January 14, 2026 • 24 mins
2026 is already shaping up to be a year of bold shifts, surprise comebacks, and trends nobody saw coming. On this episode of Patty and the Millennials, Patty Jackson sits down with the Millennials to break down what’s actually trending in 2026—from fashion and tech to dating, parenting, money, and pop culture.
Are we embracing digital detoxes or doubling down on AI? Is “soft life” still a thing, or are we entering our no-nonsense era? And which trends are we officially leaving behind?
Expect laughs, strong opinions, generational reality checks, and a few moments where everyone agrees… and many where they don’t.
🎧 Press play to hear what 2026 has in store—and which trends we’re keeping, questioning, or canceling altogether.
Are we embracing digital detoxes or doubling down on AI? Is “soft life” still a thing, or are we entering our no-nonsense era? And which trends are we officially leaving behind?
Expect laughs, strong opinions, generational reality checks, and a few moments where everyone agrees… and many where they don’t.
🎧 Press play to hear what 2026 has in store—and which trends we’re keeping, questioning, or canceling altogether.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Whether it's life, relationships, politics, or current events, nothing is
off limits. This is the Patty and the Millennials podcast,
powered by Independence Blue Cross, helping to bridge the gap
between baby boomers, gen X and millennials.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Cappy New Year, everybody. I think we still say that.
This is the podcast Conversation Patty and the Millennials, our
first podcast of the New Year. I'm Patti Jackson. I'm
a radio vet in Philadelphia about de mark forty four
years of doing this and I'm into podcasting. I've surrounded
myself with gen Z, jen X millennials, I'm the baby
(00:39):
boomer and we have great conversation. And with it being
the beginning of the year, we're going to talk about
trends of twenty twenty six. Reese Green, recent college graduate
from Saint Jose University. You're gonna kick us off and reeze.
We're going to talk about trends of twenty twenty Have
(01:01):
you ever heard of a chure romance?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What is a chore romance?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When you do your chores together. Guess on the day,
you wash dishes together, you vacuum together, you participate in
Detroit and the chores together because it's a great time
for you guys to be together.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm telling you right now that is very gen Z coded.
That is something my generation has done. I'm telling you
we find quality time and very intimate by just doing
simple chores together. That's what me and my girlfriend do.
She tells me that something that just makes her just
love me more, just seeing me help her out in
the kitchen or help take the trash out. So yes,
I believe in chores romance.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well. Gen Z also wants to go back to twenty sixteen,
ten years ago when Pokemon dominated, as well as crossword
puzzles and knite dancing. They say all these things are
are like coming back, spurred on by the nostalgia led
(02:08):
by gen Z.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Auntie, can we stop calling twenty twenty six twenty sixteen?
That was ten years ago. Everybody keeps on trying to
say this is a twenty sixteen year, twenty sixteen this, No.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It is not.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
We're nowhere close to that time. People just letting nostalgia
take over. Do I think it's gonna be a great year, Yes,
but I'm sick and tired of people saying this is
gonna be twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Representing our millennials, we've got Dasia. She is here, her
beautiful voice and her style. We're talking about trends of
twenty twenty six, and are you familiar with soft partying?
What this is actually something that really started in twenty
(02:54):
twenty five. More people want early evening dancing, is early
evening parties. You see the ditch days, you see the
day parties. So this is something that.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Is that what they're calling it? Yeah, okay, but now
I'm down for that. I want to be home and
in my bed, my road by a certain time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Social media with a playfulness and showing more joy. Sometimes
you look at social media and people are mean and
crazy and putting all their business down. Are you surprised
by that trend?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I think that's good because yeah, people are like over
I realize people are over sharing on social media and
it's a lot of negative stuff. Like I watched this
one creator on TikTok and for some reason she just
won't leave this guy alone. Every week she's posted in
her fight, she'll post for her black eye, and everyone
in the comments are like, what.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Is going on?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
And it just doesn't give any type of hope or.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Anything financial anxiety. That's true. I got that now a
lot of people think about the economy. When you think
about how expand so it is. Even to go to
the market, you have to be very pointed when you
do your shopping. But a lot of people are experiencing
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financial anxiety. You can be a boomer gen Z look
baby boomer.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah, I gotta think about what I'm spending, so I
know omens strict budget.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We got Dezi and the Other song Stress joining us
for podcasts Patty and the Millennials, Desia the trends of
twenty twenty six. Are you ready for robots that will
mow your lawn? What?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You're ready for robots to do anything for me?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, you know what it is. It's this whole AI
thing and now they're talking about robots that will mow
your lawn. Unbelievable, you know what.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I'm you know what, this reminds me of what mister
Orange making by any means necessary, no use for our
immigrant brothers and sisters. We have done it for years,
anything to get rid of valuable, lovable people.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
That just gets me off.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, what about health monitoring devices? More and more people
are going to be relying on this, and the downside
with this, the downside, it makes you so anxious if
you keep going to your health monitoring device for everything
your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, no, I agree with you. That is going to
make you anxious because such like our phones.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Notifications, you can't even function without a So if it's
something directly related to your health, I could see how
that would in turn make you anxious, which would what
produce stress? Which would what produce an issue? So I
don't think I feel it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This is the podcast Patty and the Millennials. I'm Patty Jackson,
and we're talking about the trends of twenty twenty six.
