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00:10Everyone give a warm welcome to the students of Derrysburg High School.
00:13Future of journalism, meet present of journalism.
00:18You can ask them anything you want.
00:21Don't be shy, guys.
00:22You do not need to be intimidated by us.
00:25We are here to help you.
00:26All right?
00:27No question is too stupid.
00:28Do you think an over-reliance on anonymous sources damages public trust?
00:32That's an amazing question, and it's very curious.
00:35Who wants to take this one?
00:37I feel like I'm monopolizing the conversation.
00:39Okay, personally, I have never found the need to use anonymous sources in either of my articles, so.
00:44You've only written two?
00:46But she's only starting out, so.
00:49Yeah.
00:49Yeah, but I'm a freshman, and I've written 30.
00:52Goddamn.
00:53Well, Barry over there, he's written thousands.
00:56Is this your family?
00:59Davey, you had something else, didn't you?
01:01What are your rules on asking leading questions?
01:03Oh, I'll take this one.
01:05The great thing about journalism, we have no rules.
01:08Yes, we do.
01:09Um, those are really tempting.
01:10Instead of saying something like, you were outraged by his behavior, weren't you?
01:15It'd be better to say something like, did you have a strong emotion, yes or no?
01:20Well, Mrs. Hanks taught us that we shouldn't ask yes or no questions because it discourages someone from elaborating.
01:29Yes.
01:30Okay, if there are no more questions, I think we can head into...
01:33Is there like a way we could come to you guys' school and shadow you for a bit?
01:37Okay.
02:07What does it cost
02:08to run Truth Teller every year?
02:10Oh, I don't know.
02:11The monthly budget is about a half million dollars.
02:14Whoa.
02:15Pretty cool, right?
02:16How do you expect you can survive with so much waste?
02:20I don't think there's all that much waste.
02:23Hey.
02:24Yeah?
02:24Travis says that a byline is a reporter's name
02:27at the beginning of an article,
02:28but isn't a byline like the article's very last line?
02:31It's like, bye.
02:34Byline.
02:35Don't.
02:36Oh, I'm sorry.
02:37Don't write that down.
02:39You guys all go to Dairysburg, right?
02:41Yeah.
02:42I graduated there in 2012.
02:43I have a girlfriend.
02:46That's good.
02:47Um, so is there anything big happening at the school?
02:50The music teacher's retiring after, like, 30 years.
02:53Oh, Mr. K.
02:54He's retiring.
02:55We're having a whole send-off thing for him.
02:57He's directing one last show at the school.
02:59Wow.
03:00He's a pretty big deal in Toledo.
03:02He went to Juilliard.
03:04Fancy.
03:04What's the show?
03:06It's a gender-swapped mean girls called mean boys.
03:09Fun.
03:10Yeah.
03:11Sure.
03:12I remember Mr. K.
03:14I remember a lot of my high school teachers.
03:18Do you ever worry about outlets like So Wesley
03:22that basically do the same job as Truth Teller
03:25but have no expenses?
03:26So Wesley?
03:27Wesley Halswanger.
03:29He runs the local news blog in Lucas County.
03:32It's the most popular one.
03:35I don't care.
03:36Well, he's in the grade above me
03:37and he has 300,000 subscribers.
03:40Did you say 300 or 3,000?
03:42Oh, 300,000.
03:45Good God.
03:48And he's the only employee, so...
03:52Our budget is still carrying pensions from typesetters
03:56who retired in 1991 who keep living.
04:01And this kid just hits publish for free
04:04and it's not even good.
04:06Oh, look at this.
04:07Are you sure that you mean inflammable?
04:10So, Wesley, and not flammable?
04:11I mean, it's only the exact opposite meaning.
04:14Ever heard of proofreading?
04:15Maybe you should have been in the journalism class
04:18at the Truth Teller this morning.
04:21Winky face.
04:24Hey.
04:24Hey.
04:25Got a sack?
04:25Absolutely.
04:26Come on in.
