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Alpha Generation Summer Chaos Episode
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The Young Genz are at it again with their Summer time Podcast episode, They talk about their summer time chaos their plans and answer questions from Jon The boomer as he is the host for this special alpha generation episode. So gather the kids and get inspired by the future with Owen & Finn Brothers that will tell it the way it is and isn't! So 6-7 your way to a fun time with these two brothers of chaos and have a great time!
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Welcome to Gen is Us Podcast, where we dive into the dynamic world generational conversation with your host, John, the baby boomer, along with Jessica the Millennial, and Joey the Gen Z. Hello, hello, everybody out there. This is Genesis Us Podcast. This is the Alpha Generation Edition. We have two young boys who are going to be our guests. They're actually my little granddudes. And who are you? Number one.
SPEAKER_03Um, Owen.
SPEAKER_01Owen. And then we got Finn, right? Uh-huh. Okay, say hi, Finn. Hi. Finn. All right. So today's uh edition is going to be about random questions. Also, we're gonna ask them about uh summer. They just got out of school for the summer break, and we're gonna ask them what they are going to do for summer and what they're into in the summer. So let's start out with Owen. Owen, what are you gonna do for the summer break?
SPEAKER_03Um, two major things watch the um soccer world cup and two read for an hour every day. That's my goal.
SPEAKER_01That's that's a really good goal. That really is a good goal. How about you, Finn? What are you gonna do? Uh yes?
SPEAKER_02Uh complete the opposite.
SPEAKER_01Complete opposite? So you're not gonna read for an hour and you're not gonna watch soccer. Is that what you're saying?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and also and YouTube.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you're gonna be watching YouTube? Yeah. Why? YouTube is like uh eating bubblegum and not getting anything out of it. Yeah, I just love it.
SPEAKER_03I agree with both of you.
SPEAKER_01All right, so um, so you have some uh some pretty good goals as far as education, which is good, and sports. Uh are you guys playing any sports during the summer break?
SPEAKER_03Uh uh I'm playing uh soccer and baseball.
SPEAKER_01Is this your first year in baseball?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. How do you like it? And the dragon. Pretty good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah? How about you, Finn? How do you like baseball?
SPEAKER_02Good.
SPEAKER_01Which one do you like more? Soccer or baseball? Or football? Because you're in fall football too. Oh yeah, I am. And you're right, you're in wrestling. You're an athlete. You know that. Okay, there's no secrets here. Um, no, no, there's no six seven here. Okay, so we're gonna ask you about that too.
SPEAKER_03It's Gen Alpha 6'7.
SPEAKER_01Gen Alpha 67? Yes.
SPEAKER_03Okay, then 6-7.
SPEAKER_01All right, so so okay, so so Wait, wait, wait, can I speak? Sure, go ahead.
SPEAKER_03Um the new the new um generation, since this is uh Gen is us podcast, the new generation started in 2025 called Gen Beta.
SPEAKER_01Oh, is it? Yeah, Gen Beta.
SPEAKER_03I have a couple cousins that are actually Gen Beta.
SPEAKER_01So So are they gonna be like electronically controlled, digitally controlled? Do you know what AI is?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I know a couple of AI um platforms.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um I've got Claude.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, Claude.
SPEAKER_01I use Claude.
SPEAKER_03Uh I know what Claude is. Um I use Chat GPT. That's the Gemini, Google, AI. Um like you said, Claude. Um trying to think of more.
SPEAKER_01Those are a lot. But AI is Chat GP2. Are you okay? Finn, are you you know what AI is? Artificial intelligence? It's not people like us, it's machines that think and do uh chores or like work and stuff like that. Yeah. Are you all for it? Do you like AI or do you are you afraid of AI that'll take over the world someday?
SPEAKER_03Personally, I'm kind of both.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I am too. Honestly, I am too. Well, I think for adults, they think of okay, AI is going to take away jobs. So, like when you're your mom's age, it it's gonna be hard for her. Right now, she's you know, like has a good job, but you never know if AI is gonna take that job because it's artifici artificial intelligence. So when you graduate from high school, they may not be jobs because of AI. That's bad, right? Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_03Because then people get less money.
SPEAKER_01Right. And that means they've got machines working.
SPEAKER_03That means people can't pay off their rent. Right. Which means more people are gonna be homeless.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03Which means there's gonna be a human robot war in the future.
SPEAKER_01Like Terminator. Have you seen Terminator, the movie?
SPEAKER_03No, but I'm going to see Terminator 2 with my dad soon. Um that's a good movie.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Terminator. It's with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
SPEAKER_03It's my first rated R movie.
SPEAKER_01Arnold Schwarzenegger. We saw yesterday we went to see Mandalorian and Guru.
SPEAKER_02Owen? I have a question. Yes. Go ahead. Am I gonna go with you to what? The movie you're going. No, you're too young.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you're too young.
SPEAKER_03You're too young.
SPEAKER_01Because you know what? You're gonna see all sorts of explosions, robots taking over the world, and bad stuff. You don't want to see that yet.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's creepy.
SPEAKER_01That's bad, yeah.
SPEAKER_03No? It's bad. It's kind of bad.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it is, it is.
SPEAKER_02Uh I no. Yes, it is. Not bad for little kids. The what? It's not bad for the kids. Uh, it is.
SPEAKER_01It's rated R, so. Yeah. I think right now you could see probably PG 13.
