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Escape Velocity with Fin - What it's Like to Be a Gen Alpha
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In this special episode of Escape Velocity, Tracey Halvorsen sits down with her 10-year-old bonus kid, Fin, to dive deep into what it means to be part of Gen Alpha. From rapid-fire fun questions to an in-depth breakdown of Gen Alpha slang, Fin offers an unfiltered, hilarious, and surprisingly insightful take on his generation.
With plenty of laughs, wild tangents, and deep Gen Alpha wisdom, this episode is an entertaining ride into the mind of a 10-year-old who knows what’s up.
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Transcript
Intro
Introduction of the Special Episode
00:00:08
Tracey Halvorsen
Here we are on another very special episode of Escape Velocity. I'm your host, Tracy Halverson, and today i am joined by Finn, my 10-year-old stepson and member of Gen Alpha.
00:00:24
Tracey Halvorsen
And Finn is going to tell us what it's like to be a member of Gen Alpha because we've got lots of questions and he is prepared to answer. Finn, you want to say hello to everybody? Hi.
00:00:35
Tracey Halvorsen
Are you a proud member of Gen Alpha? Yes, very proud.
Gen Alpha's Mission to Save the Planet
00:00:38
Tracey Halvorsen
Yeah. What does it feel like to be ah Gen Alpha? Good. All right. Because Gen Z's kind of made climate change terrible, so Gen Alpha's are here save it.
00:00:52
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. Well, we do need somebody to save
Generational Differences: Gen Z, Gen X, and Gen Alpha
00:00:54
Tracey Halvorsen
the day. Gen Z's messed it up. Yep. What about Gen X? They're too old. They're too old. we don't We don't matter anymore.
00:01:03
Tracey Halvorsen
ah We can't make a difference. All right. um What I thought we would do is. the president wow This president. Oh, not this one. Yeah. um All right. Good that we clarified that. All
Gen Alpha's Digital Preferences: Roblox, YouTube, and More
00:01:17
Tracey Halvorsen
right.
00:01:18
Tracey Halvorsen
I'm going to go through a couple of rapid fire questions just to get you warmed up. i am more Okay. Well, and just really quick. Minecraft or Roblox? Oh, Roblox. Okay. Gen Alpha's, I mean, some play Minecraft, like, a big thing Roblox.
00:01:34
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. All right. Roblox it is. YouTube TikTok? Okay. So, for girls, most of them will pick TikTok, even though, like, none of them watch it. But, ah YouTube.
00:01:45
Tracey Halvorsen
YouTube. All right. Because you just scroll through shorts. You scroll through the shorts. Yeah. um Basketball or soccer? For me, it's soccer, but ah some people might choose basketball. Fair. Okay.
Personal Preferences: Pizza, Superpowers, and More
00:01:57
Tracey Halvorsen
Hot dogs or pizza? Oh. have to go with them pizza. Yeah, that's a hard one. pineapple pizza. ah Summer or winter?
00:02:10
Tracey Halvorsen
Summer. Because you can do like a sand soccer. I think we might do that this year. I hope we do that this year. Because we go to like... It's pretty fun to play sand soccer. Yeah. At the beach.
00:02:23
Tracey Halvorsen
Even more fun. Okay, super speed or invisibility?
00:02:30
Tracey Halvorsen
That's hard. Oh my God.
00:02:35
Tracey Halvorsen
I would say super speed. Why? Well, with invisibility, it would honestly be pretty nice, but I can just get places way quicker. True. and I guess if you're super fast, you'd kind of be invisible anyway.
00:02:49
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh yeah. Right? So yeah. All right.
Unique Traits and Language of Gen Alpha
00:02:52
Tracey Halvorsen
um Flying or time travel? Flying or time travel.
00:03:00
Tracey Halvorsen
Time travel. I agree. More interesting. Dogs. All right. Those are some good warm-up questions. Should we get into some some better questions? Yeah. All right. Well, here is what I wanted to know.
00:03:14
Tracey Halvorsen
um We talked a little bit about what you think makes Gen Alpha different from like Gen Zs or Millennials, which is that you're here to save the day or around the climate. Yeah.
