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The Generation Gap (Gen X to Gen Z)
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The sisters invite Lynne’s son Jack and Kathy’s son Trevor on to have a little fun explorer the generation gap between Gen X and Gen Z. The lingo, trends, how technology affects their lives.
They briefly discuss Ina Garten’s new book, Kourtney Kardashians and Travis Barker’s promiscuous skeletons Anna Sorokin’s ejection from Dancing With the Stars and P. Diddy and whether today’s college students can read.
https://barefootcontessa.com/books/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens
Kathy’s taking care of dinner tonight to celebrate the Philadelphia Phillies (who to be clear, play baseball) with a Philadelphia classic. Although the way that she prepares it MAY have some die hard Philadelphians shaking their heads.
WHAT’S FOR DINNER
https://www.fromvalerieskitchen.com/philly-cheesesteak-recipe-peppers-onions/
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Introduction to 'Three Little Fishes' Podcast
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ah so um I just want to say I'm more 90s and they're more 80s. I feel like I need to say that. I don't really know the difference between the 80s and the 90s. He doesn't know the difference, Nancy. Well, I'm just saying. I kind of like the same. Yeah. You're all old.
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Welcome to Three Little Fishes, where three sisters who grew up in the Midwest together but have since spread across the country. I live in Los Angeles. I'm in Nashville. And I live in Philadelphia. We are all married with children. We've all had careers, but now we stay at home with our families. We've all been through ups and downs that come along with life and have always helped each other through.
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Celebrity Scandals: Diddy Combs and Anna Sorkin
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All right, let's go ahead and jump in. Cassie, I think you wanted to talk about ju didddy combs like you've been following this in the news. What are you thinking about all this? I find it kind of, I don't know why I'm intrigued by it, because I'm just disgusted by it, but you know, he is so famous, right? And just, there are so many charges against him that was the secret, you know, I mean, he's charged with like racketeering, sex trafficking by force, being the ringleader,
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you know, they had, they were transporting prostitution. I mean, there's just so many things that he's been charged with. And I think honestly, what's coming out is like, there's a lot of people that knew about all these things happening and nobody said anything. And so I think a lot more people are going to get charged because it's like the secret little ring he had going on, kind of like that Jeffrey,
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Epstein, like people were coming to these parties and enjoying themselves, but nobody was speaking up about what was really happening. And um I don't know, I just find it like unbelievable. But you you know you get people in power and they get money.
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and you know, they think they can do whatever they want. I agree. I think the whole thing is disgusting. I don't understand why people are so interested in this underbelly of the world. I mean, the excessiveness maybe has some sort of appeal. I don't know. I don't understand it. It will be interesting to see who comes down. Yeah, I mean, you're right. It's interesting, too, to be like, just because you have a ton of money doesn't give you a pass to be a horrible human being. And ruin people's lives. It's just, it's terrible. Yeah. Yeah. um And then I was also thinking about you, Kathy, in particular, because um have you been keeping up with Dancing with the Stars? And that Anna, so like that Anna, did what's her name? DeVryde. I can't even say her name right. What's her name? Anna. Sorkin. Anna Sorkin. She was the first to get booted from Dancing with the Stars. And if you remember, she was the one that just, and
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Was a liar and cheated people out of money and saying that she was just this heiress But she was just a big con artist and she said she was interviewed after When she got kicked off and she they were asking her questions about her experience. She's like I learned nothing from the show She couldn't be gracious at all like she was just I'm like good riddance like America has spoken to be like We don't want to watch you I don't understand why Dancing in the Stars in the first place put this con artist on.
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Like, what was the thought process there? Why are we giving her a platform to get more notoriety? I don't understand that. And that she was so quippy and ungrateful and unthankful just speaks to what kind of a human she is, and everybody should just stop talking to her, because she's terrible. Yeah, I don't get it either. She's a terrible person. She hasn't grown at all. She hasn't learned anything. She hasn't grown.