SPEAKER_03Oh no, I've been watching PG13 since I was born. Stop that. I have.
SPEAKER_01You were not watching PG 13 when you were a toddler or newborn.
SPEAKER_03Yes, I was.
SPEAKER_01No, you were not. You don't even remember.
SPEAKER_03My mom and my dad and grandma. Well, they may have been watching the movie, but you don't watching me they were watching the movie with me as a newborn.
SPEAKER_01Uh uh, sure. Okay.
SPEAKER_03A year older.
SPEAKER_01Okay, what's the uh what's the uh latest uh PG 13 movie that you saw?
SPEAKER_03The latest released or the latest I saw?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the you saw.
SPEAKER_03Oh the latest I saw. Right. I've seen a lot. You don't remember. Yeah, because I've seen a lot.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Probably Um Harry Potter, I guess.
SPEAKER_01It's it's it's uh yeah, it's like a PG 13. They're a little violent, but not real, real violent. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean So how was school this year?
SPEAKER_03Did you Oh yeah, really good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I mean you got into uh what what grade are you gonna be in going into next year, Owen?
SPEAKER_03Fifth.
SPEAKER_01Fifth. How about you, Finn? Second. Second grade? You're gonna be a second grader?
SPEAKER_03Finn, speak into the microphone.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you're you're kind of far away. I mean, I can raise your volume. But um, okay, so what are you looking forward to in fifth grade, Owen?
SPEAKER_03Uh I'm looking forward to um doing band.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you want to get in the band?
SPEAKER_03No, I am in band.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you are in band?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I just it just didn't start yet.
SPEAKER_01Well, you're in choir too, aren't you?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm gonna be in band and choir.
SPEAKER_01That's great. How about you, Finn? Finn?
SPEAKER_03A syncynical.
SPEAKER_01You're what?
SPEAKER_03A syncynical.
SPEAKER_01A syncynical, what's that?
unknownSomething I made up.
SPEAKER_01If you had a choice between only wearing socks or only wearing underwear for a month, which one would you pick? Finn? Which one do you wear? Socks or underwear?
unknownUh-uh.
SPEAKER_01Underwear?
SPEAKER_03I would pick underwear too. I don't want people, I don't want people to see my nuts.
SPEAKER_01And your butt? Okay.
SPEAKER_03Let's face little.
SPEAKER_01Alright, would you would you um Owen, Finn, would you rather be covered with hair all over your body or would you be hairless? No hair at all. Would you be hairless or have hair all over your body? Like Bigfoot.
SPEAKER_03Hairless. I mean, I still want to have hair, just not all over my body, you know. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Well, no, it's one or the other. So you'd be hairless.
SPEAKER_03I'd rather be hairless than to be like Bigfoot.
SPEAKER_01Right. Okay. How about you, Finn?
SPEAKER_03I still want to have hair, just not same.
SPEAKER_01Same? All right. So would you rather wear a swimsuit in the North Pole or a snowsuit in the Sahara Desert? Do you know what the Sahara Desert is? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03A swimsuit.
SPEAKER_01A swimsuit in the North Pole? Yeah. So you'd be freezing your testes? Yeah. Yeah. How about you, Finn? Would you rather wear a swimsuit in the North Pole or would you rather wear a sw uh a snowsuit in the Sahara Desert? I know you. You're probably going to wear a swimsuit in the North Pole. You don't you hate to be hot, right? Or do you like the cold?
SPEAKER_02Neither.
SPEAKER_01It's one or the other, man. All right. So tell me tell me a little about going into uh fifth grade, uh, Owen. So you're gonna be going into fifth grade. Um, how did you like the fourth grade? Yeah? What did you learn last year?
SPEAKER_03During fourth grade, I learned multiplying mixed numbers.
SPEAKER_01Multiplying mixed numbers. So if I said 20 times five, how much would it be? 20 times that's easy.
SPEAKER_03It's a hundred.
SPEAKER_01All right. That's good. How about you, Finn? What did you learn last year in first grade?
SPEAKER_03Finnegan.
SPEAKER_01Finnegan, can you answer the question?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01Okay, all right. All right, so you guys have any questions for me? Are you guys looking forward to the fourth of July?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah? What do you what are you guys gonna do for the fourth of July? Anything exciting? You know, it's the 250th uh birthday of this country.
SPEAKER_03I didn't know I did know that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um and la last year was the 700th anniversary of Mexico.
SPEAKER_01Right. Finn, uh, what are you looking forward to uh as far as like the uh 4th of July? Uh you guys have any plans yet?
SPEAKER_03Getting soaked.
SPEAKER_01Getting soaked?
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, yeah. Every year we um go to like someone's house, like we do like a biking party to someone's house, and then we just throw water bones. But the worst part is the cleanup after.
SPEAKER_01Right, right. Well, I think I've gone to a couple of those. And then uh you guys have a lot of time. They usually usually they have like fire truck come over there. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And when everyone's there, right. Um we saw and go go to that person's house.
SPEAKER_01So, Finn, what is what is the biggest thing right now that you like doing? I know there's so many things out there call your attention because you're a uh second grader going into second. What are the things that you like right now as a second grader? What are your favorite toys, your favorite shows, uh favorite people? What do you like the most?
SPEAKER_02Uh please speak up. I can answer all those questions first with my favorite toy.
SPEAKER_01Okay, what's your favorite toy?
SPEAKER_02My favorite toy is Legos.
