My whole house is a smart house.
Oh.
I can turn the lights on, off.
I can tell when the garage door is open, closed.
My house is a dumb house.
[School of Talk]
We've invited you back to school today
to talk with a total stranger
about growing up in your generation.
You each have a stack of questions.
Let's see how it goes.
We're going to have a tough time on this one.
I don't think I have any apps on my phone.
Do you have Facebook?
Ugh, no.
Do you use Instagram?
Facebook?
I actually have a phone that doesn't use apps.
Oh.
I'm sure you have Snapchat.
Oh, of course.
I'm sure you have Facebook.
No.
No? Why, is that old?
Yeah, like a lot.
Well, I use Waze a lot.
I have Waze.
And I use WhatsApp a lot.
What's... WhatsApp?
I have, like, all the Google Docs apps on my phone.
So you have an Android.
No, I have an iPhone.
OK, and I have an Android.
You can keep your Android.
Do you have Apple Music?
I don't like Apple products.
What?
I'm an Android person.
It's OK, we can still talk.
Again, I keep up with technology
so everything is connected.
Obviously, old people can use technology,
but I've never personally met one that was adept at it.
That's interesting.
So that was kind of an eye-opener.
There is this app called Pinterest.
Have you heard of it?
Yeah.
OK.
It gives me a lot of inspiration,
has a lot of workout plans,
a lot of outfit ideas.
Shoes that are in right now.
I think you should know about that.
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That we're not mean.
I think the younger generation
thinks that we're mean and strict.
I think parents now are a little, um, not strict enough
with their kids.
Parental authority meant something.
I wish they understood how easy they have it.
When I had to do term papers,
cut and paste meant really
pull out the scissors
and the Scotch tape.
What do you wish
younger people understood about your generation?
That we've been there.
We've been where you are.
We know what you're going through.
That sometimes when we're talking to you,
we're talking about our own experience.
Where we came from, the history.
I mean, I came out of the Vietnam era,
which was a bit of a challenge.
Going to Vietnam, not going to Vietnam,
it was, um, sometimes scary.
Kids nowadays,
I hear they say,
I want to enjoy my job,
which is a nice luxury
which we really weren't …
that wasn't instilled in us that you had to enjoy your job.
Oh, we have the same question.
They need to understand
that we're not in their time anymore,
and we're in a new time and things have changed.
Things have changed.
Things are a lot different.
I wish they didn't always think
that we were on our phones just to be on our phones.
Older generations think I'm on there just to play games
or post pictures and be conceited and take selfies
… when I'm actually trying to run my outlook on the world.
I just feel, like, a lot of times,
kids' opinions are really put down a lot by older people,
like it doesn't matter.
And I just wish that a lot of older people
did understand that we have,
like, good opinions, too.
We have … we're logical, too.
I remember my dad telling me stories
about how he could work at McDonald's for a summer
and pay for a semester of college,
and nothing like that is possible anymore.
A lot of old people don't necessarily understand that.
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Being successful in what I want to do …
So, I want to become a pediatrician …
and then finding marriage and then children,
in that order.
A happy life is doing, like, the things that I love,
or not regretting anything that I've done.
I love traveling.
For me, it's educational,
but it's also relaxing.
And every time I finish a vacation,
I'm back on the computer, like, where am I going next?
I've always said that if I can't drink a nice bottle of Bordeaux
and eat good food, that would just devastate me.
Just kind of being able to do
the things that we want to do
within our scope of age and ability.
Being around friends, I think.
Being in a state where you can be fairly carefree
and you're with people you love.
Just making people smile.
You're just acting in the way you think is best
and you're also dedicated
to the things you're passionate about.
You take responsibility
for who you are and what you do in your actions.
Yeah.
That's an adult.