BONUS - The 17-Year-Old Making Headlines as Time’s Kid of the Year

When you were 17, you were probably worried about prom, playlists, or video games. But one teenager in Frisco, Texas just earned Time Magazine’s Kid of the Year for something far bigger—protecting seniors from online scams. In this episode of The Jubal Show, the team dives into the surprising award, hilarious online reactions (“wait, there’s a Kid of the Year?!”), and past winners who were curing cancer and feeding thousands before they could even drive. Tune in to hear how this teen is changing lives, and why adults everywhere suddenly feel like underachievers.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What were you doing at seventeen? It's a jewele show.
Maybe you felt like a genius because you could microwave
a hot plocket while playing Call of Duty and not
get owned. Now, maybe you were curating a playlist for
your prom date who you knew was going to be
your forever love.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh oh no.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Or maybe you're like one seventeen year old who is
making international headlines this morning for being way too much
of an overachiever. Oh yes, and it has adults everywhere
feeling like they should get a do over of their childhood.
Who is this kid and why is the entire country
talking about them? Will tell you right after this. Do
me a favor. I think back to when you were
seventeen the Jewel Show. What were you up to, not

(00:38):
caring what people think and then changing your outfit twenty
times because somebody might say something about it, or maybe
impressing the internet with your ability to eat tide pods?
Or were you like one seventeen year old who was
making international headlines this morning as Time Magazine's Kid of
the Year. What before we tell you about them? Who

(00:58):
knew that Time magazine had a Kid of the Year award?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Do they always have a Kid of the Year or
is this like because this kid was exceptional? He gets it.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
They have a Kid of the Year award every year,
and people online are reacting because they had no idea either.
Somebody said, wait, there's a Kid of the Year and
I'm over here still trying to figure out how to
fold a fitted sheet. But there have been past winners
of Kid of the Year. In twenty twenty, it was
a kid who was the first ever Kid of the Year.
In twenty twenty, a scientist and inventor who developed tools

(01:29):
and innovations to dress contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan,
opioid addiction, cyber bullying, and more.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Amazing, How old are these kids?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Like? Is there she was fifteen at the time. Why
she also runs workshops to help other youth innovate. In
twenty twenty one, there was an eleven year old who
won Kid of the Year. They led a Race to
Kindness campaign to help distribute over one hundred thousand meals
to food insecure families, five hundred thousand books of children,

(02:00):
and donate toys the hospitals, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's like a living angel.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
There's kids out here literally looking making adults look bad.
That's what the that's eleven years old. Done you already peaked?
Just stop at that point. In twenty twenty four, there
was a fifteen year old who won Kid of the Year.
They invented a special soap that can deliver cancer treating
a cancer treating drug using nanoparticles so that the medicine

(02:27):
stays on the skin after being washed, making treatment more
accessible slash affordable.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
How do you want kids are literally curing cancer? Yeah? Wow, right,
future for that one. What do you do though, if
you peak like at like this is like the biggest,
like you become kid time of the year, but you're
like fifteen, So like, I don't think you're peaking. I
think that's just the beginning. I think that's like the
entry level until like the top one percent of humans

(02:53):
that are gonna like not even about money, just like
save the world.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, just a few days ago Time magazine name is
twenty twenty five Kid of the Year. It's a seventeen
year old girl from Frisco, Texas who dedicated her time
to helping the elderly from falling victim to scammers. Oh
that's awestime that she developed shield Seniors a website and
upcoming app to help people over the age of sixty

(03:18):
recognize and report online scams.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh that's so cool. You know it's messed up. You
know it's messed up about this. That girl's out there
protecting them and we're out here reporting and laughing at them. Well,
that just crazy that like there was even a thing
that she needed to protect them from. Like that is
just people being bad people.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Also, anybody whoever says you have to respect it elder,
just because your elder. This seventeen year old had to
make a website and an app, so sixty year olds
don't get scammed. Okay, don't tell me you know life
better than me, sixty year old. Okay, she got Time
Magazine's Kid of the Year for helping people over sixty
not get scammed. I'm supposed to trust you just because.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
You have gray hair. I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Let's Seniors upload suspicious messages for analysis. Provides educational resources
and links to agencies like the FBI and the Better
Business Bureau. She also does seminars in assisted living facilities.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
What's that funny thought? It's just to have.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
To sit there with a bunch of people over sixteen
and go it's probably not Ryan Gosling. If you get
somebody on your Facebook saying they want one thousand dollars,
it's probably not Ryan Gosbel.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, he's so sweet and handsome.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
She doys the volunteers and is an eagle Scout tutor
and a musician, et cetera. They say scammers tried to
take her grandfather for a ride, saying that another relative
needed two thousand dollars to settle an unresolved debt, and
after saving her grandpa from that scam, she decided to
devote her life at only seventeen because she's Time Magazine's

(04:53):
Kid of the Year, to helping other elderly people not
get scammed.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Well, she's super patient because she is going around telling
all those people to beware of Ryan Glosting. You know
what I mean, how do these kids get discovered? I
don't know that is find them somehow insane idea. What
do you get if you're a Time Magazine's Kid of
the Year, Well you get the honor and the bragging,
right what which these kids probably are cool? Like I

(05:20):
would be such an a hole at seventeen if I
got Kid of the Year. Media opportunities wouldn't have and
they don't advertise a huge prize package like trophy your money.
But they do get a printed magazine featuring them on
the cover. Cool.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wait, sometimes a certificate or a plaque.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
So do you act that's it? Not get anything I
don't know, like a free trip to Disney World or
something kind of like a scholarship, money donate until your
cause or something, or college. Oh that's a good one, right, yeah, yeah,
college is a good one. You just get a magazine
and a plaque pretty much. Yeah, well, there you go.
That kind of took Are you on the cover of
a magazine at seventeen Victoria?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
There wouldn't be Time magazine