SPEAKER_01Legos? Okay, cool. What kind of Legos? Any kind of Legos?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_02Actually, mostly Minecraft Legos.
SPEAKER_01Okay. That's pretty cool. Uh, how about you? How about you, Owen?
SPEAKER_03What's this? Um I like playing soccer.
SPEAKER_01You like playing soccer? Yes.
SPEAKER_03And I also like reading.
SPEAKER_01What's your favorite sport?
SPEAKER_03Soccer.
SPEAKER_01No, fit.
SPEAKER_02Uh my top two is baseball. Uh-huh. That's my second. Okay.
unknownAnd my fourth is soccer.
SPEAKER_01All right. So your second and fourth, you skipped one and two. What's number one and two?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01So you like soccer first and then baseball, or is it baseball first and then soccer? Uh first place. First place.
SPEAKER_02Soccer. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Second place is baseball. Yeah. Do you like football?
SPEAKER_02Not very much. Really? You don't like him uh I'll put uh football in fourth place.
SPEAKER_01Okay. And do you like bowling in third place?
SPEAKER_02No, uh basketball.
SPEAKER_01Basketball. Oh, you like basketball? Yeah. Oh, that's pretty cool. How about you, Owen? Oh, we know that you like soccer, so let's let's just what do you like second, third, and fourth?
SPEAKER_03Um, so one is soccer, second is football.
SPEAKER_01Nice, yes. I like football. I played soccer too when I was your age. Well, no, a little older, a little older.
SPEAKER_03Third. Third is hard, I know.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's either baseball or uh third.
SPEAKER_03Third is baseball, and then fourth is basketball.
SPEAKER_01Oh, there you go. All right, cool. That's nice. You guys asked me a question. Do you have a question for me? We covered a lot of stuff already. We talked about AI. Um okay, so here's a question for both you. What are you scared about the most growing up?
SPEAKER_03Uh we alone. Oh.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I think anybody is, yes.
SPEAKER_03Um growing up, I'm not scared of it now. Uh the darkness.
SPEAKER_01The darkness?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but growing up, not now. Same.
SPEAKER_01The darkness?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but not not now. Um I conquered that fear.
SPEAKER_01You did? So if I turned off all the lights and went upstairs, you'd be alright? Yeah. Well, you know why? Because you know that we're upstairs, right?
SPEAKER_03Right now we're downstairs.
SPEAKER_01Because it's haunted down here. There's ghosts down here.
SPEAKER_03You don't believe you.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. The TV comes on by itself sometimes.
SPEAKER_03Actually, did I joke?
SPEAKER_01I'm not joking. No, but actually, yeah, the the TV sometimes when I come down here, it's on. And we hear stuff all the time around the house.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So, um, what's your favorite soccer team?
SPEAKER_01I don't have a real a favorite soccer team because I'm not really a big soccer fan.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, if somebody turned it on uh and it was between soccer and golf, I think I'd probably watch soccer. Yeah. Yeah. Or if it was like somebody drinking water and watching soccer, I'd probably watch drinking water.
SPEAKER_03What? So um you think drinking water is also better than golf? Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Right, right.
SPEAKER_03Like Tigma.
SPEAKER_01Tigma. What is Tigma? Okay, so is the six seven craze gone?
SPEAKER_03Um, no. No. Some people hate it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well, I mean that's what I'm saying. Is it is it gone? Are people stopped that have stopped with the craze? You know, like the six seven craze.
SPEAKER_03A lot of my friends still say it, but Oh really?
SPEAKER_01Do you guys make fun of them?
SPEAKER_03There is one person that there is one of my friends that um people say 6'7 just to annoy to. Yeah. I still like saying 6'7, just not around him. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01I got a question for you, Finn. Would you rather let a spider crawl in your ear or a cockroach crawl up your nose? But come on, Finn. Do you understand the question?
SPEAKER_02A cockroach.
SPEAKER_01A cockroach? Why a cockroach?
SPEAKER_02Up your nose because his bogles in your nose.
SPEAKER_01So you think that it's gonna stop the cockroach from going in? Yeah. Oh. That's a good one. How about you, Owen?
SPEAKER_03Um, same as Finn. Would you rather No, but like not because bugger is just I'd just say.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because it's yeah. Uh would you rather jump into a pool of slime or a pool of mud?
unknownSlime.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, slime.
SPEAKER_01Slime. Do you guys like slime?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Why do you like slime?
SPEAKER_03It's just fun to play with.
SPEAKER_01All right. Would you rather drink sour milk? Do you know what sour milk is?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_01Milk that's gone bad.
SPEAKER_03Oh.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so would you rather uh drink bad milk or brush your teeth with dish dish soap?
SPEAKER_02Bush teeth.
SPEAKER_01Old milk. Old milk? That's a good one. Would you rather drink from the toilet or have or have to pee in a litter box?
SPEAKER_03Litter box.
SPEAKER_01Why litter box?
SPEAKER_03It's more, it's more sanitary because if you drink, I mean both are weird, but if you You know, toilet water is actually clean because that water comes up and it's clean water.
SPEAKER_01When you poop in it, then it's dirty water. It's got bacteria in it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but everything has bacteria.
SPEAKER_01Would you rather eat dog food or cat food?
SPEAKER_03Dog food. Dog food with some like dog powder that you like spray.
SPEAKER_01Have you ever had dog food?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_01Finn, have you ever eaten?
SPEAKER_03I thought about it, but no.