There's always trends. Literaria, Charleston, Chocolate, Divinity is joining us.
One of the trends, Toya, it's financial anxiety. Okay, that
(06:04):
that's a trend. There's a lot of people, I explain
different people are worried. People are worried about their finances.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah it, it's sad. So this is what I will
say to navigate through this season. And I am one
of those people. But God, the people who don't subscribe listen.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
I don't know how y'all handle y'all stuff like this,
but a lot of the times when you are going
through it, and you're doing everything that you can do
to you know, change your circumstances. It's at times when
you've done everything you can do, you really do have
to give it over to God.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You have to. And I know that sounds asinine to some.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
People because life tells you like, no, you gotta figure
it out, you gotta do this, this and that. But
sometimes you will wrap yourself it only creates more anxiety.
Think about it, sit, think about the discomfort of it,
how you're feeling in it, and come to some type
of calm mind that will lead you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
To your next step.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
But the biggest thing about financial anxiety, baby, you can't
let it just overtake your mind and drive yourself crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Just try to be as proactive as you can be.
This is a moment. Every bill ain't gonna get paid
on that do day. And that's okay. You're not alone.
But guess what.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
You might fall short, but you're gonna regroup because only
thing content in life is changed and your circumstances will
be sure to change for the better.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Another trend to twenty twenty six soft parties. Soft parties,
I what's it day parties?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Those people want to be in their.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Bed baby is nothing better when I can be home
by ten, rubbing my feet together, laid up. I'm all
for the soft party, day party, whatever you want to
call it, the early maman party, I'm for it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Sex Doctor Heather is joining us. She is a sexologist
and we're talking about some of the trends of twenty
twenty six. A lot of people are dealing with or
trying to tackle, financial anxiety. Does that surprise you.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
No, it doesn't. It's something that we've always dealt with,
but I think social media made it even bigger.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Are you ready for a robot to mow your lawn?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I am.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That doesn't scare you, That doesn't make you think of
the Jetsons?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Oh yeah, Oh that's funny.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I mean, I just don't want to do it. I
want to pay nobody else to do it either, But
I guess you do.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Have to pay the robots.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, speaking of robots, doctor Heather, emotional support robots. People
are going to be relying on emotional support robots. That's
when I think it goes too far.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You know, Patty as a therapist. I think I'm I'm
on the fence with this right because I do believe,
because I'm a psychotherapist. People need emotional support and when
they don't have anyone to get it from, or they
can't have an emotional support animal because.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Maybe they're allergic.
Speaker 10 (09:23):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I think a robot could be good with boundaries, though
I don't want the person to start replacing people, you know,
the support of people with the support of robots.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
So that's where it gets a little scary.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
For me, right, But I do think it would help
with some let's say, barriers and boundaries in place, like
some guidelines, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Writer and content creator Whitney Roberts is joining us. She
has the popular, the reclaimed, and she's got such a
powerful voice. Today we're talking about the trends of twenty
twenty six. Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I am not. I am never ready for this. You
always knock my thoughts on with me.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, my best one of them is social media with
a more personal touch, more joy, more play, because we're
in a world where negativity just just abounds. That's absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I love it.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Actually, I actually have seen a lot of this trend.
I love how people are embracing their whimsy. They're they're
using their they're finding their joy they're finding things that
make them happy, and they're saying, well, the world sucks anyway,
Why does my world have to suck? Why does my
world have to be dark and gray? And even that
like joy is resistance, joy is fundamental.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
To our lives.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And so I'm embracing that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Author Kimrie and Optist always wins. It's joining us are
podcast as conversation Patty and the millennials. So we're talking
about the trends of twenty twenty six I love love
this topic because we need to know what's trending, Kim,
are you ready?
