Finley's Thoughts on Things: Commentary from a Four-Year-Old

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When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s, I used to ramble thoughts into a cassette recorder – something that by 1992 would lead to me (at age 15) conducting interviews with bands on cable access, all captured by low-res VHS. After seeing my daughters do similar rambling on video, I realized that this is the 2017 version of what I used to do circa 1983 with that tape deck. The raw video embedded below inspired our latest YouTube series, “Finley’s Thoughts on Things.” She’ll be telling you about all kinds of stuff that interests an almost five-year-old, starting with why Daddy (me – “The Rock Father”) hates Snapchat, Facebook Stories, Instagram Stories and any other use of vertical video. Seriously, Vertical Video Syndrome (VVS) is a terrible plague that needs to be completely eradicated. Finn is much cuter in how she explains it, though. Take a look…