Rebel News Podcast - Miss Understood No. 16 — The Loner Pandemic

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all you culturally and politically misunderstood

00:00:23.340 ladies or gents. We are your hosts. I'm Kat. And I'm Nat. And today we're going to talk about

00:00:28.880 the potential link between fatherlessness and mass shootings and discuss millennial

00:00:33.120 burnout. But first, we're going to start things off with our patented culture shock moment

00:00:37.180 of the week. Take it away, Kat. So guess what's for lunch, guys? It's bugs. Let them eat bugs.

00:00:45.820 Oh, yummy. So this article is from our very own Rebel News written up by Lewis Brackpoo.

00:00:51.140 Lewis Brackpoo. This is a story about a couple of schools in Wales in the UK who are starting

00:00:58.240 to serve the kids bugs in their lunches so that they can acquire a taste for the alternative

00:01:04.460 protein. Okay. Why do you think they're testing this crap on kids? Do you think it's because

00:01:08.560 they're like more likely to be fearless and experimental? Like, or, oh, I think it's because

00:01:13.600 they can't do it. It's not like they can get in their car and go and buy themselves a slice

00:01:17.200 of pizza. Yeah. Well, that's disgusting. Let's just test more on our children. Well, I was

00:01:22.360 thinking it's funny because there's always like that one kid who eats bugs. Yeah. But

00:01:26.400 it's like that kid's weird. Yeah. Why are we trying to make that normal? We're going to be

00:01:30.780 weird now, I guess. Next thing you know, they're going to be like boogers. Why they're nutritional 0.74

00:01:34.740 and good for the environment. Yeah. And I'm out. I am out. Bye bye. Yeah. That's nasty. Don't feed

00:01:41.780 your kids bugs. Don't do it. We will judge you. We will. We absolutely will. I am. Yeah. Speaking

00:01:47.280 of fathers. Yeah. JK, JK, JK. Yeah. Can we pull up a tweet that we saw last week from Matt

00:01:56.220 Walsh? This is about the tragic shooting that took place in Texas on May 24th, where an 18

00:02:02.780 year old male slaughtered 21 innocent individuals, 19 of which were beautiful children. So he

00:02:09.620 has a, he had a really good take. And then we just like to talk about that. Yeah. The tweet

00:02:14.580 reads, start with a boy, take away his father, sit him in front of a screen all day, feed him

00:02:20.500 porn, feed him an endless stream of content, give him no moral formation, no guidance, no

00:02:26.260 companionship, give him drugs, isolate him. So a lot of people are calling for very, very

00:02:33.500 strict gun control in the wake of the shooting. We're not going to really talk about that so

00:02:37.120 much. There's, there is a lot to unpack there as well. And that's a nuanced topic. I think

00:02:41.580 there is a new topic and we, and maybe we'll talk about guns another day. I think there's

00:02:46.040 a lot to talk about. Yeah. Well, we can always talk about these here. Um, but I really like

00:02:50.820 both of us saw this tweet and actually, and I think you saw it and sent it to me, but it's,

00:02:54.800 it's a really interesting take because we don't, we always thought, we always hear from, you

00:03:00.420 know, certain people about gun control when, when mass shootings happen, but guns have been

00:03:04.340 around. And I heard this actually from Tim Dillon on my drive in this morning, he was talking

00:03:07.800 about it as well. Uh, guns have been around for a long time and yet the number of mass

00:03:12.220 shootings has gone steadily up and people will say, well, there's like more magazines. Yeah.

00:03:16.680 Yeah. You can still kill people with any kind of gun. You can kill people with a knife. So,

00:03:21.260 um, why are there more mass shootings now than ever in history? Yeah. I would like to know.

00:03:26.680 Yeah. Uh, yeah. I think, I think a lot of people too like to play the whole mental health card.

00:03:33.160 And while I do think there's an argument to be had actually, uh, study studies show that mass

00:03:38.440 shooters, you know, don't just suddenly break. They typically decide. And I have some stats on

00:03:43.860 this. Sorry. One second. In 2018, a deep investigation of 63 rampage, rampage shooters

00:03:49.900 conducted by experts with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit showed that only a quarter of the

00:03:54.980 offenders were known to have been professionally diagnosed with a mental illness of any kind.