Speaker 13 (11:13):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay. Gen Z wants us to go back to twenty sixteen,
where people did crossword puzzles and pokey Man and dance
challenges and knitting. Like they're finding things from back in
(11:35):
the day and they want to revisit them and redo them.
Does this surprise you that people are seeking throwbacks like this?
Speaker 13 (11:48):
No? No, actually no, because especially the ones you just describe. Patty,
I'm connected to peace and wellness. Think about how peaceful
are mothers and grandmothers were right when they were knitting. Yes,
they were yelling at us to turn off the lights
or cut those lights off, but they were real. That's
what they're reading the Bible, you know, doing crossword puzzles.
(12:10):
All of that is connected to peace and wellness. So
I'm not surprised at all. I love the idea of
the throwbacks, but I also I love the idea more
of being still, just being in your zone in wellness.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Love that soft partying is in Soft partying is when
the party starts early. Think of your your day parties,
think of your ditch days. Everybody wants to party early
so they can be in the bed by a certain time.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
I know that's right.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So that's a trend. Also, are you ready to have
a robot mow your lawn?
Speaker 13 (12:58):
Oh no, I no, no, no. I need to see
the Hernandez brothers starting in March, and that's who moves
my grasp.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
I'm good.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
I need human touch because I need to tell them
that you didn't get that pedge or that you need
to you know, do better on your edgin. No no no, no, no,
no nope, I need the human body for that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
We've got Lexi. And I love Lexi's voice because she
gets right to it. Lexi, She's she's a doula. Help
him bring these babies into the world maternal health. We're
talking about trends of twenty twenty six. Have you heard
of chure romance?
Speaker 14 (13:41):
No, sure romance.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, it's when you team up with your partner and
you do chores together, like you're going on a date.
What you're doing chores around your home?
Speaker 14 (13:55):
Oh okay, so like me and Mussa usually split line.
So but we would like do it like we're on
a date.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much, Okay, vacuum and all that stuff,
Like you're like, do it together, clean the bathroom together,
or the kitchen me them cook kits between suns.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
That what I could.
Speaker 14 (14:24):
Actually see how that might be positive, Like it makes
chores especially for the people that may like not be
into chores. It's like it can make it a little
more fun, a little more intimate.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Putting robots to use is like emotional support, LEXI, would
you like emotional support from a robot?
Speaker 15 (14:45):
No?
Speaker 14 (14:46):
So, I mean not theoretically speaking. I guess if it
was one of those things like you know how you
could put on those affirmation messages and it like repeats
all these positive things.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Or prayers or scriptures.
Speaker 14 (14:58):
But I could not it like rubbing my shoulder or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
That's creepy a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
What about a robot mowing your lawn?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Mowing my lawn?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yet it wouldn't bother you at all.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
No, it's like that vacuum robot.
Speaker 13 (15:15):
What's it called the roombus?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's like that.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So maybe chores.
Speaker 14 (15:21):
I don't know about interpersonal and guess what this has
come up, particularly for me as a doula, So like,
what would someone say if.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
There was a robot that doula? And most of the
moms are like.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, no, yeah, no, I don't like that part. No,
we need a human, We need a human in the room.
Speaker 16 (15:42):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
The trends of twenty twenty six, what can we look
forward to? Comedian Derek Lee is joining us And would
you want your emotional support from a robot?
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Oh no, Peter, Let see that the world has gone crazy,
emotional robotist fake. You need to get your a real friends.
You need to get somebody that can really hurt your
feelings when you need to hurt your feelings, somebody that
could cry with you. The world is gone crazy. This
whole generation's gone crazy. And if anybody that believes that
and wants to do that. You can tell him, I
(16:20):
call them crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay, what about a robot mowing your lawn?
Speaker 15 (16:25):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (16:25):
I take that now, I'll be the first one in line.
I'm a little disappointed because that's going to put a
whole lot of people out of work. Some of my
brown brothers won't be able to get that work.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That you're in. Broadcaster, Uncle Oh is joining us the
podcast Conversation Patty and the Millennials, and we're talking about
the trends of twenty twenty six. Uncle Oh, Are you
ready to hear them?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
You know, I'm excited because you always got really good ones.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay, well, you're a techie kind of guy. But when
you want emotional support from a robot physical yeah, a robot?
Speaker 16 (17:08):
Yeah see, it gets tricky because I love technology and
my emotional support is technology.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, would you want a robot to mow your lawn?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
No?