00:03:26
Tracey Halvorsen
What else makes you different from the other generations? Well, so basically most generations like a not that not Gen Alpha, Gen Beta is the new generation for 2025. Might probably will do it, start doing it because of us. But they like talk normal.
00:03:44
Tracey Halvorsen
I wouldn't say we don't talk normal, just I wouldn't say we do talk normal. Tell me how you talk. Well, I actually wrote a big list. Okay, let's hear it. So basically, we have our own language, sort of, but not like how we talk like everything, like blah, blah, blah, blah. We just put words into it, like ah starting off with skibbity.
00:04:04
Tracey Halvorsen
Skibbity is one of my favorites. Yeah, it means Wait, hold on With Skibbity, isn't there a Skibbity toilet? Yeah, that's part of it. Okay, but are there other Skibbity things? What it means, like, it was a big meme.
00:04:19
Tracey Halvorsen
Back, yeah, it was a huge meme. Where did it come from? ah Meme land. it Honestly, someone just had an idea to put a head in the toilet and for it to stick out, and there's cameramen that fight against them, and then it just came.
00:04:36
Tracey Halvorsen
Just took on a life of its own? That's how the meme came. Okay, so there's Skibbity. Yeah. And Skibbity Toilet. What else you got? um Well, a big one is ah Riz.
00:04:49
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh, Riz. I like Riz. Describe what Riz is. Okay, so it means you're attractive, you look good. It also means charisma. Ah, charisma. So you either got Riz or you don't?
00:05:01
Tracey Halvorsen
Yeah. Yeah. Can you get Riz? Yeah. Can you work on it? Well, here's the thing. so oh Two things you need to be a full-on Rizzler.
00:05:12
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh, Rizzler. Number one, you need the looks. You need the look. You need to be attractive. That's part of number one. Number two, so basically number two is you've got to work on your pickup lines.
00:05:23
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh, okay. So this is about pickup lines. Also, but not most most of it is... Now, if it's charisma though, people can have great charisma and that makes them attractive. Don't you think? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It makes you really attractive. Yeah.
00:05:39
Tracey Halvorsen
Cause there could be really attractive people who have no res.
00:05:44
Tracey Halvorsen
ah Yeah. Yeah. Really? Like if they're nice. Yeah. But gen alphas don't play that way. How did gen alphas play? They like looks. They like looks? Yeah. Are they superficial? you know what means?
00:05:56
Tracey Halvorsen
No. They only care about what they can see. Not what's inside. No. No? Okay. But they care about looks. Yeah. Okay. Fair. Especially at the girls. So there's this group bag of girls at my school and all they do is at recess they just go together and talk.
00:06:16
Tracey Halvorsen
Girls do that. Yeah. Yeah. think they're talking about the boys? Uh, no. They're talking about their riz? They're talking about like makeup. Oh, girl stuff. And like if they have a boyfriend and like a Yeah.
00:06:30
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. Talking about that stuff. Yeah. um Okay. So that's Riz. I like that one. Yeah. And I like i like Rizzler because, of course, that makes me think of Twizzlers. remember But that's ah that's a silly Gen X thing to say.
00:06:43
Tracey Halvorsen
So what else you got? So this is interesting one. It's Ohio.
Pop Culture and Memes: Ohio, Trends, and Terminology
00:06:49
Tracey Halvorsen
so Yeah, Ohio. Why is Ohio a thing? don't know, but there's a lot of serial killers, so that might just be big. But honestly, Ohio State, they have good sports.
00:06:59
Tracey Halvorsen
But Ohio means like weird and, yeah. Weird. Unexpected. Unexpected and serial killers? Yeah. Okay. And also that.
00:07:10
Tracey Halvorsen
So if you're if you say, like, where are you from, Ohio? Is that a compliment or is that, like, a diss? Okay, so Ohio means you're Skibbity, too. And I'm actually kind of from Ohio.
00:07:23
Tracey Halvorsen
That's right. Since I'm a mama. Oh, yeah. was part of Ohio. So I'm actually part of Skibbity for everyone watching. Yeah. So Skibbity is good or bad? i don't understand. Okay, wait. I wrote something down here. It says betas are like a bad...