00:03:58.500 So basically blaming mental illness kind of inflicts the stigma on people who actually have a mental

00:04:03.840 illness. Yeah. And many, many of which do not commit violent crime. Yeah, definitely. And I think

00:04:08.120 what's more important, I think than pointing fingers even at people is we should be more equipped to be

00:04:15.120 able to tell the warning signs of someone who may mimic or, you know, mirror symptoms of someone who's

00:04:20.840 about to go shoot up. Yeah. Well, especially because this guy was posting about wanting to shoot up an

00:04:25.060 elementary school on Facebook. Now, right. It was the same day. So it didn't give like people a lot of time

00:04:30.640 to react, but still social media is pretty instant. People could have reported like you can report a tweet

00:04:35.000 if it offends you. Yeah. How many people reported his Facebook posting? I'm going to go shoot up an

00:04:39.020 elementary school. Probably not. So one person actually did tell the FBI in advance. So that is

00:04:44.800 something you guys should look into a girl on. I think it was Twitch or they were playing video games or

00:04:49.060 something. He basically admitted to her and she was like, oh, I don't know if it was her for that

00:04:54.660 was the Buffalo shooting, though. There have been two shootings recently. But anyway, the point is,

00:04:58.920 in both of those cases, the police actually were made aware of these troubling sort of notions about

00:05:06.360 these people. So and also like just, you know, there's lots of things in this Matt Walsh tweet.

00:05:13.000 And the main one, I think, is the fatherlessness thing. Yeah. I did a little research and it turns out

00:05:18.340 there is a huge correlation between fatherlessness and violent crime. Yeah. Huge correlation.

00:05:23.900 What was on this? Sorry. Oh, no, I was just going to say when 25 percent of children in America are

00:05:28.300 growing up in single parent households, like that's the odds are not great. Right. And so when we're

00:05:33.400 looking for a causation for why there's more mass shootings now than 50 years ago when they still had

00:05:39.100 rifles and automatic weapons. Yeah. Maybe we can look at fatherlessness as one of the things,

00:05:46.280 because that's also increasing. I found this this website called fathers dot com. Oh, cool. Super

00:05:52.160 cute. But they had an article about the consequences of fatherlessness. And there's just like a couple

00:05:59.120 of things here. You have a higher likelihood of living in poverty, dramatically higher risk of drug

00:06:04.980 or alcohol abuse, higher likelihood of behavioral problems, lower GPA and an increased risk of engaging

00:06:11.460 in crime and delinquency and also of having juvenile sex. So crime is the big boy there. Yeah. And Obama

00:06:20.240 talked about this, too, a while ago. We've actually mentioned that quote, I think, on the show before

00:06:25.460 about fatherlessness and the implications that that has on society. Specifically, I think young men.

00:06:32.080 Yeah. You know, because young men, I think when you grow when a child's growing up, they want to be like

00:06:36.440 the person raising them. That is the same sex as them. I think you're like, oh, I want to be like 1.00

00:06:40.300 mommy and wear her shoes or I want to be like daddy and wash the car. I don't know. Yeah. Well, 0.56

00:06:45.120 I was reading this thing about how different parents, like different genders, engage in different

00:06:50.300 kinds of play with their kids. So a mother will engage in certain type of play. But a father generally

00:06:55.020 engages in a more physical play like wrestling and stuff. And that allows the child, the young boy,

00:07:01.580 to exercise his body in a way that he learns the how to use his body and his limitations and his

00:07:09.500 strength. And his father gives him like a sense of be like, I don't know what I'm trying to say,

00:07:15.460 like a sense of confidence and for sure and belonging and purpose as a boy, as a man. Exactly. So when

00:07:21.420 the young boy goes out into the world, having not had that experience, he wants the world to see

00:07:25.760 I'm a man. I'm important here with character. Here I am. And he might take it in a negative direction

00:07:31.660 where he will become involved in gangs or do something. I mean, this is obviously a rare example,

00:07:37.360 but in its rarity, it's so it affects so many people. Yeah. So there is like obviously what we're

00:07:44.800 not saying that if you don't have a father, you're no, no one is a monolith. And we know, of course not.

00:07:50.140 We've repeated that a million times on the show. I think the issue is when you're raised by a single

00:07:53.360 parent. And again, this is not this is not always the case. No one is a monolith. There are amazing

00:07:58.500 single parents out there. But mom or single mom or single dad, let's say, have to work to make a

00:08:03.820 living for the family. And they're not around as much, which leaves a child to their own devices,

00:08:07.440 which means they're going to go down that rabbit hole on the Internet. They're going to watch porn.