Celebrity Culture: Ina Garten and Kardashians
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you know In complete contrast to like someone like Ina Garden, who is a chef, and she um just came out with a book that talked about her very brutal and very isolated childhood and how, you know, this is somebody who has grown from that and has evolved and has become like this gracious, generous, lovely person. I'm actually a big fan. I think she's amazing. But anyway, you know, hearing about
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just the brutal, like very isolated upbringing she had and how she is just this seemingly generous celebrity chef is speaks volumes. So there's a complete contrast between these two people. And I think it's, yeah, that Anna woman needs to go go find a job at Starbucks or something.
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And I totally agree. And I want to get Aina's book. um What is it called? Be Ready When Luck. Be Ready When Luck Happens. So I'm all for it. I think we should all go get her book. um So something that's happening here by me where I live in Calabasas is the Kardashians are known to live in Kalbasis and Courtney Kardashian, Kardashian married Travis Barker. And their whole thing has been like over the top PDA. They just can't keep their hands off each other. It's ridiculous. Um, and so they are, their neighbors are upset because they put up these gigantic skeletons in their front yard.
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and in their neighborhood. And one of the skeletons is on top of the other skeleton being very suggestive and their neighbors want them to take it down and are in an uproar. So the skeletons are getting busy. now Yeah, they are suggesting that the skeletons are getting busy and people are like, I don't want to explain to my five-year-old what the skeleton is doing.
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That is inappropriate. Why? Why? Why is what I want to know. So they're they're big inflatable skeletons. I mean, I guess it's their property so they can do what they want. But it seems like why would they be like that? Don't they have little kids too?
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Yes, yes. Yeah. they have yes Why are we normalizing this weirdness? It's just because they want to be talked about. That's what they want. They always want to be talked about and that we're talking about. Yeah, i'm done for these people. Like what about the PDA too? I mean, is that just to get people's attention? I mean, that just seems crazy. I don't know. Like I think it's amazing. You found your person. You're super happy. I feel like you that's totally fine. But I don't think that personally, I do not need to see you guys sticking your tongues down each other's throats and groping each other. Like they're like to me, there's a time and a place for it. And I don't feel like you need to do that in public. But I mean, I'm not trying to be too judgy, but also I also feel like I feel like are you pushing it too far?
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I don't know. Well, there is, like, impropriety. I mean, you're not allowed to urinate in public places out there, right? Like, why? Because it's gross. Nobody wants to see you pull whatever out to go to the bathroom. Like, it's you can get a ticket for doing that. Why is it OK to stick your tongue down somebody's throat or grope them out in public? Like, is one worse than the other? i mean It's personal. I don't know. How much personal-ness do we need out there all the time? I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to shift gears. I'm going to just also quickly give you guys an update that Riley had homecoming this past weekend. I think he had a great time. I will just say that I did not get to meet his date, which I was surprised. So if you remember, I shared with you he did a homecoming proposal. He was super excited. She said yes.
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yeah He was looking forward to it. Like I know that his friends knew he did this and I heard from parents like how sweet that Riley did this. Um, and so it was news that he did this. So I'm like, Riley, so what's the plan? You know, I've been asking for weeks, like,
Generational Differences in Socializing
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what's the plan? How can we help? Like where are there going to be pictures? Because back when we grew up, that's what we did. We went and had pictures. The parents got to see, and then we went to the dance.
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So he's like, I don't know. He's like, well, mom, I think that she's going to get ready with her girlfriends and I'm just going to meet her there because her mom and dad don't want her to go in a group with boys. Like they just said that we could all just meet at the dance. So Riley ended up going with guy friends and he did meet her at the dance and they sounds like he spent the evening with her and he sent me pictures. So I got a picture of Riley and his date, but I didn't,
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get to be a part of taking that picture. And I thought it was interesting. Is this a generational thing is because back in my day, we would get to go with our date to the school dance and we would get to do pictures, but this seemed to be different and he wasn't bothered by it at all. And I had gotten flowers to be like, do you want to take her flowers? He's like, no, he's like,
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I think if I were going with her, I would take her flowers, but I'm not, I don't think you get flowers if we don't actually physically go together. And I was like, okay, that makes sense. So what are your thoughts on this? Is this a generational thing? Is this a Gen Z thing? Is this, I don't know. I think her parents are like a little controlling and helicoptery. Well, I can remember a couple of years ago, my senior now,
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When he was a freshman, he went to homecoming and asked the, you know, it was a big deal to ask her. And around here we do get together. We usually get together at someone's house and they invite the whole class to take pictures. So it's quite the deal. And we usually give the girls a posy and the boys a little boutonniere.
