August 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Ready to become unfuckable with? That's the revolutionary ideals at the heart of Auntie Robin's new podcast direction. Saying goodbye to Kicked Can Generations Podcast, she's embracing a fresh path focused on fierce self-love and challenging beliefs that no longer serve us.
Drawing inspiration from her great aunt who "gave zero shits" about others' opinions, Robin explores how genuine self-love creates an internal compass that makes external validation unnecessary. This powerful stance contrasts sharply with our current leadership and culture, where constant approval-seeking reveals a profound lack of self-worth.
Through vivid storytelling, Robin takes us on a journey through American decades—from the community-centered 1970s where local businesses extended credit based on trust, through Reagan's 1980s that ushered in corporate dominance and religious fervor, to today's struggle where multiple jobs barely support a basic lifestyle. Her Gen X perspective offers unique insights on how our relationship with work, community, and self-worth has fundamentally shifted.
The podcast delivers refreshing candor about dating, authenticity, and the courage to walk away from connections that don't resonate. "Not everybody on this planet has to like you, and you have to be okay with that," Robin advises, encouraging listeners to show up genuinely in all interactions to attract their true people.
Perhaps most compelling is her reframing of our current national breakdown as an opportunity: "All systems kind of have to come down and we get to rebuild it the way the people want to rebuild it." She particularly celebrates Gen Z for challenging corporate power structures and pushing for necessary change.
Whether you're questioning your relationship with work, wondering why dating feels so difficult, or simply tired of seeking validation from others, this podcast offers a roadmap to becoming confidently, authentically yourself. Join Auntie Robin as she helps us upgrade from our outdated "Microsoft Vista" operating system to a life based on self-love, authentic connection, and meaningful experiences.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello and welcome to the KitKat Generations podcast
with your Auntie Robin.
Actually, this is a fondfarewell to the KitKat
Generations podcast with AuntieRobin.
I'm going to let that one go.
That was actually made in adifferent time period and,
honestly, I can't even recognizethat person who did that
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podcast.
But it still has some goodinformation on it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm goingto leave some of those episodes
up and you can definitely checkthem out.
If you want to know how todeprogram yourself, question
your beliefs a little bit,discover about ancestral trauma,
feel free and check that shitout.
Okay, it's up there, it'swaiting for you.
Feel free to do it, becausethis is basically what I went
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through in order to get to whereI'm at now, which is a healed
ass.
My ass is healed.
What we're going to do is we'regoing to convert this podcast
into something else.
It's going to be a differentkind of podcast.
Let me just get out my JackBlack theme music app and play
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it's Self Lovin' with AuntieRobin.
One of the reasons why I callmyself Auntie Robin is because
of my great aunt.
She was an amazing woman.
I mean, she was the only personthat I ever knew that actually
stood up for herself, gave zeroshits and I do mean zero shits,
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what you thought about her andshe was incredible.
My mom absolutely hated her.
I absolutely loved her Becauseshe is one person that I never
met anybody who had such moxie Imean, she had moxie, she could
just, she was just delightful.
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She was not afraid to stand upto people, she was not afraid of
just taking it and just goingballs to the wall and enjoying
every single minute of it andjust had fun and joy of life.
And it was really funny becauseone time my parents decided to
drop me off at her house and shewas going to watch me and she
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had a lake house, so it wasreally nice because we got to
just sit on the dock.
She basically sunbathed theentire time and I was able to
just jump in the water wheneverI wanted to and go for a swim,
or I could go fishing off thedock and it was amazing.
And one time she's just likehoney, go make me a martini.
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And I'm just sitting here goinglike auntie, I don't know how
to make a martini, I'm eight andshe's just like oh, honey,
honey, you need to have lifeskills.
You need to have life skills.
That's all there is to it.
That's it.
Your auntie is going to teachyou how to make a martini.
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Come on, let's go.
So she's teaching me how to makea gin martini and she even lets
me try it.
And I didn't realize what ginwas and I didn't understand the
herbaceousness of it, shall wesay, and I'm just kind of like
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and it burned and I didn'tunderstand it.
She's just sitting here goinglike that's okay, you'll
understand it when you're olderand I'm like okay, so I was
basically her bar back for thesummer and it was just so much
fun.
She just let me be me so and itwas just great time and she's a
wonderful lady.
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I hope that I can honor herwith having at least just a
little bit of moxie and can showyou guys that side and what
that is like, because we need alittle more moxie, because we
can fight this shit.
That's all I'm saying.
We can fight this shit,something that I've noticed with
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the current administration, andit's not just the person in
charge, it is every singleperson underneath.
There is a serious lack ofself-love within all of these
people and, if you think aboutit, each and every single one of
them has to have externalvalidation in order to get the
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love that they feel.
It's kind of sad, but thinkabout it.
Every single person needsexternal validation.
If you truly love yourself, youdon't need validation from
other people.
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You trust yourself enough toknow that what is right, what is
wrong.
Because you have an internalcompass within yourself.
Because, remember, if I haveone finger well, actually, two
fingers pointing at you, thereare three fingers pointing right
back at me.
So I may be pointing at you,but I'm also pointing at myself
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as well, because I've had tocome across these things and
have tried to figure out how toheal those things within myself.
And you want to know somethingby loving yourself fiercely and
without question, I have beenable to be unfuckable.
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Because you can't fuck withsomebody who knows their worth,
who knows their value.
Trump doesn't know his value.
He's still trying to prove tohis dad that he's worthy of all
this money.
But how many times has he lostthis money?
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How many loan negotiations hashe had to do?
That's about.
The only thing he can really dois negotiate a loan.
That's it.
And when he does that, he'seven lying about it.
It's kind of sad, it's kind ofdepressing, but that's also his
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life and that's his situation.