00:07:40
Tracey Halvorsen
um Alpha means good. Good. Okay. and know Sigma's like in the middle. Sigma's in the middle? Not terrible. Not But if you're if you're ah if you have riz and you're if you have Riz and you're also Skibity, that's a good thing.
00:07:56
Tracey Halvorsen
That's a good thing. Yeah. Okay, so you want to Riz and Skibity. Yeah, and Sigma. And Sigma. Which is technically the same thing. Well, wouldn't you have Riz, Skibity, and Alpha? I am at Alpha.
00:08:07
Tracey Halvorsen
Right. Okay. But alpha is good. have that Sigma is like in the middle. Yeah. Okay. What about, um, what about sus? Sus? Okay. So sus basically means, um, it is like a, like, oh my God.
00:08:24
Tracey Halvorsen
Sus means suspicious and like weird. Like you can also be like. So could you be sus if you were from Ohio? Yeah. Really sus. That's where the susest people come from.
00:08:38
Tracey Halvorsen
All right. um What else you got? You got any other words you want to draw attention to? I have lot. All right. So, um, phantom tacks. Oh, let's talk about phantom tacks. So, so ah wait, we'll add phantom tacks to gyat and riz together.
00:08:52
Tracey Halvorsen
Before we use all of it, we'll start off with just using gyat to tell you what it means. So, gyat... hey It has a couple ah meanings. One of them is like, you get got this, like, let's go.
00:09:05
Tracey Halvorsen
And then another one means like, ah like ah that butt is thick. Like you have big butt. Big butt. Yeah. Okay. That's yacht for you.
00:09:16
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay, now, some people say like, Phantom Taxes is like, you steal something, take something. And some people that are like, really, oh, sus, they say, going Phantom Tax your skibbity yacht.
00:09:27
Tracey Halvorsen
Mm-hmm. Okay, so yeah, I'm going a phantom tax your Skibbity Giat. Basically means you're going to take their Giat. You're going to take their big butt? Yep. Why is it your big butt Skibbity?
00:09:39
Tracey Halvorsen
don't know. It just sounds good, so people use it. It does sound good. Skibbity is a really fun word to say. I'm here to vouch for the fact that Skibbity and Rizzler are really fun to say, and Giat...
00:09:52
Tracey Halvorsen
giat I did not know that meant big butt. I think that more means big butt than you got to this. Yeah. Right? And also, before we go to the other stuff, I have to bring in another special guest.
00:10:05
Tracey Halvorsen
So this special guest, his name is Frank. And he is our six-year-old dog. You going to bring him in? Frankie, come on,
00:10:18
Tracey Halvorsen
see if you'll come up on You make an appearance? Frankie, here. Frankie, come Frankie, come here. You want to get up? Come on, up here. Come on.
00:10:31
Tracey Halvorsen
Come on, you can do it. I think he's scared. think he's scared of that mat. He's right here. oh Oh, there he is. There he is. my gosh.
00:10:42
Tracey Halvorsen
He's an attacker. Frank, you want to go back to what you were doing? Okay. Thank you, Frank. Thank you. Thank you. Great introduction. All right. We need to get a third chair maybe and he could just sit here and be on the podcast with us. Yeah. All right. For for next time, we'll make sure that Frank is making it permanent appearance.
00:11:01
Tracey Halvorsen
Next time. Next time. Yeah. We got a lot to cover. We're going to do that we're have to do multiples. but Maybe you can get like that old beanbag. Oh, the giant beanbag? From the office. Maybe we have to get a special beanbag chair.
00:11:14
Tracey Halvorsen
Yeah. All right. Let's get back to it here. We've got a lot to cover. a lot. All right. So that's Phantom Tax, your skibbity-giyot. Yeah. What else you got? Okay. So ah walk in.
00:11:28
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay, it's lock-in. it Speech made it different. Lock-in basically means you got this, like lock-in, do good. Say was on a soccer game, someone would lock-in. Okay, so that's like get focused, like get in the zone, lock-in. I like that one.
00:11:46
Tracey Halvorsen
Yeah, it's pretty good one. Yeah, not as fun to say as Skibbity, but I like it. This is a fan favorite one I'm about to do. Okay, fan favorite. W. Basically means like, ah okay, you're going to win.