Speaker 9 (17:31):
I Well in that case, if you're talking like that,
then yes, because I already have one mop in my floors.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So you're you're ready to embrace this. No, I have
already embraced it.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Every my entire house is automated, lights, mop room. I
even have a dustpan that picks up the trash. I'll
sweep it in front of the dust pant and it
picks it up.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, let's continue on with these You know this new
system people relying more on their health monitoring devices. They're
not going to go to the doctor. They're gonna rely
on that device.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Oh no, you gotta go to the doctor. Now, you
can't rely on that the don't listen to that device.
That device will have you think you dying and all
you got is a rash.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We got Dexter, and we're talking about the trends of
the future. Dexter, you ready to hear them?
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Okay. Soft partying is bad.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
Soft partying.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
This is when people want to go to the day parties.
They want to go to the ditch parties, and they
know that they can be in their bed by ten,
ten thirty. They love that that it ends early.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
That's so old to me. I don't like that. I
feel like people my age, like millennials, doing stuff like that,
like get out of the way. That is for people
who are a little bit older who actually need that.
Y'all gotta take off vitamins.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, but guess what, say you're a recent new parent
like yourself. You want to be home. You ain't trying
to hang out to two or three in the morning.
You want to do all in that party and before
you could be in bed at a certain time.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
I take back what I said bringing them to the
soft party. You're completely right. I'm home before, I'm home
before us. You're right.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Social media with playfulness and joy. Some people are so
busy s viewing negativity on social media. They're so mean
and crazy and miserable, but they say that social media
with that personal touch and joy.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
I feel like I started this trend.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
I started this.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
This is what I do. I never post serious things.
Everything is a everything is funny on my social media pages.
People I was like, oh, you're trolling. I'm like yeah,
but but you laughed. You're not miserable.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So when you post that Cowboys are going to the
super Bowl, that's all like a joke.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Well, that I think is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I see, that's your premonition because you keep trying to
make us, convince us, and here we are, we all
sitting on the damn count together to get there. Pure romance.
Have you heard of that?
Speaker 15 (20:32):
Now?
Speaker 11 (20:32):
I know what that is? Okay, you'd be like, you'd
be like, you go ahead and cook that dinner. I'm
going to take the trash out and then we meet
in the bathroom and clean it up together.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So you do know about your romance. Okay, Okay, that's
your life. Okay. Dexter with the trends of twenty twenty
six the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials. We've got
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We're talking about the trends of twenty twenty six. Can
(21:05):
I give you some of them? Absolutely? Solve partying is back. No,
that's when the parties are early, your day parties, your
ditch day parties. You can be in a bid ten o'clock.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
That's my type of party.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Are you surprised at this trend? And it's not just
older people the boomers who are like, we want to
day party. Younger people are really getting into it. Does
that surprise you?
Speaker 17 (21:33):
It doesn't surprise me. And depending on the season, it
definitely makes sense, especially the colder months. I know, for me,
if it's after six pm that sun is down, I
know it's very cold outside and I.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Want to be very cute.
Speaker 17 (21:46):
So I make sure that I'm at my venue at
least if it's brunch, at least two three pm, and
I am out the door at six pm to make
sure that I am covered and warm.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's about the outphit. It's about the outphit. It's Patty.
What about let's get into a Jetson like conversation. Would
you be opposed to having a robot mow your lawn?
Speaker 17 (22:11):
No, not at all, if that will tack off a
couple of years in time off.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Of my busy schedule.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Sign me up right now.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Radio Vett.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Austin Fanelle is joining us. This is the podcast conversation
Patty and the Millennials, and we're talking about trends of
twenty twenty six. Austin, are you familiar with sure romance?
Speaker 15 (22:42):
Sure romance?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Mm?
Speaker 15 (22:43):
Hm, this is one thought.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, this is when you mix dating and housework together,
like Darling, let's clean the house together. You vacuum, I'll
do the microwave, we'll do the kitchen together, and you
kind of make it sexy.
Speaker 15 (23:02):
That's the cute idea for a couple who've been together
for a certain amount of time already they lived together, maybe,
but I wouldn't go like asking some woman that you
just met, Hey, you want to come over and help
me clean my house? Because ain't nobody doing that?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But wait, Austin, you can't put it past people anything.