04:27Uh, Oscar and I were talking
04:28and we thought we could head down to the high school.
04:31I really don't think we have all that much to learn from them.
04:34No, we were just gonna, uh, cover some stories.
04:37There's a theater teacher that's, uh,
04:39I don't know, everybody loves him
04:41and, uh, it's his last big show.
04:43Figured I could write a feature on him.
04:45And I could review the play.
04:49Just because I'm writing for the paper
04:52doesn't mean I want to be a part of this documentary.
04:54I don't.
04:57And I realize that sitting here talking to you
05:00may send, uh, a confused message.
05:03So let me be ultra clear.
05:05The only reason I am doing this
05:07is to promote my art and leisure beat.
05:10I think you should do that.
05:11Go and cover a high school
05:14better than a high school kid can.
05:16Okay.
05:17Mm-hmm.
05:17Mayor, you source the bejesus out of everything.
05:19Oscar, don't hold back.
05:21Unleash your full lexicon.
05:22This isn't the baby blog news hour.
05:24Let's show him how it's done.
05:25You got it, boss.
05:33What?
05:36What is it?
05:37Uh, you haven't seen it?
05:39No.
05:39What is it?
05:41What is it?
05:42Truth teller punches down editor-in-chief cyberbullies minor.
05:48Allora, um, a bully is the worst thing you can be.
05:54Like, this is really humiliating for you, right?
05:59Oh, in case you didn't know.
06:00In case you didn't know.
06:01No, I know that.
06:02But this is stupid.
06:03Yeah, but it gets better.
06:05I mean, it gets worse.
06:06Like, keep scrolling down till...
06:09Yeah.
06:10Yes.
06:13No, no, it's fine.
06:15But look at your eyes.
06:17Scary like a goat.
06:19That's not a fair description.
06:21I've got perfectly human eyes.
06:23Eerie me, Ned.
06:24What have you done, mate?
06:25In a pathetic attempt to claw back relevancy,
06:29Ned Sampson, editor-in-chief and supposed grown man,
06:32decided to verbally assault me in the comments of this blog.
06:36But what's worse is that he used this emoji.
06:40This is just some punk kid.
06:42I'll have you know that Wesley Holtzwanger
06:45does have some influence in this town.
06:48Unlike you, pal.
06:49I think you need to apologize.
06:51It's not gonna happen.
06:59I thought it would be fun to carve a bird for Nicole.
07:02I've never carved anything before,
07:04but I had some free time over the weekend,
07:06so I watched a two-hour YouTube video a couple times,
07:09ordered the right kind of knives,
07:10and after a few tries, I was pretty happy with it.
07:13The first one I made had really big eyes,
07:15but then I remembered Nicole doesn't like being looked at sometimes,
07:18so I got a glass cutter,
07:19and I cut out some little sunglasses,
07:21and then I polished it the same color brown
07:22as a bag of hers that I know she likes.
07:25It's just my way of saying,
07:26hey, what's up?
07:28I mean, how long do you think it took him?
07:30Too long.
07:32Longer than we've ever spent talking to each other.
07:34Stop.
07:35It's just too much.
07:38Yeah.
07:38No.
07:39I mean, a hand-whittled bird
07:40is not what you'd expect from a healthy young man.
07:44I think I should've used a better word.
07:46I used pine like a simp.
07:48I don't think she likes pine.
07:49No, no, no.
07:50It's not the wood.
07:51It's the woodsman.
07:53A hand-carved bird.
07:54You might as well have carved her an engagement ring.
07:58You're freaking her out.
08:00You're freaking me out.
08:03You're freaking Adalola out.
08:05And frankly, you're freaking out
08:07all the softies guys back there.
08:10How many people know about this?
08:12Everyone who's facing this way.
08:14I know.
08:21So what should I do?
08:23Should I just act like I don't like her?
08:25Exactly.
08:26Dude, I'm icing out my stepdad right now,
08:28and he's begging for it.
08:32I like making Nicole homemade gifts.
