Tosh
How many years have you been married? Seven years. That's a while. Forget life that you can't remember when you had both your eyes. You barely can remember life before your husband.
Mrs. Sunshine
Literally no clue. I'm always like, babe, you're not allowed to die. I would just like be a Spencer at that point.
Daniel Tosh
Can you feel people when there's eye contact honing in on your working eye?
Mrs. Sunshine
I can't tell.
Daniel Tosh
Okay.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, it's like the general vibe if they went nose, eye or that eye. I don't know.
Daniel Tosh
I'm always confused with eye contact to begin with because usually when people are talking, I look at their mouth because I don't hear well. So I'm like, oh, I'll do a little. I'll cheat a little bit. But now I'm like, oh, where am I supposed to stare? Do you teach in public or private school?
Mrs. Sunshine
Public.
Daniel Tosh
And your is a special education in high school?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Okay. What's your age range for your kids?
Mrs. Sunshine
It varies between like 15 to 17. I'll write IEPs when needed for like the 9th graders. So I'll occasionally have a little 13, 14 year old student that I'm working on their paperwork for. But typically it's my 11th graders.
Daniel Tosh
Were you always drawn to that? You're like, this is what I'm going to teach.
Mrs. Sunshine
I'm in my eighth year teaching. I bounced around a little bit. But by far high school is in my humble opinion where it's at if you're going to be a teacher. Because the worst thing is going to happen is like maybe the kids are like doing drugs or doing something they ought not in a private space on campus. And maybe you get cursed out a little bit. But no one is like absolutely losing their mind the way they do in middle school when hormones start kicking in like to where they're making very interesting choices. And there's like not crying like in elementary school. I don't know how to console a crying child as a teacher because I'm like, I'm not going to hug someone else's child. That's where I am.
Daniel Tosh
Well, you can hug. You can hug a child.
Mrs. Sunshine
I don't know.
Daniel Tosh
I help my kids first grade class all the time and I'm hugging kids if they need it. Some kids just need it.
Mrs. Sunshine
I'm just not built to be an elementary school teacher. I'm just like, I'm a pat on the head type of gal, you know? You got it, champ.
Daniel Tosh
Is this a special needs class or not a special needs.
Mrs. Sunshine
Inclusion. Inclusion. So that means there's general education students and special education students together. But the kids I teach are considered mild to moderate. So like lower levels of supports. The adhd, dyslexia of it all type population. Like you would look in the classroom and not be able to like pinpoint exactly who might be on my caseload.
Daniel Tosh
Are you dyslexic?
Mrs. Sunshine
Probably have not been properly diagnosed. But the more that I've progressed as a special education teacher, the more I side eye some of my own things where I'm like, I was a high functioning of certain things.
Daniel Tosh
How much more difficult is it to work in a special education classroom?
Mrs. Sunshine
It varies. So it definitely depends on the type of students you're working with. So if you're in a moderate to severe classroom, it's entirely different than if you're in a mild to moderate setting.
Daniel Tosh
Because you're mild to moderate?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yes.
Daniel Tosh
What kind of challenges are your students facing?
Mrs. Sunshine
Motivation having, performing it significantly below grade level and having to like bolster them into producing grade level work. There's always the writing and documenting of IEP stuff that is something gen ed teachers just don't have to ever touch or worry about. So I don't think it's the most challenging on my end, but I'm also at a school that sets me up to do my job very well. That's not the case everywhere. Sometimes you'll have one. Special education teachers spread through, like, 50 kids, which is a nightmare.
Daniel Tosh
What's your ratio?
Mrs. Sunshine
Sixteen are on my caseload. I write 13 IEPs a year. I'm given entire Mondays as sped planning days to work through all of my paperwork. So I rarely feel like I'm drowning.
Daniel Tosh
Does your disability change the way you approach teaching special ed?
Mrs. Sunshine
That's why I went into teaching special ed. So it's hard to know what has influenced what exactly. But I just know that when I had an IEP growing up, there were teachers that treated me like I was stupid or couldn't do certain things or would talk down to me. And I didn't like how that felt. So when I was considering going into being a teacher, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna be a special education teacher. Cause I want to pour back into my own community and help kids see themselves in me, even if they don't have one eye and really know they have someone in their field cheering them on. That, like, gets it. Has struggled. Has cried in a class before during a quiz because they were frustrated.
