Re-Release: And, This Is Gaming Culture & Gen-Z Nihilism With Content Creator Brandon _Atrio
This is Gavin Newsom
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 59 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 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | I do want to start talking about Gen Z men. |
| 0:06.4 | They range from angry to openly nihilistic. |
| 0:09.8 | They can't go back to the status quo. |
| 0:11.7 | Gavin, they just can't. |
| 0:12.6 | Seems like the DNC as a whole is trying to run a very similar playbook that didn't work |
| 0:18.2 | and is wondering why they're not getting different results. |
| 0:21.3 | This is Gavin Newsom. |
| 0:23.6 | And this is Brendan Ewing, aka Atriot. |
| 0:28.1 | All right, Brandon Ewan. |
| 0:29.4 | Hey, welcome, brother. |
| 0:30.4 | Gavin, pleasure. |
| 0:31.1 | It's good to be with you, aka Atriot. |
| 0:34.2 | You got it right. |
| 0:35.0 | Your online name, which we'll get to in a minute. And for folks that don't know you, |
| 0:39.3 | millions of people do, because they watch you religiously, you're rock star on YouTube, |
| 0:43.8 | content creator, a Twitch live streamer, Speed Runner. We'll talk about what the heck that means. |
| 0:49.9 | People are wondering, what am I talking about about but also really focused on building community around |
| 0:54.8 | marketing around business and that's what your background represented working twitch working in |
| 1:00.4 | invidia we can talk about AI chips but I really wanted you on because it was so much focus on |
| 1:07.7 | what happened a few weeks ago with charlie and Tyler Robinson, the person has been accused. |
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