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The Counsel of Trent

#921 - FFAF: Why Do Millennials Look so Young?

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this free-for-all-Friday Trent looks at the explanations for why millennials don't seem to be aging in comparison to their parents at the same age.

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Why is it that millennials look so much younger than previous generations or even younger generations today?

0:08.0

That's what we're going to talk about here on the Council of Trent.

0:11.0

Welcome. Monday and Wednesday we talk

0:12.8

apologetics and theology but Friday it's free for all Friday. Talk about

0:16.7

whatever we want to talk about. I will tell you this I miss the days when people

0:21.6

used to say how long how sorry how young I looked I started working

0:26.0

at Catholic answers when I was 28 years old and I would frequently be referred to as

0:32.4

the boy wonder apologists. I would because you go to a point, especially if you have more of a baby face like I do.

0:44.6

You go from, oh wow, you look so young, and then you have kids, and you go from wow you look so

0:50.1

young to wow you look so tired. And so's fine I mean we all age I think that sometimes

0:55.5

our culture has a weird obsession with youth and beauty that you'll have people just

1:00.1

chasing after it and they're not even willing to confront the idea

1:03.7

of aging gracefully or that one day you will stop looking young

1:08.0

and that's okay.

1:09.2

There is a certain dignity in acquiring age.

1:12.3

You know, you get to be a silver fox or a

1:14.7

it was a silver bell for a gray fox and a silver bell for women or gray foxes

1:19.3

women are silver bells and and that's okay but when you go back and look in time to compare people at the

1:27.7

same ages it is shocking to see the differences so you can do, I mean just go back, especially if you're a

1:35.2

millennial like me. So somebody right now between the ages of, you know, 35, sorry, not 35, let's say, you know, you're in your late 20s, I'm going to say, I'll say 30 to like early 40s, you know,

1:49.2

millennial right now. And let's say you look at your parents, you know my parents when they were 30, they

1:54.8

are 40. You'll find all kinds of pictures online and people showing their

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