Gen Z’s Greatest Battle Isn’t Economic—It’s Spiritual

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In this episode of Watchdog on Wall Street, Chris delivers a fiery message to Generation Z: you're in the middle of a war—a spiritual, cultural, and economic battle—and no one’s coming to save you. But if you accept the terrain, build real friendships, and protect your integrity, you can win.
 Here’s what you’ll hear:

• Why Gen Z is fighting a war unlike any generation before
• How cultural forces are dividing families, crushing ambition, and killing faith
• Why the real enemy isn’t over there—it’s everywhere
• The mindset shift needed to build a good life in a broken system
• And how Gen X can help—if you’re willing to dig deep and fight

 This isn’t doom and gloom. It’s a rallying cry. The future belongs to those who rise to meet it.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Gen Z, You're at war. I've had the pleasure to
well to deal with kids in both the millennial group
and also gen Z through a myriad of different ways,
whether it be working for us at Markowski Investments in
turning coming on and working for us as employees, or

(00:38):
going back to coaching and a quick funny story back
in the day coaching millennial groups, that'd be like two
two thousand and three, and yeah, I can get a
little salty when I was coaching, and I would call
the kids if they were acting as such another word
for kitty kat, and yeah, Dan was tough on them.

(01:02):
It's just my nature.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
One day they all came to practice wearing T shirts
with like kittens on it. I thought that was pretty clever. Anyway,
a little different now for gen Z, much much different.
As a matter of fact, actually, I had this sent
over to me. Listen, I'm gen X, gen X, and

(01:30):
I'm telling you right now do not do not go looking.
Do not go looking to baby boomers that generation for
any sort of help whatsoever. My generation has known that
for some time. Quite frankly, you at war, you at

(01:53):
war again, a different type of war. You're you're not
You're not. You know, you're not the you're not the
greatest generation being sent over to Stormer Beach at Normandy.
But you got to put yourself in a bit of

(02:13):
a war time mindset. I kid you not, I'm not
overstating this at all. I can see the numbers, I
see what things cost. I could see the reality of
the train. I don't bs anybody here on the program.

(02:34):
Just put to me again, it's Jordan Holt. Such. This
best way of thinking about your war is that it's
a spiritual war, of which the generation war is a
big part. Enemy isn't going to kill your kids. He
is gonna get you to do that, or get them
to kill themselves, or cause you to never have kids,

(02:56):
or cause them to choose mere survival over life. In
a way, the boys at Normandy had a simpler task.
The enemy was over there, and he was trying really
hard to kill you and your war. The enemy is
everywhere and nowhere. He's between you and your wife, you

(03:18):
and your parents, you and your friends, between your mind
and your heart, especially between your heart and God. It's
tough to face things like just getting a decent job,
being able to own a home, being able to raise
a family as war. But that's the way it is.
No human authority is coming to save you. Nothing is fair.

(03:41):
Every every legacy institution is corrupt and incompetent. You've been
listening to this program, you're well aware of that. You
have to you have to dig deep, as they say
old school, you got to dig date. You got to
dig deep, and you need to show some serious, intense courage,
which you need to find people who are capable of

(04:04):
being true friends, true brothers in arms, and learn how
to fight the fight again. You gotta you gotta accept
this real I was talking about accepting the reality of
the terrain. Keep your focus, keep your focus on what

(04:27):
is close to you. Family again, you know, try you're
trying to build. You don't need to build a zillion friends,
but you want to build quality friends. And again, superficial stuff,
You've got to throw that away again, You don't. Your

(04:54):
your integrity is everything, it really is. You don't start
selling it off. You don't start selling off pieces of
your soul little by little to get a little edge
here and a little edge there. That that is a
that's a really slippery slope. You don't want to head
down that path. Yeah, yeah, I'm a big believer. You

(05:15):
know you gotta go to church. Man, you gotta need
you gonna you need it. You know you gotta. You
gotta look for guidance, not from your cell phone, not
from social media, but from someone who really knows what
you're supposed to do, is knows what your talents and
abilities are. I guess see, you guys can do it.

(05:37):
Guys can do it again. I'm not arguing the fact
that things aren't completely extraordinary right now. In regards to
the costs of living where you're at. We talked about housing,
we talked about AI and a myriad of different things.
I'm just saying, hey, this is what it is. It
is what it is, and deal with it. And again,

(05:58):
look for people. Look for my generation. Okay, I look
at Generation X.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
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Speaker 2 (06:04):
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