Keeping It Real…or Keeping It Rude? People Are Dumping Societal Norms in 2026
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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We have a hilarious list of obligatory behaviors people are now refusing to adhere to these days. From shaving your legs to ironing clothes to laughing at unfunny jokes, people are chiming in on what they will no longer do, just to please other people.
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| 0:04.3 | Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. |
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| 0:36.2 | Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, May Hey there, folks. |
| 0:42.0 | It is Sunday, May 10th, 2026. |
| 0:48.9 | And it's 2026, which means we don't have to adhere to those old societal norms. |
| 0:50.6 | We can do what we want to do now. |
| 0:51.9 | And Roves has a list. |
| 1:11.5 | I haven't seen it yet of the societal norms that you can ditch in 2026. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robs, I was really endorsing this list before I heard it. Am I going to agree with some of this stuff? You'll agree with some of it? I think you'll agree with a lot of it because I do think you are somebody who is, and I've said this before, not like the others, you're not a conformist. I don't think you're somebody who does |
| 1:16.7 | something because he feels like other people will judge him if he doesn't. And I do think that when |
| 1:22.0 | we're talking about societal norms, it's about doing things that you actually, if you truly |
| 1:26.2 | ask yourself, don't want to do, |
| 1:28.1 | but do it because everybody else does it. And everybody else says you should do it. And you're |
| 1:33.9 | not one of those people. I am absolutely one of those people. I'm trying to shake it. I think as we |
| 1:38.3 | get older, we're more capable of having the confidence to do it. And I actually think that younger, because I think this list is from a lot of younger kids, who now I think literally with the advent of social media, the internet, one of the maybe good things that could come out of it is that you don't feel so alone and you do feel empowered to say what you think and do what you like and not put on airs. |
| 2:02.8 | And you got one side where everyone's using filters and pretending. |
| 2:06.5 | And you get another side where people keeping it really raw and honest. |
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