SPEAKER_01No? So when Ollie, uh, when you feed Ollie, what does she usually eat? Like the hard, hard food? Like the rocks or whatever? Like the dog food? Yeah, the dog food. Yeah. See, we give ours like bologna. We give her like bologna, but steak. I think we give her chicken. All right.
SPEAKER_03You should give her McDonald's chicken nuggets.
SPEAKER_01Uh actually I have. Yeah. Yeah. Uh okay. Huh?
SPEAKER_02She gets a little crazy about it.
SPEAKER_01She's always crazy, yeah. Stormy's. That's why her name is Stormy, because she's crazy. All right. Would you rather eat a ball of hair or a handful of dirt?
SPEAKER_03Handful of dirt.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god. How about you, Finn?
SPEAKER_03Well, it was the first one.
SPEAKER_01Okay, would you rather eat a ball of hair or a handful of dirt? Hair. Why? Why, Finn?
SPEAKER_02Usually hair before.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you did? Was it tasty?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It did not taste like anything. Come on, right?
SPEAKER_02It tastes like chocolate milk.
SPEAKER_01Oh. It did not. Unless you soak somebody's head in chocolate milk.
SPEAKER_02Someone pee in chocolate milk. What?
SPEAKER_01Who was that? Alright, would you rather would you rather barf on your favorite celebrity or have them barf on you?
SPEAKER_03Have them barf barf on me.
SPEAKER_01That's gross. Or would you rather barf on somebody, Finn?
SPEAKER_03Barf on somebody.
SPEAKER_01Right? Yeah, I would rather barf on somebody and not let them barf on me.
SPEAKER_03That's that's because someone actually um barfed on my shoe once.
SPEAKER_01Really? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It was really gross, but it it was it was um it was it wasn't that bad.
SPEAKER_01Have you ever seen your dog barf?
SPEAKER_03No, but I I ha I haven't seen I haven't seen her barf, but I have seen her I've seen her barf just not the action.
SPEAKER_01I see I've seen uh Stormy barf a couple times.
SPEAKER_03I have like she'll reverse. I've seen like I see like what like uh I've seen I've seen our dog uh I see our dog's barf. I've just never saw her barfing. I I s I saw her barf. I just never saw her actually barf. Oh I did see her barf.
SPEAKER_01Here's a good question for Finn. Finn, would you rather walk barefoot through dog poop or poison ivy? You know what poison ivy is? Would you rather walk through poop or poison ivy?
SPEAKER_03Poison ivy. Really? Why?
SPEAKER_01Because um see poop you can clean off right away. Poison ivy lasts. You can have scratch you'll be scratching yourself for a long time. Yeah. Okay, all right. Sticking with that, sticking with that answer. All right, I like that. All right. Would you rather make a snowman or build a sand castle? Um so one's in the summer and one's in the winter. Would you rather build a snowman or a sandcastle?
SPEAKER_03Sandcastle.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh wow, okay.
SPEAKER_03Easier to build.
SPEAKER_01A snowman? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But a sand castle is more easier to build.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but you know what? A sand castle is not gonna last longer than a snowman. A snowman will last longer if it's cold. A sandcastle, all you have to do is the wind or the water will destroy it. Then it'll last forever.
SPEAKER_02It's hard to build.
SPEAKER_01What?
SPEAKER_02No, not to build it.
SPEAKER_01And it is hard to build, yes, absolutely. Sandcastle is hard to build. A snowman is just round, a big round ball.
SPEAKER_02Once, yeah. I actually tried to make like part of a sand castle in my grandgraph sand thing. And and I put the sand in it. Uh. Then I put it down.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02And it did walk.
SPEAKER_01It did work?
SPEAKER_02It just fell down. Really? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's interesting. Okay. I liked it. So, um, what's the craziest thing, Finna, you have ever done in your in your short time?
SPEAKER_02Climb on top of a mountain.
SPEAKER_01Climb on top of a mountain. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_02Twice. One in a car. Uh-huh. And and and one with barefoot. Really?
SPEAKER_03That is true. That is true. Colorado. In Colorado, we um we walked with our feet and then we drove up a mountain in a different part of Colorado.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Both of them, uh, one. Do you know the highest peak in the um US?
SPEAKER_01The highest peak in the United States. Actually, I don't know, but I could look it up. I could look it up.
SPEAKER_03I think we uh climb I think we drove that.
SPEAKER_01What is the highest peak in the United States?
SPEAKER_03I think I know.
SPEAKER_01Guess. Guess where it's at, Owen?
SPEAKER_03Colorado.
SPEAKER_01No, you're wrong.
SPEAKER_03Mount Whitney?
SPEAKER_01Right, Mount Whitney in California. No, that's the third. The number one is Denali in Alaska. It towers 20,310 feet above sea level.
SPEAKER_03Above sea level.
SPEAKER_01Above sea level, yeah. So, but it says the continuous. What's second? The lowest or is uh 48 Mount Whitney in California, located in the Sierra Nevada. It stands 14,505 meters above water. The Rocky Mountains, Mount Elbert, Colorado, is the highest point in the Rockies at 14,440 meters feet. I'm sorry. And in the Pacific Northwest, Mount Rainier in Washington, this massive active volcano volcano reaches 14,411 above.
SPEAKER_03Oh, because we climbed Pike's Peak. Pikes Peak? Apparently they have world famous donuts.
SPEAKER_01Where is Pikes Peak?
SPEAKER_03Colorado.