08:34I'm a proud Michaels reward member,
08:36but I realize it may be too much for her,
08:39so I'll probably just hold off until later,
08:42maybe after our wedding.
08:45I'm just kidding.
08:47I don't have a lot of friends
08:48outside of my fishing collective,
08:50but Detrick is cool.
08:52He's nice, he's tall, smells good,
08:55and I'd like to think he would do the same for me
08:58if we become friends, like I am planning.
09:02All right.
09:03This is humiliating.
09:08Hey, Wesley.
09:13Wesley, are you on mute?
09:14I didn't hear you say hello.
09:16I didn't say hello.
09:18Okay, well, this is Ned Sampson.
09:21The spelling Nazi.
09:22It was actually semantics, not spelling, but...
09:26But you're still a Nazi.
09:27No.
09:28I'm, uh, I'm calling to apologize.
09:31Okay.
09:32Not accepted.
09:33No one leaves this room until he accepts that apology.
09:37I'd really appreciate it if you took the story down, pal.
09:40Not gonna happen.
09:42Also, flammable and inflammable are the same.
09:46Wesley, I'm sorry.
09:47You're just wrong here.
09:49He's right.
09:49He's what?
09:50The same.
09:52Flammable and inflammable.
09:53That makes no sense.
09:54Cool.
09:54Uh, I'm gonna go.
09:55No.
09:56No, no, don't go.
09:57No, that, no.
09:58Wesley.
09:59Hi.
10:01Ciao.
10:01This is Esmeralda Grand, managing editor of TTT Online.
10:06Very cool.
10:07Very sexy.
10:08Very innovative.
10:10I want to apologize for Ned.
10:13He resents children because he can't have any of his own.
10:18He sat on a stove in high school.
10:21And it was on.
10:22That's not true.
10:23That didn't happen.
10:24So, Ned's a premature grandpa with his, uh, print paper.
10:29But at TTT, we are completely different.
10:33Ice cream on Thursdays, very fun, very chill vibe, a lot of riz, nothing sass, nothing made.
10:42And we are also very concerned about climate change.
10:47We all get to have ice cream on Thursdays, Wesley.
10:50Everyone on the floor.
10:50It's not just digital.
10:51Yes, old man.
10:52TTT Online, huh?
10:54Yes.
10:55It's definitely more my speed.
10:56Come in turn with me.
10:58Let's collab.
10:59Looking forward to it.
11:00Ciao, bro.
11:02Hey, Wesley.
11:03He knows how to say goodbye.
11:04And that is how it's done.
11:07That was an absolute master class in talking to kids.
11:11Am I threatened by so, Wesley?
11:13I'm not, I'm not threatened by so, Wesley.
11:16The two types of media work completely differently.
11:18You have a blog.
11:20One person reads it.
11:21That's it.
11:21You have a paper.
11:23They might leave that in a coffee shop.
11:27Someone else comes in.
11:28They read it.
11:29They take it with them.
11:30They leave it on the bus.
11:31Now you've got two people reading it.
11:33Someone else picks that up.
11:34Three people.
11:36That person's homeless.
11:37They wrap themselves in it at night.
11:40You can't wrap yourself in a blog.
11:49I don't know how I can sugarcoat this, so I won't.
11:51At this point, we don't have a show.
11:54I repeat, we do not have a show!
11:59Pick that up.
12:01I see some of you are getting emotional.
12:04Do you know what would happen if we cried at Juilliard?
12:07Do I have to remind you that Defiance High School is mounting an amazing production of Bye Bye Birdie that's
12:13going to blow your asses off?
12:16All right.
12:17There we go.
12:18Mr. K?
12:20Mr. K?
12:32Mr. K?
12:44Like, you know, like, uh, the camera thing in the Oscars?
12:47You mean the glam bot?
12:48Uh-huh.
12:49Hey!
12:50Hey!
12:50What?
12:51Is it too much to ask not heavy flying robots in this office?
12:55I can't even think over here.
12:56We can't hear you, Kimberly.
