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The Gen Z Conversation, NikiMarie returns! (9/23/26, Hour 1) · The Recess Bell

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  Speaker 4: September 23rd, the year of our Lord, 2026, Wednesday, hump day.
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  Speaker 2: to be with you this evening. I am joined by
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  Speaker 2: two co-hosts this evening. With me, I have Corey David.
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  Speaker 2: What's good, Corey? Everything's good. How's everything going, Josh? I
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  Speaker 2: hope you're in good spirits, brother. Everything is going swimmingly, bro.
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  Speaker 2: Just fantastic. Phenomenal. You know, my life is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in shambles right now. Why is your life in shambles, Corey?
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  Speaker 1: Because you, I think I know, I think I know how,
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  Speaker 1: this might sound controversial. I think I might know, I
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  Speaker 1: might know how crackhead feels now. Because week one, beat
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Oh, this is football related. I was getting concerned.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know where you was going with this.
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  Speaker 2: I was on a high. I was on a high.
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  Speaker 2: And then week two came around. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I'll be chasing.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll be chasing that same high from week
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  Speaker 1: one for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now that that's sports though. That's the way it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's very, very unforgiving. So we talked about the NFL
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  Speaker 2: last week and of course we are a New York
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  Speaker 2: based show. So we talked about the jets and the
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  Speaker 2: giants both getting huge wins in week one. And then
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  Speaker 2: now you look in one week later, that's all it takes.
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  Speaker 2: That's all that sports. That's what sports is. Well, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that more in a second, but from game
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  Speaker 2: to game, things can change wildly and morale can change
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  Speaker 2: wildly and, as a result uh cory we got an
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  Speaker 2: old friend in the house yes we do this evening
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  Speaker 2: yeah now every time we have this woman on um
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  Speaker 2: it's we talk about morale it's always a boost to
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  Speaker 2: my morale my self-esteem um and i always try to
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  Speaker 2: make that known for a special adjective y'all know i'm
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  Speaker 2: neat with those words like a geek so um let
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  Speaker 2: me let me dig into the bag here and see
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  Speaker 2: what i got The vivacious Nikki Marie joins us.
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  Speaker 7: Yo, I was so anxious.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, spit it out already. Spit it out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the suspense is always nice with me. What
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  Speaker 2: is up, Nikki? I can't even tell you the last
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  Speaker 2: time you was on the show, but.
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  Speaker 7: I am so happy to be in the building.
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  Speaker 2: I missed you guys. We missed you too, man. Don't
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  Speaker 2: even get me started. We always talk about I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how often you listen when you're not in studio,
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  Speaker 2: but we always talk about how much we miss Nicky Marie,
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  Speaker 2: the wonderful Nicky Marie of Nicky Marie Radio, the wonderful
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  Speaker 2: Nicky Marie of 90s Now every Saturday on WHPT from
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  Speaker 2: 3 to 4 p.m. Yes. Yeah, if you don't check
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  Speaker 2: out that show, I'm.
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  Speaker 7: Going to whoop your ass.
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  Speaker 6: Yo, 90s Now.
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  Speaker 7: 90s Now is a vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Let's clap it up one time. That's really.
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  Speaker 7: It's definitely a vibe because it just takes me back
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  Speaker 7: to those simple times. You know, when life wasn't as
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  Speaker 7: complicated or stressed and I wasn't putting like $ 80 of
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  Speaker 7: gas in the car every week.
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  Speaker 2: 90s music is one of the best eras of music.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: I concur.
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  Speaker 2: Some might even call it the golden era.
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  Speaker 7: I concur, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, like I said. Especially R & B. Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: 90s R & B is it's like the chef's kiss. Like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just wonderful. So, yeah, if you don't check out
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  Speaker 2: that show, you're playing yourself and you never want to
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  Speaker 2: play yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we definitely got to get into some 90s music,
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  Speaker 7: you know, tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You know, absolutely. If Nikki's here, that's what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do. That is absolutely what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's a non-negotiable. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, man. Let's let's get
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  Speaker 2: right into it now. A little bit of a different
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  Speaker 2: Oh prism i gotta yeah i gotta you know i
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  Speaker 2: while this show is typically silly, I did want to
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  Speaker 2: take a step back tonight and really look at the
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  Speaker 2: greater scheme of things in terms of one of our,
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  Speaker 2: our rolling topics, mental health. So for those that are
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  Speaker 2: frequenters of the recess bell website, the recess bell.com you
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  Speaker 2: would know that from what I've been posting this month,
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  Speaker 2: the month of September, as it pertains to mental health
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  Speaker 2: is actually suicide prevention awareness month. Yes. When I said
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  Speaker 2: silly and serious, We were getting serious because suicide is
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  Speaker 2: very serious. And the campaign we've been doing on the
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  Speaker 2: mentality section of the website, if you just go to
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  Speaker 2: the website. And there'll be much more conversation about it
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  Speaker 2: on the recess bell on social media. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: three-part article series. And the first one I wrote about support.
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  Speaker 2: because when it comes to mental health and, and, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who you are. This is why I
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  Speaker 2: enjoy talking about mental health because you could be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: silly people like myself, Corey, Nikki, and, you know, put
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  Speaker 2: on a, put on a smile all the time and
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  Speaker 2: brave the world. But, you know, it's, stuff gets tough.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I really locked in on during
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  Speaker 2: the making of this campaign is that things are capable
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  Speaker 2: of going wrong for anybody in this life because mental
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  Speaker 2: health is not uniform. It's not linear. It's really different
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  Speaker 2: from person to person depending on what they have going on.
