Getting Into Gratitude 🙌
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📣 Hear from 15-year-old activist Ewan Barker Plummer about making a difference in your community for the issues you care about 🍗 Let's talk turkey for today’s Fun Fact ✊🏽 We speak to a teenage activist about starting a petition to get justice for George Floyd that more than 3 million people signed, and making an impact on the causes you believe in ⁉️ See if you can guess the answer to the Trivia Question of the Day: when home cooks need help with Thanksgiving turkey emergencies, who can they call?
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🦃 Impress your friends with 16 Fun Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Thanksgiving
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Bethany Van Delft: [00:00:00] Happy Thanksgiving! I'm Bethany Van Delft, and we're getting into gratitude on today's The Ten News, a special holiday episode where we're celebrating kids we're thankful for. And yes, that includes you.
[00:00:16] Okay, let's get into The Ten News.
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[00:00:26] What are you grateful for this Thanksgiving Day?
Kid Voices: [00:00:30] Hi, my name is Sasha and I'm 11 years old. I am grateful for my friends, family, and my school.
[00:00:39] Hi, my name is Elliotte Camille. I'm eight and a half years old. This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for my family, my food and my school.
[00:00:49] Hi, my name is Hazel and I'm 10 years old. And especially this year, I'm really grateful for how my family stayed very healthy. And for my soon to be puppy [00:01:00] named Luna. Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Bye.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:01:05] And I'm grateful for Sasha, Elliotte, and Hazel for sharing what they're thankful for with us. Thank you.
[00:01:19] Here at The Ten News, we love hearing from kids making a difference in the world. Kids like Ewan Barker Plummer, the young activist who spoke with our correspondent, Ryan Nerz.
Ryan Nerz: [00:01:31] It's been an unsettling time for America, with protests raging across the country so you could make the case that there's no better moment to become an activist for positive change.
[00:01:41] And there is no age requirement for becoming an activist. On that note, I can't think of a better activism role model than this kid.
Ewan Barker Plummer: [00:01:49] I'm Ewan Barker Plummer. I live here in San Francisco. Um, I'm a youth activist and organizer here in SF politics, just working to make sure that youth voices are heard.
Ryan Nerz: [00:01:59] Ewan's [00:02:00] mom took him to a phone bank for Hillary Clinton, where volunteers were making calls in support of her presidential campaign.
[00:02:06] He says he fell in love with politics immediately.
Ewan Barker Plummer: [00:02:09] I got involved in local politics. Uh, recently I've worked on a few different campaigns and I've just been, you know, making sure that we, you know, prepare our city for a better future.
Ryan Nerz: [00:02:23] He's been outspoken on the housing shortage and housing affordability problems in San Francisco.
Ewan Barker Plummer: [00:02:28] And so I try and make the youth voice, which is who's going to be directly impacted by the choices that we make regarding housing. So, you know, I'm in favor of building housing more or less everywhere.
Ryan Nerz: [00:02:43] It wasn't long before you and became an activist for LGBTQ causes.
Ewan Barker Plummer: [00:02:48] I was born, you know, before even gay marriage was legalized, which to me is shocking, because think about the fact that, you know, there are people around me who were in loving, committed relationships [00:03:00] that weren't allowed to get married.
[00:03:01] So I wanted to make sure that queer youth voices were heard. I wanted to make sure that we could continue to celebrate. And so I've been trying to do that while I do political activism in, in San Francisco.
Ryan Nerz: [00:03:13] Ewan Barker Plummer thinks the kids, his age should get involved and the time to get involved is now.
Ewan Barker Plummer: [00:03:20] No matter what it is you're standing up for it could be the smallest thing from making sure that your local school is funded properly, although that's not really small, uh, or to the biggest thing, to making sure that we have gun control on the national level to protect kids. Just make sure that you are using your voice. This is the generation of change, we are the generation that's standing up for climate action that standing up for, uh, gun control that standing up for proper school funding. Make sure that you use your voice because its a gift.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:03:55] Thanks, Ryan. And thank [00:04:00] you, Ewan and for continuing to inspire us.
Opal: [00:04:02] Hi I'm Opal with today's fun fact. Did you know that there was three towns named after Turkey? There's Turkey, Texas, Turkey, North Carolina, and there's Turkey Creek, Louisiana.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:04:28] Let's get the gratitude going and hear from another young person sparking change in the world. Our correspondent, Pamela Kirkland spoke with Allie Martinez, who figured out how to make a difference without ever leaving home. I need to hear this.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:04:47] This summer, we saw protests all over the country, over racism, toward black people.
