How many millennials do we have here?
[CHEERING]
OK.
All right.
Probably you already know about this,
so I'll catch everybody else up on this.
Last week, a lot of millennials were saying, OK, boomer.
It was all over Twitter and Instagram.
It's a meme that makes fun of baby boomers
for being out of touch.
Like this one right here.
[LAUGHTER]
I don't like stereotyping anyone, but I do love good TV.
And recently, I challenged a millennial
to use a rotary phone.
And here's what happened.
OK, so I need to spin.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
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No.
Oh my gosh.
OK.
I just spin it to the 8.
And then to the 1.
Oh, oh my gosh.
[LAUGHTER]
8-1-8.
Hello?
[DIAL TONE HUMMING]
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Yeah, it did not go well.
So I want to give millennials a chance to redeem themselves.
So Ariana Whitmarsh, where are you?
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hi, how are you?
Good.
[APPLAUSE]
This is exciting.
Where do you live?
How old are you?
22.
22 years old, and where do you live?
What do you do?
I am from Stockton.
I am a graduate student at the University of the Pacific,
and I am--
You look like--
Nervous.
--yeah, but like you forgot where
you graduated for a second.
All right.
So here's what we're going to do.
First of all, I'm going to reveal some things.
I'm going to ask if you know what they are.
Do you know what this is?
A CD player?
No.
A recorder?
No.
It's called--
Boombox.
Boombox, yes.
It's called a boombox.
[APPLAUSE]
Yeah.
This is what we used to listen to music on,
and we would make everyone within the mile radius
listen to the same thing because it was very loud.
OK, do you know what this is?
A typewriter.
It is a typewriter.
Have you ever used one of these?
No.
But you knew what it was.
How do you know what it is?
From movies.
OK.
Like, old-fashioned movies?
Yeah, like the classics.
Yeah, the old classics, sure.
All right.
Angela Lansbury, on Murder, She Wrote, she would type on this
and do the--
that's a show your mom watched.
All right, so and then we have this.
Do you know what this is?
A camera.
It is a camera a 35-millimeter camera,
and this right there is film.
OK, what you can do now on your phone
is you can take pictures and instantly see
them, and as many as you want, and then share them
with whoever you want.
This, we could only take 12, and then we
would have to wait for about a year
to see what they look like.
[LAUGHTER]
But you could pay to get doubles so you'd have
two of them, which is good.
All right, here's your challenge.
OK, so you're going to try to find a radio station on here.
You're going to find NPR.
It's 89.3, all right?
So you'll turn that on, find the station.
Once you find that station, you'll put this piece of paper
in the typewriter, and you're going to type something out
that a famous, famous boomer Sir Mix-a-Lot said,
is "I like big butts, and I cannot lie."
You'll type that out.
And then you will put film in this camera
and take a selfie of yourself.
OK.
All right?
OK.
I'm going to time you.
Oh my gosh.
And if you win, nothing happens.
[LAUGHTER]
You're not going to win.
Solid.
Mainly, this is just entertainment for us.
No good will come of this for you.
OK, ready?
Yes.
Start.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Where's the-- play?
Where's the on?
[LAUGHTER]
Radio, wait-- where's the on button?
Power, power.
Yeah, power.
Wait, is there a CD in it?
Is it--
No, there's no CD.
[LAUGHS]
Wow, you just push any button.
I mean, that's all that's.
There's no--
There, the red one would do it.
[STATIC]
All right, now.
What am I supposed to be doing?
89.3, but you have to find--
what is it on right now?
What is this stuff at the--
FM?
FM.
Put the antenna up so you can get--
Oh.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
[RADIO CHATTER, STATIC]
All right.
(ON RADIO) [SPEAKING SPANISH]
89.3.
[STATIC]
80?
89?
Point 3.
[STATIC]
I don't know.
[LAUGHTER]
All right, you seem panicked.
Let's just turn that off.
All right.
All right, thank you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Oh my gosh, this moves.
[LAUGHTER]
You're supposed to do that, right?
Oh.
Oh, yes.
[APPLAUSE]
Wait, it's getting little again.
Now do I-- what if I break it?
Well, there's a good chance.
Oh, OK.
All right.
Hold on.
You kind of broke it.
Hold on.
All right.
[GASPS] I'm shaking too much to write.
That's my name.
Now what?
Oh.
I like big butts, and I cannot lie.
[LAUGHTER]
[TYPEWRITER KEYS CLACKING]
Cannot lie.
[APPLAUSE]
like big butts, and I cannot--
Yeah, it went on the roller.
OK.
All right.
OK.
This is going to be fun.
[EXCLAMATIONS]
Am I not supposed to do that?
Whatever you want.
Well, the lens is off--
or cap.
That's the battery.
Open.
Oh, got it.
Got it.
[APPLAUSE]
Does that seem like that's the right way?
Yeah, that's better.
No, nope, same way, just a different way.
There we go.
It clicked.
Did it?
I think?
[LAUGHTER]
Maybe I should roll it back up?
No.
This is really embarrassing.
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
Good try.
But it's in there at least.
It is in there.
All right.
Wow, Ariana, that is a shame.
But you won a VCR.
Oh.
[APPLAUSE]
I know what that is.
That's yours.
Yea.
Yeah.
Also, I'm going to give you an iPad as well.
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