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  Speaker 2: There's a reason why, for example, if you're a billionaire,
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  Speaker 2: people will be like, oh, billionaires can't get depressed. They
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  Speaker 2: got all that money. They got all that bread. Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk got like 2 million Teslas. He owns Twitter. What
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk ever got to be unhappy about? But as
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  Speaker 2: we know, I'm sure he has some things he struggles with.
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  Speaker 2: So it doesn't matter how much money you have. It
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  Speaker 2: don't matter how many friends you have. It don't matter
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  Speaker 2: whether you live in Hawaii 24-7, 365. Things are capable
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  Speaker 2: of going wrong for anybody. And that's really the thing
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  Speaker 2: I tried to focus in on. And the topic of
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  Speaker 2: suicide and self-harm especially, that was one thing. So part
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  Speaker 2: one of the series is titled, just real quick as
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  Speaker 2: a summary, part one of the series is titled The
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  Speaker 2: Harsh Lessons I Learned About Support. So I really tried
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  Speaker 2: to look in the mirror and be like, hmm. pour
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  Speaker 2: some of my experience into there in terms of a
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  Speaker 2: good support system, a bad support system, both giving and
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  Speaker 2: receiving support for me and what I can kind of
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  Speaker 2: impart as wisdom to everybody else. I'm not going to lie.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a part of... I almost got loose and cursed.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a part of some trash support systems, but
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  Speaker 2: I've been the trash support system. I'm not saying... I've
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  Speaker 2: gotten poor support at times, but it's been times where
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  Speaker 2: people really needed me for support and looking in hindsight
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  Speaker 2: and retrospect, I was the one that was like a
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  Speaker 2: drop in the bowl. So that was a, I tried
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  Speaker 2: to dig deep personally and write about my experience with that.
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  Speaker 2: A part two is titled putting on the mask. And
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  Speaker 2: that one was really focused on neurodivergence. As I'm sure,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as everybody knows, I would hope in terms
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  Speaker 2: of mental health, there's a neurotypical, and neurodivergent. So neurotypical
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  Speaker 2: is basically, I don't want to say normal or regular.
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  Speaker 2: Those words are kind of like curse words in mental health,
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  Speaker 2: in the mental health world. But it's a typical brain, right?
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  Speaker 2: No imbalances, no mental illnesses at all. The thing is
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  Speaker 2: with neurodivergence, it could be a number of things. It
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  Speaker 2: could be any mental health disorders. It could be anything.
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  Speaker 2: It could be autism. It could be ADHD. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people that struggle with mental health disorders they mask.
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  Speaker 2: It's called masking where they kind of like what we
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  Speaker 2: said to open the show. We put on a brave
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  Speaker 2: face for the world, but we're struggling inside. It's like that,
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  Speaker 2: but 24 seven for neurodivergent individuals, which can really drive
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  Speaker 2: down self-esteem. It's like putting on a constant performance. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? We do radio every week and
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  Speaker 2: we are all content creators, but I can't lie. I mean, we'll,
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  Speaker 2: we'll leave the studio tonight and, And then the second
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  Speaker 2: we get in the car, we'll be like, all this
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  Speaker 2: energy we're showing now, once we get in the car,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be like, oh, that was a lot of energy
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  Speaker 2: to put on that performance, right? So imagine that, but
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  Speaker 2: like 24-7 for somebody with autism that doesn't want to
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  Speaker 2: show that they stim all the time, right? So that
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  Speaker 2: was part two. And then part three was Gen Z
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  Speaker 2: and the loneliness epidemic, right? the loneliness epidemic and, and,
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  Speaker 2: and put a bookmark in that. So just to put
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  Speaker 2: a bow on it, part one, support part two, masking
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  Speaker 2: part three, Gen Z and the loneliness epidemic. Those are
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  Speaker 2: all available to read on the recess bell.com. Now for
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  Speaker 2: the matter of tonight's show, let, let's, uh, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about Gen Z real quick. Let's, uh, Oh boy. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: The much maligned generation. Everybody got something to say about
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z, bro. Oh, boy. Now, I am a member
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  Speaker 2: of Gen Z. Okay, I was about to say. I
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  Speaker 2: was about to say. Don't exclude yourself, man. Now, here's
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  Speaker 2: the thing. Now, writing about my experience with mental health,
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  Speaker 2: as I typically do on the Recess Bell and just
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  Speaker 2: discussing it openly... One thing I've learned, Corey, is I've
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  Speaker 2: identified a lot of my faults. So there's nothing that
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  Speaker 2: anybody can say about me that I don't already know
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  Speaker 2: about myself.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Self-awareness is your superpower.
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  Speaker 2: See, Nikki remembers the Mentality Monday episode. She's picking up
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  Speaker 2: right where we left off.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, self-awareness is definitely a superpower. So that's my case.
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  Speaker 2: But for a lot of Gen Z, I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to lie. Maybe I'm fake for this. Maybe they'll hear
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  Speaker 2: this and be like, did you hear what Joshua said?
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  Speaker 2: But I'm actually kind of happy that, you know, Eric
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  Speaker 2: and Melanie and Lay and the Gen Z crew ain't here. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I said it. Yeah, I said it. Because I got
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  Speaker 2: some stuff to get off my chest.
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  Speaker 7: You're like in the cusp.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they say, Nicky. Now, I tried to
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  Speaker 2: call myself the in-between between a millennial and a Gen Z. Josh,
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  Speaker 2: what do I call you?