That's also his life and that'shis situation.
That's his circumstances and hehas to deal with that.
I can't deal with that for him.
This entire fucking countrycan't deal with that for him.
He has to deal with that withinhimself.
Is he going to no At the AGS?
No, he's not.
He's 76.
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Or I don't remember how old heis, nor do I care, but this is
part of the problem.
We don't love ourselves and weneed to start loving ourselves
just a little bit more.
It helps Squirrel.
It kind of felt like the oldergenerations have really done us
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a disservice over the years andit basically it's my parents
which would be boomers.
They haven't taught us well,they haven't served us well.
They're at the end of theirlives, to be honest with you, to
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be honest with you, and they'rein power.
But we're the ones next to bein power.
My little ones, I really wantyou to think about what it is
that you want in your life.
What is it that you want withinyour government, what is it
that you want to feel?
Because life is supposed to beabout experiences and it hasn't
been that since I was a kid.
Luckily, I have a uniqueperspective growing up in the
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70s, so this is going to be alittle segment that we call it's
Storytime with your AuntieRobin Storytime.
So welcome to Storytime withAuntie Robin Storytime so
welcome to Storytime with AuntieRobin.
So the 70s was definitely adifferent time era.
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Luckily, I got to grow up as akid during this era, from
basically childbirth to eight iswhen I was participating in the
seventies.
Now, a lot of times during theseventies kids were supposed to
be seen, not heard.
I did a lot of observing of theadults my parents, their
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friends, so basically the boomergeneration.
When they were my age now oryounger, they definitely had a
different way of life and Ithink that what we're doing now
the younger generations and Igot to say I got to give you
guys props, serious props.
Millennials.
For those who had Gen X parentsand boomer grandparents, my
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deepest apologies.
We did you wrong Because youhave to think about parenting.
We did you wrong Because youhave to think about parenting.
We have a tendency toovercorrect the things that we
think our parents did wrong.
Think about that.
So most boomer parentsbasically just let us run free
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range during the 70s and theywere just like come back home
when the lights come on.
That was pretty much the familymotto, I think, across the
board for most gen xers, with afew exceptions.
But it was just a really weirdtime period.
Who you had, morals, you hadlove and compassion for your
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neighbors.
You actually had communitiesback then, which is something
that we really don't have now,and I believe that that is by
design and has become more of adesign as time has gone on, and
it's something that we now haveto back up and fix.
Sorry, a lot of the stuff wehave to back up and fix.
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Sorry, a lot of the stuff wehave to back up and fix and make
a little stronger, becausethere's definitely some holes
here.
The 70s was a lot moreheart-led, I would say, than
like the 80s.
So I kind of vaguely remembersome of the things that happened
during the 70s and howinteresting it was, because I
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remember my parents wouldactually buy their groceries on
credit near the end of the month.
Now, my dad was a high schoolart teacher, my mom, as all of
you would say, a good littlehousewife.
She stayed home with thechildren.
We got paid at the beginning ofthe month and then by the end
of the month.
We would end up having toscrape by to get like groceries
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and everything like that.
So what ended up happening isthe local grocery store that we
had would actually write in anotebook.
They would write your name, howmuch in groceries you took if
you were able to pay any of ittoday, and then the date that
you were going to pay it back.
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They had this list and that wastheir credit list and my mom
would literally just be like Ionly have like 25 bucks.
It's just like can I put theother five on credit?
And they're just like when areyou going to get paid?
And it's like the first of themonth.
Will you be in on the first ofthe month?
Absolutely.
So they would write it all downand then my mom, on the first
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of the month, would come in withthe five bucks.
It was nuts, but it wasn't justthat.
Like the local gas stationwould do that for us too, and
other people as well, not justmy family, other families within
the community.
They would seriously do thisfor us If you were a little
short or something like that.
You paid what you could andthen you paid the rest back when
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you can, and the thing is isthat you paid it because they
were doing you a solid, so youhave to do the solid, and it
worked out.
But then the eighties camearound and Reagan took office
and everything started shifting.
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All of a sudden, welfare was aproblem.
Like the moms on welfare werean issue.
Actually, just families onwelfare were an issue.
They were feeding off thesystem, and this is when
corporations, as well asreligion, started their rise.
Now, tv evangelicals werereally starting to take off in
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the 80s and I swear to God,reagan had them over, and I
swear that one of the reasonswhy we are at where we're at
today is because they prayed forthe soul of this nation to be
saved.
I'm not joking.
I really honestly think thatthat is how they phrased it and
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I think they thought that theywere the ones who was going to
save this.
But I don't think that's theway it's going to work.
Just a little hint I grew up inreligion.
I grew up in a Baptist church.
So I grew up in religion.
I grew up in a Baptist church.
My family took me because theysaid it was important to know
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what people are very passionateabout, and one of those things
is religion, and you need toknow people's different
religions in order to see wherethey are passionate about and
what their morals and standardsare.
Now, moral and standards, now,I don't think really exist, and
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the reason why I don't thinkthat they exist is because a lot
of us don't love ourselvesenough in this time period,
because we have literally hadcorporations break us down in
order to sell us more stuff, sothey make us feel like shit in
order to fill the void of theemptiness that we feel within
ourselves that they created, wenow can fill it with their shit.
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So that brand new car, thatcertain look you want to look,
it's just like it is just tofill that empty void within
yourself.
But if you actually loveyourself, you don't question
that, you don't question yourvalue, you don't question your
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beliefs.
You actually have standards andyou expect people to kind of
raise up to those standards, andthat, I think, is something
that we are severely lacking.
Hot take.
But let's get back to ReaganNow.
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The evangelicals were prayingfor salvation of our great
country.
From there, what has ended uphappening is that they have
become into power.