00:12:01
Tracey Halvorsen
Like W. You're going to get the W? Yeah, you're going to get the W. Yeah. So it just basically means win. W. Just like better. So you just say W? W. Winning? Just better. That just means better than winning? Yeah. It's the win.
00:12:16
Tracey Halvorsen
Because it's just the W? Yep. Okay. Okay. Got any others that you want to make a special guest appearance? Yeah. Okay. hold on. Hold on. Let's let me. Okay, go ahead. I wanted to play with the sound effects. Okay, okay. So um now we have to... So this was a big one. I think people like stopped saying it a little bit, but at my school least...
00:12:41
Tracey Halvorsen
What was really lucky, I'm to tell little story, but um what was really lucky is whenever my friend like, oh, no, you're better than me, or blah, blah, randomly would just find a cap on the floor and pick it up and say, stop the cap.
00:12:56
Tracey Halvorsen
Like, literally, one time we were walking outside, and he saw a cap and he was like, and me like, what? How did he find that? And, like, it happened, like, five times.
00:13:06
Tracey Halvorsen
Well, that's pretty good demonstration of what no cap means, right? This is another one. I i didn't know what no cap meant. It also means like telling the truth. Like if some say you say like, I'm a cod trillion or someone say no cap. And that means like you're lying.
00:13:23
Tracey Halvorsen
So yeah. I think I heard and Justin Bieber use no cap in a song. Really? Yeah. After I'd learned what it meant from you all. I heard that Benson Boone's like one of the best singers.
00:13:36
Tracey Halvorsen
I believe it. Yep. All right. Oh, we're getting to one of my favorite words. My favorite Gen Alpha words. Drip. Drip. Let's talk about drip. First we have to do a thing called eat.
00:13:50
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh. I know. Eat. Okay, well, isn't that about... Don't you have to cook first? No, it means like eat like... a like ah Here, I'll do an example, but I don't say eat. It's like... ah So, like, someone said, you left, so going down the side, and she fell, and she, and ah ate and left no crumbs.
00:14:15
Tracey Halvorsen
That means, like, you you went down. Like a total wipeout? Yeah, just get You ate and left no crumbs? Yeah, but ate means something, like, especially good. Okay. Yeah.
00:14:25
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. Now we're going blow to go to Chase's favorite. Well, no, I want to back up. oh Okay, hold on Let's do, um...
00:14:35
Tracey Halvorsen
My favorite. Drip. Okay. Drippy. Drippy. Tell me about drip and drippy. Okay. So drip and drippy is the same thing.
00:14:46
Tracey Halvorsen
Just when you type it in your Roblox, it finds different things. But um so drip, as most of you know, drippy means like stuff dripping. But in Gen Alpha, it means like you look good, you're drippy.
00:14:57
Tracey Halvorsen
High top tennis shoes? Beach sunglasses. Okay, beach. Like when people do this. Batman. And are the, what describe what the sunglasses, the pit viper sunglasses, what are those? Okay.
00:15:08
Tracey Halvorsen
So they wrap around, are like? So they're actually like really sick, but I can't explain them. Are they curved or are they? They're like ah this on top. like Okay.
00:15:21
Tracey Halvorsen
You heard it here first. um pit pit They're called Pit Viper? Yep. that the brand? You go to pitviper.com and get your Pit Vipers. okay we're not ah we're not Okay. We're not sponsoring any of these products, by the way. We're not paid to – this is not product placement, but good to know. But they'll be happy.
00:15:41
Tracey Halvorsen
They will be happy. Okay. How do you think that that a product like pit Viper becomes so popular with gen alpha? so Not just gen alpha.
00:15:52
Tracey Halvorsen
Well, yeah, but and why do you guys like it? Well, so basically the looks are pretty good and then um they made their glasses and then I bet you like a big YouTuber found it. And then that's how people say it. Like it started from YouTube.
00:16:05
Tracey Halvorsen
And then they got it and then they made up their own stuff. Okay. And then that, like that person will get a YouTube channel that like made up the word and say it and what it means.