00:08:10.880 They're going to they're going to get into trouble because no one's there to stop them. Right. And I think

00:08:14.960 that's the biggest issue in society as a whole, period, because we know that the nuclear family is the 0.98

00:08:21.300 the basis for a strong, highly functioning and fruitful society. Right. So when you take that

00:08:25.880 away, you're going to have these isolated children who are alienated. You know, when if we're talking

00:08:31.340 about fatherlessness, the son can't go. What male figure do they have to confide in? They take to

00:08:36.440 the Internet. How does dad react to anger? How does he deal with stress? And when he's confronted,

00:08:41.620 like if you don't have an example, you might just go to television and movies and whatever else.

00:08:46.240 And you see, oh, violence, sex, whatever, drugs. It's like we need. I think there is a stat

00:08:51.020 that says like the less amount of parental time you have, the more likely you are to engage in

00:08:56.520 these. Like it's not just men who are more likely to engage in adolescent sex or behavioral issues.

00:09:01.080 It's women as well. Yeah, of course. And it's you might have a single parent who dedicates all of 0.76

00:09:06.380 the time that they have sparingly to you and to guiding you. And that's amazing. And you're going

00:09:11.000 to be fine. Absolutely. No, absolutely. And I think it's important to say, you know, I don't think

00:09:14.940 that people are born murderers. Like, I think that's the point. I mean, I think, OK, some people are

00:09:19.840 probably is like, you know, like, you know, there are some there's some there's some wild

00:09:24.220 people out there. But I think for the most part, you're created. Right. And your surroundings

00:09:28.640 are it's like the nature versus nurture aspect of things. And I think that, you know, a lot of

00:09:34.140 these kids, too, like they start to feel alienated young and then they are bullied in school, let's

00:09:38.920 say, because apparently being bullied has a huge impact on like these types of loner shooters,

00:09:45.940 for example, people who have been, you know, harassed by family members or abused, things

00:09:51.940 like that. That's another thing with the fatherlessness. It's not just engaging in adolescent

00:09:57.940 sex. It's being the victim of sexual violence. Right. So if you don't have a parent around

00:10:03.720 to watch you, you're more likely to have like, oh, this random babysitter or mom's boyfriend

00:10:07.840 and that's when kids are abused. Right. Likely. So that definitely, definitely lends to this

00:10:13.740 kind of psychotic break. Right. Because it's childhood trauma that they don't know how to

00:10:17.180 deal with because they don't have anyone to go to. And and apparently, according to the

00:10:22.000 Atlantic, there was a study of 15 school shootings from 1995 to 2001, which found that acute or

00:10:27.320 chronic rejection in the form of ostracism, bullying and or romantic rejection was present

00:10:32.560 in all but two of the incidents. So that's a huge, huge. That's a lot. So what what do we

00:10:39.820 do? Like what's what's the solution here? Because obviously fatherlessness is something

00:10:43.900 conservatives are. We always talk about it. But how do we actually change things? How

00:10:48.220 do we prevent these tragedies from occurring? Because I think most people on the right and

00:10:52.380 the left want the same thing at the end of the day. We just want less violence. Exactly.

00:10:56.200 We don't want innocent blood shed. No sane person wants that. Yeah. But I just like I just

00:11:03.080 wonder what is actually a healthy solution to this? What do you do you have any thoughts on

00:11:07.320 that? Well, one of the things that I wrote down was from Peterson, actually Jordan Peterson

00:11:15.000 in his book, 12 Rules for Life. One of his rules is rule six, set your house in perfect

00:11:19.820 order before you criticize the world. And in that chapter, he discusses the psychology

00:11:24.060 of mass shooters, specifically the Columbine shooters. Right. And he has a quote here. It

00:11:28.880 says mass murderers believe that the suffering attendant upon existence justifies judgment and

00:11:33.420 revenge as the Columbine boys so clearly indicated. One of the things that one of those guys said

00:11:40.320 himself was in his like manifesto or something. Right. He said the human race isn't worth fighting

00:11:47.240 for. It's only worth killing. And that is like the darkest form of depression that you can

00:11:53.140 have. And I think it's like so to extrapolate, like did this kid who killed all these actual

00:11:59.640 children? Did he hate the children? Probably not. He he hates the world. He's so depressed.