[00:04:53] What we also saw that kids were leading the way on racial equality by leading their [00:05:00] own protests, speaking up and starting petitions, and they continue to lead the way. Allie Martinez is just one of those teen activists. She spoke with The Ten about a petition she started to get justice for George Floyd.
Allie Martinez: [00:05:16] My name is Allie Martinez.
[00:05:19] I grew up in Florida, but when my parents divorced, I moved to Texas. All my family's from Mexico.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:05:25] What made you think that you wanted to create a change.org petition, especially around George Floyd?
Allie Martinez: [00:05:33] Mostly. It was just me trying to get like a little bit of justice for his family and hopefully making an impact. As a person of color. I know like what racism is like, and it makes me very sad. Like I know what's going on and stuff. And it made me very upset. So I wanted to try and do something and make a difference, especially since it's something that will be probably marked in [00:06:00] history.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:06:00] How did that feel when, you know, you found out over 3 million people signed your petition?
Allie Martinez: [00:06:06] Yeah. The day made it, it was getting a bit of traction and I was very thankful, especially since all my friends were sharing it, but I did not think it was going to get this big. It means so much to me and I didn't really think it through until like it actually happened. And it means so much to me that people actually like agreed with me and wanted to make a change as well.
[00:06:33] I'm very thankful that my generation is a lot more open-minded.
Pamela Kirkland: [00:06:38] And what would you tell kids who were looking for ways to get involved in activism around this and just, you know, become activists in general?
Allie Martinez: [00:06:47] I would definitely tell them to sign every petition, share every physician, try to donate to every cause possible if they can afford and just speak [00:07:00] about it.
[00:07:00] Like it's not something controversial, it's something that's happening right now.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:07:06] Thanks Pamela. And thank you Allie, for reminding us that even small actions can lead to big change.
Owen: [00:07:19] I'm Owen, and it's time for your trivia question of the day!
Tracy Kaplan: [00:07:24] And I'm his mom. Tracy
Owen: [00:07:28] When home cooks need need professional help with Thanksgiving turkey and emergencies, who do they call?
[00:07:36] A) the Host Busters, b) the fixin' fixers, c) the Turkey Talk line or D) their grandmas, get off my lawn.
Tracy Kaplan: [00:07:52] What's the answer?
Owen: [00:07:59] C!
Tracy Kaplan: [00:08:01] Oh the Turkey talk line.
Owen: [00:08:03] Mom, how about you tell us why..
Tracy Kaplan: [00:08:05] Well, while grandma may be the best cook in the family, for this year's Thanksgiving dinner, you might be on your own. The people at Butterball Turkey have been running a holiday helpline for over 30 years. Each year they handle over a 100 thousand calls from turkey newbies, and grownups just like me. This year, you can even text them or call them on an Alexa. So before you give up and order a pizza, your grownups might want to give them a call. Who you're going to call? Butterball Turkey. There's something strange you with your turkey, who you gonna call? Butterball Turkey.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:08:45] Uh, time's up. That's the end of The Ten News for today, but you can catch new episodes of The Ten News on Tuesdays and Thursdays. A big, huge thank you to Sasha, Elliotte, Hazel, Opal and Owen [00:09:00] for helping out with today's special episode. And to Ewan and Allie for sharing their stories. The Ten News is a co-production of Small, But Mighty Media in collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts and distributed by iHeartRadio. The Ten News writing team is led by Editorial Director, Tracey Crooks, with contributions from Steven Tompkins, Ryan Nerz, Pamela Kirkland, and Tracy Leeds Kaplan. The creative producer is Jenner Pascua. Marketing is led by Jacob Bronstein with social media and web support by Steven Tompkins and Adam Pharr.
[00:09:33] Editing and sound design by Pete Musto under the production direction of Jeremiah Tittle, Executive Producer, Donald Albright and show creator Tracy Leeds Kaplan round out the team. If you have questions about the show, a story idea, or a fun fact, you want to share, email us at hello@thetennews.com. And don't forget to subscribe, rate and review The Ten News on Apple podcasts, iHeartRadio, [00:10:00] Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. I am Bethany Van Delft and thank you for listening to The Ten News. Now go have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.
