Watch Gen Alpha react to our 70s world

You think we teleported from back then to come in? No.

What is this?

Maybe like tape?

This, the sign behind?

A camera?

No.

What is that? Wait, wait, can you turn it?

Hold it in your hand.

I have no idea.

3. 2, 1. Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Finally I'm back. Okay, I'm sorry I've been so away for so long. Today I have with you 2 very special guests. Now guess who are they? We have with you Om. Say hi to the camera.

Hello.

And Sri.

Hello.

So they are Gen Alpha, and I am an old Gen X. So this is a mixed-up generation. We are meeting meets the algorithm generation. So I'm the mixed-up generation and meets the algorithm generation, right? I'm your host, the proud Gen Xer. I'm in the born in very, very old age, like I'm born in the dinosaur era. I don't want to say my age. But Om is born in 2015 and Sri is born in 2016. So they're just, just Gen X, the Gen Alpha. They're just the future of our society. So here we do not debate generations, we decode them. We swap stories, dial-up versus Wi-Fi from the womb, and we ask hard questions. Is patience Extinct? Did we actually have more freedom without smartphones? And will Gen Alpha even ever know the pain of rewinding a cassette with a pencil? These are the questions. So come on, watch this thing and do not miss the end when I'm going to really— we are going to open up a surprise and for everybody. Okay, so we have a surprise ready over here and Let's begin. Let me ask this question to Sri first, okay? What worries you about the global future?

Oh, uh, I think it's the amount of pollution being caused. And yeah, I guess it's just more worried about the pollution today.

Pollution? You're more worried about the pollution today?

Yeah.

And, uh, okay, so, um, let's see, if you can change one thing in the world What would that be?

Uh, um, less pollution.

Less pollution.

Less pollution. Yeah, honestly, I think that's a good answer, but I don't know, less suffering, like less people suffering of homelessness and disease.

Homeless, disease, war.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And make more hospitals, maybe.

Maybe make more hospitals for the sick. and the homeless. So you think any, uh, all the disease, uh, all the diseases, they're, they're more or less curable now? Earlier we could not cure malaria, cholera, right? So now you can cure all of them, but cancer is still incurable, AIDS is still not curable. So do you think we will find— you should find a medicine for cancer eventually?

Yeah, yeah.

So where do you think science should Focus there?

Uh, I think helping like cure medical diseases that are like very hard to get rid of.

Okay, very good, very good question, very good answers. And what's the one thing— okay, from, from global perspective, we come to you. So what's, what's the one thing you always carry? Shree, tell me.

A bag.

Bag. What is in that bag?

Books, clothes.

Clothes? So you carry clothes all the time?

No, books.

Books mostly. And do you carry a doll or a play game, something like that?

Not really. No, nobody carries.

Nobody carries dolls. So what do you carry mostly?

Um, as a general opinion, most kids carry tablets or iPads.

No, I'm talking about you.

But yeah, if you were talking about me, I would I have my phone with me in case of emergencies, but mostly I've got— I carry books in.

Okay, and what are the apps on the phones do you have?

I, I, I have like a WhatsApp. I have WhatsApp, um, YouTube, and I think the other one— yeah, and, and a library and like a Kindle app.

Kindle library.

Yeah.

Okay, that's good. And what about you? Do you carry a laptop? I mean, a tablet?

You carry that?

You carry books? Yeah. That's good, that's good. I'm just checking. Okay, so what would you do a day without internet?

Read books, do studies.

Play games, indoor games, play outside. Play outside. What kind of games do you play outside?

Tag, um, uh, ball, volleyball.

Volleyball. Oh, that's great.

And you? Uh, I would read. Like, would there be like— would— uh, yeah, no internet. I would read, uh, go swimming maybe. Play sports.

Okay. Yeah, play sports. What sports do you play without any, uh, say you don't have a badminton racket or somebody, you know, to play with? What would you play alone?

Uh, I'll play basketball.

Okay.

Yeah, I think, yeah, that's about it.

And, uh, Shri, what would you play alone if you were alone? Like you didn't have friends or in any way, what would you do alone?

I would.

You're giving very good answers.

Practice soccer while you are on my own or something, or play in the playground.

You are very good. You good at football, right? Soccer. Yeah, good at soccer. So you will practice your soccer, right? That's a very good answer. Very good answer. So when you look, when you when you see our generation, my generation, not even your mom's generation. No, I'm almost a generation older to you.

Yeah, okay.

So what would— what do you think our generation wasted?

What do you mean wasted?

