Romy
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233 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And that's a little bit how these two students were feeling in their class about curiosity with that exceptionally eager teacher, David Freeman. Like, some of the early assignments to them just felt pretty dull.
Yeah, and it was still not really clear what the whole thing was about. And everybody's still a little bit confused.
And then came that day that Mr. Freeman showed up with his pot of yogurt. And you know what happens from there.
I mean, I feel like... When we came in, we were like, oh, come on, like not another stupid project. And this time it's about yogurt too, like the most stupid one in our opinion, like just about a pot of yogurt.
David told his class that he had two spots available to be a part of the project and Romy and Anouk decided to go for it.
Just had to send him an email with all our arguments to how we would make the best students for the assignment. But I feel like I just have this thing of like fear of missing out. Also, I had seen that Maya Hawke was on the podcast. I think Anouk and I are the only people who applied. We're not the best.
I mean, I think that's what it was. So that all brings us to today on this Zoom call, talking about how we want to tackle this yogurt question. Yeah. And we decided to start someplace easy, La Fermiere's website. Chapter 5, Red Flags. The website, it's very artfully designed, very sleek-looking photos of their yogurt. And we just navigate over to the FAQ page. Okay. Should I just read it?
Yeah, go for it. Where, helpfully, maybe a little anticlimactically, one of the questions there is our question.
And the company's answer?
Already from the first sentence on, they're trying to use the packaging as a way to say that their yogurts are great because they're calling it an all-natural packaging for all-natural yogurt. And those are very broad words. Like, what does all natural really mean?
So finding the American website lacking in detail, we head over to the French website to see if it had any other information we could use.
And you've been taking French classes. I have been taking French classes. The translation is roughly... These packages remain among the most ecological because they are inert, meaning they do not deteriorate the materials they come into contact with in a way that could cause damage to the environment.
Unlike plastic, for example, which when decomposed produces byproducts that are potentially dangerous for the environment and health. And so when the students read the company's appeal to sustainability on this website, it was like they were just naturally wired to think that this company was trying to pull a fast one on them.
This is the first time that I start to see the flicker of real curiosity in their eyes. It's like, this company is lying to us.
Well, it's funny. I wasn't quite sure if it was their generation or if it was their, like, Frenchness, but they are naturally far more skeptical of corporations than I think I was, at least in high school. Yeah. But Romy told me this story that helped me understand where this generation is coming from, like, really how the media they've experienced has shaped their worldview.
To me, it was interesting. I've heard parents talk about how much screen time their teenagers were getting during the pandemic, but I'd never actually heard anybody wonder about, like, what specific rabbit holes they were going down while looking at their screens. Yeah. And for Romy and Anouk, it seemed to be this kind of anti-consumerist rabbit hole.
I know that when a brand says that they're doing something fully for their customers and fully for the environment, it's usually hiding something and it's usually they're doing it for their own profit because that's just how everything works. And we wouldn't be facing climate change and we wouldn't be having those issues if... every company's first motive was to make Earth and the people happy.
I know that in our world, most things are for profit and have to be for profit.
Yeah, I was thinking, I feel like Maybe ceramics is better for the environment. If you discard it in nature, it's not going to last as long, whatever, than plastic. But it's also a lot heavier. So when for transportation, that means you can't transport as much of it. It's like more sensitive.
So the students, what they seem to think was going on here was that the company knows sustainability is important to high-end consumers. So if a product looks sustainable and can be marketed as sustainable, who cares if the thing is actually sustainable? Like what's important is what the consumer thinks because what the consumer thinks will determine how much they can sell it for.
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