Gen Z Doesn't Know Things

Gen Z Doesn't Know Things

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Based on the February 2024

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Nelson Report. It

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happens on this show all the

3:08

time. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in

3:10

the morning. The older folks love

3:12

complaining about how kids these days

3:14

won't be able to function like

3:16

back in Brooke's time when you

3:18

had to call your mother to

3:21

pick you up from typewriter class

3:23

on your beeper. It

3:25

was a pager A and I

3:27

did not have a typewriter class, Jeff. You

3:30

would know the best, but on the

3:32

flip side, younger generations are whining about

3:34

how boomers aren't able to function in

3:36

the modern age, either. Yeah, it's really

3:38

bad. And the reason I bring this

3:40

up is because a popular publication just

3:42

put out a list of common skills

3:44

that boomers are shocked. Gen Zers don't

3:46

know. Oh, okay. I

3:49

thought we were shaming boobers for the next

3:51

couple minutes. Now, boobers are shaming

3:53

Gen Z. We're going to ask Alexis

3:55

about some of these to see

3:57

how true they really are. Let's start

3:59

with how to read Roman

4:01

numerals. Oh, God, it's so tricky. Let's

4:04

give Alexis a test. What

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does XXV stand for? Oh,

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I don't know. 205.

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No, 22, 22, maybe it's...

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You're so close! Really? 220! 220!

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Oh. You're way too far. It's

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25. X is

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10. V

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is 5. Oh, that's IV

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is 4. V is 6.

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What is the hundred? Apparently

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no generations know how to do reumonumerals

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anymore. Oh, where do you learn

4:34

that? At the Super Bowl. Yeah, exactly. That's

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the only time it's ever useful. It's the most

4:38

important event of the entire year. The next

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one, we've actually talked about it. few times

4:42

on the show, Gen Z doesn't know how to

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write in cursive. Oh, yeah. Because they just

4:46

don't teach it in class anymore, right, Alexis? Yeah,

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I can do my name barely. You guys have seen

4:50

my signature. My kids are learning

4:52

cursive in class. It's not required,

4:54

but they do learn it. But

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the only time I use it is the one time a year I

4:59

sign a check. Yeah, my autograph is

5:01

in cursive. That's about it. What about

5:03

next? How to drive a stick shift? Oh,

5:05

yeah. Dude, can

5:08

barely drive my car.

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It feels so good to drive

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a stick shift. I haven't

5:14

driven one in years It is

5:16

so fun when you balance

5:18

that clutch. Yeah, I'm sure I

5:20

could wing it Can you imagine

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Alexis on a hill

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I think we have

5:27

a summer challenge

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video in mind

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now No, that's how

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my dad taught me to drive he dropped me off in

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the middle of a city and said, all right, see you

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at home. Yeah, it

5:42

was actually, I was buying a car

5:44

from a pawn shop. No, this

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is a true story. Yeah. Were you

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kidnapped as a child? I said, well,

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why can't I drive your truck? He's

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gets also stick. Here

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we go. The

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day Brooke learned how to drive a stick

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and turn a trick. Pretty

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cool stuff going on at the pawn shop.

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We're talking about a list that's and viral

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of the top things. Boomers can't believe

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Gen Z does not know how to do.

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So far, Alexis is confirming O for

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three on these. What about

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this one? How to use a manual

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can opener? Oh, I can do

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it. They're hard. I can do it. I

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got one of the button you press and it goes. Yeah.

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I need one of

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those. How to write a check. Most

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Gen Zers don't know how to write a check. Yeah.

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I mean, I could probably fill it out.

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At least the numbers part. Yeah, she'd be really

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good at how to bounce a check. There

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you go. She couldn't sign the

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check because she has an recursive. Oh, yeah.

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No, I can kind of do my name, remember? Oh,

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right. I got it. And also, how

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to do basic handyman skills like changing a

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light fixture. Do you know how to do that?

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Well, what's a fixture? A fixture or a

6:53

bulb? Do you even know what a fixture is?

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Are we talking a lamp? Yeah, not one that you

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plug in. It's like one that's attached in the

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wall. It could be a... know, usually it's hanging in

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the middle of the room. No, not the bowl. The thing

7:04

the bowl. Why would I fix that? Sometimes

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it breaks. To be fair, though, boomers are

7:09

like passing judgment. They didn't know how to do that

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when they were 20. You know? Like,

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if you talk to your parents, they just

7:15

learned it eventually. We would have so

7:17

many angry boomers texting into the show if

7:19

they knew how to text in. But now, disagreeing.

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Oh, my mom is mad at you. But again,

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these are the top things that Jen Ziers

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don't know how to do. And we're

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coming down to the final three ones here.

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Alexis, I'm going to ask you this

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specifically. Do you know how to unclog a

7:34

toilet using a plunger? Oh. Why don't

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you just stick the plunger stick in? Pretty

7:38

much. Well, yeah. Nobody answered for her.

7:40

I want to hear how she would

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do it start to finish. I would just

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take it and just hit it against the toilet sort

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of. Not against

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in the bowl, but just kind of hit it.

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Wait, how do you think

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a plunger works? Well, I

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don't know. It pushes everything out

7:57

or something. It

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pulls everything up. Ew!

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It comes out? That's

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disgusting. saying? Well,

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we don't like little rabbit -pallet poops

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if you Okay, now we

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have challenge

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number two number

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two

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How to address a piece

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of mail Alexis, I can

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do that not a man No,

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yeah. I know how to address male. No, no,

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I know your name goes in the middle, and then you got to

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buy a stamp, and you can put it on. Okay, and where

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does the return address go? In a corner,

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the corner. Which corner? The left.

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Yeah! Which left? Give her a ding -dong

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Which left? There's an upper corner and a

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bottom corner. It's the upper. There you

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go. I know that. I'm just saying,

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and the number one thing boomers

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can't believe, Gen Z doesn't know how

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to do, how to read a

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map and figure out directions without GPS.

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Paper mat no people say

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go north right now in this

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studio point to north. It's very

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simple. Oh, well, I know cuz

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I can see the free way

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that is that is Okay,

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we are what

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are we oh

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for 14 on

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that one Oh,

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she got the mail. think I could do

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a check. One for 14. You could survive

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the apocalypse. be fine. Those were

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the top things. I'm sorry,

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I get over the North. Just the confidence

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in pointing these. Well, this one's an

9:34

easy one. Thanks, Ashton, for pointing now. That

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