The Michael Knowles Show - March 09, 2024


＂Why Is Gen-Z Full Of Half-Lesbians＂ ｜ Isabel Brown


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Gen Z is the most conservative generation the U.S. has seen since World War II, but what does that mean for the future of the country? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? And what does it mean for our society?

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00:00:00.000 it's quite the stinger it's that it sort of seems like a 1970s like sitcom introduction
00:00:20.240 anyway i'm joined by isabel brown an independent creator and author who's i think has been on the
00:00:33.960 show before i'd be shocked and scandalized if isabel has not been on this show before 0.95
00:00:38.660 reaches millions of people daily with her gen z perspective and she's the author of a new book
00:00:43.260 which i have not read yet but i look forward to receiving the end of the alphabet when i saw
00:00:49.100 the title the end of the alphabet i said whoa oh she's getting a little hardcore here we're taking 0.82
00:00:54.560 the eradication rhetoric to another level because i assumed it was lgbtl but that's not what you're
00:00:59.220 talking about you were talking about the generations and your generation the much maligned zoomers 1.00
00:01:06.600 much maligned indeed although sadly maligned i feel like our generation michael has just been so
00:01:13.260 alienated and deeply misunderstood by those who come before us we've been written off as hopeless
00:01:19.800 as socialist as entitled crybabies with no hope for the future but the truth is all of the data and
00:01:25.840 polling suggests gen z is actually the most conservative generation america has seen since
00:01:30.900 world war ii we're certainly living that out culturally and i think it's going to come about
00:01:35.040 politically as well here in the next several election cycles i hope that the latter is true i'm
00:01:39.760 skeptical that they'll actually end up voting the right way but i do agree with you just in my own
00:01:43.760 anecdotal experience they seem more conservative they seem more right-wing in one way or another
00:01:48.940 than the millennials i feel the millennials are just the most soy obama generation ever you know and then 0.77
00:01:55.560 they never moved out and they're just it's it's it's the obama it's the hope and change shirt it's just
00:02:00.800 so lame you know and it is and the picture that immediately comes to mind for most people is always the
00:02:06.980 young woman in the construction vest the day after the 2016 election the no when donald trump was
00:02:12.860 elected president donald j trump is now president of the united states
00:02:16.340 but frighteningly millennials are now raising gen alpha who comes after us so say a few extra prayers
00:02:27.740 in the spirit of theology thursday because those kids need all the help we can get are my kids gen
00:02:32.640 alpha what is what are the years of jet they are huh wow yeah they should be so generation z started
00:02:38.040 in 1997 when i was born and all the way down to 2012 so anyone born after that generally speaking
00:02:44.020 depends on who you ask is gen alpha which is a very cool sounding name i have to say wow so okay so you
00:02:49.720 get to the end and you got the zoomers and they react in some ways against the soy liberalism of the 0.92
00:02:55.840 millennials and the boomers and okay but then what about all this weird stuff that's creeping 0.98
00:03:01.880 into gen z you were talking when it was a week or two ago about did i see something about a christian
00:03:07.560 ouija board and just like a ton of weird occult like sex stuff like what what did okay what are the
00:03:14.880 zoomers playing with there the truth is i don't think a lot of this stuff is coming from within our own
00:03:21.280 generation so i'll put a pin in all of the overtly satanic demonic occult references happening in our
00:03:27.640 society but if you look at just broadly what's happening with generation z you're right like 1.00
00:03:32.340 every generation who came before us we're rebelling against the people who came before us typically we
00:03:37.680 would consider punk rock and counter-cultural and very rebellious to be covered in tattoos and
00:03:43.240 piercings and spiky hair and part of metal punk rock bands but now ironically to be punk rock
00:03:49.220 is to embrace traditional conservative values it's to want to get married it's to believe in god
00:03:54.560 instead of worshiping your social media feed or the government it's to reject these woke four-year
00:03:59.620 universities that really aren't contributing anything successful or happy or fulfilling to our lives
00:04:04.980 and that's exactly what we're seeing especially on the faith side of things you know in 2021 only less
00:04:10.560 than 25 percent of gen z said that we believed in a higher power at all and we were trending more in an
00:04:16.880 atheist godless direction but by the end of 2023 over one-third of our generation says that we
00:04:23.280 proudly believe in god and we're trending much more towards traditional religious values and even
00:04:28.600 tradition with a capital t inside of christianity with a huge resurgence to the catholic faith much
00:04:34.120 to everybody's surprise so i think a lot of this noise with the overtly satanic the occult the demonic
00:04:40.600 is happening by those older than us trying to attach that image to our generation in this spiritual
00:04:46.820 warfare yeah that's fair enough i mean little nas x and doja cat are not exactly zoomers and and to
00:04:52.520 your point on punk rock you know in a way that's always sort of what punk rock was johnny ramon i
00:04:57.160 believe was a pretty hardcore right winger i think he was a republican and so that was always a bit of a
00:05:02.360 rebellion against like the hippies right the the frankly there were a lot of rockers at that time who
00:05:07.060 would take on overtly far right wing even like fascist symbolism so there was a pushback against
