The Problem With Gen Z: Elliot Bewick
The Problem With...
James Smith
4.9 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you're going to have to buy a house that's 12 times your annual salary, when they're also |
| 0:05.1 | matching that with a cost of living crisis in terms of food and whatever else, why wouldn't you |
| 0:10.3 | go out and buy the expensive matcher or splash on the new iPhone? People criticize us all the time |
| 0:15.5 | for having these superficial goods, but you kind of might as well. |
| 0:19.3 | Elliot Buick is the host of the NextGen podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | James and Elliot discuss why the West victimized themselves if Gen Z are actually lazy. |
| 0:27.3 | And... |
| 0:27.6 | Elliot Buick, what is the problem with Gen Z? |
| 0:29.8 | I think we get spoken about a lot, but perhaps not cared about. |
| 0:33.0 | Even the term Gen Z. |
| 0:34.4 | It does get used more as a marketing tool. |
| 0:36.9 | Anxiety rates have been absolutely skyrocketing the last decade. |
| 0:40.4 | The suicide rate increased almost three times more of my generation than it did for people |
| 0:45.6 | after the Great Depression. |
| 0:47.5 | The Great Depression. |
| 0:48.7 | The most worrying part is young men. |
| 0:50.8 | We've stripped away masculinity completely and all of these important parts of identity |
| 0:56.3 | that give people a feeling of purpose. When you outlaw masculinity, only the outlaws are going |
| 1:02.9 | to be brave enough to be masculine. To me, the thing tying all of this together is... |
| 1:09.7 | It's at this very moment here that I could have got thousands of pounds to sit here and promote a greens powder that doesn't do anything. But instead, I decided to pay for every aspect of this podcast myself and just ask you that if we're in the UK, USA, UAE, to please try and get a can of Newtonic. Australia, we're coming incredibly soon, we're in the manufacturing process, and for any of you that can, please do try our Newtonic creatine sticks. They are the shit. You can head to Newtonic.com to see what's available to you, and I will let you now get back to the episode. Elliot Buick, what is the problem with Gen Z? Well, depending on what you look at, it might be easier to ask what's not the problem with Gen Z. |
| 1:44.4 | There's so much going on. |
| 1:45.9 | And if you look at something like our mental health that people love to bag on about, |
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