Daniel Tosh
School was always just kind of a necessary evil for me.
Mrs. Sunshine
It's tough. And I think that a teacher can either make your experience a little more enjoyable or really shitty.
Daniel Tosh
Do you like where you teach? Would you teach elsewhere?
Mrs. Sunshine
I love where I teach. I feel like I've found the place that if shit hit the fan, that's when I'd back out of teaching.
Daniel Tosh
How far is your commute every day?
Mrs. Sunshine
30 to 40 minutes each way.
Daniel Tosh
30 to 40 minutes, that's acceptable.
Mrs. Sunshine
I say, good audiobook, good to go.
Daniel Tosh
Do you listen to audiobooks?
Mrs. Sunshine
Mm. I don't like, like, actually reading. Oh, I'm bad at it.
Daniel Tosh
Is that because of your eye? Mm, it is.
Mrs. Sunshine
It can't, like, track in a straight line very well.
Daniel Tosh
That's interesting.
Mrs. Sunshine
I gotta do the, like, finger reading or, like, put the paper down as I go.
Daniel Tosh
Is there a way that we could design a book that would be easier for you to read? Is there a way that the words could be written? Or is there a computer screen that would be easier?
Mrs. Sunshine
Bigger text. But also, again, had my special education teachers when I was younger taught me accurately how to manage that. I wouldn't struggle as much as an adult. But they phoned it in quite a bit.
Daniel Tosh
I know I'm just trying to think if we could come up with like some software on a computer that would be like, this is actually how your eye would process things at a quicker rate.
Mrs. Sunshine
I wouldn't know.
Daniel Tosh
I'm going to work on that. Get on that one long line.
Mrs. Sunshine
One long. I feel like I'd started tripping out on that too.
Daniel Tosh
No, but it's gonna go fast. It's gonna fly by. You hang out in the lounge. What's going on in there? Do you like your teachers, your, your co workers?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Is it a group? Is it like fun there?
Mrs. Sunshine
There's like tighter knit inner circles of people that hang out more outside of work. But honestly we keep pretty dang busy. So it's like you see each other in passing when grabbing a coffee. Someone's running off prints. You get the like, how was the weekend? And I'm tired. And then, you know, proceed.
Daniel Tosh
Has Trump fixed our education system?
Mrs. Sunshine
No. The reason why we lost two sped teachers because of the budget cuts.
Daniel Tosh
What do you think of Linda McMahon?
Mrs. Sunshine
I think she should stick to TV.
Daniel Tosh
Is that what she does? I don't think. I don't want her on TV either.
Mrs. Sunshine
I don't know.
Daniel Tosh
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Mrs. Sunshine
Guys, thanks for helping me carry my Christmas tree.
Daniel Tosh
Zoe, this thing weighs a ton. Drew, ski lift with your legs, man.
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Daniel Tosh
Santa, did you get my letter? He's talking to you britches. I'm not.
Mrs. Sunshine
Of course he did.
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Daniel Tosh
PAW show.
Do you think kids are okay in general or do you think we're all going to hell in a hand basket?
Mrs. Sunshine
I think it's alarming when a lot of high schoolers can't read properly. It's a lot. And there's only so much intervention that can support when a child's reading level is many grades below and not just on my caseload. Like we're not talking about students with disabilities. Like across the board Right.
Daniel Tosh
Because we always just. We constantly just keep lowering the bar instead of, like, making kids have to do more education. It's like, well, if they can't read, let's just lower the bar even more.
Mrs. Sunshine
Or they do two weeks of summer school and then you pass them anyway.
Daniel Tosh
You're supposed to just pass kids, aren't you?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yes. They make it very hard to not. I think in the many years I've taught at this school, we've only retained one student, and it was only for one subject, and that was it. But it's very challenging too, and the documentation and parent has to approve as well. But, yeah, no Child Left behind impacted a lot of reading levels.
Daniel Tosh
I think what we need to do is implement a Billy Madison rule that every five years you have to go through all 12 grades in two weeks. Yeah, good. That's good. Thank you. That'll be a part of my agenda.
Mrs. Sunshine
There we go.
Daniel Tosh
Is your class an easy class to cheat in?