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  Speaker 3: A zillennial.
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  Speaker 2: What do I call you? Yeah, but Corey wasn't having it,
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  Speaker 2: so I had to chill on that. No, what do
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  Speaker 2: I call you? You call... You tell everybody what you
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  Speaker 2: call me, Corey.
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  Speaker 1: You a day walker. It's like Blade. You know how
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  Speaker 1: Blade is like half human, half vampire. And he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the few vampires who can walk in the light.
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  Speaker 1: You're one of the few Gen Zers who can relate
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  Speaker 1: to a millennial.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny because I truly do. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to make it out like I'm the friendliest person in
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  Speaker 2: the world because I'm not. But I get along great
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  Speaker 2: typically with both millennials and Gen Z. Like older and younger,
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  Speaker 2: I get along with great typically. good chemistry with typically
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  Speaker 2: so yeah I got some agendas to get off with
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z though did y'all know the chatter on social
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  Speaker 2: media and this is the thing with Gen Z we're
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  Speaker 2: very and I'm saying we're Corey I'm saying we're yeah
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  Speaker 2: the thing with Gen Z is that sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to compromise we just want things done our
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  Speaker 2: way all the time At the expense of everybody else. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Cause that can be really off putting to other generations.
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  Speaker 2: So I can't even, I can't even summarize what I've
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  Speaker 2: been seeing a lot as far as a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the chatter on social media. I mentioned it in my, um,
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  Speaker 2: suicide prevention month campaign post of this week, uh, about
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z that I just wrote. Um, Did y'all know
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  Speaker 2: that Gen Z, they're arguing back and forth with other
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  Speaker 2: generations on Twitter specifically about the professionalism of bringing iced
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  Speaker 2: coffee to a job interview?
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  Speaker 7: Wait, what?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. This is what I be talking about.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: So there is. OK, I'll summarize it real quick because
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to send you all the rundown because
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to surprise you all with this because this
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  Speaker 2: is really this is really this is really something. So
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  Speaker 2: the New York Post posted an article last week talking
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  Speaker 2: about how a lot of interviewers for jobs are turning
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  Speaker 2: away a lot of Gen Z candidates like multiple people
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  Speaker 2: because they brought iced coffee into the interview room.
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  Speaker 7: Opposed to what hot coffee what do you.
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  Speaker 2: Mean by that like opposed to water or anything else
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  Speaker 2: no it was a thing with um iced coffee and
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  Speaker 2: they were saying oh um that's unprofessional now gen z
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  Speaker 2: now we've talked about many gen z tropes on this
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  Speaker 2: show before as y'all know we've talked about the the
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  Speaker 2: gen z stare when you know say somebody at Gen
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  Speaker 2: Z is working to register and you're like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: let me get a number two combo with large fries
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  Speaker 2: and a chocolate shake. They stare at you like, like,
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  Speaker 2: why are you staring at me like that? Yeah. Like
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  Speaker 2: I said, a number two combo with large fries and
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  Speaker 2: a chocolate shake. Just staring at me with them big
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  Speaker 2: old eyes. Right. Like, all right. So we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: the Gen Z stare before, but this is another thing.
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z and professionalism. In the workplace. Yeah. Now, Gen
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  Speaker 2: Z was fighting back. They were saying, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of us struggle with anxiety and energy levels.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? We need the iced coffee
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  Speaker 2: before the interview. And we're going to bring it into
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  Speaker 2: the interview. We're going to sip on our coffee or
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  Speaker 2: mocha latte or whatever during the interview. And that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be that. No compromise whatsoever. And The older generations
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  Speaker 2: like millennials, Gen X, are trying to tell Gen Z, like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the sword you want to
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  Speaker 2: die on. Like, you know how many, Gen Z, there
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  Speaker 2: are so many interesting stats about Gen Z that I
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  Speaker 2: pulled up during my last article on the website, on therecessbell.com.
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  Speaker 2: So Gen Z, they carry the highest unemployment rates out
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  Speaker 2: of any generation right now. Did you say, of course
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  Speaker 2: they do?
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  Speaker 7: Wow. Gen Zers don't want to work. They just want
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  Speaker 7: to be on their phones, texting. They need instant gratification
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: for everything.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I could not agree more.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: They're not fully developed.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: In the way that they need to be developed. You know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: there was an interesting tweet that I saw about that today.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: So this is from Twitter user WineStainLife. Quote, Gen Z
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: is so quick to buck tradition or sidestep the status quo,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: but they never have anything to offer in place. Just
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: pure selfishness and delusion.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: Eh!
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Nikki, that's exactly what you're saying, right?
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: See, what had happened was, I mean, if you think
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: about it, millennials had to wait for a lot of things. Like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: we had to wait for our favorite TV show every week.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: We had to wait for a song to get on
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: the radio. We had to wait for photographs to be developed.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: We had to go to Blockbuster to rent a movie.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: But Gen Z's, it's like you binge watch an entire episode.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: You play songs instantly. Everything is, you know, stream everything.
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: You can take a picture with your phone and boom,
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: print it. You know, it's just too much. It's too much.
