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Mar 2025
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🌆 Sesame Street: The Trojan Horse of TV

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Subscribe to The Best Idea Yet here: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/ Once upon a time, American kids had a problem—OK, two. They were watching way, WAY too much TV and they were falling way, way behind in school. But then a trailblazing producer and her psychologist friend asked a bold question: What if we used the first problem to solve the ... Show More
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