Like, what was— what is not so good? What don't you like about our generation? What don't you like about your, say, grandmom's generation? What don't you like?

They didn't have internet.

Yeah.

Um, they would make you study more. I think if you, uh, I'm not sure, actually. Uh, maybe schools from that generation.

Schools?

Yeah.

In that generation, what do you—

what do you—

don't you like about the schools?

You, you got beaten in school.

Yes, right, we got caning. He used to get caned. Yeah, not me, but yeah, in our times used to get caned in school.

Yeah, exactly. If we do something bad, we would get detention and stuff and get to be taught. But, you know, but in— maybe those schools they didn't have detention.

Yeah, right.

They're bad to learn what they did, they just get beaten up or something.

Yeah, that's very, very sad. That's very sad. So, uh, if you had to tell young self of me, if you just look at me and tell me her young self, like about your age, something on the future, like from your perspective, what would that be? What do you want to tell me? Give me an advice, younger self, like my— what shouldn't I do? What should I do?

You should play outside.

Yeah, we used to play outside.

Yeah, you did everything.

So those things we did, but what is something in your generation that we Should do today?

Do like vocabulary and stuff and something. Okay.

Less pollute the world.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was about to. Yeah. Like, so pollute the world less.

I think in your generation, the like the amount of pollution started to go up rapidly.

That's right. That's right. Just go go go like wild. No problem. So you are giving us the advice that. We should have polluted less.

Right, right, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So do you think the world would end very soon?

No, not very soon. I'm not— a lot of people say it'll end by 2050. I'm not sure it'll end that quickly, um, because more efforts are being made to save the world and stuff. Um, No, so I don't think it'll end very soon. A lot of people are saying it will end soon, but it doesn't really seem like it.

What do you think you're gonna do if it ends? First thing you're gonna do?

Uh, nothing.

Do you want to like run to your mother? What would you do?

Spend the last few hours with my family. And friends, I guess.

Okay, that's great. Okay, now we are coming to the end of the podcast. Yeah, it's a very short podcast, not very long. Okay, so I'm going to show you a few things. Tell me if you can identify them.

Okay.

Okay, first of all, what is this?

Maybe like tape? Is that a tape recorder? No, it looks like a thing.

What does it look like?

Uh, I think, I think it's for music on, maybe. Sorry, is that like a cassette?

Yeah, you're right, this is a cassette. And this is the thing we used to turn it with our pencils. This is how you see, rewind it with our pencils because they would come out like this. Okay, and yeah. We would have to rewind it like this, you know.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, this is why we rewinded cassettes with a pencil. You could do that.

That would sound— yeah, that would take a lot of time. Like a bit like pencil sharpener.

Yeah, it's not a pencil. Try doing it.

Put it in and rewind. Yeah, but I've seen that used in like, oh, uh, in movies.

Yes, I've seen stuff So if you do it opposite, then the tape starts coming out.

Do you like turn the tape to play it?

I'll tell you, I'll tell you, I'll show you. So if you turn it in the opposite direction, the tape starts to come out. See, tape starts to loosen, but you have to turn it in the right direction. Okay, that's why, that's what the tape will stick to it. Yeah, and it's playing from here, this end.

What is it playing?

It's, it's going to start playing, don't worry. So what do you think is this? Uh, do you know what is this?

It's like a phone. Like this? It's like a phone they used to use. Oh, it's like a, it's like a phone. It's like a phone they used to use in the days you guys were born.

Yeah, but what what do you think about it?

A satellite phone maybe? No, it doesn't look like that. Maybe to you, like it's like a calculator.

No. Uh. Does this mean anything to you? This the sign behind a camera? No.

What is that? Wait wait wait. Can you turn it?

Hold it in your hands. Blackberry.

Blackberry. Like mini phones? Yeah.

And what do you think is this?

A cell phone? Like a mini cell phone?

Yes, this was the first cell phone.

Yeah, yeah.

Nokia.

This is the Nokia.

That's the second kind of cell phone. That's my first smartphone with typing keypad on on top. This is the first kind of smartphone. This was called the BlackBerry.

So yeah, yeah, I've heard of that.

Yeah, BlackBerry phones. So some people who were very, you know, like pompous and show-off, and that was like the modern times kind of things, BlackBerry phones. This is the original first, first Nokia phone.

Yeah.

It has to be charged. This is operating, they're still working. So I had to charge it. If you charge it, it still works. Okay, now we have these over here. And what do you think of this?

Uh, like CDs.

CDs, good job. Tapes, it's CDs. You know CDs, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay, CDs.

Harry Potter.