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So we did all of that. And then later that night, after the dance was over, Trevor asked us to come pick him up, because he wanted us to take him to the after party. And we're like, OK. So we brought our big car, because we were like, and we wanted to have room for his date as well. yeah And when we got to pick him up,
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She was not there. And we're like, where is she not coming? And he said, yeah, she's I'm going to go to my friend's party and she's going to her friend's party. And we're like, oh, so I just thought that is interesting um because I never did that growing up. I mean, when I went to a dance with somebody, you know, we started the night
Technology's Influence on Social Interactions
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together and we ended the night together. You know, it wasn't like, oh, you know, see you.
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Thanks a lot. Strange. I mean, for us, we like for me, I always went in a group. I mean, we were always with the group. So yeah, it's just and it was just interesting. I guess everybody does it a little different. like Yeah, I think it might be a generational thing. How does Jack do it, Linda? We always do pictures, prom and homecoming. We always do pictures. And they stick together throughout the whole night. So I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's the southern thing. but They go to the party together. They get home together. I don't know. I think that's really bizarre. And I feel like maybe her parents are younger. You know what I mean? I feel like there's a generational like millennial thing that the parents are super involved. And I'm just an older parent, so I don't.
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You don't care. You're like, go and do what you want. Peace out. I mean, it's not so much that. I mean, I ask what you're doing. I kind of ask the time frame. But I'm also, yeah, I mean, i I kind of let them sort of do their own thing. I don't know. So I have to also tell you, my youngest now is a sophomore in high school. And last year, he was asked to homecoming by a girl.
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And then this year, he said, no, I think I'm gonna go by myself with the boys. Well, over the weekend, there was a girl actually asked him to go to homecoming. Carson, ooh la la. So it's interesting that you're all having like a little bit different experiences and you're even having different experiences within your own house, Kathy.
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Yeah. But the good news is everybody's getting out and about. I think you know for a while when the internet came out and everybody was like sort of locked in on their computer or their phone or whatever, I think all the adults in the world were like, what's going to happen to these kids? They never look up from their phones. they you know They're going to be socially awkward. It's going to be weird. But I think humanity is kind of peaking its head out. And we are recognizing like we'd like to be with each other. And it's important. and I personally find high school to be super relevant in that you should practice dating before you get to college and before you become like an early 20 year old. like You got to work through the discomfort of asking somebody out and picking them up and going to dinner and going to a party and doing all the things because it is awkward and uncomfortable. I think some are better than others. And that's where I think this Gen Z group, you know, there are some kids that
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just don't want to make that effort. When our own household, my kids are different about that. And I think, you know, with COVID and everything, just being not with people for a long time, I think affected at least one of my children. I think that Linda, you're right. We know that we're better when we're able to be with people and be present with people. Like it's it's a balance, right? Of like having technology is great,
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but also if it's too much technology, then you want that dopamine hit, right? There's like all these studies that are starting to be done that it's like this dopamine hit. And for some brains, they can't, that's all they want. That's all they're looking for. And they can't stop looking at their phone to the detriment that they can't do anything else. So they're suggesting that, you know,
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some of these Gen Z'ers and then the next generation, what is the next generation? like Alpha, your youngest is an alpha. My youngest is an alpha of like how we need to maybe start looking at that as how young is too young to have a smartphone or this technology and have access to the internet and all these different apps. I mean, I think it's a tricky situation.
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I mean, i think that yeah the thing is, I think this whole new thing is it's unavoidable because even school, elementary school, middle school, it's all computer-based now. like They don't sit and look at books that much anymore. Everything is computer-based. So I just think there's no way to get around it. The social media aspect, having some guardrails up somehow. I know there's lots of apps that parents can use to put up the guardrails.