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: I like things slow and steady.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I agree. And let me tell you, again, as a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Gen Z member, as a very self-aware one, and I
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: am older Gen Z, a lot of the problems I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: researched about Gen Z were actually in the age 18
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: to 24 range. So I'm excluded. Yeah. So the iced
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: coffee thing, we're talking about struggles with professionalism, right? That
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: was one of the tropes that I saw. Also, Gen Z.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Using mental health, as we just talked about during the
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: first couple of minutes of the show here, using mental
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: health as a crutch and using them for excuses. You know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: so I used to work a job where I, both
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: of y'all know where I drove medically insured patients to
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: their appointments. So, you know, it was called non-emergency medical
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: transport before I started doing this radio stuff. That's what
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I was doing. So, I picked up this one person
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: and as I crafted out tonight's show, I thought of
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: them so vividly. So I was taking her to her
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: therapy appointment. This young lady couldn't be any older than me,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: probably like a couple years younger than me. It's about
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: a 10 minute drive. So we're talking. I try to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: be friendly. Like, you know, I'm a Gen Z person
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: being friendly and courteous. Wow. That didn't just stare at
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: people at the register.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Just kidding. But yeah, we were talking and she said
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: something because she was talking about her autism. She's autistic. And,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: you know, we were having conversation like, oh, yeah, you know,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: it's always how you navigate through life. And there's different
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: levels to it, right? There's level one autism, they say.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: And then there's not at the very other end of
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the spectrum. No pun intended. There's a nonverbal autistic people.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: So we were talking about that. Then the conversation took
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: a turn. She was saying like, oh yeah, you know what?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I love being autistic. Like I hated it before, but
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I love it so much because I don't have to
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: take accountability for anything. And then I started to be like, uh,
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: what do you mean? Then she continued. It was like, oh,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you know, I can just be rude in class or, or, or,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: or make a scene at work. And I can just
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, I'm autistic. I didn't mean it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's crazy. Well, you know what I mean?
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know how many buzzers I can play for that.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I just showed up the rest of the ride. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, OK, cool. Yeah, I don't got anything
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: more to say to that. So during this conversation about
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: iced coffee and professionalism and people were bringing up, hey,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of people in Gen Z, you know, highest
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: neurodivergent rates. Now, part of that is also due to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: just this generation being more aware about mental health.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: You know, past generations just were not getting diagnosed.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: So that's a big part of it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: But are they really talking about it?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. Trust me. Older generations, especially the family I
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: grew up in and the culture I grew up in. Um,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: it was, it was two things, normal or crazy. If
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you talked about mental health or whatever, mental illness, and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you was definitely the latter, you was crazy. So I,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I do appreciate that we're more aware about it now,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: but yeah, she said that. And that's, that's the thing.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Like when it comes to Gen Z, yes. As I
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: outlined in the article, just to really summarize it real quick,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: there are very unique challenges that come with being a
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Gen Z individual, right? A lot of generations were dealt
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the hand they were dealt, right? And there's nothing you
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: could really do about it. But Gen Z in particular,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: think about it. So we're talking about people born between
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: 1997 and 2012, right? People aged between 13 to 29
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: about today. So some of the numbers I dug into
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: was interesting. So first off, Gen Z is the loneliest generation.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Which is sad. They reported the highest feelings of loneliness
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: compared to millennials and Gen X. Part of that is
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: due to they're the heaviest social media usage generator. Right.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: I can see that. All the texting, Gen Z's don't
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: really know how to communicate very well. And they have
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: social anxiety and, you know.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe, but I think that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: actually has, like, I think that comes from not now.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: This may sound.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Wild.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: This may sound wild. But I think that part of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: it is passed on from the millennials because we, I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: would say we were one of the first people on
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: like the internet, like with the Facebook and stuff like that.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Because like, like if you like, I'm talking about the,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: like the late, the late, like, Josh is in my, like,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: type of millennial where it's like we're born in, like,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the middle and the early, like, middle, close to early 90s, like,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: or late. You were on that Facebook wave. You were
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: on the Instagram when it started. So you started to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: feed into that social media age. And I think that's
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: now the way I can say we differ is we are, like,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: both where we can adapt.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: We can talk to people in person.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: But we are also online very much, too. Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Where it's like, you know, If you look on dating apps,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of millennials on there because they
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: don't go out, they don't talk to people like that
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: I get it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: A thousand percent.
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: And that's the thing. I think millennials had a little
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: bit more self-control and restraint when it came to social media.
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: But now the Gen Z's have their desires just to
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: be on social media and just to be text. Like,
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: they can't stop.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Because as much as you joke about, like, the Gen Z's...
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: this is a whole bunch of millennial TikTokers on there.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I'm like, why.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Are you 38 years old doing the latest TikTok dance?
