S16 Ep14: Underestimated

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bob sits down with a group of his students, from his Investigative Journalism, to discuss their experiences in created the "Underestimated" podcast. We hear all about the process, how the class has been meaningful to them, and how these students have been genuinely impacted by looking outside of their own bubble to try to make a difference in the world.

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0:00.0	From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.
0:19.4	I'm Bob Roth.
0:38.2	Hello everybody and welcome back to truth and justice.
0:41.6	For this week's episode, we have a group of very special guests with us.
0:45.3	As you guys know, for season 16, we've been bringing on other content creators who are doing actual good work in the space so that we can highlight their work and let them tell their
0:49.4	stories about their journeys.
0:51.3	And this week, there's a new podcast that just hit the airwaves where a group of
0:56.5	high school students who I happen to be familiar with launched their podcast, the underestimated
1:02.3	podcast. Episode one just dropped this Wednesday. And this group of podcasters, they are my students
1:08.3	at my investigative journalism class at Brandywine High School in Niles, Michigan.
1:13.1	And they've been working really hard throughout this entire year to do their investigations
1:16.1	and to create the podcast that are now starting to air.
1:19.5	They're going to be coming out over the next 15 weeks.
1:22.3	And I'm joined by some of the group leaders today so they can talk about this process and what it's been like for them as far as I know, this is the first podcast of its kind created by completely from beginning
1:33.8	to end by teenagers, high school students. So I'm going to work around the table like I'm dealing
1:39.0	cards and let you introduce yourself. Tell them your name, just your first name and your year.
1:45.9	My name is Stephanie and I'm a senior at Brandywine. My name is Gracie and I'm a junior.
1:51.5	My name is Lexi and I'm a junior. My name is Alexandra and I'm a senior. All right, we're going to have
1:56.5	just an informal conversation about what this process has been like for you guys. And Alexander,
2:00.7	I'm going to start with you because your group is the one that won the race and
2:05.5	launched their first episode first this past Wednesday. So what's the process been like for you
2:10.5	this year? Like from the beginning of the class, what were you expecting when you came into
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