Pet Sounds & Mini Retirement

Would you like to understand what your pet is saying? Dangerous Dave talks about a startup that uses AI to tell you what your pet is saying. Plus, Gen Zs and Millenials are taking mini-retirements.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Leap deeper in the din with Dangerous Day. Startup based
into China just launched a new wearable device for pets
that claims to translate animals emotions in the human speech
with close to ninety five percent accuracy. The gadget hangs
from your pets caller uses AI to study things like
vocal patterns, behavior, BODI language to figure out what your

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pet is trying to say. Translator costs about one hundred
and eighteen bucks ten thousand people a pre ordered one. Now,
before you start expecting full conversations with your golden retriever,
you might want to wait. The company hasn't released any
scientific studies proving the device actually works, so it could
be a bust or could be one of the greatest
inventions ever made. Huh. To be honest, I don't want

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my pets to be telling me what's going on in
my household when I'm not home. Deeper in the dim well,
this could be more fuel for the fire for the
generational divide. Gen Zers and millennials finally left their parents' homes.
Now they're quitting their jobs and coming back for a retirement.
New York Post claims some gen z and millennials have
burnt out corporate America looking to stop working for a

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while as a part of adult gap years and many retirements.
In fact, hashtag adult gap year on TikTok has thousands
of videos at youngsters ranting about the hustle culture. Obviously,
not everybody can afford to do this. If you're working
in the corporate of grind for at least five to
ten years, you don't have a big family to support,
Maybe you have some money squirreled away. Maybe you could

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do this. By the way, gen zers to millennials are
fourteen to forty five, So I'm assuming the gen zers
are the ones that are over eighteen, because that would
be eighteen to twenty nine year olds. They're already burnt out.
Some people have done this move back with their parents
to help them when they're actually retired. One way to
make your cash stretch further. So why is it happening now?

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Since being stressed and overworked isn't anything new? One reason
rapid changes in driving a I. Rather than push through
a deteriorating job, it isn't the same that you signed
up for. Take some time off, find something more intentional.
Once the dust settles, definitely risky, though, the opportunity to
reset them to pursue various side hustles to figure out

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if you can carve a new path in your career.
For a new career path retiring at eighteen, well you,
poor baby. Tune it again for another episode of Deeper
in the Den with Dangerous Dave light Year