00:16:16
Tracey Halvorsen
And someone else, like a huge, like a huge creator will see what he, like a huge creator will see what he said. And he'll be like, Oh, this sounds really good. I'm going to put it on YouTube. Okay.
00:16:26
Tracey Halvorsen
That's how it gets big. That's how it gets big. I mean, this, of course we can't mention YouTube without mentioning Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast. And Prime, the disgusting drink that you love.
00:16:37
Tracey Halvorsen
don't like it anymore. Oh. Well, tell me why you liked it so much. Sponsored by Lunchly.
00:16:45
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. The Prime's gotten really popular because i'm there's these famous YouTubers named KSI and um Logan Paul. And they just made Prime and it went big because- I thought Mr. Beast made Prime. No.
00:16:57
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh. And then they made Lunchly, which is a total ripoff, guys. Do not buy Lunchly. Lunchly is literally the exact same thing as Lunchable. Just they changed the name up and make the cover look different.
00:17:10
Tracey Halvorsen
Literally, they copied everything Lunchable did. So don't buy Lunchable, guys. And anyways, Lunchable is better. All right. There we have it straight from the mouth of Gen Alpha. that They literally made pizza.
00:17:24
Tracey Halvorsen
They copied. They're copycats. They're copycats. They're going to get sued. That's sus. They're going to get sued. That's sus. No, it's beta. It's beta. Okay. Tell me what Sigma is on your list.
00:17:36
Tracey Halvorsen
Sigma? Okay, so Sigma is actually like a, don't know how to explain, ah like. Sigma like lame? Like, it's like you're Sigma, like you're cool.
00:17:49
Tracey Halvorsen
And also, if you guys search the song Sigma Boy, there's these two girls that made a song that goes like Sigma, Sigma Boy, Sigma Boy, Sigma Boy. Wait, actually, I can get it for you. Okay. okay All right, you pull up Sigma Boy so we can hear it.
00:18:04
Tracey Halvorsen
asked me some questions. Yeah, I've got some more questions for you. Are you ready? We have to look at that song. Oh, okay. Okay, yeah, I'm ready for questions. All right, I don't know if we should be listening to that song that I see on your screen right no, we're not going listen to that one. Okay, I don't think we can play that without adding an explicit... Should you even have that on your computer?
00:18:22
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh, no, it just popped up told me about it and I put it in and I was listening to it. I have to call mom after this podcast recording. Just kidding. It was from
00:18:33
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. You're in trouble, find Sigma Boy.
00:18:39
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. Okay, you ask me some questions. Okay, here's a question while you pull up Sigma Boy. Got it. Okay, let's hear it. Sigma, Sigma Boy, Sigma Boy, Sigma Boy.
00:18:52
Tracey Halvorsen
Kajdaya devchonka hoche duncevat s toboy. Sigma, Sigma Boy, Sigma Boy, Sigma Boy. Ya takas, sh'ta bebivata budes gud.
00:19:06
Tracey Halvorsen
Hatchy tune. Yeah, and this is the front cover. Oh, here. Show there. intimate into Okay. For those of you that that aren't watching the video, you heard the song at least. It's Sigma Boy by a band that appears to be unpronounceable.
00:19:26
Tracey Halvorsen
Is that Russian? What language are they in? I don't know. Probably Russian. Okay. Well, that's pretty cool. Now, back to serious questions. You ready? Yes. Okay.
00:19:39
Tracey Halvorsen
What are some things that adults and grownups don't understand about gen alphas? oh
00:19:50
Tracey Halvorsen
so understand about ten alphas is and den most and yeah What they Yeah. What it means, which I just taught you. Well, besides the words, what don't we understand about you?
00:20:02
Tracey Halvorsen
About gen alphas? Like, most Gen Alphas are actually really competitive. hello Like, then more than most. Yeah. Although, actually, I'm pretty sure ah man je ah Gen Z, I think it is. Let me see. don Okay.
00:20:22
Tracey Halvorsen
Gen Z's is like i Wait, so if you were, like, in college, what Gen would you be? Hmm. I don't know. i think I think Gen Zs are out of college. There's millennials, Gen Zs. Millennial Gen Z, oh I went to this UMBC soccer game, and the guy was like really mad on the team, and he screamed the F word.