SPEAKER_01Colorado. Yes. In the southern front range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado stands 14,115 feet.
SPEAKER_02D level.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's pretty cool. Who would have known that? Us. Right. Albert Einstein. Right. All right. Would you rather be a doctor or an astronaut? Would you rather be a doctor or an astronaut? Remember, doctor operates and an astronaut goes to the moon. Or space.
SPEAKER_03Space.
SPEAKER_01Yes, I agree. How about you, Owen?
SPEAKER_03Uh I like to. I would like, um, I would like to be a doctor more. I just think I just think being an astronaut is um like more cooler to learn, but I would still r rather be a doctor.
SPEAKER_01Doctor? Okay. Boy, you guys are cooler.
SPEAKER_03It's cooler, but being an astronaut is way cooler to learn about. I just would like to be a doctor.
SPEAKER_01Here is a question that is going to shape your vacations.
SPEAKER_03Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01All right. Would you rather camp in a tent or stay in a fancy hotel? First, Owen, answer the question.
SPEAKER_03Um, camp in a tent depending where it is.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no, no. Can't depend on where it is. Would you rather camp in a tent or stay in a fancy hotel? I don't know. You gotta answer the question. Come on.
SPEAKER_03Um camp.
SPEAKER_01Okay. How about you, Finn? Camp or fancy hotel?
SPEAKER_02Fancy hotel.
SPEAKER_01Wow. I see, I would have never thought that. I thought it would be the opposite. I actually thought it was the opposite. All right. Would you rather go fishing or would you rather go shopping?
SPEAKER_02Fishing. Yeah, I like it.
SPEAKER_01See, how come you don't want to go camping? It's the same thing. Fishing. Yeah. Fishing. Yeah, when are we gonna go fishing, guys?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I want to go fishing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, let's go fishing. Not right now. Finn, you were so good. Would you rather live where it never snows or where it snows every day? You want to live in a place where it snows every day or it doesn't snow.
SPEAKER_03Never snows.
SPEAKER_01It never snows.
SPEAKER_03Never snows.
SPEAKER_01I like snow. I but I like snow in a Christmas time. That's it. Imagine not, imagine not uh living or living in a place where it doesn't snow at all, right? It happens. There's people out in the the west that don't get any snow. California, Arizona, Texas, uh, they don't get snow. Yeah. I mean rarely. They do get some once in a blue moon, but it's rare. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um North Carolina North Carolina broke a record this year. Um having them having the most snow by inches, uh-huh, I think, um, of state history.
SPEAKER_01Really? I believe that's the same.
SPEAKER_03Seven seventeen seventeen to eighteen inches.
SPEAKER_01I believe that because it was a really weird weather year or winter in different states. I went to Florida for a conference and it was the coldest day in Florida in like 30 years. It actually snowed the day before we got there. And actually, when we were driving, it was snowing in Florida. Yeah, so it snowed when we were heading out there. The coldest it's ever been in Florida. We went to Universal and we went to um Islands of Adventure. Have you guys ever gone there? No. They have like roller coasters and all sorts of pretty cool stuff in Florida. But it was cold. We actually had to wear our jackets. It was like 50 between 40 and 50 degrees outside, and that's cold for Florida. Alright, so here's here's a good question. Would you rather go to Walt Disney or to Hawaii?
SPEAKER_03Hawaii.
SPEAKER_01Hawaii? That's good.
SPEAKER_03Norway.
SPEAKER_01Norway? What's in Norway?
SPEAKER_03A lot of cool stuff. I'd rather go to Norway than to just What's in Norway that that you're fascinated about? I just really like Norway and I'm what did you learn about Norway?
SPEAKER_01School?
SPEAKER_03My friend. My friend, and I also just um I'm gonna prefer Norway and the World Cup.
SPEAKER_01Oh, they have a soccer team.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I'm gonna get my first Norway jersey.
SPEAKER_01Cool. You Finn, where would you get it?
SPEAKER_03The fun fact, I'm actually part Norwegian myself.
SPEAKER_01Are you really? I can see that.
SPEAKER_03I'm one and a half percent Norwegian.
SPEAKER_01You what?
SPEAKER_03I'm one and a half percent Norwegian.
SPEAKER_01Okay, can it the Finn? What did you say?
SPEAKER_03France.
SPEAKER_01France? I'm with you. I want to go to France. I want to go visit France.
SPEAKER_02We also see our friends. Huh? We also are France.
SPEAKER_01You know you're not French. We're not French. We we're Norwegian. You you speak like Parisian. Parisian.
SPEAKER_02Parisian.
SPEAKER_01Parisian. But I w you know what? I'd rather I'd I'd like to go to Hawaii. Hawaii would be cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'm to go to Disney World.
SPEAKER_01You like to go to Disney World? Um When's the last time you guys went to Disney World? It's been a little while, right? When'd you go?
SPEAKER_032022.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. So that was uh four years ago, yeah. Yeah. You were you were like what, Finn? You were like maybe three years old. Yeah, you were three years old.
SPEAKER_02No, I was four.
SPEAKER_01Oh, whatever. Yeah, you were about three years old. You were about like Sigma. This summer, aside from all the stuff you guys want to do, what do you ha what are you looking forward to as far as summer?
SPEAKER_03The World Cup.
SPEAKER_01Okay. We uh obviously it's sports. How about something else?
SPEAKER_03Reading.
SPEAKER_01Huh?
