Too Juul for school
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Hello. Is this Ellen Mayer and Chicago, Illinois? Yeah, you've been there in Chicago. |
| 0:10.7 | Hey, this is Sean Robinson from today. Explain, I hear you have a mattress problem. |
| 0:14.1 | Uh, yeah. Well, I had a mattress problem once. Oh, you did. Yeah, I did. Do you want me to tell you about it? |
| 0:21.7 | I'd love to. Yeah, give me a second though. Okay. |
| 0:29.9 | When I was a kid, I thought smoking looked pretty cool. How long have you been a smoker? |
| 0:36.9 | 22 years. But these days, the kids, they're more into vaping. They're more into |
| 0:42.8 | the jewelry. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, I'm going to attempt to hit the jewel for 30 seconds |
| 0:48.4 | straight without exhaling. And we're going to go out and our bathing suits and roll around |
| 0:53.3 | canes and the snow and I rip our jewel for like two minutes. |
| 0:59.0 | It tastes like a blueberry muffin, man. You know I'm a hip-ro. Oh, no. |
| 1:06.9 | Oh, guys, I pimped my jewel and turned it gold. I like the mango and just like one of the best |
| 1:14.8 | flavors I've ever tried really in my vaping career. And now Uncle Sam's coming to crash the party. |
| 1:23.1 | Federal health officials announced a nationwide crackdown on underage use of a popular |
| 1:28.6 | e-cigarette brand following months of complaints from parents, politicians and school administrators. |
| 1:34.4 | It's a vaping device called jewel, but it looks like a regular computer flash drive. |
| 1:39.2 | FDA regulators asked manufacturer jewel labs to turn over documents about the design, |
| 1:44.8 | marketing and ingredients of this product. The kids love the jewel so much, they're bringing them |
| 1:50.2 | to school and to class. The jewel would be my favorite thing to take. Just get you something like |
| 1:56.1 | that like a small vape that you can hide, slip it in your underwear or something and like put it |
| 2:00.6 | on your waistline and when you're going to go into the bathroom to get your fucking nicotine |
| 2:04.4 | fakes, you just reach in there and grab it and do it. This is my 20th year working in a high school |
| 2:11.6 | and we've never seen anything like this. Meg Kenney's an assistant principal at Burr and |
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