And, This Is Gaming Culture & Gen-Z Nihilism With Content Creator Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing
This is Gavin Newsom
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Brandon Ewing aka Atrioc joins the show to talk with Gavin about gaming culture and whether violent video games lead to violent acts. Then they decide what it will take for Gen-Z to reject this administration, if a college degree is worth it, and whether online culture is a cause or symptom of the nihilism young people are feeling.
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(00:00) Intro
(2:56) The Alleged Link Between Violent Video Games And Violent Actions
(9:32) Gaming Culture For People Who Aren't In It
(14:50) The Rise & Fall of E-Sports
(21:12) Meme Culture & The Economy After Covid
(28:02) What It Takes For Gen-Z To Turn On Trump
(36:00) The Burden We're Placing On Young People Is Unsustainable
(39:57) Are College Degrees Worthless?
(45:55) Social Media Incentivizes Feeding Into Anger
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| 0:00.0 | I do want to start talking about Gen Z men. |
| 0:02.1 | They range from angry to openly nihilistic. |
| 0:05.5 | They can't go back to the status quo. |
| 0:07.3 | Gavin, they just can't. |
| 0:08.3 | Seems like the DNC as a whole is trying to run a very similar playbook that didn't work and is wondering why they're not getting different results. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Gavin Newsom. |
| 0:19.2 | And this is Brendan Newell, aka Atriac. This is an Iom. And this is Brennan Ewing, aka Atrial. |
| 0:23.9 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:28.5 | Football is back. |
| 0:30.0 | That's right. |
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| 0:50.4 | with everything you need to know so you can sound smarter than all your friends. Listen to NFL Daily on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Toyota, the official automotive partner of the NFL. Visit Toyota.com slash NFL now to learn more. Hi, Brandon Ewan. Hey. Welcome, brother. I have a pleasure. It's good to be with you, You got it right. Your online name, which we'll get to in a minute. And for folks that don't know you, millions of people do because they watch you religiously. You're rock star on YouTube, content creator, a Twitch live streamer, speed runner. We'll talk about what the heck that means. People are wondering, what am I talking about? But also really focused on building community around marketing, |
| 1:32.3 | around business. And that's your background represented, working Twitch, working in |
| 1:37.0 | NVIDIA. We can talk about AI chips. But I really wanted you on because it was so much |
| 1:42.1 | focus on what happened a few weeks ago with |
| 1:47.0 | Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson, the person has been accused, some of the gaming questions |
| 1:52.4 | and issues that came up, some of the memes that were allegedly part of some components |
| 1:58.2 | of the investigation, the broader conversations we're having in this country around the manosphere and what's |
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