Must haves:

- Good explanation (opinion, facts, etc.)

- Sleep experts
- Many interviews with different POV’s
- Multiple Transitions

Script: Opening
- Short maybe 5/10 second music or sound to start with Ambi
- Question: Are teens lazy or just tired? Trax
- Answers: (tired, lazy, one word) Acts
- 20 seconds of that
- *by the end we should be at almost the 1 minute mark*

Intro music Ambi

- Introduce ourselves Trax
- This is Maira Cervantes & Ori Hackworth , two sleep deprived students… and
today we are looking into the issue of sleeping or lack thereof in teens. Teens
have been stereotyped being lazy, but we are finding the facts to see if they’re
really lazy or just tired.
- Then introduce our topic
- As two teens, we have experienced not sleeping due to the responsibilities of life
like school. But our parents don’t see us as young adults who work all day, rather
bratty, lazy kids that spend all their money, eat all their food and are just lazy. We
want to see if our parents are justified in saying this or they just don’t understand
the hardships of our everyday life. It has been proven by many credible sources,
that teens don’t get enough of sleep. According to the National Sleep Foundation,
15% reported sleeping 8 1/2 hours on school nights. This may have a hand in the
tiredness in teens. This podcast doesn’t aim to tell the listener to get more sleep,
it is aimed at highlighting how teens don’t get enough sleep and that affects their
lives and their parent’s lives. We want to find out the real answer to the question:
are teens tired or just lazy?
- Give a good explanation to why we picked this
- Small Talk
Interview students (3) that experience this tired/lazy behavior, ask their opinions and thoughts
and their parents’ opinions about their child’s behavior/”laziness” Acts
- Question 1st student
- Do you think that you get enough sleep? Why not?
- Do your parents think you’re lazy?
-
- Answers
- Transition from interview into parents
Summarize in own words what parent and student did or did not agree on Trax
 - Ask next student
- Answers
- Interview another parent
- Do you think your child is lazy? Why/why not?
- Do you think teens get enough sleep?
- Do you notice sleepiness in student during the day?
- If yes for lazy- do you think your child’s laziness is actually tiredness?
And so on for 5 interviews

Teacher
- Do you notice sleepiness in students during the day?
- Do you think students get enough sleep?
- Do you think the responsibilites students have in school is too much for them too
handle?
- Do you think students are lazy or just tired?
- Have you ever felt bad for assigning students excessive work?

Wrap up thoughts from teens and parents and come to a final conclusion. Explain. Trax
- We begin to incorporate out interviews w/ whoever our specialist/experts are Acts
- Questions:
- What are the ages you work with the most? Why do you think that is?
- Do you notice problems in the sleep cycles of teens/young adults?
- Does tiredness often get mistaken for laziness by parents?
- What would teens need to do to not feel tired all day?
- What are some things that people wouldn’t know about sleep but are true?
- Bring in stats about teenagers and sleep Trax
“Teens get ____ hours of sleep per night”, etc
Musical transition

Start conclusion
From interviewing students, to parents, to teachers, we experienced a variety of opinions. It is
not surprising that more than half of the people we talked to agreed that teens are tired rather
than being lazy although there were some that also claimed that they are both. One thing that
the responses of the adults and parents had in common was that they connected the problem to
cell phones.

Bring in personal opinions about sleeping and everything talked about in interview. Final
thoughts, what we learned, wrap up podcast.

The problem of smart phones has been brought up in interviews and we didn’t even expect this
topic to come up. Devices are very common in the lives of most people, adults and teens alike.
We had a simple question for the theme of this podcast, but there turned out to be many more
layers to the question as expected. To answer the question if teens are tired or lazy cannot be
slimmed down to a yes or no answer because there are so many factors, cell phones being one
of them. Talking about the effects of cell phones is another podcast for another day. Thank you
for listening.

End with music

Creds- Recording and editing done by Maira cervantes and ori hackworth. Thank you to
everyone who participated in our podcast. All sound effects put in this episode are from anchor
and our research was found from the National Sleep Association website..And a huge thanks to
Elizabeth Cyr for helping with our resources without them we’d have nothing.Literally.