12:58We're trying to work over here.
13:01Hey, you didn't say executive parking, so I was across the street in the parking lot.
13:05This is executive parking.
13:07Did you see what this little brat did?
13:11Esmeralda Grand, 51, editor of TTT Online, begged me to work for her, quote, sexy website.
13:19Was she hoping to violate more than child labor laws?
13:23You're a lot of things, but you're not...
13:2551!
13:26I know!
13:27It's slander!
13:28Yeah, okay.
13:29This kid is a menace.
13:31He's a threat to your paper.
13:35Like, if there is no truth teller, who is going to preserve ethics in journalists, and truth, and all that
13:42other shit that you say?
13:45You're right.
13:46Are you on board for revenge?
13:49Ethical revenge, yes.
13:51We cut his brakes, and then what happens after is in the end of God.
13:55I think that's too much.
13:59Welcome to our playground.
14:01I don't think I've ever had the pleasure.
14:03Oh, wow.
14:04Wow.
14:05Mr. K is famously good at never forgetting a face or a voice.
14:08It's good to see you again.
14:09Ah.
14:11Yes.
14:11Mayor.
14:13So, I was a former student of yours.
14:15Oh.
14:16I auditioned for Anna, the lead in The King and I.
14:18Ah.
14:19You remind me of a young time daily.
14:21But you know who got that part?
14:23Our dear, dear Allison Page, just a delightful little songbird.
14:28Now, a lot of people felt like she only got that part because her parents donated that fog machine.
14:33Mayor.
14:33Would you say that had anything to do with your decision making?
14:35What is this?
14:36Are you even a real paper?
14:38Yes, we're from the truth teller.
14:40Well, then let me tell you the truth.
14:41You didn't get the part because obviously you weren't good enough.
14:44And Allison Page was?
14:45Yeah.
14:46She was a soprano when the role was clearly meant for an alto.
14:49She improvised most of her lines, which is a little problematic for a show set in 1860s Siam.
14:55Oh, and she wasn't that good.
14:57Well, the space, what you did with it.
15:00I don't play favorites, Mayor.
15:03I play performers.
15:05Okay.
15:05And my apologies is that I can't recall anything, not a thing, about your audition.
15:11But I always remember the great ones.
15:14So you can deduce from there how you fared.
15:17And we're back!
15:22Turns out Mayor has a grudge against Mr. K.
15:26And, ooh, nope.
15:29Not arts and leisure related.
15:32We convinced him his father, he's not his real father.
15:37Kids hate that.
15:39It's interesting.
15:41We smear a little dark shit on his retainer.
15:45Just a little teaspoon.
15:47How would we get into his...
15:49Through the window.
15:50We give him Lyme disease.
15:53I think I have the right kind of tics.
15:57My aunt has Lyme disease and it's not.
16:00Ken, have you ever had that happen?
16:01Ken, go away.
16:03We are working.
16:05Pardon me?
16:05We are working, Ken!
16:10Jealous?
16:10Uh, no.
16:12No, no, no.
16:13I actually think it's quite good that Esmeralda and Ned are getting on so well.
16:17Really good.
16:18Good for business.
16:19But is it good?
16:20Really?
16:22I mean, Esmeralda and Ned don't really gel, would be my one thought.
16:25Whereas, of course, for example, Esmeralda and I, well, we share a certain European sophistication.
16:34Not that the UK is currently in the EU, thank God.
16:39I need to get back to work.
16:40Of course you do.
16:41Yeah.
16:42Yeah.
16:46Which tape?
16:48Oh, you mean this tape.
16:51Um, so this is for my headaches, you know?
16:55So the tape, um, like, pulls back the pain.
17:02Wait, I got it.
17:04I got it.
17:06We anonymously send Wesley a fake press release.
17:11If he publishes it, everyone finds out that he doesn't verify his sources and his whole
17:15reputation is destroyed.
17:17Oh, wow.
17:19Yes, boom!
17:20Yeah?
17:21And so he's, I'm just 40 and I'm not 51.
