Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.

It is Wednesday, June 24th. Today I want to talk about a variety of things with a common

thread being the sweeping generational generalizations we make about everything about boomers,

Gen X, Millennials Gen Z. I wish, I don't know, here's my problem. I wanted to do a Gen Z deep dive.

My problem is I never plan my episodes and so I just get energy and then I follow it and then I

binge study. I feel like a lot of this I already know and love to talk about. I actually wanted to

dive into Gen Z the best I could for a few reasons. One being, I talked about them a lot in

Visco Girl washer face and the episode from September I think and the we need to talk episode where I

examine their involvement in TikTok. A lot of my diving into Gen Z has largely been participating in

the commentary about thinking they're so confusing, right? Like what the hell is a Visco girl? Why are

people, you know, dancing on TikTok with a George Michael Earing Sean Hunter hair and like sticking

their tongue out like what are eboys? Why is Charlie to me? The most famous woman in the world.

There's so many confusing things about the way Gen Z behaves that I feel like we're culturally kind

of mocked for the larger part of this past year. But now they're being heralded as these heroes

for their political activism. But I think a lot, so even if you don't support their alleged,

them taking credit for, you know, all the empty seats at the Trump rally, which I'll explain.

Even though that's kind of a politicized issue, it's worth exploring and digging into

age is understanding the psyche and activism of a Gen Z or be understanding their Gen X parents that

overlooked entirely and that are even referred to as the last generation, which isn't fair.

And I'm interested to know who their parents are because that's who's shaping them.

But beyond that, I want to kind of dig into like that story as it relates to the power of the

K-pop fandom. I'm always arguing for the importance of pop culture. I'm always arguing to not

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