00:12:05.100 He hated the world. He probably hates himself. Yeah. Because he's part of the world. So for

00:12:09.180 me, I think the answer to go back to your question would be like you need to find things about the

00:12:13.600 world to love. And we need to share those things with with these people and bring out the like

00:12:19.000 for me, things that I love is like seeing people do good. Like when I go to church and I see

00:12:23.080 volunteers like they have, you know, Bible study for kids and people are volunteering their time.

00:12:27.400 And not just that you don't have to be religious, but like people who donate their time to help

00:12:31.000 elderly people, serving others, serving others. And, you know, to be silly about it, like I can

00:12:36.180 be in a really, really bad mood, but I'll see like a dog walking down the street wagging his tail.

00:12:40.120 And I'm like, oh, for me, that brings me joy. And I'm like, OK, the world I can be in a really

00:12:45.500 sour mood, but the world isn't so bad in that moment. So I feel like these these people,

00:12:50.580 they need to have the glass, the fogginess like dissipated and see needs to be enlightened.

00:12:56.780 Yeah. I do think that's a spiritual thing. Yeah. And that's that's a hard one. That is tough.

00:13:01.600 Yeah. I like and, you know, the root of fatherlessness and single parent households, 0.91

00:13:05.960 for the most part, is like secularism. It's sin. Right. And that's part of the reason why I think

00:13:12.500 there's such a clear attack on the nuclear family in general. I also think something actionable that 0.70

00:13:17.220 would be fruitful is like we mentioned earlier, just to know, like the warning signs, like what

00:13:20.800 is this? If you're a teacher, for example, what's the student like? How are they interacting with

00:13:24.440 other kids? Are they are they mouthy? Are they like are they are they personally not taking care

00:13:29.340 of themselves? Are they like stalking kids? You know, and I think like does this person like how

00:13:34.760 do they speak about things or do they speak violently? Do they want to be famous? Because a lot of these

00:13:38.920 shooters want fame. That's what I was going to say in one of these articles. It was from Evie and it's

00:13:43.880 everything we know about the school shooter. Yeah, we're not. We've decided like we don't think

00:13:49.400 that we should share his picture, share his name, because it goes back to this exact point where a

00:13:54.120 lot of these people, they can't. So in America, fame is such a huge part of the culture and everyone

00:14:00.660 wants to be tick tock famous or Instagram famous. And yeah, if you feel like you're such a loner,

00:14:06.120 a loser, an idiot that you're never going to be famous for anything like that, maybe infamy is a lot

00:14:10.660 easier of a way to get on the newspaper. And I think it's I think as a society, we have a

00:14:16.740 moral obligation not to give them that infamy. I agree. Don't talk like talk about the tragedy.

00:14:25.340 Talk about what we can do next time. Highlight the victims. Victims. Exactly. And what we can do to

00:14:30.180 prevent this, what people did in the moment, like that guy who left his barbershop and went and saved

00:14:34.380 his own child and a bunch of other kids and his wife. Yeah, true heroes. Exactly. Talk about them.

00:14:39.420 But don't talk about this monster, because I had sympathy for him before he picked up that gun.

00:14:44.680 Yeah. As a young boy who was bullied and who had ostracized, ostracized, didn't have his father

00:14:48.960 in his life. I had I have sympathy for that. But as soon as you took the lives of any children,

00:14:53.320 you lost that for me. Yeah. And justice must be served. Right. Yes, absolutely. And again, Peterson.

00:15:02.420 Blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. So Peterson tweeted last week, he tweeted the following,

00:15:08.680 we have to agree to never publicize the names of school shooters and other publicly seeking mass

00:15:13.000 murderers. This is not a gun or even a mental health issue. And obviously that can be argued.

00:15:17.540 Yeah, for sure. It's an issue of malevolent narcissists weaponizing mass media. Stop

00:15:22.740 publishing their names and the problem will end. Maybe it won't end completely, but I bet it would

00:15:27.500 be like 70 percent less like we we. And again, I was listening to Tim Dillon talk about this and

00:15:33.620 he brought up a really good point. It's like how many people watch like serial killer documentaries

00:15:38.300 like I have. I went. I'm too scared, but yeah. Good. Good for you. No, it's just because I went

00:15:42.820 through a phase where I was like obsessed with true crime. And it's like and even when I'm watching

00:15:47.540 them, I'm like this is like it's disturbing. It's disturbing. It's disturbing. But also we're

00:15:52.740 glamorizing. That's a really good point. We glorify these people. We we we make them immortal

00:15:58.900 and we do documentaries and then we have, oh, this famous person playing them in a movie like that's

00:16:03.380 who doesn't want a famous person to play you in a movie. Yeah. But it's messed up that we do it for

00:16:07.580 mass murders because we have we profit off of it. Yes. Like, you know, it's a million dollar

00:16:11.940 and just billion dollar. It's Hollywood, baby. Yeah. And we should stop. We really should. It's true.