SPEAKER_03Reading.
SPEAKER_01Okay, YouTube?
SPEAKER_03Reading!
SPEAKER_01Okay, so um, when you grow up, what do you want to be, Owen?
SPEAKER_03Professional soccer player.
SPEAKER_01Okay, but what if you can't be a soccer player?
SPEAKER_03Paleontologist.
SPEAKER_01Okay, what's a paleontologist?
SPEAKER_03They study uh a dinosaur fossil scientist. A dinosaur, yeah, I'd like a dinosaur fossil scientist. They study and dig up f dinosaur fossils.
SPEAKER_01You can't do the same thing as your brother does.
SPEAKER_03It's it's not not always um not always uh dinosaur fossils.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Actually, you can do what you your brother does. So you want to be a paleontologist too, Finn?
SPEAKER_03No, but I would like to be a soccer player more.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so what if you do you want to be a soccer player too, Finn? Yeah, yeah. What is your second sport that you want to be a professional in?
SPEAKER_02Nothing.
SPEAKER_01Nothing?
SPEAKER_02Uh baseball.
SPEAKER_01Baseball, you want to be a baseball player? I can see you as a football player. I can't I can see you as a football player.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, football.
SPEAKER_01I can see you as a football player. I can see you as a running back first a tight end.
SPEAKER_03First football, first football and then football.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, football and football. Yes. All right. Would you rather always be hungry or always be thirsty? Um always be thirsty.
SPEAKER_02Always be hungry.
SPEAKER_01So you always want to be hungry? Yeah. No, you'd rather be thirsty because you like to you like to eat?
SPEAKER_02That's actually true.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, do you like to eat a lot? Yeah. Okay, so then you'd rather be thirsty. Because then you can eat all the time. Right? And plus I just boggled your mind.
SPEAKER_03A lot of food has like juice in it. Like steak has that like like kind of like juice and grease juice.
SPEAKER_01Are you talking about gravy?
SPEAKER_03Wait, steak has like this kind of juice. Like when you bite down on it, it has like the juice coming out of the steak?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That's because it's not dead yet. It's still mooin'. None of that. Moo. Huh?
SPEAKER_02That's grease.
SPEAKER_01That's grease.
SPEAKER_02You liar.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so would you rather be stuck for a week in a room that's way too bright or a room that's pitch black?
SPEAKER_03A room that's really light.
SPEAKER_01Okay. That's a good one. Uh, okay, so would you rather live in space or at the bottom of the ocean? That's a good question. Would you rather Finn, would you rather be bottom of the ocean? Or bottom of the ocean?
SPEAKER_03Bottom of the ocean. Even uh again, space is way more cooler to learn about. I think I mean they're both really cool to learn about.
SPEAKER_01Space is a vacuum. As soon as you go into space, if you don't have the right equipment, you die right away. You freeze and you die.
unknownOh yeah.
SPEAKER_01In water, at least you can swim, but if you're at the bottom of the ocean, there's no way you're gonna survive because you're gonna drown. So which would you rather be? In space or in the bottom of the ocean? If you could survive. Bottom of the ocean? For Finn. Owen?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he said bottom of the ocean.
SPEAKER_01Okay, all right. Both of you did bottom of the ocean. Okay, would you rather want to meet Santa Claus or Harry Potter?
SPEAKER_03Harry Potter.
SPEAKER_01Okay. And why Harry Potter?
SPEAKER_03Because it has Santa Claus in it.
SPEAKER_01Oh boy. No, it does not.
SPEAKER_03The first movie?
SPEAKER_01It has Santa Claus?
SPEAKER_03I mean the first movie I has Christmas. Oh boy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but not Santa Claus. True. How about you, Fenn? You want Santa Claus? Yeah. Okay. All right. Would you rather jump on a cloud or slide on a rainbow? Jump? Jump on a cloud. Or slide on a rainbow, Owen. Slide on a rainbow.
SPEAKER_02Is that impossible?
SPEAKER_01I know it's impossible. It's a fantasy question. What can I say? Would you rather be a powerful wizard or a legendary ninja? Owen first. A wizard or a ninja? What would you rather be? Ninja. How about you, Finn?
SPEAKER_02Wizard.
SPEAKER_01Wow. Why wizard?
SPEAKER_02Because I I can uh I can turn them into computers. And I can use You could turn your brother into a frog. I can do hacking.
SPEAKER_01Right. Or you could turn your brother into a frog or a donkey.
SPEAKER_03I can't, because if I'm a ninja, I can run super fast.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but he could stop your dodge. Yeah, but he can turn you into a a frog and stomp on you. Yeah, he's a wizard. I'll still be he could turn you it doesn't matter how fast you are, he just goes, eh, and you're you're a donkey.
SPEAKER_03I can dodge.
SPEAKER_01Or he could make you a turtle and then run you over. Right?
SPEAKER_02And I can freeze you.
SPEAKER_01Right. You could freeze him. And then you're not going anywhere, right? Yeah. Alright. Right, yeah. You could, yeah. You can you can produce a uh a volcano and throw him in lava.
SPEAKER_02I can make a lava pool, then I can throw him there.
SPEAKER_01Right? Okay. Would you rather be invisible or be recognizable everywhere you go? That's kind of a dumb question, but would you rather be invisible or be recognizable to everybody around you?
SPEAKER_03Recognizable.
SPEAKER_01How about you, Finn? I think I know where you're gonna go.