Mrs. Sunshine
No, I've got Go Guardian. I just lock their screens and then they can't cheat.
Daniel Tosh
What about kids and. And using, like, AI and ChatGPT to do all their papers? Is this. Is this just the way of the world now?
Mrs. Sunshine
They try to push it, but there's also, like, Go Guardian. They can block websites they can access. However, we do have one of the last units we do. Teaches kids how to use AI properly, because they're going to try to use it and we don't want them to use it stupidly in college. And one of the last things we teach the 11th graders before shoo shooing them onto the 12th grade is a little mini unit on AI as a tool in the classroom for kids.
Daniel Tosh
Okay.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Do juniors rule?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, I think they're the best grade to teach. They don't have senioritis.
Daniel Tosh
You know, I've always said juniors rule.
Mrs. Sunshine
They're fun. It's a good batch of babies.
Daniel Tosh
Sophomores.
Mrs. Sunshine
Those are the tough ones.
Daniel Tosh
I hate them.
Mrs. Sunshine
They're too comfy.
Daniel Tosh
They think just because they're not the lowest on the rung that they're important, but they're not. Do you guys have to have shooter drills every year? Every year? Just once a year, yeah.
Mrs. Sunshine
And anytime there's a school shooting, we usually have a little debrief at the beginning of class, going over procedures when.
Daniel Tosh
These tragedies inevitably continue to happen. And then people start floating ideas. Well, we're gonna start arming our teachers. What goes through your brain at that point?
Mrs. Sunshine
You just don't want a gun in the classroom. If anything I do think that having the scanner when people come in so that they can't enter in without Whatever. To me, that's significantly more effective than having a gun in a lockbox under a desk. That now is a looming threat to the kids. Or maybe having retired veterans volunteering and they're trained for xyz.
Daniel Tosh
What about one live grenade in your.
Mrs. Sunshine
Desk drawer just, like, ready to go?
Daniel Tosh
Just one grenade? You have a grenade in a drawer? I feel like I would be comfortable with that. Like, okay, I know how this works. Something bad happens. Kids are in the hallway. That's on them.
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh, Lord.
Daniel Tosh
Just open the door, roll it out there. I don't know what the fix is for that.
Mrs. Sunshine
Maybe not a grenade.
Daniel Tosh
No, not a grenade.
Eddie Gosling
Not a grenade.
Daniel Tosh
You got one of those emergency showers in your classroom. I always like those in the science labs. The big ring, the metal ring.
Mrs. Sunshine
We got an emergency poop chute.
Daniel Tosh
What's that?
Mrs. Sunshine
A bucket.
Does what? With a modesty screen?
Daniel Tosh
Is that just. Somebody has to emergency poop in case there's a shooter.
Mrs. Sunshine
They gotta poop. What?
Eddie Gosling
I mean, if you're trapped in your classroom.
Daniel Tosh
Are you talking. If you're locked in the classroom and.
Mrs. Sunshine
Someone'S got the poopy doopies, you gotta what?
Daniel Tosh
The poopy doops. Is that new slang? Is that the slang? Is that what kids are saying?
Mrs. Sunshine
The anxious shits? I don't know.
Daniel Tosh
Huh. And it's never been used.
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh, it's been used before you retire the bucket. Once it's used.
Daniel Tosh
But you've seen it used.
Mrs. Sunshine
Not me. Another teacher. There was a shooting outside the school, and they were on lockdown for, like, six hours. Most people just. Just held. Yeah, but someone couldn't. And the poop shoot was.
Daniel Tosh
I don't know. I don't know that. That would have been me.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
I might have just taken my chances and been like a hero and sort of, you know, storm run to the bathroom, storm the castle. I don't know.
Eddie Gosling
After lunch, I feel like you're.
Mrs. Sunshine
It's nightmare fuel stuff.
Daniel Tosh
Oh, man.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Is that that type of stuff that happens? And even the anxiety that yearly preparation does that. Is that enough to make you go, I don't want to do this?
Mrs. Sunshine
It makes me think about it.
Daniel Tosh
Yeah.
Mrs. Sunshine
Because. Yeah, it's why. I mean, I get police being afraid of dying at their job. Why should a teacher and kids. That's crazy.
Daniel Tosh
Where I'm. That's where I'm at, too. Of course the police should be afraid, but those are people.