00:16:16.580 And all we have other stories to tell. No, that's a great point. I think all these actors who are

00:16:20.340 rah rah rah gun control, you need to stop being in these types of films and productions looks at

00:16:25.620 that. Yeah. Because like, you know, the media and we're part of the media, obviously, but that's

00:16:30.660 why we're choosing not to talk about him specifically. But like the media has a part to

00:16:35.180 play in this. Yeah. Every time you post this picture and every time you say his name, you're

00:16:38.420 making you're forming the next one. Arguably, that's that's a really good point. Yeah, we that

00:16:44.500 needs to change. I think I think that's and some countries have laws about it. That's good. I don't

00:16:49.080 know the ones off the top of my head, but I can I can look it up and put it in. But

00:16:51.740 it's a thing. It's a psychological argument. And I think we should probably like if we're

00:16:56.440 going to if we're going to start talking about ways to fix the problem, we should we should

00:17:01.280 consider all the options. And that's definitely one of them. Just stop talking about the names

00:17:04.680 and showing the pictures and don't do any biopics about them. Yeah. Stop. They're monsters.

00:17:09.360 We don't want to talk about monsters. We can talk about their victims. Yeah, I agree.

00:17:13.100 I agree. And and let's talk about some actual solutions that are productive for everyone.

00:17:17.180 And that, of course, honor and glorify these innocent children who were murdered for no

00:17:23.340 reason. So that was fun. Yeah, I was late. I was really late. Yeah. Well, you had we

00:17:30.440 had to talk about it. Yeah, we had to talk about it. I would just like to correct something

00:17:33.780 I said I did find it in my notes. We have a lot of notes. We do a lot of research for

00:17:37.720 this show. But I weekend apparently a girl did. It was this shooter that the girl called 1.00

00:17:43.280 the FBI on. OK, so that's also a whole nother doing that. Yeah, definitely. And it's crazy

00:17:48.020 that they didn't do anything about it. I think there's a whole nother discussion to be had

00:17:52.920 there because that's happened with the Buffalo shooter as well. Yeah. Well, I know that Tim

00:18:00.080 what's his name, Dylan? No. Oh, Tim. Tim Cass guy. Tim Pool. OK. He has had the SWAT called on him

00:18:08.020 multiple times because people don't like him. So there is probably some sort of precedent where

00:18:12.660 it's like, OK, if it's one lone person calling, like, don't send the whole squad because people

00:18:16.840 do prank each other. It's called SWATing. Yeah. So so I'm not saying that they were right not to do

00:18:22.220 anything about it, but they're probably like how many phone calls a day do they get of people that are

00:18:25.520 just BSing and wasting their time. So but then again, it's like, look him up on Facebook. Yeah.

00:18:30.660 As soon as you get that call, be like, oh, you know what? Do you just he's 18. He just bought

00:18:34.620 two guns. Oh, yeah. Talks about hating people. He he threatens people at Wendy's like that's on

00:18:38.560 record that he was, you know, pull up their online search history. The fact that we have social media

00:18:43.380 and you can check me out, government. Yeah. Nothing you'll know. Nothing will be erased.

00:18:47.540 It's there forever. Exactly. And you'll notice me not threatening people. You'll see that.

00:18:51.480 Like you can you can scratch my name off that list. Yay.

00:18:54.460 Yay. Nice. Anyways. OK, well, that was really fun. We're going to move on because we want to make

00:19:02.340 these episodes easy breezy, beautiful cover girl. Yeah. So now we're going to talk about

00:19:07.380 millennials. Millennials. And the burnout and the burnout. OK, so I mean, it's funny because when you 0.60

00:19:14.980 first sent this article over, I was like, ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Because it's BuzzFeed. Yeah. And it was

00:19:20.280 written by an obvious progressive. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. But I actually kind of agreed with a lot of

00:19:25.340 the points they made as a millennial. So it's from BuzzFeed. So. Yes. They so they kind of here's

00:19:31.420 just a quote that they had were spoiled, entitled lazy and failures at what's to come. What's come to

00:19:37.220 be known as adulting a word invented by millennials as a catchall for the tasks of self-sufficient

00:19:42.800 existence? Um, yeah, it's kind of true. OK, there's like this huge narrative around millennials

00:19:48.220 being lazy. And for a while, even I was kind of caught up in that. I was like, you know, maybe

00:19:53.020 millennials. You're not lazy. Well, I do. Again, no one's a model. She gets up at six and runs every 1.00

00:19:57.980 morning. Well, you know. But I know you mean. We live in this world where we tell ourselves,

00:20:02.240 like, oh, I'm a millennial. I can't do it. I can't do adulting. Yeah. I've got to change a tire.