Harry Potter. This is Dennis the Menace. These are movies.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So if you play them on the— where do you play them?

Like you had a device to play.

Yeah, VCR, VCR. I have it over here, but we don't have them on the.

Would it like connect to a TV or something?

What do you think is this?

I have no idea. Let's listen to music.

What do you think is this?

A music album? A movie album.

Now I'll show you what this is. This.

Oh, that's a disc. A DVD?

No.

What do you call those?

What do you call them? Hold it.

R-N-Q-O-N-E-M? No idea. Yes.

Huh.

I have no idea.

What do you call them?

Honey discs? That's the only thing. You can't read that, man. Um, I have no idea.

This is a record. Oh, record. So you play it on a Let me show you how to play it. So we have a record player.

You do?

This is a record player. Yes, I do have a record player, and this is very old. So let me put it here.

Does it work?

You can see.

Does it work? No, it's not charged.

You have to put it— plug it in, but you can put the record on the player like this, and now you can see it plays. Does it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's familiar. Yeah, it does, it does. It turns when you like put the— put this in the middle, it turns.

So if you can— this is, uh, this plug is not— I have to— this is Indian plug, so I have to plug it in a different Yeah, yeah, altogether. So if I just pull this, it will turn, and then you push it on this and it will start to play.

Ah, okay.

You turn like that. There's a pin over here which gets in this. Yeah, and it starts playing. And then you have to take it here and it will automatically stop playing. Leave that, leave the receiver. Okay, let it be. It's— we have to That can wait. Later.

Okay.

Yeah, so this is, this is a record player we have over here.

Yeah.

Okay, and now for the big surprise.

Oh, let's see.

The big surprise is coming up. Just put this back in. Can you please put this back in?

All right.

And the big surprise It's coming up here. Ready, on your mark, get set, go! What is this?

A radio to listen to music, um, listen to music, news. You still have all these? A stereo.

Okay, good. And what else?

Oh, it's like a mic you can talk with.

Yeah, this is not a mic now, but what about this?

Is that a mic from long ago?

This is a— this goes— here's a tape. This is radio. So radio So it's on now.

Is this connected to any channel or something?

Let's see if we can get some channels.

Oh yeah, there's some music playing.

So we have FM and AM. This is very old. It had a thing built on the dinner. Oh, it's working.

Is there volume? Oh yeah, yeah, it's work— it's work— it still works! Wow!

It's working.

Yeah, it works. It's working. Kaberi is working.

You're behind it. Are you being able to see the radio?

Yep, you can see the radio.

So this only one speaker is working, I think. The speaker is not working. And if you put in tape, and if you eject and put that tape— remember we were talking about this tape?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, let's put this. Our Times music. So if you put it like this, turn it on, something's wrong. So this way. I also forgot. Yes, and then you do— then you press play. Okay, stop. And then this— there's a second player which you can record from here to here. You can record. So if we have a blank cassette and put it over here, and then we press the record button— there is a record button over here— so we can record from— you can play here and record Oh wow! So you can record various things over here, right?

Oh, now you can do the pencil thing.

Yes, now you can do the pencil thing.

What does it do with the pencil? Rewind it so you can use it again, I think.

No, you can rewind it here. Okay, I forgot to show you that part. So here you can rewind it. There is rewind button, R-E-W. Oh wow! It's getting rewinded. You saw?

Yeah. Oh wow!

Can you hear?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can hear it.

Or you can fast forward it. You can go to the next section, but it has to be like you have to think. Fast forward. Okay, we are done. Now let's play.

Nothing's playing. I don't think there's a channel yet.

It's on. I think yeah, it's playing.

No, just just try it.

Okay, let me just rewind a little bit more. It takes a long time to rewind the entire tape. It's actually physically rewinding.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're going to the first. That's that's nice. It's not going to explode.

Yeah, that noise is just very bad.

Okay, it's not playing anymore, so I think it's gone bad. Something is wrong with it.

Well, at least you could use it in the podcast. Not the pencil.

Yeah, so we have now come to the end of the podcast. Like, so in the end, what do you think are your future plans?

What do you mean by future plans?

What what is your ambition?

What do you want to be?

A doctor.

A doctor. Great.

And what investor? Investor. Investor. That's a good, good decision. This is a very good decision. So that's a new kind of new, new decision, new thing, you know, a new kind of ambition. So do you know what this is?

That's a camera. That has to be a camera.

This is our generation camera. Hold it.

Oh yeah, use like heavy.

Yeah, how do you use it?

You turn it on. I have no idea. Those look way too complex.

