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other NPR podcasts. They are young, they are tolerant, they are entrepreneurial,

they are civic-minded. No wait a minute, they're spoiled, they're lazy, they're

entitled, they're living in their mother's houses and they are doomed to

disappoint history. I am talking about the generation called the Millennials.

Those born roughly speaking in the 80s and the 90s now America's youngest

adults, a caricature sure on both sides, but there is something in there and

there's somebody inside there. So let's debate this. Yes or no to this

statement. Millennials don't stand a chance. A debate from Intelligent Squared U.S.

I'm John Don Van. We have four superbly qualified debaters here at the

Kauffman Music Center in New York, two against two. They will argue, foreign

against this motion, Millennials don't stand a chance. As always our debate goes

in three rounds and then our live audience here in New York votes to choose

the winner and only one side wins. Millennials don't stand a chance. That is our

motion and let's meet the team arguing for this motion. First please let's welcome

Binta Niyambi Brown. And Binta you did corporate law for quite a while but you

left you into the Kennedy School at Harvard where you worked on market

solutions to humanitarian and human rights problems. But I want to ask you

about a few years ago you were profiled in real simple magazine, profiled as a

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