They have approached everythingin the way of hatred and not
loving your brother.
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So I kind of question yourreligion, because every religion
says that you're supposed to goout and be a prophet for God.
Now, when I think of a prophetfor God, your actions and your
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words match.
They speak together.
So I am not out of alignmentwith God's words.
My actions and his words matchenergy.
I don't know of too manyChristians right now who
actually have that.
I haven't seen it in a reallylong time since the seventies.
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Honestly, there's been a fewpeople kind of scattered here
and there, but it's very rare toactually see somebody truly
authentically embracing that.
Think about it.
When was the last time you metsomebody like that?
It's been a while.
It's been too damn long.
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Tell me I'm wrong.
So from the TV evangelicals andthe religious fervor of the 80s,
we have now moved into the 90s.
The religious fervor of the 80s, we have now moved into the 90s
.
Okay, so the 90s were even moreso superficial than the 80s
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were.
It was all about heroin, chicGrunge.
Everything was just reallydirty in the 90s for some odd
reason and I never fullyunderstood like why.
It just didn't make any senseto me.
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The 90s were kind of yeah, funin fashion, great in music, but
just kind of shite in everythingelse.
At this point, gen X is justgetting into school, getting out
of college and trying to starttheir careers.
At this point, what has endedup happening is that the student
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loans that they had actuallystarted becoming predatory loans
while we were in school.
Thanks, guys, appreciated that,and also thank you, biden, for
fixing some of that and fuck thecurrent administration for
doubling down on uh, corruption.
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Thanks Also, in the ninetiesthere was Woodstock I the
revival, revival of woodstock,let's just say now this is just
after gen x is getting out ofcollege and we literally burnt
that shit to the ground.
That was not a joke.
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We literally burnt that shit tothe ground.
Thanks, lump biscuit, uh, mygeneration.
We literally burnt that shit tothe ground.
Thanks, lump Bizkit, mygeneration.
Basically, we burnt thatmotherfucker to the ground
because we realized at thatpoint that we had been lied to
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our entire lives that if youwork hard, if you do well,
you're do well.
You know you're going to getthat job, you're going to get
that family, you're going to getthat house, you're going to get
that car, you're going to havea life and it's going to be
glorious.
It's just going to be soamazing.
And you want to know something?
There were no jobs when we gotout of college.
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We struggled to find jobs.
They kept saying that we'rebeing lazy Squirrel.
I'm just trying to tell you.
This shit has been going onsince I graduated from high
school.
In college, it has not improved.
In fact, it has gotten 10 timesworse.
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That is the only thing that hashappened.
Before the nineties, you couldget away with one job, just one
job, but by the time thenineties came around, you needed
two jobs in order to make aliving.
Now I think we're up to likethree or four.
How are you supposed to have alife?
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You know life isn't supposed tobe about work.
Life let me give you a littlehint here is actually supposed
to be about lived experiences.
You decide that you want totake part in.
That isn't work.
I want to take part in art.
I want to take part in music.
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I want to take part in art.
I want to take part in music.
I want to take part inexperiencing things the taste of
food, how you grow the food.
But this isn't what we get.
Instead, we have all thisprocessed food that isn't good
for you in any way, shape, formor fashion, even if I try and do
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whole foods.
Is it genetically modified?
Because if so, if it'sgenetically modified, my body
may not be able to break it downas much as I love.
Okay, the fact that they weretrying to solve world hunger and
that was the original premiseof this it was originally to
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solve world hunger in theAfrican nations essentially is
what we were told when we weregrowing up as kids that why they
needed to modify grains isbecause if we modified the
grains and made it moreresilient, then it would be able
to grow in many differentenvironments and we wouldn't
have any of these droughts orfamines or anything like that.
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So this would kind of helpreduce that.
Okay, but now here we are, 30,40 years later and we have an
increase in gluten allergies.
Did you ever think that maybeit's the grains that we're using
, the stuff that we use to makepasta?
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It's wheat Modified, wheat,genetically modified.
But the crazy thing was is thatwhen they started doing this in
the 80s, it ended up losing alot of farms because of it,
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because the companies likeMonsanto Squirrel.
But I have mad respect for Gen Zbecause you have managed to do
something that we tried butdidn't do very well, but you are
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managing to piss off corporateAmerica.
Chef's kiss to you.
It's beautiful.
I have absolutely loved everysingle moment of watching them
bitch about you guys, and it hasbeen fantastic.
You guys stay strong on this,please.
It needs to change.
It has got to change.
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It was shit when I was young,okay, and that has been 30, 30
years, okay, yeah, well, 33years.
So I'm 53.
, yeah, 33.
Yeah, close enough.
Math.
Anyway, they just needed tofigure shit out.
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It isn't supposed to be thisdifficult.
Life really is supposed to besimple.
Do you want to know what it is?
I'm going to let you in on alittle secret.
Come here, come here.
We are meant to live life andhave experiences, not work
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experiences.
Experiences, that is not justwork.
That is not just work.
It is not just play.
It is experiences.
We have not really been allowedto do that and if you think
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about it like, our schoolsystems are really just supposed
to help us decide, as kids,what we like.
I mean, that's it.
It's just.
Am I good at math?
Am I good at science?
Am I good at baking?
Am I good at auto mechanics?
Am I good at welding?
Am I good at woodwork?
At auto mechanics?
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Am I good at welding?
Am I good at woodwork?
Do I like building more?
Do I like analytical stuff more?
Do I like thinking with mybrain?
Do I like leading with my heart?
What do I like to do?
That's all that school issupposed to be.
It's supposed to discover yourinner abilities of what you're
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here to do for the planet.
I mean, each one of us is partof a community and each one of
us has a gift.