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I mean, Kathy and I probably had those kids that really were the experiment like our my oldest is 21 now. I mean, when she was in middle school, I remember the kids just got camera phones and the iPhones and they were just sophisticated and they were trying to figure it out and inappropriate stuff got exchanged and passed around. And it was like a really painful learning curve. But I feel like even just the 18 year old three years later, he gets it more. And I'm sure your younger kids sort of get it more too.
AI in Education: Benefits and Concerns
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Like they know the dangers. ah It's not foolproof and they still make bad choices because their frontal lobes aren't developed. But I mean, it's here to stay and we just have to figure out how to manage it because it's not going away.
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And I think that's what kind of what some of this research is showing, but like interesting that you said about the textbooks, because I just read this article in the Atlantic and what was it called the elite college students who can't read books. So this professor is saying that these kids are coming to college and they can't read a textbook, you know, used to have to read a textbook.
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within a week. And he's like, they can't do it. He's just like, because, and he was asking these students, what was your prep work like before you got to college? And just as you were saying, Linda, like things were online, they're reading just excerpts of things. And even kids aren't bored anymore. So they used to like read books for joy and for fun to entertain themselves. And now they're finding that kids are not picking up books and they're not reading novels just to find the joy.
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So it's, it's this technology is amazing, but it also, you know, trying to find the balance, I think is really what we're saying is tricky. Like is i and some of the technology is amazing. Like my, I'm, you know, I've mentioned before, I'm severely dyslexic. And so when I went to college,
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doing papers on the computer where that's what we did. And then when they got, we got spell check and grammar check, it was life changing for me to be able to write and have spell check and grammar check. And now they have like AI that people are using some,
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I don't know, are people getting in trouble for using AI? Are they trying? I think that you can get in trouble for that for sure. Yeah, I mean, there's huge consequence to it's basically plagiarism. So right, you know, and there are technologies out there that sort of detect it that the teachers are using. But I think, you know, for me, like, I very rarely pick up a book, but I read my Kindle. But I think the takeaway of that is you're reading.
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Right. So you're not just like looking at like your favorite app or. I do watch a lot of reels though too. I will say. Yeah, I am very guilty of that. Like a half hour can fly by in a heartbeat. I'll watch something. Because I think whatever it is that AI that sort of populates your feed for whatever it is that you open, I watch a lot of funny cat videos. I think it's kind of creepy when they're like, oh, you were looking at this. You should look at these five things now. It's like, what? It kind of takes me back a little bit.
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Well, this is getting to be a little too personal. Right. And I actually am one of those people, and I think I've talked about this before, but I love to online shop and I have carts full of things like all these different stores and don't hit the buy button. But I populate my cart in different stores with things because I love to online shop, but I don't buy it. You know what I mean? yeah So I'll get an email. ah We saw, we noticed your cart is calling. Your cart is going to expire. your You know, and it like, you know, the pressure.
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I don't feel the pressure, but it's like it constantly cues you up. So technology is it's amazing, but it is kind of crazy, too. I just hope that as a world, we still continue to fight it a little bit and interact with each other and be creative, because I think for me, what I notice about myself is I I'm dumber than I used to be. You know, I used to be more creative than I am. And it's because I can look stuff up on the computer cut out easily, you know, and I don't have to sit and like sketch it out or think about it or craft it out. I can just look it up. That's interesting that you say that. So you feel dumber. But how do you think like for our kids, for Gen Z, like, does that put extra pressure on the kids?
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to do better and to get into better school because do you think technology is supposed to be easier and it gives you all this more access so you should be, it sets the bar even higher than when it was when we were their age? I mean, definitely can get a lot more done in a short amount of time. So what I really do notice, I don't know if it, I don't know if it puts more pressure on the kids because they don't know any different. Like they didn't evolve through this. Like Gen Z grew up with the internet.