17:24Yes, we just need a believable press release.
17:27Okay, so, um, layoffs, potential upcoming layoffs at Corning Glass.
17:33Wow, incredible.
17:35Such a perfect level of blend.
17:38How do you do that?
17:39I know, I...
17:40It comes naturally to you, right?
17:45Oh, Nicole.
17:54Do, um, do you have the new numbers on the half-page ads?
18:00Yeah, I'll send them right over.
18:02Cool, thanks.
18:11Yeah, Detrick may have gotten the message.
18:18Off the record?
18:19Yeah.
18:21Mr. K is a character.
18:23A lot of insecurity for such a tall man.
18:25Yes.
18:26Would you say he's also arrogant?
18:28I mean, some people can be both.
18:29He manages to drop Juilliard to every conversation.
18:33I went to Yale.
18:34I never bring it up.
18:36Is there anything else you can tell me about him?
18:38I just think it's all an act.
18:41Yes, it is all an act.
18:42That is so great.
18:43Can I use that as a quote?
18:44Oh, absolutely not.
18:46The last teacher who spoke poorly of Mr. K
18:49got reassigned to a different school district
18:51like a bad priest in the night.
18:53Now, you want a quote?
18:55He's a pillar of the community.
19:01Don't be fooled by the pink.
19:03Go!
19:04He is not playing dolls.
19:05Brian, start walking.
19:07He is up in the halls for the thrill of the kill.
19:09Bright faces, wide eyes.
19:11Everybody at school is aware of his...
19:13What do you think?
19:15Weak, experts, force, loss of 300 jobs.
19:20Wow.
19:20Bravo, Nat.
19:21It's so convincing.
19:23You sure Joanna Pringlebottom sounds like the real head of PR of Corning Glass?
19:27Nat, I don't want to be here all night, okay?
19:31Should we really do this?
19:32Maybe it's like an angry email that you write and don't send.
19:37It's like we got it out of our system.
19:39Nat.
19:39Yeah.
19:41You know, when I was a little girl, one night, my mom entered in my room, and you know what
19:49she told me?
19:50What'd she say to you?
19:51She said...
19:54Ha!
19:56That's it!
20:02What's a synonym for atrocious?
20:05I'm not asking.
20:06It's...
20:13Okay.
20:14Emma Gadsden gets Alphaba and Look.
20:17Big ad from her family's contracting business.
20:212014, Kristen Mayhew, her mom is comptroller of Hollywood Casino.
20:24Okay.
20:25And here, the full-page ad.
20:27Sergio Giacomo in 2016, okay?
20:29He was actually pretty good and did end up going to Broadway.
20:31But his parents own the local Dillard's.
20:33And here, the full-page ad.
20:35Okay.
20:36I mean, this has been going on for years.
20:38Mr. K has clearly just been, you know, feathering his nest.
20:42Um, if there were ill-gotten gains, I wish he would have spent the money on voice lessons
20:49for the kids.
20:52Okay.
20:53Mayor.
20:54Yeah?
20:55I see what you see.
20:57But this is not hard proof.
21:01Right?
21:02Maybe the proud parents bought ads after to support their kids.
21:05I know.
21:06I just know he's full of it.
21:07Well...
21:07You know?
21:10Are you an R word?
21:13Ken, you cannot say that.
21:16You...
21:16Your cannabis is just an initial.
21:18It's...
21:19It's what the initial stands for.
21:20Well, Dan, I'll say the whole word, won't I?
21:23Rascal.
21:24Are you a rascal?
21:26I was just trying to speed things up.
21:27Ken, come on.
21:28What is it?
21:29So, Wesley's got the scoop.
21:31What?
21:32The corning glass layoffs.
21:35Oh, my God.
21:36He ran with it.
21:37How are you letting a child beat you to this?
21:40No, no, Ken.
21:42I'm the one beating the child.
21:44Excuse me?
21:45Ken.
21:46Ken.
21:47Yeah?
21:47No.
21:48No.