Each one of us has a talent andyou're supposed to discover
that talent in in school, tofigure out what it is that you
can bring uniquely to the world.
That is just from you.
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And you want to know something.
Sometimes it's really smallshit.
It is like being a plumber andall of a sudden something bursts
and you have to help out thisperson.
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And you do, and you want toknow something.
It makes a difference in theirlives.
It doesn't have to be huge.
There's not like a huge globalimpact to everything that we do.
Like a huge global impact toeverything that we do.
I just have a little side notehere for Gen Z during story time
here.
I am so fricking proud of youguys.
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I really got to say this.
You guys do not get enoughcredit.
You have fucked with corporateAmerica and, god bless, it has
been delicious and beautiful towatch, and I really am.
I am cheering you guys off fromthe distance, okay, because I
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want you to keep doing this,because the more you do this,
the more corporate Americarealizes that they need to
change and it's time we needchange across the board.
I mean, everything has just ithasn't worked in a long time
because our belief system haschanged and you can't work on an
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old operating system.
We're operating on MicrosoftVista, okay, guys.
Yeah, that's what.
We're operating on microsoftvista.
Okay, guys, I think we need toupgrade a huge, motherfucking
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global upgrade.
So let's work on that insteadof the bullshit.
They're destroying everything.
So I'm going to quote Mel onthis.
Let them.
I don't like the way thatthey're doing it, don't get me
wrong.
It is cruel, it is hateful, itis bullshit what they are doing
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and how they are choosing to doit.
But the thing is Is that Allsystems kind of have to come
down and we get to rebuild itthe way the people Want to
rebuild it.
Think about that.
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That's a different way ofthinking about all this.
Yes, they are completelydestroying everything, but, my
lovelets, it's okay.
It's okay, we're going to helpyou rebuild.
Gen X doesn't want to be inpower.
Gen X has never wanted to be inpower.
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Gen X was just trying tosurvive.
Okay, that's all that Gen X wastrying to do.
And those of Gen X who want tobe in power, please step aside,
be there as support.
Let the younger generations,let the millennials, let the Gen
Z, let the Gen Alpha, determinehow we are going to do this,
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this new country that we'regoing to do, because, well, the
country is basically beingdestroyed from the inside out,
and that's okay, it really is.
It's going to be hell.
Don't get me wrong.
The most shocking thing is thatnobody is standing up to the
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power, no one is speaking truthto power, and the people who
have spoken truth have beenreally great.
So I want to congratulate Mattand Trey for good job, guys.
A billion dollars for 50fucking episodes.
Good job, guys.
A billion dollars for 50fucking episodes.
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And you knocked that firstepisode out of the fucking park.
I mean, you want to talk aboutspeaking truth to power?
That was hilarious and Ienjoyed every minute of it.
Same way with Stephen Colbert.
Please, my brother, keep up thefight Until they kick you off
in 10 months.
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Keep going, my man, keep going.
That's all I can do isencourage the rebellion.
I'm just a little person.
Honestly, I have no power.
I have no influence.
Maybe a little, but I have noinfluence.
Maybe a little, but I'm juststarting.
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Yeah, I'm just starting.
Let me repeat that again.
I'm just starting to be theinconvenient woman.
Yeah, you heard it.
Heritage Foundation.
Yeah, I'm coming for you, loveyou.
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Also, in the 90s, we also had arise of girl power.
Okay, the Spice Girls.
Do I need to mention anythingmore than those lovely ladies?
Ugh, who doesn't love the SpiceGirls?
Honestly, I enjoyed the shitout of it.
It was so much fun.
I mean, the women in musicduring that time period was
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magnificent.
It was magnificent, loved itand loved that girls were
actually being encouraged tofind their power, to find
themselves.
I mean, we've never had thatbefore.
In the entirety of lifetimes,I've never heard of any time in
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which girls were actually raisedto a higher level, of any time
in which girls were actuallyraised to a higher level, and it
was amazing and it was fun.
But the thing is is that duringthat time period, we
accidentally left men behind, weleft the boys behind and we
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didn't question how they weredoing, oddly enough, and I think
that that has kind of raisedourselves to the male loneliness
epidemic.
I'm using air quotes because,guys, you gotta evolve.
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Women have been evolving forcenturies.
We have been oppressed sincethe dawn of time.
But the thing is is that weneed to change our attitudes
about men and women because itno longer works.
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It's an old idea that no longerworks and I think we need to
realize that.
But the great thing is is thatwe can change that, because
that's a belief.
A belief can be changed Justlike that If you want it to.
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But you have to apply it, youhave to follow it and your
actions and words need to matchup.
Can you do that?
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Can you do that, guys?
Try it.
Try it, because I am going tohave a section of this podcast
is going to be challenging yourbeliefs, in which I'm going to
totally ask you guys tochallenge what you believe.
Because, let's face it, datingsucks.
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It has been horrible.
It has been terrible and, if Iknow, right here and now, after
meeting you for like fiveminutes, that our vibe is not
vibing.
Why can't I just leave?
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Why do I have to be nice?
Why do I have to sit here andstay and endure a however long
date?
Get rid of each other If youknow, instantaneously just say
look, this isn't working for me.
I don't think that we are aright fit.
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I wish you well in your life,but I think I'm going to go.
Have fun, enjoy your night andI'll see you later.
Why can't we do that?
Wouldn't that solve a lot ofproblems?
I mean, you're not playing anygames with this person.
You're being honest.
It's not that you hate them,it's just that you don't connect
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.
And not everybody in this wholeentire world are your people.
That's a key thing right there.
There's millions of people inthis world.
Not everybody is going to likeyou.
Not everybody has to like you.
Like you, not everybody on thisplanet has to like you, and you
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have to be okay with that.
You have to be okay with thatwithin yourself.
Can you do that?