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: This is what I look.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Like in my 50s. Yeah, 1000%. Millennials and Gen X
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: parents too. Melanie's talked about her millennial parents, right? And
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: everything with that. So, yeah, that is, that's a great
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: point by Corey, especially with social media. Like, oh my
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: god so so so you just made me feel old
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: by saying yeah i'm talking about her millennial parents i'm
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: like i'm a millennial i'm trying to i'm trying to
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: toe the edge right here but yeah i'm trying to
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: avoid making anybody feel too old i mean it's tough
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: shoot i'm pushing 30 at this point so you know
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: it is what it is one of us one of
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: us yeah soon enough soon enough man Oh, by point being, though, like, yeah,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: me and Corey were born and we're three years apart. Right.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So we were, you know, both 90s babies. So we
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: grew up where, you know, social media, the big digital
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: boom didn't happen yet. So when we wanted to hang out,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: we would go to the park or play basketball on
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the blacktop or, you know, hit up the deli or,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: you know, hit up the diner or whatever.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Play handball.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Recess even. So we had that natural face to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: face interaction. Nobody had to really tell us or force
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: us to do that.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: But Gen Z, Gen Z is the first generation. This
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: is why I say you can only play the hands
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: you're dealt. Gen Z, we are the very first generation
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: to be born into the digital age, especially if you
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: was born after the year 2000 or so. You grew
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: up and by the time you was 10 years old,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you got your first iPhone, maybe even earlier than that.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Social media was already there.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Social media, Facebook launched in 2004, I think, 2006. twitter
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: same thing myspace even before that yeah i'm telling on
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: myself with myspace i'm telling on myself with myspace but
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: yeah it was a gen z is the first generation
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to really be born into the digital boom See, I
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: played that, but I didn't mean to play that. I'm sorry, y'all.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry to Gen Z. I didn't mean to.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: It has its benefits, you know, very socially, social media
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: savvy generation, right? Very digitally apt generation. But like Corey
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: just said, the social struggles, especially with COVID during like,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of Gen Z was in high school during
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the COVID pandemic, shut down, quarantined. that's when you're supposed
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: to like really refine those social skills. Right. And the
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: fact that that was just missed out on by so
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: many had prom. I'm not, I'm not going to call
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: nobody out. Yeah. Like I'm not going to call nobody out,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I noticed. Yeah. I can see the, I
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: can see the mental, the, the, the cognitive stunting sometimes
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: just sometimes there's nothing crazy, but it's to be expected with, with,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: with that reality of Gen Z and just when y'all
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: were born and when things happen, digital age, COVID. Also,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Gen Z, interesting thing I found here, they reported, Gen
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Z American individuals reported that they felt lonely at least
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: once a month during their childhoods because Gen Z children
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: reported the highest rates of single-parent households, single-family homes.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: That was probably one of the most interesting things I
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: researched in this piece. And it just all contributes to,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: and again, the title of the piece on the website,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: the Recess About website, Gen Z and the Loneliness Epidemic.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: That's really what it is. It's not that Gen Z
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: wants to be lonely or doesn't have the skill to
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: make friends or whatever. Now, loneliness with the cards that
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Gen Z was dealt, it's literally interwoven into every part
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: of their society or every part of their lives since childhood.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: If you really break it down from the single family
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: homes growing up to the digital age, social media, to,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: you know, getting really involved with that, to the COVID
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: and COVID, the thing with COVID, while we were all
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: shut down, the social media usage spiked. So if it
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: was bad before with Gen Z, it got even worse.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: with putting down the phones or the inability to. And
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: then it carries on into the poor economy, Gen Z adults.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: And I'm feeling this as a Gen Z adult. Oh
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: my God. Like the housing market, the economy, the gas prices, right?
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Worst generation to be a young adult ever. Let me
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: not say that. I don't want to, I don't want to,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: because I know Millennials and Gen X and even boomers
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: are going to listen and be like, whoa, back in
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: my day we dealt with. Chill. Chill out.
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: So we have millennials who dealt with 9-11, the rise
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: of Internet, MySpace and Facebook. Yes, you mentioned that. Now
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: Gen Z, smartphones, social media, COVID-19, kind of like the
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: beginning stage. And then the Gen Alphas kind of ending
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: into COVID during their childhood and remote elementary school. And
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: now A.I.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: 's.
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: You know, AI. It's a lot of a lot of
• 33:11
  Speaker 7: things going on.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah. I didn't even bring up AI yet. We'll
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: definitely get to that. But absolutely. Every generation had their challenges.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And I made sure to mention that in the piece.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: But Gen Z, very unique challenges like even you, Nikki
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and Corey, you talked about I think you both mentioned.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: the vices that some of us have, like not the vices.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Cause that's where I'm going. But some of the, the
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: generational things like Corey was the person that brought up
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: how millennials just used to, you know, one thing about millennials,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: they going to link up at a bar or a
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: restaurant somewhere. True story.
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: If there's one thing about millennials, like all my millennial friends,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: it's not, Oh, let's FaceTime. It's yo meet me at
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: meet me at the bar at eight that's what it
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: is and i i do appreciate.
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: That i'm not gonna lie some millennials they don't know
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: anything about facetime yeah some of them.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Like the older side of millennials yes yeah yeah yeah
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: yeah for sure i do appreciate that about millennials y'all
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: we one thing about millennials they don't link up and
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: pull up on you uh gen gen x before they
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: were the heaviest alcohol generation so they lived in the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: bottle right gen x for those that don't know is
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: the generation preceding millennials that's wild and when it comes
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: to gen z it's the digital vices so you have
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: the online phone vices so the two major things is
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: uh like uh cory never fails to bring up even
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: though he's a millennial. Gen Z really struggles with the
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: online gambling wave now.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: Is he calling you out?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: We passed the burden.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: As soon as FanDuel became legal in New York City,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: it was overseas for everybody.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: But that's my point. And going back to Nikki's point, too,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: and tying it together, that's the accessibility that Gen Z has, like,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Anything you could ever want is at your fingertips.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: So there's two major things I brought up in that article.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: It's the online gambling like gambling was never that accessible
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: before the iPhone. And then obviously it was legalized in
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: New York in 2021. So it's the gambling. And then, yeah,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: let's talk about that.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Pornography real quick josh i want to ask you a
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: question right yeah yeah okay and this is involving gen
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: z right when you said that gen z has so
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: much access to everything right and i forgot who said
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: this quote but it was saying that kids these days
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: should be more successful than ever because they have so
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: much accessibility to multiple different avenues. If you want to
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: be a DJ, all you got to do is type
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: in how to be a DJ on YouTube and you
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: have these online, you have multiple online mentors that can
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: help you and everything like that, even without, for free basically.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: And do you feel as though that puts pressure on
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: kids uh, Gen Zers because of the fact that millennials
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: are looking at them like, Hey, you have all these
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: opportunities to succeed. And then you, if you don't, if
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you don't succeed, do you feel like that puts pressure
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: on them? And then that causes some sort of like
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: a mental anguish with like, they feel like they aren't
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: living up to their capabilities.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: That is a great point, yo. Okay. So we'll, we'll, we'll,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: we'll put a pause on my, uh, my pornography. And
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: we'll get to that. That's a great point, Corey. Like,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: That's an outstanding point, bro. I'm going to add that
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: to the reel.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: You could look on YouTube for a lot of things.
