Nine-year-old ’00s expert Omar Searcy talked pop culture, love, sports and politics with Lauren Motzkin and Gabriel Barcia in between soccer and basketball practice Thursday night. He also plays baseball. Q How was soccer practice? A It was good. Q What’s your team called? A The Indians. Q What position do you play? A Midfield. Q Pepsi or Coke? A Coke. Q The mountain or the beach? A The beach. Q Coffee or tea? A I don’t drink coffee. I drink green tea. Q When’s your birthday? A Oct. 22. No, wait … Feb. 22. Q What year? A 2000. Q How does it feel to have been born in the new millennium? A Feels good. Q What’s your favorite movie? A “Star Wars.” I like Stars Wars. Q Which one? There are six. A I know. I like all six of them. Q All of them? Wow. Do you have a favorite character? A Yeah. Q Who? A Han Solo. Q What’s your favorite show? A “Drake and Josh.” Q Is that on Disney Channel? A No. It’s on Nick. Q Which do you like better, Nick or Disney? A I like Nick better. It’s more cooler. It has more content than Disney. Q But do you like Miley Cyrus? A No. I don’t like her … All right, I used to. But not anymore — I think she’s braggy now. Q Have you heard of Beyonce and Lady Gaga? A No. I’ve heard of Britney Spears though. Q Yeah? Do you like her? A Yes, I like her. Q Do you have a favorite song? A Yeah. Q Which one? A My favorite song is the “Oh baby baby” song. I have it on my iPod. Q When did you get an iPod? A When I was eight or nine. Q Wait, aren’t you still nine? A Yeah. Q So when you think back on your life, which was your best year? A My best year was when I was nine. I won the free-throw contest. I was one of the best players of the league, too. Q What about school? What’s your favorite subject? A I like math and science and social science … no. Just math and science. Q And what do you want to be when you grow up? A Basketball player. Q That’s really cool. Where do you think you’ll be in 10 years? Will you be in school? A basketball player? Will you have a family? A I’ll be a basketball player. I’m gonna leave and go to the NBA after my freshman year of college for the NBA draft. And I’m gonna have two kids … a boy and a girl. Q Twins? A Yeah, twins. Q Thinking about kids already? Do you have a girlfriend? A I used to. Now we’re in different schools. Q And you’re not into the whole long-distance thing? A I guess not. Q Have you ever been to Yale? A Yeah, my sister goes there. Q Did you like it? A Sure. It was cool. Really cool. Q How does it feel to have a sister that goes to Yale? Are you proud of her? A Yes. Yeah. It’s a good place. One of the best. Q Do you wanna come here? A Yeah maybe. I am looking into Wake Forest, though. They have a good basketball team. Q What’s your favorite basketball team? A I like the NC Tarheels. I like the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns. The Celtics are doing good this year. Kevin Garnett was out last year. And now they got Rasheed Wallace. Q And what’s your favorite place in the world? A North Carolina. We used to live there. My family moved to California when I was five. Now I live in Burbank. Q Last question: Have you heard of President Obama? A Yeah, I know him. But I don’t like him. Not that much. He raises our taxes.