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basically. And Gen Alpha is a completely different ballgame. Like they grew up with the smart technology. They didn't see it evolve. So I think they don't know that any different, but I mean,
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What I do notice though is like this generation Gen Z in particular, Gen Alpha's still little, but Gen Z, they're changing the face of the workplace. Like they don't want to work nine to five anymore. They feel they can get stuff done in four or five hours and that's it. And they want to be compensated for that. You know, they want their quality of life is way more important to them. They're not like grinders like we were.
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and the generation before us, um you know, the baby boomers ground it out. And, you know, we're Gen Xers, all of us, and we ground it out too, because we didn't have a choice. So I just think it is sort of a different, I don't know, it's the workplace is changing, the way we do research is changing, creativity is changing.
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And we have to figure out how to like make sense of it. Well, I think with COVID too, everybody got used to being at home. And then that also relaxed the workplace. So even people going back to work, yeah there's like no, no, I mean, in a lot of places, no more suits. It's more casual dress.
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yeah I think a lot of people still want to have the option to work a couple days at home and have to go a couple days in. I mean, that might stay with us forever. I don't even know. I think it is. I think it's here forever. You know, the interesting thing too about COVID, at least for like where we live, is they had to do school online, which I think a lot of people did had to do.
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but You had to turn in papers, you did, you had deadlines by midnight. And I feel like when COVID went away and we went back to school, in-person school, the online piece hasn't gone away. Like here, Riley will come home on a Friday night and he'll have something due that he has to get sent in by eight or 10 o'clock at night.
00:24:10
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Um, Friday night, which I really struggle with because before COVID, that wouldn't have happened when you left school on Friday, you were done and whatever you're going to turn in had to be turned in on Monday. So I feel like in some ways technology does a disservice. Right. Um, because it's so available on yeah because it's so available. You always have to be on. Yes. yeah So it's an interesting thing. So when I talk about pressure with kids, like, do they feel that like,
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you're constantly having
Digital Security Challenges
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to think about stuff. Like Riley's constantly checking his running list of things he has to do on the computer. I find it to be a lot. Well, I think what I noticed with my kids, cause they're all Gen Z kids is they have fatigue. Like, yeah.
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It's not physical fatigue, it's more mental fatigue because they are kind of always plugged in. So there is a mental fatigue there that I think is associated with all this technology. And the Gen Alpha, I mean, maybe they will never experience that fatigue because they're so adapted to it.
00:25:19
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I wanted to say something about the technology to that, you know, we didn't have. So a couple weeks ago, my youngest on Instagram, his account got hacked. a And he was trying to deal with it by himself. And he ended up I think paying the person that held his account hostage because he just thought it would get it back, which obviously it did not, but we had to step in and kind of figure out what to do. But that's scary, like that.
00:25:56
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I know that bothered him greatly and it bothered us as well as a family. And then we had to talk more about like, you have to watch out for these predators online because yeah they're around. You have to be careful.
00:26:10
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so um You just never know. You know, and we didn't know that was happening to him and he was in his bedroom right down the hall from us. Right. And although yeah I'm sure you've talked about safety before, it still happens. It's still happening, right? Because he's young and his his brain isn't fully developed. And these people, as you say, are predators and they're really good at getting these kids to make a mistake. Well, I think, you know, Gen Z is just this amazing group of young people and they have the world by the tail.
Advice for Gen Z: Managing Technology
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They just have to make sure they stay the course and, you know, fight the fight. And to me, the fight is like,
00:26:59
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get out in nature, unplug every once in a while, try to be creative, try to do some things away from all the technology because there is an element of health that can't be attached to technology all the time, which is ironic as we're sitting here talking on my podcast. but You know, I think it is so important to put on your phones, put on your phones, everybody.
00:27:29
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but You're listening, you're not necessarily watching something and you are like trying to connect with like what's going on in the world. So I think that that is a little bit different. And I do think we have to be honest that with technology and with all these apps and things, there's an increase in depression, there's an increase in anxiety. And we have for sure yeah has to be mindful of how they're all connected and trying to figure out like everything in life that there's a balance. So we're gonna do something a little different and fun is that we you guys have invited your sons on and we're gonna ask them just a few questions z Gen Z related.