SPEAKER_03Invisible.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's what I thought.
SPEAKER_02So I can steal cookies.
SPEAKER_01Nobody's gonna see who you are. All right. Would you rather live in a world without cars or the internet? Would you rather have cars or would you rather have the internet?
SPEAKER_03I would rather keep cars, have cars.
SPEAKER_01Without cars, yeah. You're without cars or have internet. Which one would you rather have?
SPEAKER_03Without internet.
SPEAKER_01Wow, that's pretty cool because you're always on YouTube. That means that you would have YouTube.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but we use cars as transportation.
SPEAKER_01To get to where?
SPEAKER_03Subway.
SPEAKER_01Why would you want to go to the subway?
SPEAKER_03Just kidding. Colorado.
SPEAKER_01Oh boy. You like Colorado, huh?
SPEAKER_03Yes, I do.
SPEAKER_01Alright, would you uh rather be?
SPEAKER_02Huh? How me and Senate. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Uh I'll do it.
SPEAKER_01Without cars or would you rather have the internet? Without cars? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you know why?
SPEAKER_01Uh tell me why. I want to know.
SPEAKER_02Plant is still here.
SPEAKER_01The what?
SPEAKER_02Plaints are still here.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02So if you just walk to the airport. Airport.
SPEAKER_01Airport. Yeah. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Then we can go there.
SPEAKER_01Uh huh.
SPEAKER_02Fly there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but how are you gonna get to the airport? Oh no, I know how. You turn your brother into a donkey, get on him, and ride him all the way to the airport. That's how you do it.
SPEAKER_03No, you turn me into a cheetah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, no, I'd turn you into a chicken and then eat him.
SPEAKER_02I can still dodge his powers. Then after I do it, I could dodge his power. Then after I do it, I'll turn him into a chicken, then roast him.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_02Then I'll eat him for lunch.
SPEAKER_01Do you make him into fried chicken or grilled chicken?
SPEAKER_02Fried chicken.
SPEAKER_01Fried chicken. Alright. Would you rather would you rather have mermaids exist or fairies? Which one would you rather have?
SPEAKER_03Fairies.
SPEAKER_01Why fairies?
SPEAKER_03Because they have magic.
SPEAKER_01They fly around, right? Pixie dust, that kind of stuff. How about you, Finn? Mermaid or fairies?
SPEAKER_03Mermaid.
SPEAKER_01Mermaids? Yeah. I think mer mermaids are tall are bigger and probably, I don't know, they might be kind of slimy because they're in the water all the time, right? Although with your magic powers, all you have to do is dry them out with a wand. Alright. Would you rather uh be able to breathe fire or breathe underwater? Breathe fire like a dragon or be able to breathe underwater?
SPEAKER_03Breathe underwater without gills.
SPEAKER_01That's cool.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's cool.
SPEAKER_01That would be cool.
SPEAKER_03Because I just because I just use a snorkel.
SPEAKER_01Then you would be like Aquaman. You know Aquaman?
SPEAKER_03No, I just use a snorkel.
SPEAKER_01A snorkel? Snorkel?
SPEAKER_03Um one foot below water, I just use a snorkel.
SPEAKER_01Right. How about you, uh, Finn?
SPEAKER_03Uh oh.
SPEAKER_01Would you rather breathe fire like a dragon?
SPEAKER_02Breathe underwater. Underwater. Then after I'd done that, uh-huh. Uh to me, then I'll then I'll breathe fire.
SPEAKER_01Okay, here's a really good question for you guys. Would you rather give up ice cream forever or pizza forever? Which one? Pizza or ice cream? Finn, which one? Ice cream. You rather give up pizza?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and then I can use my method along to make Actually no. I change I change pizza because ice cream is way more cooler. Right? In both ways. Okay. Cooler, it's cold and cooler like.
SPEAKER_01Would you rather eat a hamburger that tastes like chocolate or a tuna fish flavored cookie? Both. That's gross. Both. A tuna fish flavored cookie. Both. Do you know what tuna tastes like?
SPEAKER_03I've said both.
SPEAKER_01Okay, do you know what tuna tastes like? I've had fishy.
SPEAKER_03I've had salmon and sardines before, but not like. Oh, I'm sorry. Wait, no, I think I have tuna. I had to.
SPEAKER_01But as a cookie? No. Okay, that's kind of gross.
SPEAKER_03Both, though, still.
SPEAKER_01I'd rather have a hamburger chocolate.
SPEAKER_03Yes, I. No, but I would I want I want to have both. I've never.
SPEAKER_01You can only have one. I only gave you options for one, man. Stick to the stick to the question. Okay, so here's another one. Would you rather bite your tongue every time you eat or burn the roof of your mouth every time? You know how sometimes you bite your your tongue when you're eating and it hurts? Or would you rather burn your tongue or your roof of your uh mouth? You know how that feels too? Like when you have spicy stuff? Uh no, like if you eat something that's really, really hot and didn't realize it was hot, and then you ate it and it burned like your own.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that kind of hot. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Or would you rather have uh what do you call it? Uh bite or your tongue be or bite your tongue. Because that hurts.
SPEAKER_03Bite tongue. Bite tongue.
SPEAKER_01Bite your tongue?
SPEAKER_03If if we were talking about like spicy hot, I would pick that, but no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_01Spicy is different because spicy can be good. Although coming out of the other side, it's painful, you know.
SPEAKER_02Can you do a Minecraft now?