00:20:05.540 That's a fact. So. Yeah. But that's all right. Because you can hire someone else to. Someone else

00:20:11.240 can do it. Um, but I mean, there's a like, it's funny because like the boomer generation, I think 0.98

00:20:16.020 it is a Gen X is our parents are no Gen X. Then boomers are before Gen X. OK, yeah. So is spite. Sorry.

00:20:21.720 Gen X is Spice Girls. OK, great. Good to know. So those kind of people, they kind of look down on

00:20:26.500 millennials and they're like, oh, you guys are so lazy. But I always this always bugs me because I think

00:20:31.220 about it. I'm like, well, who raised us? Yeah. Like whose fault is it? Yeah. And also we can't

00:20:36.540 pay our rent with like two days of work. Yeah. Mom and dad. Like that's the thing. Like no one thinks

00:20:41.080 about the fact that we're the most educated and yet we have the least opportunity to buy houses.

00:20:45.240 We're all we all work multiple jobs or, you know, kill ourselves to make rent and to pay our bills and

00:20:51.380 stuff. And then living with roommates in your 30s. Exactly. And then also we were encouraged by our

00:20:55.860 parents and teachers to go to university to get women's studies degrees without having to 1.00

00:21:01.120 worry about paying for it. And you're like, well, of course, we're all miserable progressives.

00:21:05.000 Yeah. Like we don't have a shot. Yeah. Especially now with just inflation. Goodness gracious. Imagine

00:21:09.860 buying a home now. I remember my mom telling me that when she was my age and this was a couple

00:21:14.340 years ago. So like I was about 30 at the time. She was like, yeah, I made about what you make now.

00:21:18.580 And my rent was three hundred dollars a month. She was in Toronto. She lived in Toronto. Honestly,

00:21:23.460 even when I moved here, I was paying like seven hundred bucks a month and I worked like four jobs because

00:21:27.520 at the time that wasn't. Yeah. I mean, it was it was a lot at the time. And I had to. Yeah. I had

00:21:32.460 to work four jobs to pay my rent and not fall behind and pay off my stupid theater student loans.

00:21:37.440 Should have listened to my mom and dad. Stupid philosophy. Yeah. But, you know, like I think

00:21:42.160 millennials hustle and I think that there are these lazy snowflakes that exist. But I don't know. I think

00:21:49.560 the burnout is a real thing because even with the pandemic, we all were working from home when we

00:21:54.320 weren't working at Rebel and you're constantly on your phone, like checking your notifications,

00:21:59.880 you're getting emails at all hours of the day and stuff. And it's like you can't escape work

00:22:03.560 because work's on your phone. Yes. And the fact that you're working at home, they know you're like,

00:22:06.880 oh, you don't have anywhere to be. Yeah. You can be dinners already pandemic. And you're like,

00:22:10.860 no, I have a life. Never ending workday is what I found at my job. No, absolutely. And it's one of

00:22:16.700 the things they talk about how in this article is how like a vacation and stuff is not going to cure you

00:22:21.660 from this burnout because it's kind of just like it's embedded into our nature. Like if we're not

00:22:27.220 working all the time, we're not working hard enough, for example, exactly. And relaxation just

00:22:33.200 isn't relaxing. Yeah. And you're like, I could be doing more. And like you can go on a vacation,

00:22:37.180 but, you know, you spent you saved up all year for that. Yeah. And that you're going to be saving

00:22:41.180 up all year for another one. And you're missing work and you're probably stressing your bosses

00:22:44.360 emailing you while you're on vacation. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yes. Yeah. It happens all the time.

00:22:49.700 And so employers, our parents didn't go through that. Yeah. They didn't have email on their phone.

00:22:54.120 They didn't have social media. They didn't even have cell phones. They were like, oh, I'm going to,

00:22:57.160 I'm going to splurge and spend $500 for a week in, in Cancun. It's like, nice. That's dinner. Yeah.