00:28:09
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ah Today, we are joined by my youngest child, Jack. He's a senior in high school, um doing all the senior things. And we thought it would be fun to kind of talk to him about Gen Z and what it's like to be you know an 18-year-old in the world today.
00:28:27
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And so one of the things we thought would be fun would be to bring back some of like, I'm an eighties kid. I went to high school and college in the eighties. And I thought it would be fun to ask Jack some of these sayings that we used to say and then what he thinks they mean. And then what is like what you would say and replace of it today. Okay. What does it mean to Ralph? Uh, I don't know.
00:28:56
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Okay. So back in the day, Ralph meant, yeah, you threw up, like you went to a party and you had too much and you Ralph. Now, what would that be today? Do you guys ever say stuff like that? Pull trig. Pull trig. What is something so gnarly? What would gnarly mean to you? Oh, like cool or sick. Yeah. So that's what you would say. It's like something cool or sick. Okay. I got you.
00:29:21
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What about veg out? Did you guys ever say that? Um, no idea what that means. Veg out? Yeah. No idea. Okay. So it means to just like lay around. Like you just like, Oh, just like chill. Chill. That's right. Yep. Okay. Eat my shorts. Like telling someone to F off. Oh yeah. That's right. Yeah. You got that right away. Oh my gosh. That's funny. You know what term I really like that you guys use is Drip. Drip? Oh, yeah. like yeah What's drip mean, Jack? Like, you have a good outfit on. Like, you look drippy. That's a good fit. Oh, I thought that was called fit. No, like, fit fit it is just like what you're wearing. like this well Like, there's my fit today. And it's like, drip is like, if it if it's like cool or not. OK, Jack, I'm going to give you hypothetical. You are going on a canoe trip. And you have been out in the woods. You're in a lake.
00:30:22
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and you are in a canoe and you are taking a picture and your phone falls in the lake, down, you cannot recover. There's no diving for it. It's gone. And you are making your way back to Nashville. And for some reason you cannot get your phone replaced in time. So you're without your phone for three days. How would not having your phone affect you for three days?
00:30:49
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Well I think it would just be like I couldn't talk to my friends and i went I would use my mom's phone probably like I wouldn't like talk to my friends or like figure out what Tom hockey is or like anything like that because my coach will like tell us when to be at hockey or like like all like You know, so I don't know. I just feel like it would be a lot harder to like get stuff done, especially like applying to college and stuff. Like maybe I'll have like a college meeting and I just I don't even know because I don't have my phone. So it's just like everything that I need I need was like on my phone. So i it would be really hard for me to like get stuff done. um What about phone numbers? Like would you be able to even like reach out to your friend or your coach? No, I mean, I know my mom's but that's about it.
00:31:29
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I feel you. I feel like I don't know my numbers either. Kathy, do you know numbers? I mean, I know a couple from like our, our home number and Peoria, I will never forget. I know that one too still. I know grandma grandpa's phone number too. So those are a few numbers that are which is saying a lot because of my dyslexic brain. I forget everything. So I have a question jack for you. I am interested get in What do you guys think about dating? Do you use social media to find dates? I don't know. I usually meet the person in person and then add them and just talk to them on Snapchat and then plan to hang out with them that way. But it's not really like I find them through social media. Right. You guys could have called them. So it's basically the same thing. I still talk to them all the time. I feel like we just talk a little more often on Snapchat.
00:32:23
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Yeah, then like y'all would when you called. But we hang out a lot too. It's not like we just it's just like when we can't hang out. We just talk on Snapchat, but like we hang out a lot to hang out. What's your favorite app? Snapchat? Is that your favorite? The one the one you could not live without? Yeah, only because literally everyone I talked to is on there like, and like literally everybody. So I mean, yeah, I think Snapchat is probably my favorite only because like, that's just like It's just what I see everyone, what everyone's doing and stuff
Gen Z Perspectives: Social Media and Fashion
00:32:55
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like that. so What are you super excited about? What is something that you are over the moon excited about or is there something? I don't know. i'm I'm kind of excited to go to the beach with my friends.