Mrs. Sunshine
They know what they're Signing up for yes.
Daniel Tosh
They accept some level of risk to be a teacher and have to feeling the responsibility of all these kids.
Mrs. Sunshine
And when I did teach in a classroom where it was all students with disabilities that were more higher levels of support, I knew that there is no every man for themselves. Run, go take care of yourself, child. It's like, I am responsible for these lives. Like, I'm going down with this group if something happens because they're not able to manage themselves. I think the elementary school teachers feel that same level of fear too. Now high school, I'm just like, you guys run when you can. You go, you have your phones.
Daniel Tosh
Get your people, Go get a grenade. That's.
We need. We need. I mean, hand it. Hand it to one of your brave kids and go, here you go, buddy. Do you dress like this outfit today? Would this be an appropriate outfit for school or no?
Mrs. Sunshine
It's a little short, but I did actually wear this very similarly to work, but I had pants underneath.
Daniel Tosh
Okay.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
And I bring this up because I know that you've been told that you don't dress like a traditional teacher. Do you care about that or no?
Mrs. Sunshine
No. As long as I'm dressing appropriately and abiding by my school's policy, which even what I show online is more conservative than necessarily what my school would require me to wear. But I know people have a lot of opinions online, so. No, it's self expression, and it models for students that you shouldn't be afraid to express yourself in ways that are dynamic.
Daniel Tosh
That's what I've always tried to tell people, Eddie. I'm trying to express myself. I used to have funky haircuts in high school. Oh, to shave the side of my head.
Mrs. Sunshine
Have fun with it.
Daniel Tosh
Oh, it was good times. Which pays more.
Mrs. Sunshine
I make substantially more from online stuff than teaching.
Daniel Tosh
Would you give it up if the money got too lopsided?
Mrs. Sunshine
No, it already is very lopsided. But it's my passion, and I think it's more important. So I'm gonna write it out until I'm like, over teaching. And right now I still love it and I'm energized to go to work teaching.
Daniel Tosh
Every day pays around $200 a day. Is that the going rate in Los Angeles?
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah. And I'm at a school that pays pretty well.
Daniel Tosh
Am I shocked? No. That seems about right to me. That seems about what I would expect. Now, you shoot a lot of your content in your classrooms. Is that frowned upon? Nobody at the school's ever like, you can't do this or no.
Mrs. Sunshine
No. So it's always important to read the, like, school policy around things. And so our big one is no kids and no identifiable things for the school. And other than that, you're allowed to share on social media.
Daniel Tosh
What do you like to do for fun?
Mrs. Sunshine
I work two jobs, so I don't have a ton of downtime, but I do love video games and. Oh, anytime there's a break from teaching, I'm going abroad or traveling with either friends or my husband.
Daniel Tosh
Does your husband have any disabilities?
Mrs. Sunshine
Not that he's diagnosed. 4.
Daniel Tosh
Could we think of a few, though?
Mrs. Sunshine
I'm sussy. I am suspicious.
Daniel Tosh
Everybody on the show gets a gift. I mean, it's just stuff that I find around my house that I think the guest might take.
Mrs. Sunshine
If it's eyeball themed, I'm here for it.
Daniel Tosh
Well, first thing, I wanted to give you this.
Mrs. Sunshine
They're so cute.
Daniel Tosh
Okay. But this is from John. Did I talk on the show about the problem, John, or. No, no, not at all. Okay, get in depth. John, who works on this show, has. He thinks he has an orchard. He's got a tree that produces apples. Well, he sent me home with some apples. I was like, oh, this is great. We love apples in our house. And I bit into it, and it was disgusting. Then I handed one to my kids, and they thought it was disgusting. And I'm like, these aren't ripe. And then I started yelling at him, and I was texting him, like, they're the worst apples we've ever tasted. We all hate them. The skin was awful. And then his wife starts getting mad at us, saying, what is he talking about? That's why you kept saying that apples cannot be grown in some ways. Well, I didn't think this is the region for apples. When tasting your apples, they didn't taste good. Okay. I was just mad. Anyway, long story short, too late for that. But he recently texted me. He goes, hey, I think you are right. I think I had picked months too early. And now he's bringing me new apples.
Mrs. Sunshine
And they're good.