00:23:03.520 Like that's one dinner. Yeah. No, but like it's, it's unreasonable. And also I, one of the things that

00:23:09.840 I noticed with this article was I kind of felt like a lot of the things that this article, this author was

00:23:15.520 talking about kind of things that everyone deals with. Yeah. As a human. Yeah. Exactly. So

00:23:20.940 one of the quotes is like a friend admitted that he's absorbed hundreds of dollars in clothes that

00:23:25.540 don't fit because he couldn't manage to return them. That's me. Yeah. That is a millennial

00:23:29.920 thing. That's I can't, I know for, I have millennial friends who are like, oh, I have one friend who's

00:23:34.580 like, she buys too much on purpose and returns half of it. Cause she's like, I do that smart. I is so

00:23:39.660 good for you. Like I make Sebastian return it. I literally have never returned anything that I

00:23:45.140 bought. One time I tried to Walmart. I bought a hammock. It came in the wrong color. I tried to

00:23:49.360 return it and they, I did it all the shipping. I handed it to the person that took it back.

00:23:53.280 And then they're like, oh, we never received the item. Oh no. So Walmart has 63 of my dollars.

00:23:58.960 Okay. And I'm over it, but I wonder what that is with inflation. Yeah. They owe me so much. Yeah.

00:24:04.560 Um, but also I was thinking, cause they talk about these lists, you know, you have like, um, this,

00:24:09.740 this is funny. She said, none of the tasks that were that hard, getting knives sharpened,

00:24:13.920 taking boots to the cobbler, registering my dog for new license, sending someone a signed copy of

00:24:17.920 my book, humble brag, um, scheduling an appointment, yada, yada. Um, I can relate. No, I'm kidding.

00:24:23.580 So the point is, is like, these are all normal things. And even my dad, who's a boomer is like,

00:24:28.720 oh, I've had a list of 19 things and I get like one done. Yeah. And then it just builds up and it's like,

00:24:34.020 okay, that's not a millennial thing. It's a human thing. Do you have too much to do?

00:24:37.340 Well, do you think it's like, I was going to say, like, we have, there aren't enough hours in the

00:24:41.800 day in a way you're, you're 12 hours in and then you come home and you want to do errands, but you're

00:24:45.520 just so drained. Oh yeah. Or nothing's open anymore because for some reason, the pandemic

00:24:49.840 enabled every business to close at like 6 PM. That's another thing where you're like, ah,

00:24:54.120 the end of the day, I can go and do my bidding. It's like, everything's closed. Yeah. Even the bank,

00:24:58.900 the bank closes at four. I know. You're like, any government thing. You're like,

00:25:03.760 oh, I need to change my life. Yeah. I need to go and get in my passport thing. I need to take

00:25:07.120 time off work. And we're lucky because we have a job where we can like, like be like, Hey, I need

00:25:11.780 to go out for an hour. There's flexibility for sure. There are jobs that are not like that at all.

00:25:15.820 They're like, no, you're on the, you're on the call. You're on this. You're in line. You're

00:25:19.680 standing behind a counter. You can't just take time off to do that. You literally have to take like a

00:25:23.120 full day off. It's so ridiculous. So it's not just millennials that are, are losers. It's a society.

00:25:28.800 We ask way too much of everything of people. And we want things that we saw our parents have. We

00:25:33.580 want to buy a house. Good luck. Well, that's a great point too, because we've talked about this

00:25:37.400 before in the show, you know, the self-love movement. Okay. Well, I need to do this to

00:25:40.060 better myself, to feel better, to relax and all this, but those things also cost money. So it's

00:25:44.060 a very lucrative business. Well, that's, that's why it's so funny. Like that's a great point. Like

00:25:47.880 when, when people are like the media or articles are online, help you unwind, help you unwind by this

00:25:53.580 mini fridge for your face cream. It's like self-love, self-care. It's like, okay, I don't

00:25:58.640 have $150 for a fricking mini refrigerator for beside my bed for my night cream, which also costs

00:26:04.820 a hundred and a million dollars. Cause we have to stay young forever. We look at us. Yeah.

00:26:09.740 Is that a, no, it's not a recall. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. I mean, so, I mean, I think what

00:26:14.360 needs to happen with these generational divides is that we need to understand where each other is

00:26:19.380 coming from and the state of the world and the state of the world for sure, because it is,

00:26:23.020 I mean, I'm not complaining. I know I'm very blessed and, and stuff, but you know, things,

00:26:28.360 it gets tricky. It gets tricky being a millennial who's worked very hard to get to where you are.