00:05:12.920 the hippies and then but then what then the culture keeps moving to the left so what you're what you're
00:05:18.620 describing i'm i'm encouraged by it i see what you're seeing these young zoomers who are becoming 0.99
00:05:23.800 more religious who are becoming more trad the fact you know i've been talking about traditionalism since
00:05:28.500 i was a very little boy and reading edmund burke and michael oakeshott and that was very out of fashion
00:05:33.920 and the gop the gop was very libertarian and squishy and neocon and stuff and then the fact
00:05:38.980 that trad is now a term that people use shock it's amazing i love that the fact that a lot of them are
00:05:44.400 becoming catholic in particular whoa man that's amazing i mean frankly i reverted in similar
00:05:49.860 circumstances i was an atheist for 10 years maybe i was a little bit ahead of the trend but uh i i reverted
00:05:55.600 too probably for a lot of the same reasons that zoomers are are reverting and converting but
00:06:00.520 okay when does the rubber meet the road because i've had friends of mine promised me for years
00:06:06.300 ah yes we're just you know the illegal aliens they're conservative they just don't know it yet 0.99
00:06:11.080 that's what reagan said in the 80s or ah the black vote it's all going to shift to the republicans now
00:06:15.340 or ah the hispanics actually you're starting to a little bit but ah this next generation whatever
00:06:19.100 and then it never happens then we all just end up chopping off our body parts and you know ending up
00:06:23.840 in polyamorous quintuples with you know five dudes and a billy goat on the side so you know when is it
00:06:29.900 going to actually bear fruit you know i'm hopeful that it's coming a lot sooner than you think i
00:06:35.280 actually think that is kind of the end goal of what the radical left is looking for in america it's
00:06:39.980 obviously a godless and frankly demonic society but especially with all of the gender conversations 1.00
00:06:45.440 we're seeing ultimately are we all supposed to have neutral pronouns and wear burlap sacks and shave
00:06:50.980 our heads and cut off our body parts probably i do think that kind of is the direction we're going
00:06:55.860 in if we don't preserve some sort of this trad lifestyle which you're right is absolutely taking
00:07:00.700 shape and taking form in our generation even outside of political conversations i think of
00:07:05.600 people like ballerina farm for example being this icon and uh and role model really may i ask who is
00:07:13.240 ballerina farm oh michael i'm about to change i'm an old man yeah please enlighten me
00:07:19.440 ballerina farm is this beautiful young woman she's an influencer mom of eight kids that she had 1.00
00:07:25.460 at home uh she was formerly a professional ballerina and she and her husband actually
00:07:29.560 fled new york city to build this beautiful ranch in utah and make all of their own food and raise
00:07:34.840 their kids around agriculture uh she would just competed in mrs america literally days after having 0.77
00:07:40.560 her eighth baby and i think it's just so incredible the image that she's sharing of femininity of
00:07:45.680 homemaking of motherhood with the next generation and she's become totally beloved by millions of
00:07:50.900 people on social media so talk about trad outside of even the conversations we're having with political
00:07:56.080 values where the rubber meets the road though i think is that the fact we're seeing two very extreme
00:08:01.440 ideologies start competing with each other in the open space of american culture you're seeing people
00:08:07.380 sell christian ouija boards on amazon which yes was a very real thing that i made a video about the
00:08:13.820 other day as the first way to directly communicate with jesus christ i guess they've never heard of
00:08:19.560 something called prayer or attending church i don't know sacrament yeah you're seeing demonic
00:08:26.120 symbols and satanic hand gestures be thrown up at the super bowl obviously all of the music videos and
00:08:31.540 album covers and uh and other situations that we've seen out of hollywood in the last several months
00:08:36.840 that have just shocked the world but then at the same time you're seeing this resurgence and
00:08:41.520 excitement towards extremely traditional values and i think the more we keep experiencing this tug
00:08:47.200 of war culturally and politically in america at least it creates an opportunity for dialogue for
00:08:52.620 that rubber to meet the road because it's never been more obvious which direction makes the most sense
00:08:57.700 for the next generation to pick for sanity and objective truth not just in who you're voting for but your
00:09:03.520 cultural values as well well look it's obvious to me it's obvious to you but but then what you're
00:09:09.000 describing here this this polarization is that maybe true within gen z is is it the case that gen z is
00:09:15.920 they're just actually becoming conservative and they're the new conservative hope or is it that
00:09:20.180 there is a polarization going on within gen z so the conservatives are getting way more conservative
00:09:25.200 they're not like squishy half libs they're you know ultra trads who go to church and stuff and and the 0.72
00:09:31.640 the liberals of gen z are like they them you know non-binary lesbians with purple hair because i go 1.00
00:09:38.920 when when i encounter zoomers in the wild often it's right-wingers at events that i'm doing but when i go 0.97
00:09:45.960 to events that i'm doing often there are a ton of zoomers who are yelling at me and they're all 1.00
00:09:49.880 like half lesbians with purple hair so it what about how do you how do you make sense of you know 0.97
00:09:55.960 everyone's non-binary cousin and the skyrocketing rates of of trans identification in the zoomers 0.99
00:10:03.260 you know i think both are true at the same time which i know is a bit of a cop-out answer but we
