Main Character Millennial

On this 'Grab A Glass' episode, DT reacts to press about the hardships of Millennials born in 1990 & 1991.

Episode Transcript

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The bottle right, and the ambianceis nice. I'm gonna keep it flattening
tears on the line. Last chickenhave a lot, so craver los all

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right, Vibes are right, ambianceis right. Let's skip the wine part
today. I got we gotta getinto some very very important stuff that I
feel like is just it's timely,and it's necessary, and it's needed.
The perks that I get from workingin the wine industry are nice, and

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you guys hear me talk about itall the time, what bottles I'm drinking
and what I've purchased, et cetera, et cetera. But what's really cool
about where I work is that theyprovide further education by way of internal courses,
day long conferences, small group meetingsand discussions, things of that nature.
It makes it a very amazing placeto work for those reasons. So

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a few months back, I believeI spoke about it very briefly. I
took a generation's course that was allabout getting to understand the generations of today
and yesterday yesteryear, i should say. And it was super dope because there
were many people from different generations thereto go through the course. Learn there
was some group discussion and it waspretty fly. I'm not gonna lie to

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you. What I found, however, was that there are these strange perceptions
of different generations. And of courseeverybody thinks that their generation, no matter
when, is the main character,and they think all the other generations are

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lazy or they had it easier whatever. I know, as millennials probably feel
that gen Z or a bunch ofyoutubing tiktoking entrepreneurs that are making millions and
millions of dollars on shit that wecould never even thought of. And maybe
that's true partially. There's always sometruth in what we think and what we
say. It comes from a certainplace. But this month The New York

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Times published an article. It wascalled It's me Hi, I'm the problem.
I'm thirty three. It was publishedon March second, I think,
updated on March fourth, and thentheir daily news podcast called The Daily had
an episode on three fourteen. Itwas called it Sucks to be thirty three?
What's the Episode? The writer andthe person on the actual podcast was

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a woman by the name of GinaSmileck, and it lays out what the
actual issues are for millennials, butspecifically for a certain cohort those of us
who were born in nineteen ninety andnineteen ninety one, so those of us
who will turn thirty three and thirtyfour this year. Newsflash for those you
who don't know, I was bornin nineteen ninety I'm currently thirty three and

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will turn thirty four this year.So when I saw this article and when
I heard this episode, I wasacutely aware of how important it was and
I had to hear possibly what waswhat I believed to be the truth about
our generation. Let me take youback to that course. For the most

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part, the people that were inthe course that I took at my job
were older, and so when theywent through each generation, everybody outside of
that generation was asked to give theirperception of said generation. So when millennials
popped up, people in older generationsbasically said that, in no uncertain terms,

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that we were spoiled, we whinea lot, we have high expectations
without doing the work, etc.Etc. You know, the whole avocado
toast, Facebook gas generation. Theywere unaware of a lot of the facts,
which again, if with the reversewe had a certain millennials being we

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we had a certain viewpoint of boomersand gen X, et cetera. And
we were wrong as well. Butthis sort of I don't know, stereotype
of millennials. They were so unawareof some of the facts. So let
me tell you what the New YorkTimes had to say. Let me start
with a quote, if demographics aredestiny, the demographic born in nineteen ninety

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and nineteen ninety one was destined tocompete for housing, jobs and other resources.
Those two birth years, the peopleset to turn thirty three and thirty
four and twenty twenty four make upthe peak of America's population. So end
quote. That's from the New YorkTimes article. They didn't realize that millennials,
especially in the workplace, have I'vecompletely taken over. We're the main

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generation. So most people that they'reworking with are of that generation. Nine
point five million people currently are thechildren of those big years and come from
the Baby boom. And I thinkthere was a lot of immigration at the
time, et cetera, et cetera. So we make up a massive part
of what the United States is andprobably the world as well. The three

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things that they talk mostly about iscollege, so student loan debt and the
fact that in those years it wouldhave been what two thousand and eight and
two thousand and nine, there's amassive rush of people going to college after
the economic downturn, and you knowthe crash of two thousand and eight.

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Housing and how we have to dealwith incredibly crazy demand and supply and issues
with housing, and how we haveto pay much more than we would have
had to pay if we had beenborn different generation. And then they talk
about, of course bigger decisions likechildren, etc. At present and what

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they're calling this group nineteen ninety oneand nineteen ninety born kids, they're calling
the peak millennial. We are ina space at this age of thirty three
with which we're going to have tomake massive decisions if we haven't had to
make them already. So again,trying to find a way to pay off

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student loan debt, housing and whetheror not we'll be able to purchase or
not in the decision to have kids. Now, when I think about all
my friends across the economic spectrum,because of course, I know thirty three
year olds that are making tons andtons and tons of money or were born
into tons and tons and tons ofmoney. And I know thirty three year
olds who are barely scraping by.Even throughout that entire spectrum of money,

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we're all being faced with this atthe highest peak. We're all competing for
the same spaces, not only withour generation, but with those older than
us and those younger than us.When we went to college, it was
more selected than any other time inhistory. Enrollments skyrocketed, but it was
already gonna skyrocket after that because ofthe fact that people were going to college

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more and more. Your early thirtiesis when you typically buy a home,
a house. My wife and Ihave had the opportunity to buy two homes
prior to us being thirty three.Lucky, lucky, blessed. This shit,
it's not the norm. And lookat the housing market. You know

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how much childcare is I can tellyou. I can tell you, and
I have to put seventy five morecommercials in each episode to avoid childcare.
It's a booming, booming, boominggeneration that's dealing with a lot across the
board. And I think it's somethingthat we need to look at, not

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only for those people that are thirtyand thirty four, but just overall.
We have to check our biases aroundgenerations. I know that we have a
viewpoint of gen z. We haven'tgot the full research that you haven't reached
a certain age just yet, butwe should watch how we judge them.
We don't want to be like thegenerations above us that have this uneducated viewpoint

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of us without knowing the facts.I think you should definitely check out the
podcast if you're interested in the Daily. It aired on three fourteen. Again.
It's called it Sucks to Be thirtythree And if you rather read the
article, it's pretty short. Actuallyit's called it's me Hi, I'm the
problem. I'm thirty three again fromthe New York Times. These peak millennials,

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those of us that are turning thirtythree and thirty four this year.
We've created a demand at every stage, and we've not left enough supply.
There isn't enough supply, which makesit harder and harder and harder. If
you were to go read that articleand then you were going to look at
the comments, the discourse in thereis a bunch of people being corrected and
saying I had no idea. Alot of times, the people who are

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defending millennials that aren't already millennials areour parents who are able to say,
at this age, I was ableto accomplish this, and I bought this
house at this rate, and Iwas able to pay off this house at
this rate, and we had fourkids by the time we were in my
kid's age. College was X yZ and I got this scholarship and I
paid this mount. It's really interesting. You should definitely check it out.

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And this isn't because I'm biased andI'm thirty three, and this was speaking
directly. Okay, maybe it isa little bit. Maybe it is a
little bit. Check it out.This is not an ad. I don't
work for the New York Times.They don't fucking put any ads on my
podcast. This is just purely Ithink it's interesting. And as a father
again, I'm gonna bring that upevery episode because I'm so proud of my

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little boy. Oh my god,he's having such a great time. I'm
thinking about what are the challenges thathe's going to face, what is his
generation going to have to deal with? And on top of that, what
are the impacts that my peak millennialgeneration is causing for his generation as they
become of age. It's a climatechange. Is it just what we're doing

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to the housing market? Is iteducation, what's it going to be anyways,
that's what was on my mind.Cheers everybody, thanks for listening,
Love y'all,