This is how you turn the— it is stuck because there's no roll in it. So let me fill up rolls. Okay.

Oh yeah.

Huh.

And is there like an eyehole you can see where your picture is gonna be?

This is where we would Fit in the rolls. You know, this is where we would put in the rolls and film rolls. Yeah, we would have negative film rolls and then we would pull that roll and fit it here and then we would just make one tatak tatak packet. We could do this and then it would fit in and then we would close it and then we cannot open it till the rolls are over. Okay, and this is the This is the shutter speed and this is the click. You click once, you could turn it again. You click once, it still works.

Oh wow, do you still have a roll?

No, I don't have a roll, but it still works.

Wow.

This is one camera. Okay, hold on.

Oh, okay. Wow, I can't— I don't believe this. Guys, by the way, channel password.

And this is the eighties camera.

Eighties?

Yeah. This is like the nineteen sixties, nineteen seventies camera.

Oh, that's not from your generation, I guess.

This is also from my generation, but nineteen one. Ouch!

This is heavy.

This is heavy. क्योंकि ये तो फोटो नहीं ला रहे हैं। I know how to turn it on.

You press this button.

For the thumbnail. Smile!

Look here. Look here, come on, smile.

Have you done this?

You think we teleported from back then to come and take pictures of the future?

Yeah, that's very, very well said. You teleported back into Oh wow, I didn't—

I, I can see from this. No, we teleported from the '60s to take pictures.

Yes, that's right.

And then does this still work?

This still works. This, this thing you have to click. This also you have to fit in rolls, like film rolls. So if you just click this, somehow it opens. Just try it, try opening it. Ah, that's how it opens. So you cannot put You don't have to push in much because you just put in the roll and it automatically goes in. This is an automatic camera in our times.

Uh, okay. Which one is harder to operate, this one or that one?

Harder in what sense? Everything is complicated. Even now it's, it's complicated. What do you think? What do you think is harder to operate?

I think it would be this one.

This one?

Because this one is easier. Because you don't have to like— like, you see this? It doesn't— you just have to put it in. You don't have to pull it and put it on that side. And also it's less effort because you have to like— from here. Yeah, you have to do so many things. Click this, click this. And for this one, you just have to look here and click this button.

Okay. What do you think this part is? This is— this is the roll.

Yeah. This is—

what do you think this part is?

I think that that shows you how many rolls, how much is left. No, it's like the— it's like the speed.

Yeah, you're right, you're right. It's the speed of the film and also to see how many are left.

Okay, wait, what's this part again?

This part is getting this next roll. Oh, so you have to push it all the way, push it all the way, and then only it will click. Then you can click. It's supposed to click. It's gone bad.

So you're supposed to get it, uh, click.

Yes, all the way and then click.

So then you do this.

Yeah, can you see? You cannot see anything.

Let me— it's black for now.

Oh yeah, you're supposed to be able to see, but then you have to adjust the focus. You see, there is— there's a focus over here. You have to adjust It's become tight. This is from the 1960s.

Wow, you have 2 of these discs?

Yeah, so that's first disc and second disc in 2 parts.

Oh, okay. Hmm, that's interesting.

And this is the aperture. So this is what smartphone does it on its own. If you look, focus on something, smartphone will automatically adjust the light And everything for it. But this is the focus. This is you have to focus it. This is infinity, so you have to focus it.

Oh yeah, in grade two they brought us a night like which side this side?

Nighty nighty because this is infinity, so you have to focus it, bring it back.

In grade two or one of I my school brought in a nighty nighty or something camera.

Either it's this side or this side. I don't know. Maybe this side. It's going actually this way.

You haven't used cameras like that all the time.

Yeah, we we've been we used to use it when we were your your age. Now you got it. No, that's the that's the entire lens that's coming out.

Uh, yeah.

Wow, dude, you keep the camera. It still works, but we don't have any films. We don't have any.

They don't. You don't get to buy those anymore. No, so it's as good as gone.

It's good as gone. It's it's it's a memory.

Yeah, you can put it as a showpiece.

Yeah, that's what we have as as a showpiece. So we have everything as a showpiece because none of them really work.

But no, would that work if you plugged it in?

Yeah, this actually works. I'll show you because we have I I got and that works.

Because we just, we just said it.

That one works.

Wow, wow. Yeah, so the only things that don't work are this and this.

No, that one works. I'll show you how we have something like that.

Oh wow, nice.

We have that also, so I'll just show you that as well.

I don't want to listen to this now.

I want to listen to this.

