Can your kids finish the classic parent threats? Jeff and Trevor find out — and the answers are heartwarming.
This week starts with a social media trend we couldn't resist: parents asking their kids to finish old-school sayings like "as long as you live under my roof..." and "I'll give you something to..." The kids have absolutely no idea. Trevor and Jeff test their own recall against the trauma of the past, and the takeaway is surprisingly sweet — this generation's kids just don't know those threats because modern dads aren't using them anymore.
Then Trevor drops an update on Infinite Craft — the browser-based word mashup game we covered last week. Turns out there's no kid-safe mode, and looking over his eight-year-old's shoulder revealed some very adult word combinations. Laptops were shut, the game was banned, and Jeff confesses his teen already "made everything" in the game. The eternal dad question: do you ask what they saw, or let a sleeping dog lie?
Jeff hits a milestone nobody's excited about: his 15-year-old is officially on Instagram. It's the first NDG kid on social media. Despite being a teen account, the algorithm immediately served up political garbage instead of skateboarding and art. Jeff and his wife spent day one retraining the feed together and set up a family chat to share good content. Trevor shares a genius trick he used with his kid on Messenger Kids — he had him send a goofy selfie, refused to delete it, then forwarded it to mom. "I didn't let you do that!" "Doesn't matter. You don't own it anymore." Parenting in the digital age, one teachable moment at a time.
In lighter news, Trevor was FLOORED to discover that Pokémon TCG Pocket has actual battles. He thought it was just a pack-opening simulator. His kids have thousands of physical Pokémon cards and have never once played the actual game. Jeff might download it for the card battler angle. Trevor might stream it. The future is wide open.
Finally, for our Gaming Dad Question of the Week, Logan asks: has becoming a dad made you more emotional during games? Jeff talks about feeling Joel's panic in The Last of Us, and Trevor can't get through "Love You Forever" without losing it. The scenario of playing something heavy late at night and having to wake your kid up just to hug them? Yeah. That hit home.
🎮 Topics: Old parent sayings trend, Infinite Craft parental warning, first kid on Instagram, digital literacy for teens, algorithm retraining, photo consent lesson, Pokémon TCG Pocket battles, Songs of Six city builder, Dwarf Fortress vibes, Last of Us dad emotions, God of War parenting, Love You Forever, Ori and the Blind Forest
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Timestamps:
00:00 — Poem: old dad sayings & Infinite Craft
00:27 — Welcome & intros
00:44 — Intros: Trevor (10yo & 8yo) & Jeff (15yo & 12.5yo)
00:57 — Old parent sayings trend: can your kids finish "as long as you live under my roof..."?
02:57 — "I'll give you something to cry about" — trauma blocks unlocked
04:27 — Jeff's kids HAVE heard these — and had no idea what they meant
05:57 — Infinite Craft update: no kid-safe mode, adult content discovered
07:57 — Jeff's teen "made everything" — do you ask what they saw?
09:57 — Songs of Six: Jeff's new city builder obsession (Dwarf Fortress vibes)
13:27 — One solo dev, generous demo, incredible soundtrack
15:57 — Jeff's kids want war, dad wants to build a longhouse in peace
17:37 — First NDG kid on social media: Jeff's 15-year-old joins Instagram
19:47 — Algorithm immediately serves garbage to a teen account
21:57 — Being a millennial parent navigating social media for the first time
23:57 — Trevor's photo consent trick with Messenger Kids
26:12 — "You don't own it anymore" — digital literacy teachable moment
26:57 — Pokémon TCG Pocket: wait, there are actual BATTLES?
29:27 — Dad completely missed half the game for months
30:57 — Show wrap-up & sign-off
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