That's something that youshould strive for because,
honestly, it is not personal.
It should never be personal.
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That somebody doesn't like you,it's okay, it's all right.
They're not your people.
But when you're not acting asyourself, out in public, who you
genuinely, truly authenticallyare, you will never find the
right people, never.
You have to show up as yourselfon dates when you meet people
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for job interviews, otherwiseyou're lying to them.
You're lying who you are, soyou're not getting a genuine
connection with people becauseyou are not generally connected
to yourself and you areexternalizing that and showing
that to the world and nobody isseeing the authentic.
You Think about that.
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Something I forgot to say isthat at the end of each episode
I'm going to put up a popculture list of all the music,
art, theater, films and stuffthat I have recommended.
Check them out.
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You might like it, you mightlearn something.
You might hate it, it's okay.
All right, my lovelets, this isyour Auntie Robin signing off.
Hello and welcome to the KitKat Generations podcast
with your Auntie Robin.
Actually, this is a fondfarewell to the KitKat
Generations podcast with AuntieRobin.
I'm going to let that one go.
That was actually made in adifferent time period and,
honestly, I can't even recognizethat person who did that
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podcast.
But it still has some goodinformation on it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm goingto leave some of those episodes
up and you can definitely checkthem out.
If you want to know how todeprogram yourself, question
your beliefs a little bit,discover about ancestral trauma,
feel free and check that shitout.
Okay, it's up there, it'swaiting for you.
Feel free to do it, becausethis is basically what I went
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through in order to get to whereI'm at now, which is a healed
ass.
My ass is healed.
What we're going to do is we'regoing to convert this podcast
into something else.
It's going to be a differentkind of podcast.
Let me just get out my JackBlack theme music app and play
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it's Self Lovin' with AuntieRobin.
One of the reasons why I callmyself Auntie Robin is because
of my great aunt.
She was an amazing woman.
I mean, she was the only personthat I ever knew that actually
stood up for herself, gave zeroshits and I do mean zero shits,
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what you thought about her andshe was incredible.
My mom absolutely hated her.
I absolutely loved her Becauseshe is one person that I never
met anybody who had such moxie Imean, she had moxie, she could
just, she was just delightful.
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She was not afraid to stand upto people, she was not afraid of
just taking it and just goingballs to the wall and enjoying
every single minute of it andjust had fun and joy of life.
And it was really funny becauseone time my parents decided to
drop me off at her house and shewas going to watch me and she
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had a lake house, so it wasreally nice because we got to
just sit on the dock.
She basically sunbathed theentire time and I was able to
just jump in the water wheneverI wanted to and go for a swim,
or I could go fishing off thedock and it was amazing.
And one time she's just likehoney, go make me a martini.
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And I'm just sitting here goinglike auntie, I don't know how
to make a martini, I'm eight andshe's just like oh, honey,
honey, you need to have lifeskills.
You need to have life skills.
That's all there is to it.
That's it.
Your auntie is going to teachyou how to make a martini.
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Come on, let's go.
So she's teaching me how to makea gin martini and she even lets
me try it.
And I didn't realize what ginwas and I didn't understand the
herbaceousness of it, shall wesay, and I'm just kind of like
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and it burned and I didn'tunderstand it.
She's just sitting here goinglike that's okay, you'll
understand it when you're olderand I'm like okay, so I was
basically her bar back for thesummer and it was just so much
fun.
She just let me be me so and itwas just great time and she's a
wonderful lady.
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I hope that I can honor herwith having at least just a
little bit of moxie and can showyou guys that side and what
that is like, because we need alittle more moxie, because we
can fight this shit.
That's all I'm saying.
We can fight this shit,something that I've noticed with
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the current administration, andit's not just the person in
charge, it is every singleperson underneath.
There is a serious lack ofself-love within all of these
people and, if you think aboutit, each and every single one of
them has to have externalvalidation in order to get the
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love that they feel.
It's kind of sad, but thinkabout it.
Every single person needsexternal validation.
If you truly love yourself, youdon't need validation from
other people.
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You trust yourself enough toknow that what is right, what is
wrong.
Because you have an internalcompass within yourself.
Because, remember, if I haveone finger well, actually, two
fingers pointing at you, thereare three fingers pointing right
back at me.
So I may be pointing at you,but I'm also pointing at myself
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as well, because I've had tocome across these things and
have tried to figure out how toheal those things within myself.
And you want to know somethingby loving yourself fiercely and
without question, I have beenable to be unfuckable.
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Because you can't fuck withsomebody who knows their worth,
who knows their value.
Trump doesn't know his value.
He's still trying to prove tohis dad that he's worthy of all
this money.
But how many times has he lostthis money?
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How many loan negotiations hashe had to do?
That's about.
The only thing he can really dois negotiate a loan.
That's it.
And when he does that, he'seven lying about it.
It's kind of sad, it's kind ofdepressing, but that's also his
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life and that's his situation.
That's also his life and that'shis situation.
That's his circumstances and hehas to deal with that.
I can't deal with that for him.
This entire fucking countrycan't deal with that for him.
He has to deal with that withinhimself.
Is he going to no At the AGS?
No, he's not.
He's 76.
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Or I don't remember how old heis, nor do I care, but this is
part of the problem.
We don't love ourselves and weneed to start loving ourselves
just a little bit more.
It helps Squirrel.
It kind of felt like the oldergenerations have really done us
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a disservice over the years andit basically it's my parents
which would be boomers.
They haven't taught us well,they haven't served us well.
They're at the end of theirlives, to be honest with you, to
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be honest with you, and they'rein power.
But we're the ones next to bein power.
My little ones, I really wantyou to think about what it is
that you want in your life.
What is it that you want withinyour government, what is it
that you want to feel?
