What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Does Gen Z Think Life Sucks? Norbert Michel Explains.

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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If you were in your twenties and could choose to be born at any point in human history, would you be insane to choose any other time to be alive than right now? Our guest says yes, and the statistics back him up. Regardless of perception, shaped in part by politicians and populists, the average […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.1	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:30.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletco.
0:32.5	And I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:33.9	Welcome to our podcast.
0:35.2	What the hell is going on?
0:37.3	The unusual good news version. Mark, what are we talking about today?
0:40.8	What the hell is going on is we're hearing a lot of, if you doomscroll, Instagram and other places, you're seeing all these videos talking about how, oh, you know what, it's so, from Gen Z folks, it's so hard to get
0:55.7	ahead these days, you can't afford a home. Used to be you could, you know, have a home and pay
1:00.6	for college and everything on a single income. And our life is so bad. And actually, if you
1:07.0	dig down into data, it is not true. Actually, Gen Z is wealthier than we were. Boomers and
1:14.7	Gen X. I'm Gen X. You're a boomer. I just discovered on this podcast. Let's lead with that.
1:20.2	Yes, let's leave with that. It's a okay boomer. But they're actually better off than we were when they
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