00:33:07
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I think that'll be really fun. I like it. So here in Nashville, everybody goes to the panhandle of Florida because it's a six hour drive. So it's super easy. Everybody goes to the beach. So when people say they're going to the beach, they're going to the panhandle. That's nice. Well, it's your fall break. Have a good time. All right. I will. Thanks for joining us, Jack. Of course, of course. Thank you, Jack. Thanks for having me.
00:33:36
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So we're here with my son Trevor, who is a senior in high school. ya hit trev so Welcome Trevor. why i'm excited to video and So I'm going to do what I did with Jack, your cousin, and give you a couple of phrases that we used to say back in the eighties. And you tell me if you know what it means and then like, what's your current you know, saying that kind of matches it. So... Trevor, I just want to say I'm more 90s and they're more 80s. I feel like I need to say that. I don't really know, like, the difference between, like, the 80s and the 90s. He doesn't know the difference, Nancy. Well, I'm just saying. I kind of like the same. Yeah. You're all old.
00:34:28
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Okay. So what does gag me with a spoon mean, you think?
00:34:34
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I got, I got a true clue. That's like a weird one. Your mom used to say that all the time. She'd be like, gag me. It just means it's like gross or disgusting. I wouldn't say that. He wouldn't say that. Yeah. Okay. What does, um, hella.
00:35:01
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like that. It's like you got like a lot like you got like a lot of something. Yeah. i got hema Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Do you guys use that phrase? Is it coming back? Yeah. Oh, I love it. Yeah. Old is new again. um Okay, so what about have you heard? Where's the beef? No. No. Like, like, like, like beef for us is like, like, yeah, like,
00:35:31
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If you're like mad, like if you have like, oh you're like mad at someone, like you have like beef with them. Yeah. Now this is like, you're like against each other. Yeah. Right. You're fighting. You have beef with each other projects. that Yeah. So this was like an old commercial, which you probably don't even know. I mean, you don't watch commercials ever, but Wendy's came out with this like little old lady that she came out. She'd be like, where's the beef? And she would make fun of other hamburger places.
00:35:59
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and she would be like, you know, it was an ad for Wendy's. I think Arby's has something like that now. Arby's is like... It's a real meat, right? Yeah, we have the meat. Is that what they said? Yeah, we have the meat, we have the meat. Okay, what about, okay, this one is, what about Ralph? What is that? Ralph, like they threw up, like they went to a party and they riled.
00:36:27
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What do you guys we'd say? We say like yak or like yeah you're yakking. But yakking doesn't mean talking, right? Isn't that also another term for talking? That's yakking. Oh.
00:36:43
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Yeah, because I used to talk way too much. Oh. like oh it got talking This guy's a yak. He talks too much. That'd be you, Nancy.
00:36:58
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Trevor, I have a hypothetical for you. Okay. So you're up in Canada and your phone falls in the lake. You are heading back to Philadelphia, but for some reason you can't replace your phone, your iPhone.
00:37:13
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for like three days. How would that impact your life? Yeah, it would impact my like, life and stuff. Like I wouldn't like be able to like to call anyone like I have to like ask people like the bar on their phones and stuff and like, call my mom or something for like, a plane ticket and everything. Like a ride. up It'd be like hard to like get stuff like set up because like everything is like online now. Do you know anyone's phone number?
00:37:40
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I know yours and like, and dad's a little bit. I forget dad's sometimes. How do you keep all like your assignments and stuff like that organized? Do you have like a paper or something or do you keep it on your phone? My school uses a thing on like our computers called Canvas. And it's like a calendar on like what my assignments are doing and stuff.
00:38:06
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But I don't have like a personal calendar. It's kind of like, I just like try to remember. It's all in your head. You took it off there. Yeah, exactly. Travis, do you have a favorite app you love? Probably Snapchat or Instagram. Snapchat, because I like talk to like my friends and stuff. Instagram, you see what people are doing and stuff.