Because life is supposed to beabout experiences and it hasn't
been that since I was a kid.
Luckily, I have a uniqueperspective growing up in the
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70s, so this is going to be alittle segment that we call it's
Storytime with your AuntieRobin Storytime.
So welcome to Storytime withAuntie Robin Storytime so
welcome to Storytime with AuntieRobin.
So the 70s was definitely adifferent time era.
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Luckily, I got to grow up as akid during this era, from
basically childbirth to eight iswhen I was participating in the
seventies.
Now, a lot of times during theseventies kids were supposed to
be seen, not heard.
I did a lot of observing of theadults my parents, their
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friends, so basically the boomergeneration.
When they were my age now oryounger, they definitely had a
different way of life and Ithink that what we're doing now
the younger generations and Igot to say I got to give you
guys props, serious props.
Millennials.
For those who had Gen X parentsand boomer grandparents, my
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deepest apologies.
We did you wrong Because youhave to think about parenting.
We did you wrong Because youhave to think about parenting.
We have a tendency toovercorrect the things that we
think our parents did wrong.
Think about that.
So most boomer parentsbasically just let us run free
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range during the 70s and theywere just like come back home
when the lights come on.
That was pretty much the familymotto, I think, across the
board for most gen xers, with afew exceptions.
But it was just a really weirdtime period.
Who you had, morals, you hadlove and compassion for your
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neighbors.
You actually had communitiesback then, which is something
that we really don't have now,and I believe that that is by
design and has become more of adesign as time has gone on, and
it's something that we now haveto back up and fix.
Sorry, a lot of the stuff wehave to back up and fix.
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Sorry, a lot of the stuff wehave to back up and fix and make
a little stronger, becausethere's definitely some holes
here.
The 70s was a lot moreheart-led, I would say, than
like the 80s.
So I kind of vaguely remembersome of the things that happened
during the 70s and howinteresting it was, because I
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remember my parents wouldactually buy their groceries on
credit near the end of the month.
Now, my dad was a high schoolart teacher, my mom, as all of
you would say, a good littlehousewife.
She stayed home with thechildren.
We got paid at the beginning ofthe month and then by the end
of the month.
We would end up having toscrape by to get like groceries
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and everything like that.
So what ended up happening isthe local grocery store that we
had would actually write in anotebook.
They would write your name, howmuch in groceries you took if
you were able to pay any of ittoday, and then the date that
you were going to pay it back.
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They had this list and that wastheir credit list and my mom
would literally just be like Ionly have like 25 bucks.
It's just like can I put theother five on credit?
And they're just like when areyou going to get paid?
And it's like the first of themonth.
Will you be in on the first ofthe month?
Absolutely.
So they would write it all downand then my mom, on the first
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of the month, would come in withthe five bucks.
It was nuts, but it wasn't justthat.
Like the local gas stationwould do that for us too, and
other people as well, not justmy family, other families within
the community.
They would seriously do thisfor us If you were a little
short or something like that.
You paid what you could andthen you paid the rest back when
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you can, and the thing is isthat you paid it because they
were doing you a solid, so youhave to do the solid, and it
worked out.
But then the eighties camearound and Reagan took office
and everything started shifting.
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All of a sudden, welfare was aproblem.
Like the moms on welfare werean issue.
Actually, just families onwelfare were an issue.
They were feeding off thesystem, and this is when
corporations, as well asreligion, started their rise.
Now, tv evangelicals werereally starting to take off in
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the 80s and I swear to God,reagan had them over, and I
swear that one of the reasonswhy we are at where we're at
today is because they prayed forthe soul of this nation to be
saved.
I'm not joking.
I really honestly think thatthat is how they phrased it and
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I think they thought that theywere the ones who was going to
save this.
But I don't think that's theway it's going to work.
Just a little hint I grew up inreligion.
I grew up in a Baptist church.
So I grew up in religion.
I grew up in a Baptist church.
My family took me because theysaid it was important to know
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what people are very passionateabout, and one of those things
is religion, and you need toknow people's different
religions in order to see wherethey are passionate about and
what their morals and standardsare.
Now, moral and standards, now,I don't think really exist, and
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the reason why I don't thinkthat they exist is because a lot
of us don't love ourselvesenough in this time period,
because we have literally hadcorporations break us down in
order to sell us more stuff, sothey make us feel like shit in
order to fill the void of theemptiness that we feel within
ourselves that they created, wenow can fill it with their shit.
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So that brand new car, thatcertain look you want to look,
it's just like it is just tofill that empty void within
yourself.
But if you actually loveyourself, you don't question
that, you don't question yourvalue, you don't question your
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beliefs.
You actually have standards andyou expect people to kind of
raise up to those standards, andthat, I think, is something
that we are severely lacking.
Hot take.
But let's get back to ReaganNow.
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The evangelicals were prayingfor salvation of our great
country.
From there, what has ended uphappening is that they have
become into power.
They have approached everythingin the way of hatred and not
loving your brother.
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So I kind of question yourreligion, because every religion
says that you're supposed to goout and be a prophet for God.
Now, when I think of a prophetfor God, your actions and your
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words match.
They speak together.
So I am not out of alignmentwith God's words.
My actions and his words matchenergy.
I don't know of too manyChristians right now who
actually have that.
I haven't seen it in a reallylong time since the seventies.
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Honestly, there's been a fewpeople kind of scattered here
and there, but it's very rare toactually see somebody truly
authentically embracing that.
Think about it.
When was the last time you metsomebody like that?
It's been a while.
It's been too damn long.
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Tell me I'm wrong.
So from the TV evangelicals andthe religious fervor of the 80s,
we have now moved into the 90s.
The religious fervor of the 80s, we have now moved into the 90s
.
