X vs. Alpha is the podcast where a Gen X dad and his Gen Alpha son decode tech, tech news, and the future — two generations, one microphone each.
X vs. Alpha is a podcast and digital hub where two generations collide over technology. Hosted by Jason Kimes, a Gen X father who grew up with analog tools and the dawn of the personal computer, and his Gen Alpha son Hudson Kimes, who has never known a world without screens, the show decodes the week in tech from two radically different vantage points. Each episode pairs a Gen X perspective with a Gen Alpha perspective on the same topic — from AI and hardware to social platforms and the future of work — so listeners hear both the seasoned skepticism of experience and the native intuition of a generation raised online. The site gathers every episode, a live tech news feed updated twice daily, community polls and debates, and listener-submitted takes. It is built for anyone curious about how technology shapes us across generations — parents, kids, educators, and lifelong learners — and it is built by Jason and Hudson Kimes together, from the frictionless collision of the industrial archive and the digital frontier.
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Ultimate Debate
Same family, different firmware. Every episode is a negotiated treaty between the analog and the digital.
Dad · Gen X
Built things with his hands, a soldering iron, and the screech of dial-up. Saw the internet arrive, doubted it, then built a career inside it. Skeptical of hype, loyal to tools that last.
Operating Stack
Son · Gen Alpha
Grew up swiping before he could walk. Talks to AI like a coworker, builds worlds in games, and assumes everything is a touch-screen. No patience for clunky, infinite curiosity for new.
Operating Stack
The week in tech, decoded twice — once through a Gen X lens, once through a Gen Alpha lens.
The real arguments a dad and son have at the kitchen table, upgraded with microphones.
Long-form episodes tracing a single technology from its analog roots to its digital future.
Questions from the community board get answered on air. Submit yours for the next module.
Subscribe on YouTube and head to the community hub to vote and drop your take.