E313. Why Gen X Had It Better - Dana Loesch
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Bridget sits down with radio talk-show host and author, Dana Loesch, for a conversation about growing up Gen X, the freedoms they had that kids don’t have anymore, the role of technology in the development of the nanny state, what the constant ability to check on your kids does to parents, whether we’re training our kids to have no expectation of privacy from a young age, and how Gen Z are already so conditioned to censoring themselves and avoiding risks because they know their mistakes will live on the internet forever. They also cover Dana’s career path, how she went from journalist to radio host to gun rights advocate, growing up in public, whether your audience will allow you to change your mind, the impact of cancel culture, whether actual death is preferable to social death, and the modern social pressures that can lead women to ignore their protective instincts in favor of social accommodation.
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| 0:00.0 | You can watch everything your kids do where they go. |
| 0:03.4 | Our parents just didn't care. |
| 0:05.8 | The baby monitors now are nuts. |
| 0:07.8 | Now she knows that she can, like, yell at the camera and get us to, you know, respond. |
| 0:13.5 | I feel like we're teaching our kids to get used to being spite on. |
| 0:16.5 | I wonder how much it's conditioned her to be used to already kind of living in that nanny state. |
| 0:22.8 | That terrifies me, I think, almost more than anything, every generation. They're being rewired to |
| 0:28.1 | double think before they speak. It's like they focus group inside of their own head. How is this |
| 0:33.8 | going to be perceived? On a deeper level, we have women who are being told that they're racist or transphobic if they feel nervous around a person in a bathroom. |
| 0:45.3 | We're like a step away from telling women, well, you're just rape phobic. |
| 0:52.3 | All right. I'm with Dana Lash, everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. |
| 0:56.9 | Thank you, Bridget. It's good to be here. It's so good to have you. I loved your piece about Gen X. |
| 1:03.0 | I love Gen X. I just feel like we were the Wild West generation. And I was looking back and I was trying to explain this to my kids and my kids are Gen Z. |
| 1:15.6 | And I'm trying to explain to my kids just how good we had it. |
| 1:19.4 | They were flipping out. |
| 1:20.6 | Like I used to walk into the store to buy cigarettes from my mom. |
| 1:24.4 | And I was like eight. |
| 1:26.1 | It was the honor system. |
| 1:27.3 | I would go in and I would buy like a |
| 1:29.3 | carton of marble red and they're like bye and I walk out. They had no idea if I was going to go around |
| 1:35.1 | back and smoke them. I mean, they had no idea. And I was telling that to my kids one time and they're like, |
| 1:40.0 | what? Like first off, Nana let you do that. Nana sent you to do that. And then they allowed the |
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