A high school teacher has a question, but he wants his skeptical teenage students to answer it. Reporter Garrott Graham rides along as they investigate the motives of an international yogurt brand. Support the show Comment. on this episode Best of Search Engine To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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I don't miss much about being a teenager, but one thing I do sometimes miss is just how fun it was to be a teenage zealot. The world at the turn of the millennium seemed to my eyes so deserving of skepticism. The war on terror, bullshit. The oil companies, they were bad. My suburb, maybe worse than both of them.
George W. Bush was obviously the worst president America was ever going to have, assuming it even survived him. I think I thought then that most of the adults I knew had just been compromised somehow. It almost felt like maybe adulthood itself corrupted you. Something about corporate jobs or paying taxes or maybe an actual invisible toxin in the suburban air muddied your vision.
So you lost the X-ray teenage clarity me and my friends all had. That's how I saw it then. Today, in theory, I think both sides have a piece of the truth, the young and the not-so-young. But when I meet actual teenagers, I will admit I'm kind of astounded by their withering skepticism, their oracular pronouncements about what's bullshit and what's cringe. Was I really like this?
Is it possible they see me as out of touch? Corny? But I think that's why every year I become a little more astonished by high school teachers. These people who stand up in front of a somewhat hostile audience day after day and just try to convince them to care about whatever the evolving adult agenda is.
This week, reporter Garrett Graham has a story from one of those classrooms about a teacher who had a question and who had the audacity to try to make his students curious about its answer. Garrett was there to watch, to see if such a thing could ever really happen.
Okay. Shall we? Mm-hmm. Where do you want to start the story? So I'm going to start the story almost two years ago, actually, October 2023. I don't know if you remember this, but you get a tweet from a guy named David. And what was David saying? I'm just going to get you to read that tweet. I'm going to put it in your Slack. All right.
Sorry, I have a notification from Domino's Pizza saying I have 80 Domino's points. A currency I never wanted to be wealthy in. You live in New York and regularly order Domino's. It's different. Okay. This is from dfree86 at PJVote. Hi, PJ.
I'm a high school English teacher, and I teach a class called Knowledge of the World that asks students to pose big and small questions for research projects they'll eventually pursue and present on. I've turned them on to Search Engine, and we're currently obsessed with the question... Why is La Fermier, is that how you say it? La Fermier. La Fermier. La Fermier.
The only yogurt that comes in a clay pot. We're deep in the throes of our investigation. Can you help us?
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