Daniel Tosh
I have no idea. I want you to taste it first.
Mrs. Sunshine
All right. Are they washed?
Daniel Tosh
Yes. I don't know if that's true.
Mrs. Sunshine
I want the babies.
Daniel Tosh
You take whatever you want. Just a tiny bite. Just to tell us if the apple.
Is it acceptable or no.
Mrs. Sunshine
I like a sour apple, a little peanut butter, and this slaps.
Mm.
Daniel Tosh
Those are yours.
Mrs. Sunshine
Those are yours. I like them.
Daniel Tosh
I also feel like it's a lot of. Lot of skin. The skin feels tough to me.
Mrs. Sunshine
Still is that where the nutrients is at, though.
Daniel Tosh
I don't care. I just want it to taste good. I'm not into it. It's a million times better, John. It's a million times better.
Mrs. Sunshine
I like it.
Daniel Tosh
John, just so you know that. You sent me an apple that was. Go ahead, shoot it.
Mrs. Sunshine
I like it.
Daniel Tosh
You gotta shoot it.
Mrs. Sunshine
I like it.
Daniel Tosh
You're gonna be fine. It's wasteful. Just throw it.
Mrs. Sunshine
Oh, I'm gonna miss.
Daniel Tosh
No, you'll never miss.
Buckets. All right, that's gift one, gift two. Here, I thought you'd like this. You'll do something fashiony with it.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah, you'll see it in a video. I'll make it work.
Daniel Tosh
These are a bunch of fake eyelashes.
Mrs. Sunshine
Are they used?
Daniel Tosh
No, my wife took one for some Halloween thing, but that's it. There's only one missing.
Mrs. Sunshine
The one missing. What did she do? Was she a pirate?
Daniel Tosh
It was like a Day of a Dead thing.
Mrs. Sunshine
Okay, here.
Daniel Tosh
Then I got you this. Now, I didn't get this for you. I just took it out of my daughter's room. This was like some eye crystal stuff that she, like, put around her hair.
Mrs. Sunshine
Wait, this is. Yes.
Daniel Tosh
I figure you can do something.
Mrs. Sunshine
This is a win.
Daniel Tosh
That's a win.
Mrs. Sunshine
This is a win.
Daniel Tosh
Yay.
Mrs. Sunshine
This one's a win for sure.
Daniel Tosh
I'll take it. Well, then the scarf could be a win. You'll see.
Mrs. Sunshine
Thank you for the gift.
Daniel Tosh
Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome for all you do. Well. Listen, sunshine, thank you for being on the show. All the best to you.
Mrs. Sunshine
Thanks for having me. Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
Paw show.
Want to thank Sunny for being on the show and for letting me finger her eyes.
Eddie Gosling
Yeah, that's nice.
Daniel Tosh
That was nice. That was really nice. I don't know if I'm gonna tell my kids to knock it off when they're yanking on a broomstick. I'll just be like, you know what? Your life might turn out amazing if one of you loses an eye. Yeah. I blinded my father once as a kid.
Eddie Gosling
What'd you do?
Daniel Tosh
I threw an airplane perfectly. Flew perfectly straight, hit him right in the eye. He couldn't see for, like a week.
Eddie Gosling
Furious.
Daniel Tosh
He was so mad.
Eddie Gosling
Good plane.
Daniel Tosh
It was a great plane.
It flew true. Like, just level. Just, you know, like sometimes when they glide perfect. A perfect paper airplane and just kind of drops a little.
Eddie Gosling
I mean, he could take his eye off of it, watching it.
Mrs. Sunshine
The.
Daniel Tosh
I don't think he was watching me.
Eddie Gosling
Just out of nowhere, it kind of.
Daniel Tosh
Just came in and got him. That's the Worst it was in St. Louis. We had a Cardinals game we went to a few days later. He was tripping on the sidewalk, cursing me.
How about you, Carl? Huh? Carl, you got anything to add to this? Oh, no. Did you get in trouble with Sunshine and she told you to put your head on the desk, or are you trying to sleep in class? I used to always wedge a book here, then I could lay down comfortably. Whatever. Want to plug our store toshshowstore.com My first farewell. Tour tickets on sale now. Come see me in 2026. Come see Eddie, come see Carl, Come see my wife.
