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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight. From Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Coast to Coast Georginry with doctor Gene Twangy as we

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Speaker 2: are talking about our work generations and we were talking

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Speaker 2: about the generation disease and their depression states. Do you

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Speaker 2: think social media, in the bullying that sometimes associates with it,

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Speaker 2: has contributed to that depression?

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's a coincidence that teen depression started

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Speaker 3: to increase around twenty twelve, right at the time that

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Speaker 3: most Americans had a smartphone, and when social media use

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Speaker 3: among teens moved from something then maybe half our teams

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Speaker 3: were doing every day to something almost all of them

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Speaker 3: were doing every day. So there's so many mechanisms with

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Speaker 3: social media. There's cyberbullying, like you mentioned, there's comparing yourselves

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Speaker 3: to all of the glamorous folks you know on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: There's that. At the same time teams started spending more

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Speaker 3: time online and on social media, they start and spending

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Speaker 3: less time hanging out with each other face to face,

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Speaker 3: which is much better for mental health.

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Speaker 2: It's and why are people so mean? You know in

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Speaker 2: the bullying those tactics. What's wrong with people.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's pretty classic that when you are

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Speaker 3: face to face with someone, you're generally going to be nicer.

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Speaker 3: They're right there in front of you. Expression on their

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Speaker 3: faces Online it's anonymous. You're not really truly thinking of

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Speaker 3: them as a fellow human being. It's not in real time,

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Speaker 3: and you're not seeing the expression on that person's face.

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Speaker 3: So people feel much more free to be really cruel online.

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Speaker 2: Now there's another generation we didn't talk specifically about yet.

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Speaker 2: That's a Generation Alpha. Where do they stand in all this?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so Generation Alphas is born in the twenty thirteen

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Speaker 3: and later. They're the ones I call polars.

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Speaker 2: So they're the little ones right now.

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Speaker 3: They're the little ones.

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Speaker 2: And how are they developing gene.

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Speaker 3: We don't know a whole lot about them yet, but

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Speaker 3: you know, they were the little kids of the pandemic. They,

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Speaker 3: even more than Generation Z, have never known a world

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Speaker 3: without smartphones or tablets, and they're not getting enough exercise

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Speaker 3: and not running around outside like previous generations of children did,

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Speaker 3: and that's a big problem going forward for them.

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Speaker 2: Now the boomers are what age bracket.

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Speaker 3: So the boomers are those born nineteen forty six to

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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty.

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Speaker 2: Four, nineteen sixty four, and gen X is sixty five

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Speaker 2: to what to seventy nine On the millennials eighty two,

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Speaker 2: ninety four, ninety four. We've got a millennial who calls

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Speaker 2: a program Coed often. He's a great caller, goody young man.

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Speaker 2: If more Americans would grow up to be like him,

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Speaker 2: we'd be in great shape. I hope he calls in

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Speaker 2: next hour. When we take calls with you, you'll get

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Speaker 2: a chance to hear him. You'll know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: But is any of this concerning to you? And as

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Speaker 2: an expert, you.

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Speaker 3: Know every time. Every era has its advantages and disadvantages.

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Speaker 3: And there are some really good things about living right

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Speaker 3: now and all the conveniences that we enjoy, but there's

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Speaker 3: some big downsides too. We have a lot of disconnection,

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Speaker 3: we have a lot of polarization, and we have technologies

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Speaker 3: that help us out, but they can also feel addictive

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Speaker 3: and could feel like we can't put them down. And

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Speaker 3: I think that's an especially big problem for teens and

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Speaker 3: young adults, where they're spending so much time on social

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Speaker 3: media that they're not interacting with each other face to face.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, now, this also seems to be a period. Well,

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Speaker 2: we have more generations grouped together than ever before, it is, and.

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Speaker 3: That's for two reasons. It's because people are living longer,

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Speaker 3: but also they change the tech. Technological change has sped up,

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Speaker 3: it's accelerating, so generations are getting shorter. You know, it's

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Speaker 3: not a coincidence that those younger generations we've been speaking

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Speaker 3: fourteen or fifteen years when the silent generation Bloomers is

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Speaker 3: so generations turn over more quickly. So it means we

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Speaker 3: have a bigger generation gap, especially around technology. I think

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Speaker 3: in the late nineteen sixties with the boomers feeling like

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Speaker 2: Companies are starting to talk about how artificial intelligence may

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Speaker 2: reduce the amount of workforce members at various companies, and

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Speaker 2: it's kind of jarring to me to hear some of

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Speaker 2: those numbers. Gene, what happens to some of these younger

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Speaker 2: generations gen Z's the generation Alphas, when they grow up

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Speaker 3: Yes, you know, there's some challenges here because at the

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Speaker 3: Baby Bloomers continued to retire, there should be more opportunities

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Speaker 3: So that's where we are now. It just depends on

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Speaker 3: And I think the biggest challenge is this. Then, due

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Speaker 3: And guess what, AI doesn't always do that great at

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Speaker 3: you know, really relating to other human beings because because

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Speaker 3: AI is a human doesn't have compassion, right, you know,

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Speaker 3: and it can kind of fake it, but it doesn't

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Speaker 3: we really really need to think about what we're teaching

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Speaker 3: going to have to place more emphasis on social skills.

