What Can We Learn From Teenagers?

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A chorus of hope is coming from an unexpected group — teenagers. They
have superpowers — innocence, idealism, and Instagram — and they aren't
waiting for permission to use them to shape the world.

Guests:

Angie Jiang, Kevin Coval, Luis Carranza, Kee Stein, Frances Jensen, Angie Thomas, Tyler Ruzich

Interviews:

Angie Goes To Washington, Bullying, Buses, Environmentalism, and Donald Trump: The Poetic Thinking of Teens, I'm 17 And I'm Running for Governor, Learning Machines: The Wired Teenage Brain, Author Angie Thomas: Burn It All Down Or Use Those Emotions In My Art, What Teens Need From Adults To Change The World

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs.
0:04.1	Have you ever tried to lobby a U.S. Senator?
0:07.2	How about when you were a teenager?
0:13.6	We walk into the Senate building.
0:15.9	Me, a U.N. staffer, and a gaggle of girls.
0:20.8	This is Angie Jang.
0:22.6	She's 17.
0:24.9	We ask our like chaperone, who are we seeing first?
0:29.3	Oh, we're just seeing Tammy Baldwin's staffers and we're like, oh darn, didn't get to see
0:34.1	her.
0:34.3	That sucks.
0:37.4	We walk into the room. We're giving this pitch.
0:40.7	All these girls are just expressing their passions.
0:43.6	Gender equality and the right to education, the right to having a future, the door clicks a little bit.
0:52.6	It opens.
0:54.2	I look to my right and it's Tammy Baldwin.
0:56.5	She's like, hi, girls!
0:58.0	And I was like, fan girl moment.
1:00.5	She sits down and she's listening and I knew what I was talking about.
1:06.5	All the girls knew what they were talking about.
1:09.5	And she did go on to co-sponsor and associate her name with the bill that we were talking about.
1:16.6	The meeting's over, we leave, we take a picture, it's great.
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