It happened in this in today's dating world, you know,
there's pea in the water, there's pa in the day
in dat world.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
How soft or.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Social media with a more personal touch and more joy
some people are so mean and unkind your thoughts on
a social media standpoint really bringing more joy.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
I think we're all like kind of going through a
social media and detox because I think, especially in the
past few years, it's just been like so toxic. There's
a lot of politically charged anger and emotions. So I
feel like a lot of us just want to like
take a step back from social media and like get
back to touch and grass and like hanging out with
friends and putting more emphasis on posting things on social
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media that actually mean something to us rather than like
posting from a performance standpoint.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
You know, that is definitely back in Austin for now.
Thank you so much. This is the podcast conversation Patty
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Cappy New Year, everybody. I think we still say that.
This is the podcast Conversation Patty and the Millennials, our
first podcast of the New Year. I'm Patti Jackson. I'm
a radio vet in Philadelphia about de mark forty four
years of doing this and I'm into podcasting. I've surrounded
myself with gen Z, jen X millennials, I'm the baby
(00:39):
boomer and we have great conversation. And with it being
the beginning of the year, we're going to talk about
trends of twenty twenty six. Reese Green, recent college graduate
from Saint Jose University. You're gonna kick us off and reeze.
We're going to talk about trends of twenty twenty Have
(01:01):
you ever heard of a chure romance?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What is a chore romance?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
When you do your chores together. Guess on the day,
you wash dishes together, you vacuum together, you participate in
Detroit and the chores together because it's a great time
for you guys to be together.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm telling you right now that is very gen Z coded.
That is something my generation has done. I'm telling you
we find quality time and very intimate by just doing
simple chores together. That's what me and my girlfriend do.
She tells me that something that just makes her just
love me more, just seeing me help her out in
the kitchen or help take the trash out. So yes,
I believe in chores romance.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well. Gen Z also wants to go back to twenty sixteen,
ten years ago when Pokemon dominated, as well as crossword
puzzles and knite dancing. They say all these things are
are like coming back, spurred on by the nostalgia led
(02:08):
by gen Z.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Auntie, can we stop calling twenty twenty six twenty sixteen?
That was ten years ago. Everybody keeps on trying to
say this is a twenty sixteen year, twenty sixteen this, No.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It is not.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
We're nowhere close to that time. People just letting nostalgia
take over. Do I think it's gonna be a great year, Yes,
but I'm sick and tired of people saying this is
gonna be twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Representing our millennials, we've got Dasia. She is here, her
beautiful voice and her style. We're talking about trends of
twenty twenty six, and are you familiar with soft partying?
What this is actually something that really started in twenty
(02:54):
twenty five. More people want early evening dancing, is early
evening parties. You see the ditch days, you see the
day parties. So this is something that.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Is that what they're calling it? Yeah, okay, but now
I'm down for that. I want to be home and
in my bed, my road by a certain time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Social media with a playfulness and showing more joy. Sometimes
you look at social media and people are mean and
crazy and putting all their business down. Are you surprised
by that trend?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I think that's good because yeah, people are like over
I realize people are over sharing on social media and
it's a lot of negative stuff. Like I watched this
one creator on TikTok and for some reason she just
won't leave this guy alone. Every week she's posted in
her fight, she'll post for her black eye, and everyone
in the comments are like, what.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Is going on?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
And it just doesn't give any type of hope or.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Anything financial anxiety. That's true. I got that now a
lot of people think about the economy. When you think
about how expand so it is. Even to go to
the market, you have to be very pointed when you
do your shopping. But a lot of people are experiencing
(04:10):
financial anxiety. You can be a boomer gen Z look
baby boomer.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah, I gotta think about what I'm spending, so I
know omens strict budget.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
We got Dezi and the Other song Stress joining us
for podcasts Patty and the Millennials, Desia the trends of
twenty twenty six. Are you ready for robots that will
mow your lawn? What?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
You're ready for robots to do anything for me?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, you know what it is. It's this whole AI
thing and now they're talking about robots that will mow
your lawn. Unbelievable, you know what.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
I'm you know what, this reminds me of what mister
Orange making by any means necessary, no use for our
immigrant brothers and sisters. We have done it for years,
anything to get rid of valuable, lovable people.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
That just gets me off.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, what about health monitoring devices? More and more people
are going to be relying on this, and the downside
with this, the downside, it makes you so anxious if
you keep going to your health monitoring device for everything
your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, no, I agree with you. That is going to
make you anxious because such like our phones.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Notifications, you can't even function without a So if it's
something directly related to your health, I could see how
that would in turn make you anxious, which would what
produce stress? Which would what produce an issue? So I
don't think I feel it.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This is the podcast Patty and the Millennials. I'm Patty Jackson,
and we're talking about the trends of twenty twenty six.