SPEAKER_01Okay. All right, let's Alright, Owen, let's uh go into the Minecraft. Yeah, yeah, Minecraft.
SPEAKER_03I love Minecraft.
SPEAKER_01Why do why do kids get into Minecraft so much? No, no, no, no. Wait a minute. Let's start with the youngest. Let's start out with Finn. Finn, why do you like Minecraft so much?
SPEAKER_02Because we can make like like things in Minecraft.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Like bases are underwater or underground over a lava pool.
SPEAKER_01So it's the fantasy of the imagination, right?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01No? It's like creating stuff, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so that yeah. How about you?
SPEAKER_02My Owen and his friend. Uh-huh. Wells.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. What's his name? Wells. Okay. Ralse. Wells. Ralph?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_01Elves?
SPEAKER_02Wells.
SPEAKER_03Wells.
SPEAKER_01Oh, Wells. Yes. Wells like a big hole in the in the ground. Wells.
SPEAKER_03Wells. But with the but with an E S at the end.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Wells. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um, okay. So Minecraft, please.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, okay. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_03So like they Finn, be quiet. I'm speaking. So no no no.
SPEAKER_01You both speak. You could tell me about it.
SPEAKER_03Okay. So like I um I'd like you just get to like try and beat the game. Like it's so fun. You could take adventures. You could like survive, you could create, you could like sort you could like um try to beat the game.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So what would you rather have? Minecraft or Pokemon?
SPEAKER_03Minecraft.
SPEAKER_01So how come you you guys are you guys into uh Pokemon? Not anymore. Not anymore?
SPEAKER_03Not anymore.
SPEAKER_01Because you know there's a museum, uh the field museum has a uh Pokemon exhibit.
SPEAKER_03And it's a we went to the field museum.
SPEAKER_01No, that's it's a different. No, no, it's a field museum. It's a new, it's the the other one. There's two big museums downtown. One's the field and one's the uh science and industry. I think the one you went to was the science and industry. The field museum is the one that has dinosaurs, all right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we went to the field museum.
SPEAKER_01It's a it's a new exhibit, just started a couple weeks, a couple about a week ago, and it's Pokemon, but it's like dinosaur Pokemon. So they have like fossils of Pokemon, which is kind of interesting.
SPEAKER_03Oh, because the because um we went we went to the field museum. Um we went to the field museum uh late March, heading into early April, March and April.
SPEAKER_01So which one do you like better? The field museum or the science of industry? Field museum. I like the science industry. There's more to do.
SPEAKER_03I also like the shed aquarium. Shed.
SPEAKER_01You know, I haven't been to Shed Aquarium in I think I was your age the last time I went to the Shed Aquarium. Oh. Have you been to the planetarium? No, yeah, you gotta go to the planetarium. That's where they have all the rockets space stuff.
SPEAKER_03I think we've been there. I just don't remember.
SPEAKER_01We should go on a Friday uh when we when I'm free. I'll take you guys to the planetarium. That that'll be fun.
SPEAKER_02Huh? Friday next week?
SPEAKER_01Uh no, not next week, but maybe the following week. But um, yeah, that would be fun. I've not been to the planetarium in a long time. Can we also go to Shed? Yeah, we can go to the Shed. Yeah, I like the Shed. Yeah, I can be gone. I haven't gone in a long time.
SPEAKER_03How about uh I haven't gone for about a couple weeks.
SPEAKER_01How about Brookfield Zoo?
SPEAKER_03I haven't been there since first grade.
SPEAKER_01Brookfield Zoo? Yes. Oh wow. Wow. That's cool. All right. Well, guys, it was fun. This was fun, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So, okay, now that you're going into fifth grade and in second grade, what do you give kids your age as far as advice for the summer? Finn, let's start out with you. What would you tell other kids your age what to do for the summer or what they should do for the summer?
SPEAKER_03Watch soccer and read.
SPEAKER_01Oh, stop. Not you.
SPEAKER_02Oh man. Finn.
SPEAKER_01Finn. Come on, Finn.
SPEAKER_02Uh, I didn't know.
SPEAKER_01Uh, you gotta know. What would you do? Tell the kids out there what you uh want to do or what they should do for the summer. Should they read? Should they play with their friends? Should they go to the ballpark?
SPEAKER_02Should they go to Texas?
SPEAKER_01Go to Texas? I don't know why, but yeah, I guess that's a good one. Why?
SPEAKER_02This is hot.
SPEAKER_01It's gonna be hot here too. And this is Illinois.
SPEAKER_02You know why? Why? Because I have to see cactus.
SPEAKER_01You want to see cactus? Yeah. You like cactus?
SPEAKER_03We've seen Colorado. We've seen Colorado and it has.
SPEAKER_01See, I've been I've been to Texas, I've been to Arizona, I've been to New Mexico. It's hot, but there's bugs that are this big in New Mexico and Texas. And when they attack you, they hurt.
SPEAKER_03I've been to Texas. He hasn't, but I haven't.
SPEAKER_01So, okay, so what's your advice to everybody out there, Finn? Tell us real fast. Tell us, real fast.
SPEAKER_03Six seven.
SPEAKER_01Six, seven, okay, whatever. Okay, oh, and you're next.
SPEAKER_03Uh so um watch soccer and raid.
SPEAKER_01All right, so that's the advice you give everybody for the summer? Yeah. All right. Well, you guys want to say goodbye?
SPEAKER_03Goodbye.
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