00:10:07.840 are seeing this extremely left-wing they them i want nothing to do with any semblance of a traditional
00:10:14.660 value faction of generation z but i think it's very very small they are incredibly loud and they're
00:10:21.020 promoted in algorithms and even by our president of the united states holding round tables with these
00:10:25.760 people at the white house to represent our generation but the vast vast majority of gen z 0.99
00:10:30.720 truly is embracing conservative traditional cultural values and feels very disenfranchised
00:10:37.060 politically in america it's really telling to me that of the new registered voters for generation z
00:10:43.460 people who are registering for the first time more than 52 percent of them are registering as
00:10:48.700 independents they're saying we are not putting our blind allegiance towards any political party
00:10:53.360 frankly we're a little tired of the uniparty behavior that we've seen in washington over the
00:10:58.020 last several decades where you people have been in office more than twice the time that we've been
00:11:02.480 alive and you keep promising every two four or six years to fix the same problems and you're the only
00:11:07.920 people that can do it but then if they actually fixed it they would be out of a job and they refuse
00:11:12.320 to cede any power to the next generation be that gen x or millennials or generation z right so i think
00:11:18.700 we're witnessing a big political shift but it's starting with the cultural one and the vast
00:11:23.720 majority of generation z regardless of how they might identify with a particular party or a color
00:11:29.060 hat or the letter next to their name on their voter registration are embracing these trad values 93
00:11:35.240 percent of us according to a recent survey still want to get married which is astounding in a culture
00:11:40.440 where we have the lowest marriage rate in american history since 1867 we're deleting our dating apps
00:11:46.480 overwhelmingly because 90 percent of us say that we've had a horrible experience trying to find
00:11:51.460 love through a screen women everywhere are quitting hormonal birth control because we're realizing that 0.99
00:11:56.460 we've been lied to and taking slow release poison we're moving out of cities we're starting to engage
00:12:01.700 in real life friendships again off of screens and really tired of the polarization we're seeing on
00:12:06.620 social media and that's manifesting in more of this independently minded but rooted in conservative
00:12:12.220 values political manifestation too yeah you do see that the the move out of the cities the the fact
00:12:18.760 that real life is good you know and screens are annoying and weird and digital life is is not ideal but so
00:12:25.280 one thing i've noticed and you could tell me i'm totally wrong michael your perception is totally off
00:12:30.140 base it seems to me that when i talk to republicans the the ones who like trump the most are the boomers 0.56
00:12:40.600 and the zoomers that the ones who like trump the least are the millennials and gen x you know the
00:12:46.800 people who say oh i don't he's mean on twitter and oh he's not me me me whatever you know but the the
00:12:52.340 boomers seem to really like him and the gen x or the zoomers rather the gen z really i mean they're
00:12:58.220 the ones with the maga hats so what's that about and first of all am i right that the young generation
00:13:03.860 likes this rather elderly guy who's a great president or and if that is the case why
00:13:10.120 i think generation z is really attracted to donald trump because like us he broke the system and we're
00:13:18.620 trying to break the system in any other way that we can as well we're rejecting this prescribed pathway
00:13:23.860 to success that everybody older than us is promising is going to make our life better we don't see the
00:13:28.840 need to spend a quarter of a million dollars on a degree in underwater lesbian dance theory or half 1.00
00:13:34.120 lesbian i guess right because we know that there aren't there aren't really like a lesbian but yeah 1.00
00:13:38.840 it's a tight conversation for another time we're saying you know i really don't want to be an unpaid
00:13:43.400 intern for some woke mega corporate ceo in san francisco or new york and then pledge my allegiance to my
00:13:50.240 work family instead of my real family for 50 years so that maybe i could get promoted later on in life
00:13:56.880 instead we're jumping to ceo on day one with 62 percent of us already starting our own businesses
00:14:02.520 even when most of us are still teenagers and in college which is crazy to me obviously we're
00:14:07.400 rejecting this polyamory hookup culture i want no commitment in my dating lives and are overwhelmingly
00:14:13.380 leaning towards monogamous married relationships which is a beautiful beautiful shift happening in
00:14:18.460 culture and i think donald trump is mirroring a lot of that for us politically by trying to break
00:14:23.360 this system of proving your loyalty in washington dc and getting the party approval and making sure
00:14:29.140 you're always polished and saying the right thing in a presidential speech he's saying what we're all
00:14:33.860 thinking he's just courageous enough to be the one to give it a microphone or perhaps a tweet post
00:14:38.660 button and i think we're really gravitating towards that right he did become ceo on day one there was
00:14:43.440 never any congressman trump you know there was never any attorney general trump could you imagine if
00:14:48.680 there were isabel thank you so much for coming on the the book is well you have you have a couple
00:14:53.240 books you have front lines was your first book and then you have end of the alphabet which is not a
00:15:00.540 call to sexual genocide it is in fact a generational uh memoir so that's really great uh look forward to
00:15:08.660 getting that i hope all of you will go out there and get that book as well isabel thank you and we'll see
00:15:14.220 you next time