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: I mean, you could be a makeup artist.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Learn how to paint a house.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: You could actually learn how to cook for the people
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: out there who don't know how to, Josh.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: You could be a person.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: You could be a personal trainer. I mean, you could
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: do a lot. You could fix cars. You could be
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: a plumber.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: It's all you got. Corey said it best. Like, all
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: you got to do is type in a prompt and
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Gemini or chat GPT or whatever. Right. Shout out Grok.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Whatever you type it into is going to be like, oh,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: so here's what you do. And then it goes step
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: by step. And it's crazy. So Corey is right. That's
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: why people look at Gen Z crazy because it's like
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: all this opportunity. all of this accessibility and what do
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: you have for it? The highest unemployment rate of any
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: generation of people in America right now. It's like, what
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: are you doing? And it's what I brought up before
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: the struggles with kind of professionalism and they're trying to
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: like change the idea of it. Gen Z is, but
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: it's being met with some resistance, i.e. the iced coffee
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: to a job interview stuff. We're going to, we're going
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: to circle back to that for sure.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: But Josh, you get where I'm coming from, from like
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the mental aspect of it, where it's like, okay, so,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: You know how, like, if you have a student, right, or, like,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a kid who's a prodigy, basically, right, had everything gifted
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: to him, and then, you know, a couple years later,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: they're struggling in life, and it's just like, what happened?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: It's just they feel as though that pressure got to them,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you know, that pressure to succeed.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: You know, Corey, I will quickly give a personal note
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: on that. Mm-hmm. There's something in certainly Gen Z conversations,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: but it's really for everybody. It's called the gifted kid curse. Yeah,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: so when I was in elementary school and middle school,
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I was getting A's on everything. Like, I didn't even
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: have to study. It was just that easy. Like, just
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: see the test. I could finish the test in five minutes.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: It would take the rest of the class 40 minutes.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: They would be like, Joshua, what the hell? I'd be like, yeah, no, no. So,
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: you know, it came very easy to me until you
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: got to like junior year of high school into college.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: And that's when the curve kind of flattens, right? That's
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: when your talent compared to like hard work, that's when
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: your talent mattered less and your work ethic mattered more.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: At that, yo, Corey, Nikki, at that point, I was
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: in hell. Because I was like, damn, I just had every,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: not handed to me, but like I could just, I
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: didn't have to do nothing. I would always excel. now
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: I got to work and grind as much as everybody
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: else because they have a better handle on work ethic.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I never really learned that. So that's something I really
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: like the most depressed years of my life. I talk
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: about it on TRB was that time period because that
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: was a tough adjustment. I was like, it wasn't, I'm
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: not as smart as I think I am. It was
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: more so Yeah, how naturally smart and gifted you are
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: don't really matter the deeper you get into adulthood.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: You know, the craziest thing is the way you just
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: broke that down. I don't have that experience, but I
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: know somebody who does, my nephew. My nephew, because, you know,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I always tell you how good he is in sports, right? Oh,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: he's nice. But he's from New York, right? So he
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: played like Little League football out here. When he plays
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: little league football out here, dominant. Goes to Rhode Island, dominant.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Goes to Texas for like a couple of years, he's dominant.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: But then once he gets to high school, you know, oh,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not the starter. He's not the starter no more.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, he's like fifth or sixth string. And
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: then he doesn't start until this year. And then it's
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: like at that point. it's to the point where it's
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: like he's he literally in his span of i don't
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: know how long he lost his love for it because
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: of the fact that he felt as though it was
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: pressured on him to succeed and do all these great
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: do all these great things and then when it didn't
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: happen and it's just like you know i'm not as
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: good as i thought i was you know i talk
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: all of it and it's just like It's like, where
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: do you go from there? And then he transitioned into
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: track and he found his lane, something that, you know,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: actually makes him happy. You know, it's no pressure on him.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: You feel me? Yeah, another great point. Now that I'm
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: thinking about it, when you grow up and we brought
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: up the single family households, but say you grow up
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: with siblings. And so say I had three sisters growing up, so. Um,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of times in sibling groups, there's the black sheep. Yeah. Often.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: And then there's the, um, the prodigy, right? Unfortunately, I
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: know the black sheep in my family. Oh boy. Technically
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I got two.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: No, no names, right? No, no, no names. No names.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Um, but yeah, I had the curse of being the prodigy. Oh,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: so like whenever I felt like, I wasn't pulling my
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: weight in terms of my career. Everyone was like, oh,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: is Joshua okay? Oh, no, he was supposed to take
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: us out the hood. And I'm like, damn, yo, don't
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: put all that pressure on me. I bleed the same
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: blood as y'all.
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: Oh, no.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't put all that pressure on me.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Our savior.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: He gonna get us out the hood for real. I'm
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: just like, am I? I don't know. I don't know.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: We'll see. I'll try my best.