00:38:32
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I'm interested in like you dating and how social media has influenced like your interaction with the girls. You think it's helped? You think it's making it harder, easier? Yeah, I think it made it a lot easier and stuff. And I think it's helpful because I can just like text like girls if they like want to hang out. Like I don't have to like, I don't have to like be with them in person and be like, Oh, you want to hang out and like do something.
00:39:03
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It's like I can just like do it whenever. Yeah. So do you think it's more casual this way, more serious this way, just more fun? Like what what is it? I'd say it's more casual now because it's like it can be like less awkward because you can like ask people like to do stuff in like secret and like other people wouldn't know that you like telling others in person because like other people but like to see you talking to people and oh online it's like no one could really know because you can just text them. I didn't either. That's sort of interesting. I was telling Trevor, like, you know, when we were in high school, like our dresses were big and poofy, right? Like they were. Yeah, I remember my prom dress. My senior year was like a huge
00:39:59
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pink and white, like Cinderella type, big skirt. And like these girls here, well, I can speak about Pennsylvania because I've seen several homecomings and dances, but the dressers are very short and tight. Yes. So here in the South for for homecoming, it's a short dress, but for prom, it's a long dress.
00:40:27
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oh
00:40:30
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That's the difference. And the short dresses are short and tight. Riley just went to homecoming and his date to dress was short. I mean, no judgment, but it was short. Yeah, they all were short ones. yeah I mean, some of these dresses, that like I'm like, whoa. Is there anything that you are super excited about, heading and like finishing high school or heading out of high school?
00:40:57
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I'm excited for the hockey and lacrosse season. I think that's going to be fun. Especially playing with my friends for the last time. Yeah, and um yeah that's probably like the main one. All right, Trevor, any more questions for us? Anything you want to add? Anything you think we should know? No, I think that's it.
00:41:21
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Thanks for joining us. Well, it was so nice for you to join us. Yeah, I'm glad to be on here. The Gen Zers are cool. Yeah, they are. Thanks for coming.
00:41:35
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All right, you all. That was so fun. I'm so happy that Jack and Trevor were able to join us today and give us a little perspective on their, of what they see being Gen zeros. So thanks for having me.
Closing Remarks: Stay Connected
00:41:52
Speaker
Thanks for the fun. Thank you guys. All right, you all. What's for dinner? So here in Philadelphia, the Phillies are playing this evening. So I decided we're going to have Philly cheesesteaks. I think we're actually going to have chicken tonight. Philly chicken. Yeah.
00:42:14
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but Billy, chicken, sandwiches. Yeah. Well, those could be either chicken or beef. They could be either. OK. OK. So let me ask you this. Would that stand up in ah and court? Would people be able to prove Billy's cheesesteak?
00:42:39
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Just asking. Well, all the restaurants around here, you can get it either way. I mean, I'm not a native here, so I can't answer that. But as far as I see it in all these restaurants, they come both. But probably the most traditional way would be to have a steak. So are you doing cheese whiz or provolone? I can't stand cheese whiz.
00:43:05
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so I would never have had it in my house. Kathy, do you feel as strongly as you do about onions? I'm going to say. I don't like onions very much. And so Peter loves the onions on his, but I normally don't make them that way. So unless he wants to cook it, he can do it.
00:43:26
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how you
00:43:29
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I think my feeling feels that way too. If I don't like it, I don't cook it, which I feel like they all feel like they get punished, but it's just- That is exactly how it happens here. I eat practically everything, but I have a few hard no's and my people have never had them. Like beets, I won't eat them. Yeah, I won't make beets. Mom doesn't make beets for dad either. And that's the running joke every time he sees it on a menu. Oh, beets.
00:43:55
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Well, enjoy. Hope they win, unless they're playing the Bears. Well, it's baseball, so it's not football. So that's the difference, too. Oh, it's baseball. Oh, yeah. Whoops. Yeah, you mean Cubs, unless they're playing the Cubs. Cubs, yes. Yeah, that's what you meant. Yeah.
00:44:15
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