00:20:43
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh. I know. It's crazy. Because he's competitive? Maybe. Okay, but you think Gen Alphas are more competitive than we understand?
Gen Alpha's Complexities and Preferences
00:20:51
Tracey Halvorsen
Yep. That's good. That's a good insight.
00:20:54
Tracey Halvorsen
Gen Alphas are hard to explain. like Well, that's because you're complicated and and interesting.
00:21:01
Tracey Halvorsen
what what's a what's the best thing about or the worst thing about being a gen alpha?
00:21:05
Tracey Halvorsen
oh Is that? ah For you growing up right now. Teachers. Teachers are the best or the worst? Worst. Teachers are the worst? Because you don't get candy every day.
00:21:18
Tracey Halvorsen
Although, actually, so not teachers are the worst, but on the recess to teachers. The recess teachers. The ones when they're at recess. So that's worse than climate change, anything else?
00:21:31
Tracey Halvorsen
We won't talk about, like, gen alpha. Okay, so just being a gen alpha. Your day-to-day, the worst. Recess teachers. Recess teachers. Because, like, everyone makes complaints.
00:21:42
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay, so there was a principal, at lunch. ah She was like, it was we're going into second recess. And at first recess, everyone was like, it's so cold outside.
00:21:54
Tracey Halvorsen
Can we please go into the gym for second recess? Can we go inside? bobh Blah, blah, blah. And then at lunch, the principal said, okay, guys, so a bunch of people have been coming up to me and complaining that it's really cold outside.
00:22:07
Tracey Halvorsen
So to make it better, wear your coats. And we were just like, oh my God. What? For your second recess? Yeah, she said instead of, like, saying go in the gym, she was like, okay, guys, to make it better, wear your coats.
00:22:24
Tracey Halvorsen
Wow. Way to ruin second recess. boy. How many recesses do you have usually? Two a day. Two a day? Okay. Is that good? Yeah. Better to have more, I guess? Give them those more.
00:22:36
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. Depends. Depends? All right. um If you could make one rule that all grownups had to follow when they were talking to kids, what would you say the rule had to be?
00:22:51
Tracey Halvorsen
Say yes to if they ask you for an iPhone. Okay. All right. What do you think are...
00:23:05
Tracey Halvorsen
What do you think we don't understand about screens and screen time? Do you think it's that we don't understand why you all want to spend so much time on screens?
00:23:16
Tracey Halvorsen
ah So I heard this thing about they want you to spend your life... Like, well, just in case you don't have that much of it. huh I don't want to go to school. That's not spending my wife's life wife well.
00:23:31
Tracey Halvorsen
You'd rather spend it on your iPad at home? Well, I'd rather spend it playing soccer, actually. Today, my friend asked me, what's your favorite food? I said, sushi. What's your favorite thing to do? I said, soccer. He said, sushi or soccer? And I said, he said, sushi?
00:23:45
Tracey Halvorsen
And no soccer or soccer, no sushi. That was hard. I was kidding. I chose soccer. Wow. That's a commitment. Because then I could just go with crab. That's true.
00:23:56
Tracey Halvorsen
But there's no backup plan for soccer, is there? There's no replacement that even comes close. Tackle football. Tackle football. All right. No, I was kidding. Basketball. Well, yeah, basketball, that's fun, and you don't have quite the ah the risk of concussions and death. just asked me?
00:24:13
Tracey Halvorsen
I just asked you about um maybe about what we didn't understand about screens. So screens are actually good for you. Why is that? Because people say eyeballs might pop out, but a good amount of screen time per day keeps the doctor away.
00:24:28
Tracey Halvorsen
Now, everyone says to, like, no screen time on the weekdays. But all my friends have screen time on their weekdays. But it's not on the weekdays.
00:24:39
Tracey Halvorsen
It doesn't matter. the same as the weekend. Just bedtime is different and you don't have school. So it really doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. Like, the two-hour-before-bed rule, that just helps you go to sleep easier.
