Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

What's wrong with kids these days?

It's the perennial complaint of older generations

and I will continue that time-honored tradition

here on the Council of Trent Podcast. Welcome I'm your host Catholic answers

apologists and speaker Trent Horn. On Mondays and Wednesdays we talk

apologetics and theology, how to explain and

defend the Catholic faith. But on Friday, we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

It's free for all Friday here on the podcast and I want to talk about an article that I read and a video I saw

dealing with younger generations today and what can just be really insufferable about that. Now I'm not saying that this is a

blanket indictment of Gen Z or younger generations. We have some really great people

among Gen Z. They are a credit to their race so to speak a credit to their generation

working at Catholic answers but every now and then I come across these articles and these stories and I just have to chuckle and this one got me. So the first one I want to talk about

is an article from Business Insider, who was published recently. This is the title of it.

A Gen Zier left Texas to find acceptance and peace of mind.

Quote, Texas has a lot to fix and resolve before I would even encourage anyone to move or live there.

Now, of course I'm biased. and my family we left California in the

height of the pandemic to find freedom. We literally left for freedom. I remember during the

pandemic I once had to dodge helicopters

and police officers to go down to enjoy the beach, to put my feet in the sand in the ocean

and enjoy being on the beach because Emperor Newsom had closed

down everything thinking, oh we've got a pandemic, we don't want people out of the beach

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