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My name's Matt Bellany. I'm founding partner at Puck and the writer of the What I'm Hearing newsletter.

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Every week, we've got three short episodes featuring real Hollywood insiders to tell you what people in town are actually talking about.

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Hi, everybody, Derek here.

In December, my wife and I welcomed our second baby girl into the world.

I'm going to be taking some time off, but we wanted to keep the pod going through the holidays.

So we're going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes from the last 12 months, a kind of best of compendium.

And this list includes interviews that really stuck with me and others that really stuck with you and you had lots of feedback and thoughts on, including this one.

I'll be back in the new year with fresh content, but until then, happy holidays and happy New Year.

Today, what does Gen Z want?

In December of last year, the Wall Street Journal's Rachel Wolf published a wonderful essay that was entitled,

What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

Wolf reported that American 20-somethings and 30-somethings today are bypassing the traditional milestones of adulthood, dating, marrying, having a kid, buying a home. They're less likely in many

cases to be doing any of this.

This delay of adulthood, or the delay of these adulthood markers, let's say, begins

quite early.

Teens in the 2020s are now less likely to date than previous generations.

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