00:24:52
Tracey Halvorsen
don't need help going to sleep. Yeah. So you do you like to have the iPad for two hours before bed to help you go to sleep? No, they say that for two hours before bed, but don't think you need it two hours before bed. you're saying they say not to have screens two hours before bed because it makes it harder for you to go to sleep. But like, that's not true.
00:25:10
Tracey Halvorsen
Yeah. I'm going to test it. Oh yeah? Yeah. Okay. Where are you going to test it? Mommy got more strict. here become worse strict All right.
00:25:23
Tracey Halvorsen
um All right. Okay, if you had to give up YouTube or video games forever, which one would you choose? Video games.
00:25:35
Tracey Halvorsen
Give up video games, yeah. No, YouTube. You give up YouTube? I like games. I know you do. I couldn't play Bed Wars and I wouldn't be level 42. Okay, fair. And also, you say level 2 is bad for Bed Wars, that's not true.
00:25:49
Tracey Halvorsen
It's level 50 means you're really good. Okay, guys. So for you Fortnite players that always get to level 300, stop buying levels.
00:26:00
Tracey Halvorsen
All right. And also it's harder in Bed Wars to level up. like You have to play like 20 matches. You've played a lot of matches, haven't you? I'm level 41. You're level 41? But you have to like win most of them. What's the highest level you can go in Bed Wars?
00:26:15
Tracey Halvorsen
100. 100? Oh, you're almost halfway there. My friend 57. Oh, of you? He's been, so here's the thing. He's been playing way longer than me, but I'm close to him.
00:26:27
Tracey Halvorsen
Like when I was playing, he was level 39, I think. Yeah. When I started playing with him, he was level 41, I think. He was like 40 or 41. And I was level 17. seventeen Yeah, you caught up. And I caught up by so much. You did. i remember when you were catching up, you were pretty excited. and you were taunting him a little bit too, weren't you?
00:26:45
Tracey Halvorsen
So that was mostly on the World Series. We all know the Yankees should have won. Like they were playing terrible for the World Series. It was like they were trying so hard to get there. yeah But then in the games, they were just too bad.
00:26:57
Tracey Halvorsen
um But at least they made finals. But it seems like Gen Alpha, you guys you guys do a lot of smack talking, right? Is that ah is that something that is special with Gen Alpha and your competitive something special look what we can do with our neck.
00:27:11
Tracey Halvorsen
Okay. Well, for those of you who are watching the video, that ah you can in enjoy what he's able to do with his neck, which I guess is unique to Gen Alpha. Also, mewing. to Oh, yeah, mewing. This is fun.
00:27:23
Tracey Halvorsen
how How most people mew, they do this. They bite on their things, their cheeks. That's not how you it. You get your tongue. You put it against the top right here.
00:27:34
Tracey Halvorsen
Put it there. Suck it in. huh and And then, like, make your mouth like this.
00:27:44
Tracey Halvorsen
And then like do this.
00:27:47
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh, right. You, right. And then then you emphasize, so you're sort of, if you're not able to see the, see this, it's sort of like duck lips through what you're doing inside your mouth. You create the duck lips. Then you put your finger up to your lips, sort of like saying quiet.
00:28:04
Tracey Halvorsen
And then you turn your head to each side and sort of accentuate your jawline. That's mewing. Yeah. that is ah That is pretty funny. And I have seen other Gen Alphas do that to each other.
00:28:19
Tracey Halvorsen
yeah I've seen some girls mewing at you before. Right? Didn't we see some pack of girls, some pack of wild Gen Alpha girls in Williamsburg giving each other, giving you guys the mews?
00:28:32
Tracey Halvorsen
no No. Okay. Well. But also, go to Williamsburg. It's really nice. Yeah, Williamsburg's fun, right? And also, the restaurant, you might not want to go there, or you might just want to beg your parents not to wear something fancy. and Okay. I'm not following.
00:28:49
Tracey Halvorsen
Don't like pants. Oh, yeah. You've got to wear pants. If it's, like, really fancy, I will wear it because, you know, you've got to look good. Sometimes you've got to look good. You've got to have the wrist. always look good. You've got to have the drip.