Come see my children break bread with us. Because like Vin Diesel, you see this new season of slow horses.
Mrs. Sunshine
Yeah.
Daniel Tosh
When the politician quotes Vin Diesel.
Eddie Gosling
Yes.
Daniel Tosh
I couldn't imagine that's what you were gonna. That was hysterical. Yes, it was hysterical. I didn't see that coming either. Also, we have our Patreon page. Patreon at Tosh show or something like that. Yeah, whatever. Look it up. Let's see. Do we have any voicemail today?
Eddie Gosling
We do.
Daniel Tosh
All right, let's hear them.
Voicemail Callers
My name is Jody, Independently wealthy, live in Oklahoma, I think Trump shameless chocolate diet. But I do live in a red state.
Daniel Tosh
Okay. All right. He's independently wealthy, lives in a red state, and he's older than. Probably what we're looking for. Right. I don't. I don't have a problem with that guy. Sounds fun.
Eddie Gosling
He does sound fun.
Daniel Tosh
I like that kind of voice. I can listen to a guy like that tell me stories.
Eddie Gosling
Yeah, it's gonna have. Could be a horrible story, but it's great coming out of his voice.
Daniel Tosh
I like it. He'll tell us about, you know, some things. One time they fucking beat a hooker.
No, I like it. That guy seems pretty cool. Anybody else? Yep. All right, let's hear this guy.
Mrs. Sunshine
Hi, Daniel.
Voicemail Callers
My name's Ashley. I know.
Daniel Tosh
It's a woman. Yeah.
Voicemail Callers
I'm not a man, but I just wanted to call anyways because Amanda's really pretty and so is your wife. And you. I'm five seven. I have a decent job doing, like, tech support stuff. I work with horses. I'm a horse girl.
And I think you and I would get along on vacation. Well, actually, maybe we wouldn't, because I also have ibs and I'm also always my pants. And I really, honestly. Hang on. I truly appreciate how open you are with it because it was something that I used to be so embarrassed about. Why I would be like, oh, I. I'm throwing up. And I would make like coughing sounds while I'm shitting my brains out. But I've just accepted it now. You know, I'm, I'm a pretty woman who shits a lot and sometimes can't go on long drives.
Daniel Tosh
Put that on a T shirt, have.
Voicemail Callers
To shit on the side of the road.
Daniel Tosh
I'm a pretty woman who shits a lot.
Eddie Gosling
There you go.
Daniel Tosh
Ah, I like her. I don't know if Amanda's ready to change complete lifestyles.
Eddie Gosling
Yeah, let's, let's, let's throw it in there.
Daniel Tosh
Actually, if we had two people that, that have bad stomachs, this could be good. I could use this to my advantage because now it's, it's one thing when I'm the only voice to say, let's not do this, but now if there's two people that potentially could all over the side of the road.
Eddie Gosling
There's power in numbers.
Daniel Tosh
You throw in my father in law who can't control his bladder, we're quite.
Eddie Gosling
The group because he's all bundled up and tucked in.
Daniel Tosh
I don't know if we can have two people that shit themselves in the same car.
We're confusing my kids enough. It seems like too much. Let me think about this one. See you next week.
Episode: My Favorite One-Eyed Special Ed Teacher – Ms. Sunshine
Host: Daniel Tosh
Guest: Ms. Sunshine (Special Ed Teacher, Fashion Influencer, Disability Advocate)
Date: December 9, 2025
This episode of Tosh Show features Ms. Sunshine, a vibrant and candid special education teacher who is also a fashion influencer and disability advocate, known for her one eye and creative approach to prosthetic eyes. Daniel Tosh dives into Sunshine's life story—how she lost her eye as a child, the journey of owning her visible difference, her teaching philosophy, and her internet presence. The conversation is a blend of humor, honesty, and insight about living with a disability, teaching special ed, and finding empowerment through self-expression.
[02:04–09:25]
Notable Quote
Daniel Tosh [03:55]: "There’s no reason to tuck your undershirt into your underwear. None."
[13:45–14:06]
[14:06–16:28]
Notable Quote
Ms. Sunshine [16:28]: "For the longest time, probably till middle school, he thought that he hit me in the face with a broom... I was never allowed to blame him."