कौन साइड ओचे दूसरों साइड ना किये? फिर get desk one out. Which one's this?

Look at this, do not be scared. This is a VCR.

Oh, you put this.

So this is a VCR. Ouch!

You dropped the camera.

Do not be scared.

Oh, this is. What does it do?

Yeah, this you have to plug it. in with the TV and like connect it to that, connect it to the TV, and then you can play those CDs over here. It also has a remote.

You put it in?

No, you have to— yeah, if you put it— plug it in.

You put this in? Like the disc? No.

Yeah, you can— yeah, you can insert the disc over here.

Wait, can I see?

Yeah, but you cannot do it unless you plug it in. It won't work unless you plug it in.

And if I put it in, it won't come back out?

No, you cannot put it in because there's a button. Like this was '90s, let's say '90s or 2000, right? No, at that time this will only play work if you plug this in.

Can we plug it in?

Yeah, plug it in, plug it in over there. Let's see if it works.

Yeah, but it will not play unless you connect it to the TV.

Let me just check.

You just see if you can On the desk, right?

Yeah, yeah, we can, we can. That plug-in, uh, you have just behind you. You have to— all the plugs are in. Yeah, plug it in. Wow, just plug it in one of the things.

There are way too many old stuff on the table.

You could literally make a nice We just teleported into another dimension.

We teleported into the era of Gen X.

Let's see if this is on. Where is the on button?

Right here.

Right here.

Oh, it's really maker working.

It's open. See, now you say okay, put the disc in.

Put the disc in.

I think it doesn't work because this is, this is the error when things, if it went bad, you would never be able to work it. That's the open.

Oh, wait, why?

You have to press it. It's trying to open, but it cannot. See, this is closed. It will load. That's the load button. So it's not opening. It's not opening. This is the time when it Technology goes its pivoty, like it was technology was just rising, so we could not fix anything. If it's not opening, then you cannot fix it.

Can we try opening?

No, you cannot.

What happens if we try?

I don't know. Never tried it opening because we passed that error.

We then nobody even uses these.

Yeah, nobody uses this anymore, so we don't.

We have people probably won't even know how to DVDs and we have VCDs.

We do haven't turned off. We get all the movies now on the internet, so yeah, that is. It's not open.

Is the camera still on?

Yeah. Try try.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

It's not opening.

Your DVD doesn't.

Let's let's try with a knife or something. तब तक तो knife नहीं है तो बनते क्या? ज़रा ना oh shit! I don't want you guys to get a knife. Yeah, हमें knife अंत करो। अंत करो। तब तक ज़रा ना भारे ये arm में जब ठीक पास है, हाँ कांची दे दे, कांची दे दे, try करे देखे। चलो चलो। और take other side.

Oh wow! भेंगे तेरो ना। भेंगे भेंगे अच्छे कल तूने आओ कमांड, this doesn't have a roll of tape। ना ये भी तो चाकू साइड। हम्म। It's not opening.

It's stuck inside.

I'll take a knife.

Oh God, oh God, I think I got it. I think it's coming. Out.

Oh God, did you break it?

I think I did.

Gosh, that's like the whole thing.

It's stuck.

No, now you can't.

Jammed, completely jammed.

Does it open from this side also?

Yeah, it has to open all, all up. Ah, now you broke it fully.

Come on, how do you—

now you fully broke it. Never mind this Put it back. Let's put it back. It doesn't work anyway. That's fine. Let's see. So it doesn't work anyway because this is jammed.

How?

This is jammed.

Yeah, so a lot of your dighty dighty stuff got got expired.

It's time to open.

At least your radio didn't.

We can see. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you have any other like?

Uh, tape rolls, tape recorder records, um, to put in here. I can put in something that's very strange to put in here.

Yeah, wait, can I— here you can put them in here also?

No, you can only put them here.

Wow, what are you trying— what are you gonna do, try to put songs on while you're taking pics? It feels, it feels small when we look from here. It's going like a wild.

Okay, राम राजा एक और को बोल चिल्ला। So that's it. And yeah, this is it for now.

और बांग्ला बोल चुका है? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

क्या रहा? And तुम्हारे तुम्हारे हाँ हाँ। Show नहीं क्योंकि मेरे लोग अच्छे हैं। Kolkata के पूछो audience अच्छे, Bangladesh के audience अच्छे, all over the world. So बांग्ला बोले तो they'll be very happy. They'll तू बांग्ला तो बांग्ला कथा बोलती हैं। They'll be very happy. चलो चलो let's wind up help me pick up all this okay okay um should we put these in the bag yeah one second let me just fix this all