00:29:02
Tracey Halvorsen
And the Riz, right? Well, I know, for Gen Alpha. But I guess sometimes you got to have the ah grown-up drip. And also, just to say, six-packs are a big thing. People that think you have a six-pack when you're young and you don't work out, guys, sorry to break it to you, but it probably just means you're skinny. Like, literally. Oh, hold on. We got to, we got to, got to.
00:29:26
Tracey Halvorsen
There we go. That was a good, that was a good sound. Yep.
00:29:31
Tracey Halvorsen
I think you did it better. All right.
Technology and the Future: AI, Robots, and Learning
00:29:35
Tracey Halvorsen
Are you admiring yourself in the camera? No, I'm doing the neck thing. You're getting distracted. I'm doing the neck thing. Yeah, I see it. Yeah. Okay.
00:29:46
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh, you know, the here's the other thing we were going to talk about on this podcast. Dyslexia. Yep. Let's talk about it. Okay, let's talk about dyslexia. Well, okay what tell me what it's like to have dyslexia. So having dyslexia is basically like a thing.
00:30:04
Tracey Halvorsen
That ah like stops your learning ability from like going far and like, so basically say this is what half of your brain, this is the other half, right? This is your learning side the brain.
00:30:15
Tracey Halvorsen
And this is like your craft brain, right? absolutely The learning side and all that stuff, when you're just like sick, like goes to the this side hu and it's all on this side.
00:30:27
Tracey Halvorsen
So they, they help you to get all of it, to get it back split in part. That's a great explanation. so you learn differently. And I'm dyslexic,
00:30:39
Tracey Halvorsen
Do you enjoy learning more at this school? Joy. Joy. That made me think of something. Yeah. Movie. and you know what makes me think about movies? Shows. You guys have to watch Stranger
Entertainment and Identity: Shows and Pride in Gen Alpha
00:30:51
Tracey Halvorsen
Things. It's a really good show. And if your parents say you can't watch scary stuff, tell them you'll have nightmares.
00:30:57
Tracey Halvorsen
And guys, just to remember, they're not real. Wait, you can't tell your parents you're going to have nightmares. They won't let you watch just it. you know it's not real.
00:31:08
Tracey Halvorsen
You know it's not real. And even if you have nightmares, you know it's not real. Yeah, we had fun watching Stranger Things, didn't we? Are we excited about the new season coming out? It's pretty fun. Yeah. You know there's a Stranger Things play on Broadway.
00:31:22
Tracey Halvorsen
In New York. It doesn't sound as good. Okay. Fair. um
00:31:29
Tracey Halvorsen
Do you wish more people understood what it meant to have dyslexia? yeah Doesn't matter. All right.
00:31:36
Tracey Halvorsen
anything else you want to tell me about Gen Alpha? ah It's great. It's great. Yeah.
00:31:41
Tracey Halvorsen
Are you happy that you're a Gen Alpha? Oh yeah. I'm really happy. Are you going to save the world for us? So actually the other Gen Alpha is that the the oldest Gen Alpha will do that.
00:31:53
Tracey Halvorsen
Oh, okay. What about you? You play soccer. Have fun. Yeah. Get, uh, Phantom Tac somebody's skibbity. All to save that right. Finn. I think, I think we can wrap it up. What do you think?
00:32:14
Tracey Halvorsen
Got any moves? Got any moves you want to leave for the, for the audience? Okay. Let's see it here. Let me put this up. ah yeah Okay. If you're watching.
00:32:26
Tracey Halvorsen
wow Nadia Comaneci, eat your heart out. Frankie. This is Frankie's girlfriend. All right. That is, yeah, sure. It's Frankie's girlfriend. Cactus. She's hot. um Thanks for tuning in for this very special episode with Finn.
00:32:42
Tracey Halvorsen
Thanks, This be the best episode. Always. It's ah W. Oh, and also, just to tell you guys, remember that episode a few times ago where that lady said the Cybertruck ugly? Oh,
00:32:53
Tracey Halvorsen
It's the best thing that was made on wheels, except the Rolls Royce. Well, we disagree about the Cybertruck, but that's all right. I'm not the future. um Thanks for tuning in, everybody. Thanks, Finn. That was fun.
00:33:05
Tracey Halvorsen
Fun. All right. Peace out. Peace out.