[17:10–18:59]
Notable Quotes
Ms. Sunshine [18:14]: "You look different, you are visibly disabled—like, you're mocked, you're teased, called a freak. So it’s hard to like that part of yourself..."
Ms. Sunshine [19:01]: "My mom did throw me a prosthetic eye party when I had my first prosthetic. She bolstered my confidence as much as she could as a parent."
[20:02–28:38]
Notable Quotes
Daniel Tosh [20:22]: "If you didn’t have a star on it, I don’t think I would know."
Ms. Sunshine [25:04]: "I have 24 at this point."
Ms. Sunshine [26:17]: "Insurance will cover about 80%... They don’t touch custom eyes, which is unfortunate."
[22:20–37:47]
Notable Quotes
Ms. Sunshine [36:37]: "That’s why I went into teaching special ed... I want to pour back into my own community and help kids see themselves in me, even if they don’t have one eye."
[37:44–39:02]
[39:05–46:50]
Notable Quote
Mrs. Sunshine [42:39]: "I think it’s alarming when a lot of high schoolers can’t read properly. It’s a lot. There’s only so much intervention that can support when a child’s reading level is many grades below..."
[43:45–44:26]
[44:34–47:47]
Notable Quotes
Mrs. Sunshine [47:01]: "It makes me think about it [quitting teaching]... Why should a teacher and kids [have to accept risk of death at school]? That’s crazy."
[48:01–49:11]
[50:03–52:49]
[55:23–57:54]
On Self-Acceptance and Disability:
Ms. Sunshine [17:22]: “I would not change it... It’s cute. At this point, it’s part of my brand.”
Daniel Tosh [17:44]: “Because you were way smarter back then is what I’m learning.”
Ms. Sunshine [18:14]: “You look different, you are visibly disabled... It’s hard to like that part of yourself when people around you have made you feel very negatively towards it.”
On Being a Visible Role Model as a Teacher:
Ms. Sunshine [36:37]: “That’s why I went into teaching special ed. So...I want to pour back into my own community and help kids see themselves in me, even if they don’t have one eye.”
On Education System Woes:
Mrs. Sunshine [42:39]: “I think it’s alarming when a lot of high schoolers can’t read properly...there’s only so much intervention that can support when a child’s reading level is many grades below...”
On Teacher Compensation & Social Media:
Daniel Tosh [48:46]: “Which pays more [online content or teaching]?”
Mrs. Sunshine [48:49]: “I make substantially more from online stuff than teaching...But it’s my passion, and I think it’s more important.”
| Segment | Timestamp | |--------------------------------------|--------------------| | Vegas bickering and Chad Powers recap| 02:04 – 09:25 | | Introducing Ms. Sunshine | 13:45 – 14:06 | | The story behind losing her eye | 14:06 – 16:28 | | Disability, bullying, and family | 17:10 – 18:59 | | Prosthetic eye mechanics & eye art | 20:02 – 28:38 | | Sunshine’s classroom & inclusion | 22:20 – 37:47 | | Literacy crisis and lowering standards| 42:32 – 43:41 | | School safety & shooter drills | 44:34 – 47:47 | | Fashion & online influence | 48:01 – 49:11 | | Gift exchange/bizarre gifts | 50:03 – 52:49 | | Voicemail and closing humor | 55:23 – 57:54 |
Daniel tries to insert a prosthetic eye, leading to raucous laughter.
Daniel Tosh [30:18]: “Can I put it in my eye?”
Ms. Sunshine: “Try… Oh my God. It’s not going to fit, bro.”
Cheerful banter about "emergency poop chutes" for lockdowns, and awkward student scenarios.
Thoughtful, vulnerable discussion of how Sunshine’s own disability reformulated her approach to teaching and advocacy.
Daniel’s signature irreverence pairs with genuine curiosity and warmth that sets Ms. Sunshine’s story in sharp relief.
The episode is classic Daniel Tosh: edgy, biting, but ultimately compassionate. Ms. Sunshine’s story is inspirational, and she deftly balances humor and honesty about living (and teaching) with a disability. Listeners gain insight into both the challenges and joys of special education, the realities of visible difference, and the power of community both online and in the classroom.
Perfect for:
Fans of irreverent comedy, educators, people interested in disability advocacy, and anyone craving stories of resilience with genuine laughs.