There's always trends. Literaria, Charleston, Chocolate, Divinity is joining us.
One of the trends, Toya, it's financial anxiety. Okay, that
(06:04):
that's a trend. There's a lot of people, I explain
different people are worried. People are worried about their finances.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah it, it's sad. So this is what I will
say to navigate through this season. And I am one
of those people. But God, the people who don't subscribe listen.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
I don't know how y'all handle y'all stuff like this,
but a lot of the times when you are going
through it, and you're doing everything that you can do
to you know, change your circumstances. It's at times when
you've done everything you can do, you really do have
to give it over to God.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You have to. And I know that sounds asinine to some.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
People because life tells you like, no, you gotta figure
it out, you gotta do this, this and that. But
sometimes you will wrap yourself it only creates more anxiety.
Think about it, sit, think about the discomfort of it,
how you're feeling in it, and come to some type
of calm mind that will lead you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
To your next step.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
But the biggest thing about financial anxiety, baby, you can't
let it just overtake your mind and drive yourself crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Just try to be as proactive as you can be.
This is a moment. Every bill ain't gonna get paid
on that do day. And that's okay. You're not alone.
But guess what.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
You might fall short, but you're gonna regroup because only
thing content in life is changed and your circumstances will
be sure to change for the better.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Another trend to twenty twenty six soft parties. Soft parties,
I what's it day parties?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Those people want to be in their.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
Bed baby is nothing better when I can be home
by ten, rubbing my feet together, laid up. I'm all
for the soft party, day party, whatever you want to
call it, the early maman party, I'm for it.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Sex Doctor Heather is joining us. She is a sexologist
and we're talking about some of the trends of twenty
twenty six. A lot of people are dealing with or
trying to tackle, financial anxiety. Does that surprise you.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
No, it doesn't. It's something that we've always dealt with,
but I think social media made it even bigger.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Are you ready for a robot to mow your lawn?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I am.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
That doesn't scare you, That doesn't make you think of
the Jetsons?
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Oh yeah, Oh that's funny.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
I mean, I just don't want to do it. I
want to pay nobody else to do it either, But
I guess you do.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Have to pay the robots.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, speaking of robots, doctor Heather, emotional support robots. People
are going to be relying on emotional support robots. That's
when I think it goes too far.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
You know, Patty as a therapist. I think I'm I'm
on the fence with this right because I do believe,
because I'm a psychotherapist. People need emotional support and when
they don't have anyone to get it from, or they
can't have an emotional support animal because.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Maybe they're allergic.
Speaker 10 (09:23):
I'm all for it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
I think a robot could be good with boundaries, though
I don't want the person to start replacing people, you know,
the support of people with the support of robots.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
So that's where it gets a little scary.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
For me, right, But I do think it would help
with some let's say, barriers and boundaries in place, like
some guidelines, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Writer and content creator Whitney Roberts is joining us. She
has the popular, the reclaimed, and she's got such a
powerful voice. Today we're talking about the trends of twenty
twenty six. Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I am not. I am never ready for this. You
always knock my thoughts on with me.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, my best one of them is social media with
a more personal touch, more joy, more play, because we're
in a world where negativity just just abounds. That's absolutely true.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I love it.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Actually, I actually have seen a lot of this trend.
I love how people are embracing their whimsy. They're they're
using their they're finding their joy they're finding things that
make them happy, and they're saying, well, the world sucks anyway,
Why does my world have to suck? Why does my
world have to be dark and gray? And even that
like joy is resistance, joy is fundamental.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
To our lives.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And so I'm embracing that.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Author Kimrie and Optist always wins. It's joining us are
podcast as conversation Patty and the millennials. So we're talking
about the trends of twenty twenty six I love love
this topic because we need to know what's trending, Kim,
are you ready?
Speaker 13 (11:13):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay. Gen Z wants us to go back to twenty sixteen,
where people did crossword puzzles and pokey Man and dance
challenges and knitting. Like they're finding things from back in
(11:35):
the day and they want to revisit them and redo them.
Does this surprise you that people are seeking throwbacks like this?
Speaker 13 (11:48):
No? No, actually no, because especially the ones you just describe. Patty,
I'm connected to peace and wellness. Think about how peaceful
are mothers and grandmothers were right when they were knitting. Yes,
they were yelling at us to turn off the lights
or cut those lights off, but they were real. That's
what they're reading the Bible, you know, doing crossword puzzles.
