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The Happy Rant

Episode #430 - Gen Z and Digital Communication

The Happy Rant

Happy Rant

Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Ted, Ronnie, and Barnabas wander to and fro through a variety of topics:

  1. Gen Z stinks at tech support
  2. Gen Z and email
  3. Dealing with texts from non-friends
  4. Gen Z can't do humor
  5. Gen Z as elite processors of information

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck, joined as always in studio.

0:22.0

By my good friends, my partners in radio Barnabas Piper and

0:26.1

Ron Martin boys we got some tech stuff to discuss because we're nothing if not

0:31.1

three just tech wizards here.

0:34.7

Ronnie's audio never works. I don't know what's going on in the world.

0:39.1

Piper is the IT guy to the program. Thank God he's here or else we'd all be in a world of Hurt Boys.

0:46.1

We wouldn't be the podcasting moguls that we are just bringing in truckloads

0:51.4

of money. Doing your taxes is always like an interesting moment where you realize just how

0:57.0

how well the podcast has done over the last year and

1:00.0

you're not at all sad and depressed and calculating the hourly rate at all.

1:06.2

That's not my experience at all.

1:07.9

But boys, we'll get into some Gen Z tech stuff right after this quick break.

1:17.0

All right boys, we're back.

1:18.0

It's been a couple of weeks since we've done radio together.

1:21.0

You guys have been traveling, your're very busy men, very important men. But we had a little

1:27.4

text net food early in the show before we started recording.

1:32.6

And somebody mentioned JinZ, and because I teach college students who are, I guess,

1:37.6

JinZ now.

1:39.7

You know, we're done with millennials in the college business, it's on to Gen Z. I made the observation that they have

1:47.8

actually swung the pendulum back in the other direction in that they're probably as bad as my parents are when it comes to

1:56.0

anything related to the computer. Like if they can't do it on their phone they're

2:00.4

completely flummoxed they don't know how to attach a document to an email.

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