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Gen Z and Driving · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Uestion for American mamas. Dear mamas, why are so many Gen Z kids
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  afraid to get their driver's licenses? Well, let's ask our American mama's mama,
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  mama, and joining is now our American mama's Terry Netteville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  You know, I remember growing up and we're you know, we're all
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  gen X. There was like getting your driver's license was a rite of passage.
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  It was a big deal, and almost every one of my friends wanted
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  to drive. There. There may have been one or two who were afraid
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  to drive into one too, but almost everybody you wanted to drive. You
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  wanted to have your own car. You wanted that freedom. And yeah,
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  I've actually seen with this generation right now, there's that that's not as big
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  of a deal. Do y'all see that too? No, So this is
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  interesting to me that you're saying this because I know three diferent people that whose
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  kids do not want to get their driver's license. And these are kids that
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  are in college, they're college age kids. Oh wow, yeah, these
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  are big kids. And then as I'm scrolling through social media the other day,
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  I saw Adam Carolla was talking to somebody in a podcast and the guy
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  brings this up, and Adam Carolla says, I'm dealing with this right now
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  with my son. We're having to force him to get his driver's license.
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  I thought, well, wait a minute, this is freaking weird. So
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  my neighbor came over yesterday bringing flowers for a mom and we're having this conversation.
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  She said, her son is one. He's twenty eight years old,
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  twenty eight license, Yes, twenty eight years old. She said, he
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  doesn't want to leave the house. She said, she has all these different
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  theories. She feels like that COVID lockdowns was a part of it. He's
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  a gamer, so he's living in this virtual world, you know, so
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  he's socializing with these people that way online online, not face to face,
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  not face to face, but he's not leaving his home. He doesn't need
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  to go anywhere, says which I'm thinking. It's steming. Is that a
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  word? Yeah? Yeah, the development of these young people, and because
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  of this, I'm getting to this point I am scared for our future.
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  I am scared because these are the kids that are supposed to be strong,
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  Like who's going to fight in wars? How are they going to take care
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  of families. Are they going to have families? Well, our military is
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  not hitting its recruitment goals with this generation. They are missing by hundreds of
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  thousands of soldiers. We don't have as large of a military right now as
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  we're supposed to because this generation has not been signing up the way that previous
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  generations had. It's a weak generation. And I love so many of them
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  in this generation, but I am seeing that it's a very weak generation.
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  Well on top of that, Cameraly, they have people in college that have
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  AI doing all of the reports, they're doing their essays. They're not even
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  like we had to do all of this ourselves. We had to do the
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  research, we had to do the writings, we had to present it.
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  It had to be from us in order for to get the A or the
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  B. So this group is I'm nervous because I'm like, oh my gosh,
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  if you can basically get an I m AI, yeah, yeah,
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  degree, they're not really learning, but they need you to go out and
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  teach. Like, let's say you're successful. Let's say you're studying to be
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  a teacher and you go through college doing a hour reports. What are you
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  going to be able to teach our children. So I do see that aspect
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  of this generation. I also see how this generation is facing some unique headwinds
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  no other generations had to do. Absolutely so the lockdowns you mentioned the lockdowns,
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  this generation had to go through that as students and as kids. That
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  was that was particularly cruel of our leadership to put that this generation through that.
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  This generation is having a harder time. It is more difficult to buy
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  a new starter home for this generation than in any generation in American history because
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  the cost of the homes are so much higher, the interest rates are so
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  much higher than they've been certainly in the last thirty years. There are unique
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  headwinds this generation's facing. But there's also I think, but you're talking about
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  motivated kids, you know, for the motivated kids that they're facing unique catches.
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  I think there are a lot of kids who are looking at those same
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  headwinds and going I can't do it. I'm not even gonna try. It's
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  just kind of thing. Yeah, I almost think this is I go down
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  that deep hole and I think about China, and I think about TikTok,
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  I think about social media and how people are obsessed with that, and I
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  think is this is China in it for the long game? Are they watching
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  this weakening of our youth and they're like sitting just waiting because they can pounce
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  when we're not able to defend ourselves. When we're we're all stuck in our
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  homes and nobody's willing to leave the home, nobody's having children. Is this
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  what they're waiting on? I think one of the things you can say about
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  most other countries in the world, certainly in Asia, they play a long
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  game. The United States does not play. Yeah, the Taliban. When
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  we first invaded the Taliban back in Afghanistan in two thousand and one, the
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  Taliban's motto was will wait. And the other thing is like in our generation,
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  we needed socialization. We need to be with other people. This generation,
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  they feel like they're socializing when they get online so they can be by
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  themselves in their room. They feel like they're out there socializing when they get
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  online and see how many likes they have, or they can go back and
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  forth with somebody, like you said gaming, you know, playing Fortnite or
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  whatever, as opposed to the face to face. Really right, they're living
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  in a virtual world, but you still need to be able to get around
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  in the real world. And man, there is so much freedom that comes
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  with a driver's license in a car. Yes, And why they don't want
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  that freedom I don't understand is what is concerning. Very interesting point. If
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  Terry Netteville can't really bur listen. Thank you so much, Thank you