21:49One thing I would say is...
21:53I don't love feeling excluded.
21:55And I know I'm not really contributing anything to whatever this is.
21:59But I do like the idea of being able to stand with you...
22:02Just for them, you know?
22:04So it looks like I'm taking part.
22:07I can laugh when you laugh.
22:09I don't need to understand the joke.
22:11Right?
22:13Okay.
22:13Okay?
22:14I think you can leave.
22:15Off I go.
22:16All right.
22:19Fantastic.
22:23God, finally.
22:27We got him?
22:28We got him.
22:31So now we finish him.
22:33I guess.
22:35Mr. Kirby celebrates 30th year at Derriesburg.
22:38Mr. K is a pillar of the community.
22:40This is fine.
22:42It's not.
22:42You could have written a hit piece.
22:44But you didn't.
22:45You stuck to your principles.
22:49Hello.
22:51Speaking.
22:52Oh, yeah.
22:53Thanks for getting back to me.
22:56Uh-huh.
22:59Yeah.
22:59One second.
23:01Are you sure?
23:04I made one small change to my piece.
23:06Turns out, Juilliard's favorite son never went to Juilliard.
23:10He's terrible.
23:11He had it coming.
23:13He had it coming.
23:15He only had himself to blame.
23:18Oh, my God.
23:19Maybe he was right.
23:21No, I'm just rusty.
23:35Nicole.
23:36Can I talk to you for a second?
23:38Uh, yeah.
23:40Um, I feel like I've...
23:44I feel like I've been a bit much lately.
23:46Oh, no.
23:49Well, yeah.
23:51I'm sorry.
23:52Um, I...
23:53I didn't realize at the time.
23:55I just...
23:57Hear me out.
23:58I feel like...
23:59I feel like I need to tell you that I like you.
24:01Yeah.
24:02I'm really not in a place right now to start...
24:05Like 3.5.
24:09What?
24:09I like you 3.5.
24:14Yeah, out of 10?
24:15No, out of 5.
24:17Because out of 10 would be like, you hate me.
24:20Yeah, no.
24:21I like you.
24:22But just like...
24:23Just casually.
24:27All right.
24:28See you.
24:28See you later.
24:30All right.
24:34Popular child's blog spreads vicious lies.
24:38Esmeralda Grant, 37.
24:41Editor of TTT Online.
24:44Led the investigation.
24:46What if he's upset?
24:47Who cares?
24:48You saved the local media, whatever.
24:51What do you need more?
24:54Did I go too far?
24:56What is too far?
24:57Is it using the power of the press to disgrace a high schooler?
25:03That's probably too far.
25:08And I think I went it.
25:10Hey.
25:11Hey.
25:12I liked your very, uh, balanced piece on Mr. K.
25:16Oh, thank you.
25:16Yeah.
25:18You doing okay?
25:20I saw some of the comments.
25:21Oh, my God.
25:22You should hear the voicemails.
25:24I got called several different species of animals, including bitter cow, frigid pig, venomous snake, and poisonous dog.
25:34I read a great quote the other day that I wanted to share with you guys.
25:38The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
25:46Well, uh, someone told me that I had goat eyes today.
25:51I don't have goat eyes.
25:53Oh, no, no.
25:54No.
25:54But the Juilliard thing was 100% confirmed.
25:58You know, people are mad that I pointed it out, so be it.
26:01At least I did the right thing.
26:03God, you must be rubbing off on me.
26:06Hmm?
26:08How great is that?
26:09Poisonous dog.
26:13The most important part of any article is the byline.
26:18You get one reputation in this life.
26:22Protect it at all costs.
26:25Who said this?
26:27Geraldo Rivera.
26:39Yeah, I like to come up here to fly the drone.
26:42This is like therapy to me.
26:45I also go to regular therapy, but this is awesome.
26:49It's just so beautiful up here, man.
26:51I just...
27:02Oh.
27:07All right, Detrick.
27:22Jesus, I love you.
27:23Jesus, I love you.
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