(12:10):
All of that is connected to peace and wellness. So
I'm not surprised at all. I love the idea of
the throwbacks, but I also I love the idea more
of being still, just being in your zone in wellness.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Love that soft partying is in Soft partying is when
the party starts early. Think of your your day parties,
think of your ditch days. Everybody wants to party early
so they can be in the bed by a certain time.
Speaker 11 (12:46):
I know that's right.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
So that's a trend. Also, are you ready to have
a robot mow your lawn?
Speaker 13 (12:58):
Oh no, I no, no, no. I need to see
the Hernandez brothers starting in March, and that's who moves
my grasp.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
I'm good.
Speaker 13 (13:07):
I need human touch because I need to tell them
that you didn't get that pedge or that you need
to you know, do better on your edgin. No no no, no, no,
no nope, I need the human body for that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
We've got Lexi. And I love Lexi's voice because she
gets right to it. Lexi, She's she's a doula. Help
him bring these babies into the world maternal health. We're
talking about trends of twenty twenty six. Have you heard
of chure romance?
Speaker 14 (13:41):
No, sure romance.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, it's when you team up with your partner and
you do chores together, like you're going on a date.
What you're doing chores around your home?
Speaker 14 (13:55):
Oh okay, so like me and Mussa usually split line.
So but we would like do it like we're on
a date.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, pretty much, pretty much, Okay, vacuum and all that stuff,
Like you're like, do it together, clean the bathroom together,
or the kitchen me them cook kits between suns.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
That what I could.
Speaker 14 (14:24):
Actually see how that might be positive, Like it makes
chores especially for the people that may like not be
into chores. It's like it can make it a little
more fun, a little more intimate.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Putting robots to use is like emotional support, LEXI, would
you like emotional support from a robot?
Speaker 15 (14:45):
No?
Speaker 14 (14:46):
So, I mean not theoretically speaking. I guess if it
was one of those things like you know how you
could put on those affirmation messages and it like repeats
all these positive things.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Or prayers or scriptures.
Speaker 14 (14:58):
But I could not it like rubbing my shoulder or
something like that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
That's creepy a little bit.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
What about a robot mowing your lawn?
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Mowing my lawn?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yet it wouldn't bother you at all.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
No, it's like that vacuum robot.
Speaker 13 (15:15):
What's it called the roombus?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's like that.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So maybe chores.
Speaker 14 (15:21):
I don't know about interpersonal and guess what this has
come up, particularly for me as a doula, So like,
what would someone say if.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
There was a robot that doula? And most of the
moms are like.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
No, no, yeah, no, I don't like that part. No,
we need a human, We need a human in the room.
Speaker 16 (15:42):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
The trends of twenty twenty six, what can we look
forward to? Comedian Derek Lee is joining us And would
you want your emotional support from a robot?
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Oh no, Peter, Let see that the world has gone crazy,
emotional robotist fake. You need to get your a real friends.
You need to get somebody that can really hurt your
feelings when you need to hurt your feelings, somebody that
could cry with you. The world is gone crazy. This
whole generation's gone crazy. And if anybody that believes that
and wants to do that. You can tell him, I
(16:20):
call them crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Okay, what about a robot mowing your lawn?
Speaker 15 (16:25):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (16:25):
I take that now, I'll be the first one in line.
I'm a little disappointed because that's going to put a
whole lot of people out of work. Some of my
brown brothers won't be able to get that work.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That you're in. Broadcaster, Uncle Oh is joining us the
podcast Conversation Patty and the Millennials, and we're talking about
the trends of twenty twenty six. Uncle Oh, Are you
ready to hear them?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
You know, I'm excited because you always got really good ones.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Okay, well, you're a techie kind of guy. But when
you want emotional support from a robot physical yeah, a robot?
Speaker 16 (17:08):
Yeah see, it gets tricky because I love technology and
my emotional support is technology.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, would you want a robot to mow your lawn?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
No?
Speaker 9 (17:31):
I Well in that case, if you're talking like that,
then yes, because I already have one mop in my floors.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So you're you're ready to embrace this. No, I have
already embraced it.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Every my entire house is automated, lights, mop room. I
even have a dustpan that picks up the trash. I'll
sweep it in front of the dust pant and it
picks it up.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Okay, let's continue on with these You know this new
system people relying more on their health monitoring devices. They're
not going to go to the doctor. They're gonna rely
on that device.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Oh no, you gotta go to the doctor. Now, you
can't rely on that the don't listen to that device.
That device will have you think you dying and all
you got is a rash.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We got Dexter, and we're talking about the trends of
the future. Dexter, you ready to hear them?
