EP. 3 - Kids These Days

Mostly Sober Podcast

Podcast outline Episode 3 Intro: 2-4 minutes - a high level overview of our great topic that we’re oh-so enthused about, “Kids These Days” is about how growing up was for us compared to kids nowadays. Body: 15-30 minutes - this is the grass stained pants and “play shoes” of the episode. We compare the kids that ran around outside and only played video games/electronics when it rained, to the kids who hold a device from birth, on. Subtopics covered; 1. Start it off with a “5 Mississippi” count before you blitz the quarterback, or perhaps a “ghost man on third”, and discuss the main difference between the two age groups. HUGE imagination and the drive to just be outside and interact on a human contact level with friends. As compared to HUGE creativity and a consuming amount of virtual contact. 2. The internet. How this was/is used by each age group. We used it for chat room, it is now used for social media. 3. The crazy landline and how rare they are now, from making long distance calls to your aunt, to everyone having cells phones and being able to connect to anyone, anytime, almost anywhere. 4. Beloved toys that we cherished to beloved gadgets and tech. We were attached to that toy dinosaur and car. Kids these days are attached to their Xbox 1 and iPhone X. 5. How big the world seemed and how close the communities used to be. Now, the world seems so much smaller and how people are closer with “internet friends” than they are with their neighbor. 6. I’m not sure, but I’m almost positive we’ll have more to talk about with this subject not covered in the topics above. Summary: 3-5 minutes - if you could create a perfect childhood, for kids to grow up with mixing some of today’s wonderful features to the great features that growing up gave us 20 years ago. What would we mold together? Outro: 2-3 minutes - Explaining the podcast, thank the listers, where to find us.