00:26:33.240 And you're like, I am exhausted for some reason. Yeah. Well, actually one of the things that Pierre

00:26:37.680 Polyev was saying on his podcast with Jordan Peterson was that one of his constituents in,

00:26:43.440 where is he called Carlton? Carlton. Yeah. Um, one of his constituents, his, so this guy,

00:26:48.760 um, works the same job that his mother worked when he was, when she was his age and she, with that

00:26:54.380 money, it was like a, not the best job, but it's a job she could feed her family. She paid the rent 1.00

00:26:59.100 on their, the mortgage on their home. This guy, he, he can't afford to buy a house. He works the exact

00:27:03.420 same job, but it's like, that's a, he can't afford any of the things that his mother could afford

00:27:07.180 doing me. He literally is the exact same position. And it's like, whether or not Pierre Polyev can fix

00:27:12.240 that, I'm not sure, but it's, it's a fact of life that we work just as hard, if not harder for less.

00:27:18.220 Yeah. No, that's literally a statistic. So look it up people. Um, and again, we don't want to

00:27:23.460 complain here, but I think it's important to highlight that everybody's tired. Yeah. We're

00:27:28.440 tired. Tired. Yeah. I think that's why there's so many coffee shops. Yeah. And so many new makeup

00:27:33.660 lines, skincare lines. Like you need, you need to cover those bags. Everything's about covering up

00:27:37.760 your bag. It's like, can we just fix the world so that we're not all like drain? Like, like you need

00:27:42.640 coffee. You need a, you need a little pick me up. You need some concealer. Like why don't we examine

00:27:47.880 what's happening in the world? I don't know what the answer is. Well, okay. Maybe there is an answer

00:27:54.020 though. Maybe these conservative politicians who are currently campaigning to become the leader of

00:27:58.760 the conservative party, let's say, maybe it's time for y'all to say, Hey, maybe I should try to make

00:28:03.000 life actually easier. And in a productive non-socialist way for millennials to be able to

00:28:07.900 be successful. Maybe it's, maybe it is a politic, maybe it is a political issue. Maybe it is like,

00:28:13.700 I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. I mean, it kind of goes against my personal like philosophy of like

00:28:18.920 freedom. Yeah. But there are sometimes needs for government. Yeah. No, it's true. And I,

00:28:25.120 and I think, you know, so many of our generation votes like NDP are liberal. And I think it's

00:28:29.740 because they've worked so hard that they feel like they just, they're owed something. And

00:28:33.420 you're not technically ever owed anything in life. Like the things you get are a privilege,

00:28:38.540 but I think like, it would be nice if people who work their asses off every day were able to buy

00:28:43.840 themselves a home. And maybe this is why people aren't having kids because it's like, I can't

00:28:47.200 afford a home. So why would I have a baby? There is a thing where like the more education and higher,

00:28:52.040 um, job you have, like higher position you have, the less likely you are to have children or you're

00:28:56.740 going to have fewer children. Right. That's a thing. Yeah. It's not a good thing. It's not a good

00:29:02.340 thing. And so, and we need to, Bill Gates doesn't want us to y'all, but we need to start reproducing.

00:29:06.660 So let's get, let's make things cheaper for millennials. Maybe having a little bottle of 0.94

00:29:10.580 wine with dinner tonight. Nice. That costs money though. Yeah. Buy domestic. If you would like to

00:29:16.620 buy us wine. No, I'm just kidding. Okay. Well, I think that's the show. Hopefully the, the end of

00:29:21.780 that wasn't, uh, too much of us complaining. Cause I don't know. Yeah. We're not complaining. We're not

00:29:26.620 complaining. It's just a real, it's a real problem. And it's not just going to affect millennials. 0.99

00:29:30.180 It's going to, it's going to trickle down to zoomers and everyone below them. It's like, 1.00

00:29:35.080 don't be surprised when millennials vote for progressives who offer them free things. And

00:29:39.400 of course nothing is free. Yeah. But you pay for it with your tax. Even, even Steve Bannon said this

00:29:44.820 once, like you really can't blame them for being flaming commies. That's, that's not, that's not a

00:29:49.360 direct quote, by the way. It's, uh, it's paraphrasing. A lot of creative license was taken in this

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Rebel News Podcast - May 31, 2022

Miss Understood No. 16 — The Loner Pandemic

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