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Yes, I am.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Okay. Soft partying is bad.
Speaker 11 (18:40):
Soft partying.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
This is when people want to go to the day parties.
They want to go to the ditch parties, and they
know that they can be in their bed by ten,
ten thirty. They love that that it ends early.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
That's so old to me. I don't like that. I
feel like people my age, like millennials, doing stuff like that,
like get out of the way. That is for people
who are a little bit older who actually need that.
Y'all gotta take off vitamins.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, but guess what, say you're a recent new parent
like yourself. You want to be home. You ain't trying
to hang out to two or three in the morning.
You want to do all in that party and before
you could be in bed at a certain time.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
I take back what I said bringing them to the
soft party. You're completely right. I'm home before, I'm home
before us. You're right.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Social media with playfulness and joy. Some people are so
busy s viewing negativity on social media. They're so mean
and crazy and miserable, but they say that social media
with that personal touch and joy.
Speaker 11 (19:53):
I feel like I started this trend.
Speaker 13 (19:55):
I started this.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
This is what I do. I never post serious things.
Everything is a everything is funny on my social media pages.
People I was like, oh, you're trolling. I'm like yeah,
but but you laughed. You're not miserable.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So when you post that Cowboys are going to the
super Bowl, that's all like a joke.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Well, that I think is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I see, that's your premonition because you keep trying to
make us, convince us, and here we are, we all
sitting on the damn count together to get there. Pure romance.
Have you heard of that?
Speaker 15 (20:32):
Now?
Speaker 11 (20:32):
I know what that is? Okay, you'd be like, you'd
be like, you go ahead and cook that dinner. I'm
going to take the trash out and then we meet
in the bathroom and clean it up together.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So you do know about your romance. Okay, Okay, that's
your life. Okay. Dexter with the trends of twenty twenty
six the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials. We've got
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We're talking about the trends of twenty twenty six. Can
(21:05):
I give you some of them? Absolutely? Solve partying is back. No,
that's when the parties are early, your day parties, your
ditch day parties. You can be in a bid ten o'clock.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
That's my type of party.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Are you surprised at this trend? And it's not just
older people the boomers who are like, we want to
day party. Younger people are really getting into it. Does
that surprise you?
Speaker 17 (21:33):
It doesn't surprise me. And depending on the season, it
definitely makes sense, especially the colder months. I know, for me,
if it's after six pm that sun is down, I
know it's very cold outside and I.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Want to be very cute.
Speaker 17 (21:46):
So I make sure that I'm at my venue at
least if it's brunch, at least two three pm, and
I am out the door at six pm to make
sure that I am covered and warm.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's about the outphit. It's about the outphit. It's Patty.
What about let's get into a Jetson like conversation. Would
you be opposed to having a robot mow your lawn?
Speaker 17 (22:11):
No, not at all, if that will tack off a
couple of years in time off.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Of my busy schedule.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Sign me up right now.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Radio Vett.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Austin Fanelle is joining us. This is the podcast conversation
Patty and the Millennials, and we're talking about trends of
twenty twenty six. Austin, are you familiar with sure romance?
Speaker 15 (22:42):
Sure romance?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Mm?
Speaker 15 (22:43):
Hm, this is one thought.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, this is when you mix dating and housework together,
like Darling, let's clean the house together. You vacuum, I'll
do the microwave, we'll do the kitchen together, and you
kind of make it sexy.
Speaker 15 (23:02):
That's the cute idea for a couple who've been together
for a certain amount of time already they lived together, maybe,
but I wouldn't go like asking some woman that you
just met, Hey, you want to come over and help
me clean my house? Because ain't nobody doing that?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
But wait, Austin, you can't put it past people anything.
It happened in this in today's dating world, you know,
there's pea in the water, there's pa in the day
in dat world.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
How soft or.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Social media with a more personal touch and more joy
some people are so mean and unkind your thoughts on
a social media standpoint really bringing more joy.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
I think we're all like kind of going through a
social media and detox because I think, especially in the
past few years, it's just been like so toxic. There's
a lot of politically charged anger and emotions. So I
feel like a lot of us just want to like
take a step back from social media and like get
back to touch and grass and like hanging out with
friends and putting more emphasis on posting things on social
(24:16):
media that actually mean something to us rather than like
posting from a performance standpoint.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
You know, that is definitely back in Austin for now.
Thank you so much. This is the podcast conversation Patty
and the Millennials where me and the baby boomer I
gather up the millennials, gen X, gen y, men, women
and everybody for what a great conversation. And you can
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