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Speaker 3: We're going to have to get phones out of school,

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Speaker 3: bell to bell, so then they'll park to each other

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Speaker 3: at lunch because it's those social skills we really need

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Speaker 3: kids to develop. Now, that's what's going to be in demand.

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Speaker 2: If I were a teacher in the school right now,

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Speaker 3: And a lot of teachers do that, and some school

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Speaker 3: principals are starting to come around to, you know, even that.

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Speaker 3: Then the individual teachers have to enforce it, and the

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Speaker 3: kids grab the phone, you know, during lunchtime and when

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Speaker 3: there are changing classes, so it's still there, and then

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Speaker 3: bullying and distractions are still there. So even better have

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Speaker 3: that been happened at the beginning of school and they

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Speaker 3: pick them up at the end. There's some kind of

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Speaker 3: solution where the phone is not interfering with learning and

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Speaker 2: Is there a generation gene that just gets it and

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Speaker 2: they understands things well.

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Speaker 3: I do think that both gen xers and millennials have

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Speaker 3: I am a gen Xer myself, but we were the

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Speaker 3: first to have an Internet adulthood, So you know, I

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Speaker 3: think we have always taken that position as being the

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Speaker 3: middle child of generations. The middle child and the family

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Speaker 3: So we have that role to play. But I think

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Speaker 3: a lot of millennials, especially older millennials is born in

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Speaker 3: the nineteen eighties, can play that role as well.

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Speaker 2: But you missed some dramatic things that happened in society, assassinations, landings,

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Speaker 2: things like that. Does that Does that bother you that

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Speaker 2: you may have missed some great news events?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: I think it. I mean, certainly, I think a lot

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Speaker 3: out on some pretty interesting history. But I think there's

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Speaker 3: also a little bit of odd pride among gen xers,

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Speaker 2: And you're you were you were about what three or

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Speaker 2: four years old when we landed on the moon. Silently

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Speaker 2: you probably on the moon we weren't even born. Then, Wow,

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Speaker 2: that's that's crazy times. How would you fix this? And

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Speaker 2: is it fixable?

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Speaker 3: You know, I actually do have a lot of hope

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Speaker 3: To take what we are discussing about the Team mental

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Speaker 3: health crisis, well, if social media and technology really is

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Speaker 3: know how to solve it. That's actually changeable. You can't

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Speaker 3: change a lot of the other problems that tend to

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Speaker 3: cause depression. You can't change your genetics, you can't change

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Speaker 3: hard to change discrimination and poverty overnight. But we can

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Speaker 3: put common sense regulations on social media. We can raise

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Speaker 3: the minimum age for social media to sixteen and actually

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Speaker 3: verify age. That's one thing that we could do would

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Speaker 3: probably make an enormous difference for mental health among children

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Speaker 2: Some people would argue that that's too restrictive and we're

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Speaker 2: taking away freedoms. But on the other hand, that may

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Speaker 2: work very well.

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Speaker 3: Don't you think we have laws that have age restrictions

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Speaker 3: when you can vote, when you can vote, why not

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Speaker 3: have it for social media?

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Speaker 2: How would they track that?

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Speaker 3: You know, there's an increasing number of companies that can

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Speaker 3: seen clear, that's what they do. They do biometrics and

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Speaker 3: There's not as many privacy and concerns. There's ways to

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Speaker 3: this is the problem for the social media companies to solve,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's truly remarkable stuff. Hey, yeah, we might have

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Speaker 2: How much of this is parental responsibility?

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Speaker 3: You know, this is a difficulty. You do not need

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Speaker 3: parental permission to get a social media account, so parents

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Speaker 3: But it's really really difficult, and that's because it's so unregulated.

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Speaker 2: At what age do you think most parents have purchased

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Speaker 3: The average age to get a smarttone these days is ten,

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Speaker 3: ten years old, and that that day is a couple

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Speaker 2: They know how to and they know how to use

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, the good news is you can

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Speaker 3: a full blown smartphone. They don't need it. What you

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Speaker 3: want is for them to be able to call you

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Speaker 2: It's not it, though.

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Speaker 3: Gine it's becoming hip. It's kind of cool. You know.

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Speaker 3: There's apparently a lot of gen Zers are now going

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Speaker 3: back to slip phones. Some of them have two phones.

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Speaker 3: They have the flip phone when they go out because

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Speaker 3: And then there are other phones. So there's one called

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Speaker 3: the gab phone that's for kids that you can text

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Speaker 3: and call and take pictures and that's it, and it

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Speaker 2: I think some gen Z came up to me when

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Speaker 2: I had my flip phone years ago and a dinosaur, Well.

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Speaker 3: Now they want them. Everything that was out is now

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Speaker 3: back in. That's that's how it works.

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Speaker 2: Who's moving back in with family and parents? Is that

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Speaker 2: the Generation Z.

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Speaker 3: For the most part. I mean, you know gen Z,

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Speaker 3: they're oldest members by the cutoffs that I use are

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Speaker 3: twenty eight. So yeah, especially during the pandemic, a lot

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Speaker 3: of them came back home. But you know that's changing now.

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Speaker 3: A lot of job opportunities out there for young people

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Speaker 3: But it's a better economic picture than it was, say

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Speaker 3: lot of them graduated into the Great Recession. A lot

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