Gen Z vs. 30+

Why do people over 30 do certain things that Gen Z just can't understand? A viral trend has people comparing everyday habits across generations, and the conversation quickly turns into a hilarious debate about technology, texting, online culture, and the routines we refuse to let go of. Some explanations make perfect sense... while others raise even more questions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The humans are pretty boring creatures. It's a jewbile show.

(00:03):
We do the same things over and over and over again,
and we think we're original. Just look at every creative
idea ever, It was already done thirty years ago. Or
how about generation battles. Every generation complains about the older ones,
and the older ones complain about the younger ones, like
each generation is special and not exactly like a generation
that was about forty years before them. That's life, just

(00:25):
one big, boring, predictable cycle. It's the human experience. And
there's more proof of that because there's a trend going
viral of gen z people sharing the things that people
over thirty do that they don't get. Text yours in
right now four one oh six one. If you're gen
Z and you just don't get something that people over
thirty do, and we'll go over it right now and

(00:45):
tell you what the top responses are from gen zers
sharing the things that people over thirty do that they
just don't understandicks getting your laptop out for large purchases,
but instead of using the phone, you get your laptop
out for large purchases.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I don't trust the old people. I'm one of them.
We don't trust our phones. Why because sometimes we think
that there's like, you know, a way you could hack
a phone that you can't hack a computer. I don't know.
It makes no sense. It probably goes back to the
days when computers were actually plugged into a wall.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
And you can hack computer, you can hack a phone.
That's the exact same technology.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I understand, But there's something there's it's almost like a
security blanket, like you do something enough times and that's
the way you do it, and you just don't want
to change it.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Pull out something larger means you can't hack me, guys,
don't worry. I protection on it.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
I don't know if it's the size, but yeah, maybe
the size has something to do. It just feels more secure.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
The size matters.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I like to use my laptop, but it's only because
I don't use my laptop that much and it was expensive.
It cot more than my phone, so I'm like, I
might as well use it for something.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I literally was last night looking at my MacBook Pro,
going I should sell that because I never use it.
I never use it.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's the only reason I use my laptop is if
it's around. I'm like, I'm going to use my laptop
just because I paid it for it. Yes, anyone never
uses thing.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Anybody wh wanted twenty twenty two MacBook Pro. It's for sale.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
We're going over a trend of gen zers sharing the
things that people over thirty do that they don't get.
Here's another one using punctuation and text messages. Oh due,
Apparently they don't. Gen zers just don't get people over
thirty doing that.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
My daughter has a whole different language, like shorthand texts
where they like us several different letters.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
What do you mean means something like frfr Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, like for real, I understand. But she said one
to me and I asked her about it. I said,
what does that mean? She goes, I don't even know yet.
She doesn't even know what that means.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yes, yeah right, I mean maybe it's like a vibe,
so like like some things have.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Like she's like, I.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Mean, if somebody says something to me and I don't
understand what it means, I'm gonna ask what the hell
does that mean?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
But I do feel like texting isn't like writing a letter,
like you have to put you don't have to put
punctuation with it. So people do put punctuation with it.
It kind of makes it just chuckle.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Do you think they're old?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
No, I just think they're angry if it's just a period.
If it's a period after a sentence and a text message,
I'm just like, oh, they're mad. I always take it aggressive,
aggressive or something. My girlfriend will just text me sometimes
I'll say sure with a period, and I'm like, oh, great, right,
but she's fine.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
But an explanation point, you think it's a happy thing.
You know they are yelling, but you're like, oh no,
it sounds like a you know, they're excited about it.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I do that in my emails and I really hope
it comes across that way.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
There's a trend of gen zs sharing the things that
people over thirty do that they just don't get. Here's
another one taking photos and then never posting them anywhere online.
Gen Z apparently doesn't get that victoria. You're gen Z.
Do you not get people taking photos and then never
posting them anywhere.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I mean I take photos sometimes and people say they
don't want them going anywhere, like it's just for the memes,
So like I'll keep them some photos. Not all photos
need to be put online. Let's be honest. You can
keep something for yourself.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm willing to bet that your photo album has thousands
of photos, but you took that you had no intention
of posting or sharing it.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh, especially like when I go out, Oh, those can't
get posted?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Like that so bad?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Because in the morning, when you wake up, you're like,
oh my gosh, we thought we looked so good last night,
we looked trash.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
There's a trend of gen zers sharing the things that
they don't get that people over thirty do. And one
of the things was getting out your laptop for large
persons and purchases. And somebody texted into four one O
six one and said, I use my laptop because the
font is bigger.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
People can't see you can do that on your photo.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
But you know what