Okay, so the 90s were even moreso superficial than the 80s
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were.
It was all about heroin, chicGrunge.
Everything was just reallydirty in the 90s for some odd
reason and I never fullyunderstood like why.
It just didn't make any senseto me.
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The 90s were kind of yeah, funin fashion, great in music, but
just kind of shite in everythingelse.
At this point, gen X is justgetting into school, getting out
of college and trying to starttheir careers.
At this point, what has endedup happening is that the student
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loans that they had actuallystarted becoming predatory loans
while we were in school.
Thanks, guys, appreciated that,and also thank you, biden, for
fixing some of that and fuck thecurrent administration for
doubling down on uh, corruption.
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Thanks Also, in the ninetiesthere was Woodstock I the
revival, revival of woodstock,let's just say now this is just
after gen x is getting out ofcollege and we literally burnt
that shit to the ground.
That was not a joke.
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We literally burnt that shit tothe ground.
Thanks, lump biscuit, uh, mygeneration.
We literally burnt that shit tothe ground.
Thanks, lump Bizkit, mygeneration.
Basically, we burnt thatmotherfucker to the ground
because we realized at thatpoint that we had been lied to
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our entire lives that if youwork hard, if you do well,
you're do well.
You know you're going to getthat job, you're going to get
that family, you're going to getthat house, you're going to get
that car, you're going to havea life and it's going to be
glorious.
It's just going to be soamazing.
And you want to know something?
There were no jobs when we gotout of college.
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We struggled to find jobs.
They kept saying that we'rebeing lazy Squirrel.
I'm just trying to tell you.
This shit has been going onsince I graduated from high
school.
In college, it has not improved.
In fact, it has gotten 10 timesworse.
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That is the only thing that hashappened.
Before the nineties, you couldget away with one job, just one
job, but by the time thenineties came around, you needed
two jobs in order to make aliving.
Now I think we're up to likethree or four.
How are you supposed to have alife?
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You know life isn't supposed tobe about work.
Life let me give you a littlehint here is actually supposed
to be about lived experiences.
You decide that you want totake part in.
That isn't work.
I want to take part in art.
I want to take part in music.
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I want to take part in art.
I want to take part in music.
I want to take part inexperiencing things the taste of
food, how you grow the food.
But this isn't what we get.
Instead, we have all thisprocessed food that isn't good
for you in any way, shape, formor fashion, even if I try and do
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whole foods.
Is it genetically modified?
Because if so, if it'sgenetically modified, my body
may not be able to break it downas much as I love.
Okay, the fact that they weretrying to solve world hunger and
that was the original premiseof this it was originally to
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solve world hunger in theAfrican nations essentially is
what we were told when we weregrowing up as kids that why they
needed to modify grains isbecause if we modified the
grains and made it moreresilient, then it would be able
to grow in many differentenvironments and we wouldn't
have any of these droughts orfamines or anything like that.
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So this would kind of helpreduce that.
Okay, but now here we are, 30,40 years later and we have an
increase in gluten allergies.
Did you ever think that maybeit's the grains that we're using
, the stuff that we use to makepasta?
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It's wheat Modified, wheat,genetically modified.
But the crazy thing was is thatwhen they started doing this in
the 80s, it ended up losing alot of farms because of it,
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because the companies likeMonsanto Squirrel.
But I have mad respect for Gen Zbecause you have managed to do
something that we tried butdidn't do very well, but you are
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managing to piss off corporateAmerica.
Chef's kiss to you.
It's beautiful.
I have absolutely loved everysingle moment of watching them
bitch about you guys, and it hasbeen fantastic.
You guys stay strong on this,please.
It needs to change.
It has got to change.
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It was shit when I was young,okay, and that has been 30, 30
years, okay, yeah, well, 33years.
So I'm 53.
, yeah, 33.
Yeah, close enough.
Math.
Anyway, they just needed tofigure shit out.
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It isn't supposed to be thisdifficult.
Life really is supposed to besimple.
Do you want to know what it is?
I'm going to let you in on alittle secret.
Come here, come here.
We are meant to live life andhave experiences, not work
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experiences.
Experiences, that is not justwork.
That is not just work.
It is not just play.
It is experiences.
We have not really been allowedto do that and if you think
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about it like, our schoolsystems are really just supposed
to help us decide, as kids,what we like.
I mean, that's it.
It's just.
Am I good at math?
Am I good at science?
Am I good at baking?
Am I good at auto mechanics?
Am I good at welding?
Am I good at woodwork?
At auto mechanics?
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Am I good at welding?
Am I good at woodwork?
Do I like building more?
Do I like analytical stuff more?
Do I like thinking with mybrain?
Do I like leading with my heart?
What do I like to do?
That's all that school issupposed to be.
It's supposed to discover yourinner abilities of what you're
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here to do for the planet.
I mean, each one of us is partof a community and each one of
us has a gift.
Each one of us has a talent andyou're supposed to discover
that talent in in school, tofigure out what it is that you
can bring uniquely to the world.
That is just from you.
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And you want to know something.
Sometimes it's really smallshit.
It is like being a plumber andall of a sudden something bursts
and you have to help out thisperson.
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And you do, and you want toknow something.
It makes a difference in theirlives.
It doesn't have to be huge.
There's not like a huge globalimpact to everything that we do.
Like a huge global impact toeverything that we do.
I just have a little side notehere for Gen Z during story time
here.
I am so fricking proud of youguys.
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I really got to say this.
You guys do not get enoughcredit.
You have fucked with corporateAmerica and, god bless, it has
been delicious and beautiful towatch, and I really am.
I am cheering you guys off fromthe distance, okay, because I
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want you to keep doing this,because the more you do this,
the more corporate Americarealizes that they need to
change and it's time we needchange across the board.