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: Sounds like some identity struggles you guys are talking about.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. And it's funny that, you know, Corey's a millennial,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: I'm Gen Z, but I feel like there's overlaps in
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: every generation where that's, there's consistency there. Again, I swear
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to play Gen Z.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: That was an accident again, I promise. But yeah, um,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: gen z very interesting i brought up uh the vices
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: online vices i did want to circle back to that
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: um two very there were so many i'm not begging
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: y'all to read it by any means but the research
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: was really interesting with gen z and obviously the theme
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: is the the truth with gen z here we're gonna
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: get down to the bottom of why gen z is
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: uh getting slandered left and right um gen z so
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: you know What's funny, and Corey's talked about this too,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of younger people with Gen Z will brag about, oh,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: we don't drink alcohol as much. We don't smoke cigarettes.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: We don't do all that stuff at the same rate.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: But due to the digital vices, what you have is
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of the, like I said, gambling is accessible.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: It's not really a great habit. And then, like I said,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: the pornography. It's interesting when it comes to that. So,
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: older generations had to, if they wanted some action, you
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? They wanted some, if they wanted
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: to feel something, right? They would, you know, have to
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: meet people, talk to them, go on dates, and then,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: you know, maybe, whether it's casual or relationship, you know, yeah.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: You know, one, two step, well, three step thing, one, two, three.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Gen Z is struggling with that because pornography is so accessible,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: like gambling is too. It's just like, do I really
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: want to head out and see shorty tonight or the
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Kleenex is in the corner over there. It's, it's kind of,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: if you're sensing a theme, it's like, yo, like Nikki,
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: you said earlier, again, the accessibility is really, I hate
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: to say it when people call Gen Z lazy. That's
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: one thing you can point to. Like, like if you want,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: if you want sex, you know, past relationships had to
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: get it out the mud. Um, and Gen Z and all,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: and everybody in it, all we got to do is
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: get a sign up for only fans and, uh, that's that.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: And then gambling, same thing. If you really wanted to
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: gamble in past generations, you had to go all the
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: way to a casino and we live in New York.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Like you had to go all the way to like
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: the Yonkers. That's far away from Garden City.
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: New York. Yeah.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, I forgot when I went to Vegas
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, so this is how you
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: actually sports bet.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: You had to go down here and do it. I'm like, no,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: I can do this. I was like this.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I see why nobody sports bet until FanDuel and all
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: these like these sites came around.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: You can cook up a parlay in five minutes. And
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: then before you know it, you have a chance to
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: win like $ 300. Yeah. Putting together a five minute parlay.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Like that's incredible. It's also costly, though, because the same thing.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Any vice you have, whether it's smoking, drinking, gambling, porn,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: whatever we're talking about. Like we always talk about mental health, Nikki.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: Too much of anything is not good.
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: But sometimes you swap out these vices. So if you're saying, oh,
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: I don't drink, I don't smoke, but social media, video games.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Y'all know me, I don't smoke or drink, right? Do
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: you know what I do?
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: I eat.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Yep, see, you got a food addiction. Eat a lot.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Love food. What's your favorite food?
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Oof.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: I'm a big back, big back. We're entering big back
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: territory right here. I love everything.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I love seafood, love shrimp, love crab legs, love lobster,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: love pizza, love hamburgers.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: I don't love hamburgers. I love cheeseburgers to be exact.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: With bacon?
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I could eat a cheeseburger with bacon, you know? The
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: cheeseburger's got to have bacon. No, it don't have that
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: bacon because sometimes it throws it off. Like, if me,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: if I was building, like, my favorite burger I had, like,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: as of recently would have probably been either the one
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: from Buffalo Wild Wings, like a jalapeno, like, spicy burger,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: or this burger, I think, from Shake Shack.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: It's like a truffle burger. I know exactly. My big
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: back ass know exactly what you're talking about. Big back,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: big back. Keep reaching, Pastor. Keep reaching.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I was looking at a burger spot in Baldwin today
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: that I'm going to try out later.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know when. I'm going to try it out.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: It's like a grilled cheeseburger, if that makes sense. A
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: grilled cheeseburger?
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, they turn the buns inside out, put some cheese there,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: a burger, some sauce.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I'm going to try it.
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: You ever had pizza fries?
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: No, I've never had pizza fries. I had chili fries.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, not chili fries. What is it? It's like cheese, bacon,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: and all that other stuff from Checkers.
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I learned about cheese pizza recently.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: What is pizza fries? Pizza fries.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry.
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: It's like French fries.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Pizza fries?
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, pizza fries.
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: Oh, nah.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: I ain't never heard of this. No! i am i
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: am intrigued please continue.
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: So it's the okay you you got you got to
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: lay out this pan you put the french fries down
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: at the bottom now they should be a little done
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: so wait a little bit.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Let's see the actual fries yes french fries you know
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: what i thought pizza fries was you take pizza and
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: you cut it into like fries oh now i gotta
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: know what this is i gotta know so you say
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you lay them on the bottom and then make sure a.
• 48:59
  Speaker 7: Little yeah and then you know how you already got
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: the pizza cheese and the pepperoni or whatever toppings you
• 49:03
  Speaker 7: want you just slide the cheese and the sauce right
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: on top of the french fries i just know it's
• 49:13
  Speaker 7: bad for you.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I just know it's bad for you where would one
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: acquire these pizza fries.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: So he can warn people not to go there.
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: I just found out how to make it off TikTok.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do some research purposes. I'm going to
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: do some research after the show.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hit up Gemini. Get your Gen Z on and
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: look it up AI-wise.
