The Children

Join us in this special mini-episode of "Everyone Is," with a story told through the eyes of kids age 6-16. This intro to Season 2, focuses on kid's answers to the questions "What does imagination mean to you?" and "What do you want to be when you grow up?"  We hope you find their answers not just amusing, but also insightful. From envisioning a snail driving a boat to aspiring careers in fashion design and forensic science, these kids remind us that creativity knows no bounds, and that imagination is a life skill we should never give up on.

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Episode Transcript

Jennifer Coronado (00:01):
What's up party people?
We're about to launch intoseason two of Everyone Is and we
thought, coming into thisseason, it would be a great
opportunity to take a step backand say why are we doing this?
Do we still think that everyonehas a spark of creativity in
them?
Do we still think we haveopportunities to discover that
with different folks, does thatcreative opportunity feed into

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what they've become?
But we didn't feel like wecould find all the answers to
the whys without having a bitmore input from other people.
So in this mini episode youaren't really going to hear much
from me.
You're going to hear from agroup of kids between the ages
of 6 and 16, and they were askedtwo questions what does
imagination mean to you and whatdo you want to be when you grow

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up?
So enough from me.
Now let's hear from thechildren.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
What does imagination mean to you, and what do you
want to be when you?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
grow up.
So enough from me.
Now let's hear from thechildren.
I'm Alice and I'm 13.
My name is Amelie.
I'm 9 years old.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
My name is Aiden and I'm 14 years old.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hi, my name is Clementine and I'm 10 years old.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
What does imagination mean to you?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
A world where you could do anything, a world of
possibilities.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
A world where you could think of something that
hasn't been done before.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Imagination is the ability to create anything you
can think of, even if it'llnever be real.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
It means you have a big open mind for different
stuff and, like, the best thingabout imaginations is your ideas
and your influences can becrazy.
It means to be creative.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Using your mind to be creative.
It can be silly, it can be fun,a whole other world where you
can just make up any crazy thing.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
You can make whatever you want.
It's like not regular stuffthat you do every day, and then
it's like what you imagine inyour head.
I would just say imagination isthe best thing I could ever
think of in my life.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
My name is Eleanor, I'm 15.
Ellie 12.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Jacqueline 6.
My name is Owen and I'm 7 yearsold.
Imagination means to me, whenyou're like imagining that you
can have as much candy as youwant at your house.
It means that we can makesomething up that's not real,

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something random, like unicorns.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
A snail driving a boat full of snail people Even
though they don't have hands.
They don't really know how thatwould work, but it doesn't
really have to make sense.
Yeah, it's just stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Imagination can be anything.
I thought you said these weregoing to be a yes or no question
.
My name's Amelia and I amquestion.
My name is Amelia and I am 12.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
My name is Maeve, I'm nine years old, I'm Lorelai and
I'm seven years old.
I'm Lila and I'm six years old.
I make stuff and then itdoesn't turn out really how I
wanted it and then I make itinto a new thing.
It's like a lot of creativityand I love like reading fairy

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tales and books and stuff likethat.
Nation means creativity in themind, thinking about things that
don't really exist.
You're thinking about somethingand you're dreaming about it
Emerson Ten, huxley and I'm six.
You're thinking about somethingand you're dreaming about it.
Emerson 10.
Huxley and I'm 6.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
Julian, I'm 15.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Kyrie and I'm 13.
Kalani 6.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
What do you want to be when you grow up?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I don't really know yet.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't know actually .
Well, that's a hard one, but Ido want to be in fashion design
when I grow up.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
I want to be a forensic scientist.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think it seems fun to be like a doctor or something
and help people.
Somehow Probably a senioractress.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Police officer or a water scientist.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Being an architect also sounds fun.
Or like doing landscaping orsomething A physical trainer
like for sports teams.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
A vet or I want to write a book.
I haven't decided.
There's lots of things tochoose from.
I probably want to be a cook orlike someone who works at like
an ice cream shop.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I want to be an interior designer or have my own
food business.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
Some sort of acting or music or talking to people.
That'd be like my dream job.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I want to be a marine biologist.
I want to be a veterinarianbecause I love pets, because I
love pets.
I have no idea Artist Painting,because I love painting.
When I grow up, I want to be anaerospace engineer, a chef, I
want to be a doctor, I want tobe a builder, and then I can

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start my life.
I'm Nolan, I'm 10 years old, myL Six.
My name is Rishka and I'm 10years old, I am 6.
My name is Rishka and I am 12.
My name is Riker and I am 9years old.

Jennifer Coronado (05:15):
I don't know what I want to be when I grow up
yet, so I hope, listening tothese kids, everyone is reminded
that everyone has something tocontribute to the human
conversation and everyone isimportant.
And welcome back to Season twoof Everyone Is.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Did I do it?
Good, of course you did, babe.

Jennifer Coronado (05:39):
Thank you for listening to Everyone Is.
Everyone Is is produced andedited by Chris Hawkinson,
executive producer is AaronDussault, music by Doug Infinite
.
Our logo and graphic design isby Harrison Parker and I am Jen
Coronado.
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