It's the economy, stupid.

Hey, we're recording the podcast.

Shut up.

Good morning to you wherever you are, because it is morning somewhere.

For December 2nd, 2020.

My name is Bernie Burns. Sitting right over there. She's raw dog in the holidays. It's

Ashley Burns. Hey, Ashley, everybody. It'll make sense in a little bit here. Ashley has a story

she wants. Do you want him to talk about your thing right out of the gate today? Sure. Let's let's

talk about raw dog and right out of the gate. It's a morning. Uh, yeah, I saw this insane article.

Well, the thing is, the article itself isn't insane, but it's like the headline makes it sound

way worse than it is. This is from Newsweek. Does Gen Z raw dog and boredom trend actually

fix your attention span? And it's, it goes on to talk about how, um, there's this trend on TikTok, which

sort of doesn't make any sense of people putting down their phones and just like staring at a

wall and intentionally cultivating boredom. Right. Right. And everyone's like, congratulations,

you just invented meditation. Uh, but also, that doesn't seem like a bad thing. I mean, I realize it's a trend people are finding on TikTok. But if they're like, hey, put down your TikTok for just a second, stare at a wall and just see what thoughts happen.

Does it feel a little bit like Columbus discovering America? Oh, yeah. Is that what it feels like?

I guess so.

It's one of those things like it's a good thing that it's happening.

Maybe where I'm getting hung up, Bernie, is that they're calling it raw dogging boredom.

My favorite part about the article, it was on Newsweek, is the reporter.

I got to give them a shout out.

Marnie Rose McFall had to, in the first two paragraphs, basically explained to the general audience, the etymology of

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