I mean, everything has just ithasn't worked in a long time
because our belief system haschanged and you can't work on an
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old operating system.
We're operating on MicrosoftVista, okay, guys.
Yeah, that's what.
We're operating on microsoftvista.
Okay, guys, I think we need toupgrade a huge, motherfucking
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global upgrade.
So let's work on that insteadof the bullshit.
They're destroying everything.
So I'm going to quote Mel onthis.
Let them.
I don't like the way thatthey're doing it, don't get me
wrong.
It is cruel, it is hateful, itis bullshit what they are doing
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and how they are choosing to doit.
But the thing is Is that Allsystems kind of have to come
down and we get to rebuild itthe way the people Want to
rebuild it.
Think about that.
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That's a different way ofthinking about all this.
Yes, they are completelydestroying everything, but, my
lovelets, it's okay.
It's okay, we're going to helpyou rebuild.
Gen X doesn't want to be inpower.
Gen X has never wanted to be inpower.
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Gen X was just trying tosurvive.
Okay, that's all that Gen X wastrying to do.
And those of Gen X who want tobe in power, please step aside,
be there as support.
Let the younger generations,let the millennials, let the Gen
Z, let the Gen Alpha, determinehow we are going to do this,
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this new country that we'regoing to do, because, well, the
country is basically beingdestroyed from the inside out,
and that's okay, it really is.
It's going to be hell.
Don't get me wrong.
The most shocking thing is thatnobody is standing up to the
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power, no one is speaking truthto power, and the people who
have spoken truth have beenreally great.
So I want to congratulate Mattand Trey for good job, guys.
A billion dollars for 50fucking episodes.
Good job, guys.
A billion dollars for 50fucking episodes.
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And you knocked that firstepisode out of the fucking park.
I mean, you want to talk aboutspeaking truth to power?
That was hilarious and Ienjoyed every minute of it.
Same way with Stephen Colbert.
Please, my brother, keep up thefight Until they kick you off
in 10 months.
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Keep going, my man, keep going.
That's all I can do isencourage the rebellion.
I'm just a little person.
Honestly, I have no power.
I have no influence.
Maybe a little, but I have noinfluence.
Maybe a little, but I'm juststarting.
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Yeah, I'm just starting.
Let me repeat that again.
I'm just starting to be theinconvenient woman.
Yeah, you heard it.
Heritage Foundation.
Yeah, I'm coming for you, loveyou.
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Also, in the 90s, we also had arise of girl power.
Okay, the Spice Girls.
Do I need to mention anythingmore than those lovely ladies?
Ugh, who doesn't love the SpiceGirls?
Honestly, I enjoyed the shitout of it.
It was so much fun.
I mean, the women in musicduring that time period was
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magnificent.
It was magnificent, loved itand loved that girls were
actually being encouraged tofind their power, to find
themselves.
I mean, we've never had thatbefore.
In the entirety of lifetimes,I've never heard of any time in
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which girls were actually raisedto a higher level, of any time
in which girls were actuallyraised to a higher level, and it
was amazing and it was fun.
But the thing is is that duringthat time period, we
accidentally left men behind, weleft the boys behind and we
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didn't question how they weredoing, oddly enough, and I think
that that has kind of raisedourselves to the male loneliness
epidemic.
I'm using air quotes because,guys, you gotta evolve.
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Women have been evolving forcenturies.
We have been oppressed sincethe dawn of time.
But the thing is is that weneed to change our attitudes
about men and women because itno longer works.
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It's an old idea that no longerworks and I think we need to
realize that.
But the great thing is is thatwe can change that, because
that's a belief.
A belief can be changed Justlike that If you want it to.
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But you have to apply it, youhave to follow it and your
actions and words need to matchup.
Can you do that?
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Can you do that, guys?
Try it.
Try it, because I am going tohave a section of this podcast
is going to be challenging yourbeliefs, in which I'm going to
totally ask you guys tochallenge what you believe.
Because, let's face it, datingsucks.
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It has been horrible.
It has been terrible and, if Iknow, right here and now, after
meeting you for like fiveminutes, that our vibe is not
vibing.
Why can't I just leave?
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Why do I have to be nice?
Why do I have to sit here andstay and endure a however long
date?
Get rid of each other If youknow, instantaneously just say
look, this isn't working for me.
I don't think that we are aright fit.
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I wish you well in your life,but I think I'm going to go.
Have fun, enjoy your night andI'll see you later.
Why can't we do that?
Wouldn't that solve a lot ofproblems?
I mean, you're not playing anygames with this person.
You're being honest.
It's not that you hate them,it's just that you don't connect
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.
And not everybody in this wholeentire world are your people.
That's a key thing right there.
There's millions of people inthis world.
Not everybody is going to likeyou.
Not everybody has to like you.
Like you, not everybody on thisplanet has to like you, and you
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have to be okay with that.
You have to be okay with thatwithin yourself.
Can you do that?
That's something that youshould strive for because,
honestly, it is not personal.
It should never be personal.
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That somebody doesn't like you,it's okay, it's all right.
They're not your people.
But when you're not acting asyourself, out in public, who you
genuinely, truly authenticallyare, you will never find the
right people, never.
You have to show up as yourselfon dates when you meet people
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for job interviews, otherwiseyou're lying to them.
You're lying who you are, soyou're not getting a genuine
connection with people becauseyou are not generally connected
to yourself and you areexternalizing that and showing
that to the world and nobody isseeing the authentic.
You Think about that.
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Something I forgot to say isthat at the end of each episode
I'm going to put up a popculture list of all the music,
art, theater, films and stuffthat I have recommended.
Check them out.
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You might like it, you mightlearn something.
You might hate it, it's okay.
All right, my lovelets, this isyour Auntie Robin signing off.
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