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: Listen, TikTok has got some recipes on there.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Soon we're going to be like Wally. We're going to
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: be on a big ship. Hey, Grok, bring me pizza fries. I, the.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Fact is Corey's not wrong. There's a lot of concerns
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: about where AI is headed.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: So that's, that's one of them. They're like, uh, I
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: don't know. That ain't, that ain't, that's a Gen Z.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: What's that? The Gen Z? Gen Alpha? Oh, they're called.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: They're done.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: They're done.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: I hate to be, I know we're talking about mental
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: health and we're trying to be patient and like, uh,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: discuss out in the open so people can feel seen
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: and heard and whatnot. with that being said, I have
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: zero faith in Gen Alpha. I'll just say it right here.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Why is it always the next generation? It's like, they
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: don't have a disdain, but it's like, I don't know
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: about that next generation.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Can I be honest with you?
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: I was one of those kids that, I wasn't one
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: of those kids, but Everybody knows, like, adults used to,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: when you got out of school, like, if you was
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: walking past people's houses, they made sure you didn't step
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: on their lawn. They made sure you was, like, they
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: was watchful of the kids getting out of school, right,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: if you lived near the school. I didn't realize it,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: but I became one of them old people.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: It's like, yo, stay away from my car. Walk away. Like,
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: I'm watching these kids get out of school, and I'm like,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: stay away from my house. Keep going that way. I
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: don't want none of that. Stay off my lawn. Yes.
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: Stay off my lawn.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: I really became one of those old people who's like,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: stay off my lawn.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: And it's like, because when the school gets out, right?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I try my hardest.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: To avoid being outside when it hit that time because
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: the traffic is stupid. The traffic is stupid when it
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: comes to getting out and go. So you can't even
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: go nowhere for like 30 minutes. So I'm like, just leave,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: just leave. I was like, I'll just go to sleep
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: during that time.
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: I can't lie, Corey. I do agree with what you're saying.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I'd be, I'd be having to, cause I, where I
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: live out here in Brooklyn, I live at like, I'm
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: like triangulated between three schools. I'm like, Oh, I got
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: to avoid these YNs before I go to work. Oh,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: hell no. Hell no. They don't try to like steal
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: my catalytic converter or something. No, I can't have that. Yeah,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: it is. It's a, Yeah, I'm very much a get-off-my-lawn person.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's Gen Z. That's millennials and Gen Z's relationship.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: I'm sure millennials are saying the same thing about Gen Z.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Gen Z is going to say that same thing about
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Gen Alpha. I already know some Gen Z is probably
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: looking at Gen Alpha like, I.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: Don't trust that. I don't trust that. I sure am.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Stay away from me.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: They be clutching their bags with little YNs around.
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: Gen Alpha, Gen Beta, Gen Gamma, Gen Delta. It's all
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: going to be bad.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Wait, is that really the next ones? Yeah.
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: Oh, no. You already know the newest model after Alpha?
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: You don't want to be in Generation Beta. The jokes
• 52:55
  Speaker 8: write themselves.
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, you already know.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I'm being dead serious. Is there really a generation called
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Generation Beta?
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: There's going to be a Generation Beta.
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: It's right after Gen Alpha. The Gen Beta is 2025
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: to 2029. So are you saying.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: That technically there will be somebody who's a male?
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Who's a male? Be a Beta male?
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: He gonna be a Beta.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Beta Beta.
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: It's just gonna be worse. It's just gonna be worse.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Generation Beta is the demographic group of people born from
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: 2025 to 2039.
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: I don't even know what to say about that.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, ain't no betas listening to TRB. We
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: just had a very alpha conversation about Gen Z. Now
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: we will circle back to that at points during our
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: number two. If you know TRBOA, we are a two
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: hour platform. We are a two hour show. The platform,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: the recess bell is definitely something you want to check
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: out on the website. T-H-E-R-E-C-E-S-S-B-E-L-L.com. as well as our social media,
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: the Recess Bell on pretty much all platforms. We will
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: call it quits for hour number one. And like I said,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: the theme for tonight, Gen Z, what's really the truth, right?
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Gen Z be catching a lot of slander. Why can't
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: we bring our iced coffee to the interview? I just
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: want to sip on my iced caramel latte with whipped
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: cream during my interview. I want to drink my diabetes
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: drink during my interview. Listen, We're going to set the
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: record straight on all of that. Also coming up, NFL talk,
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Nicky's Jets, Corey's New York Giants.
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: Don't trash talk me like that.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Corey's Giants. Going to talk about heartbreak now? My
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: New Orleans Saints.
• 54:52
  Speaker 8: Off.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: All right, Mr. Shuckin' and Javin.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, nah. I'm going to get your ass back for
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: that when we come back. His last name is Shuck. Yeah,
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: all right, man. You know what you're doing. The recess
• 55:10
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• 55:12
  Speaker 2: the voice of Nassau Community College 90.3 WHBC.
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: S-S-W-W-Q-E-B-E Maybe there seems to be Some insecurities About the
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: way I feel Where I wanna be But you know
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: what's with you No one can do The things you
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: do Never to be mistaken. Long as this love we're making.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: There's gonna be some rain. Gonna be the pain.
• 56:09
  Speaker 9: But as long as I know.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: Boy, time will show.
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: Our love will grow. And I know.
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: Love will be right here. Be right here.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: Right here.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: Be right here.
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: Have no fear No tears Nothing's here
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: Love some don't believe in That's just what I'm given
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep