Everything Is Content - Anne Hathaway Pregnancy Discourse, Unbearable Heatwaves & Gen Bedroom

Episode Date: June 26, 2026

Hello EIClimate worriers, we're back with a new episode spanning heatwaves, hot wedding fashion and a temperature check on Gen Z's futures.First up, our dear, dear friend Dua got married recently and kindly shared *the* dress publicly last weekend. Was it an EIC slay or nay? Find out. We also wade into the most ridiculous discourse we've ever encountered, arguably – all centred on Anne Hathaway's pregnancy.Then there's only one subject on the UK's mind right now: heatwave. We dive into the frustrating and unreasonable online discourse around the climate. And finally, Generation Bedroom. No, these aren't fun teens sleeping in; they're a generation of unemployed, disenfranchised young people pushed out of jobs and entering the world. Thank you for listening to us this week! Remember to keep hydrated and stay safe in the heat. Love O,R.B xoxoThis week Ruchira watched The Alien Autopsy Scandal and read I Who Have Never Known Men. Oenone loved Legends, Rivals s2 & The Harry Styles tour (as did Beth). Beth also recommended Fantastic Mr Fox.-----Dua Lipa Has Finally Revealed Her Wedding Dress – And It Took 1,155 Hours To MakeHow hot a 1976-style heatwave would be todayWhy even a mild UK heatwave can feel hotter than America's worstPop Crave's Anne Hathaway tweetWomen who postpone having babies until they are older make happier parents, study findsWomen Who Give Birth in Their Thirties Have Longer Telomeres, a Marker of Healthy Cellular AgingYoung people and work: interim reportBeing NEET in early adulthood has scarring effect into midlifeYoung bearing the brunt of UK tax and wage changes, says BoE economistNumber of job vacancies hits five year-low Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Beth. I'm Ruchera. And I'm Anoni. And this is Everything is Content, the podcast that is across every single story on the internet so you can sit back and take a break from scrolling as we reveal just how chronically online we truly are. With a hand-embroidered beads and feathers embellishing the couture of content.

I wish you'd just said Coochie. This week on the podcast, Dewe has finally let us have a look at her wedding dress climate change is feeling more than real and everyone is cross at Anne Hathaway for being pregnant at 43. You can follow us on Instagram and TikTok at Everything's Content pod for behind the scenes content

and a chance to wade in on future topics and please also make sure you've hit follow on your podcast player app so you never miss an episode. So last time we did this I feel like I was giddy, I was still slightly drunk, everything was fantastic. I am hot, I'm sweaty, and miserable.

We're going to talk about the heat wave later, but I'm not even going to be cross if neither of you have an answer to this because we're in survival mode. But what have you both been loving this week? Okay, so I have an update. I promise I'm not going to make aliens my beat, but I did actually watch that documentary. I promised I was going to last week. So it's called the Alien Autopsy Scandal and it's a Sky documentary. And I didn't know anything about this. I guess it literally came out the year before, no, wait, the year after I was born in 1995.

There was this video that two filmmakers released that seemed to be behind the scenes footage of American officials dissecting an alien. And it went astronomically viral, more viral than is possible. Yes, before our very modern internet age. It's got access to the people behind the video. And they still claim that essentially, even though it turned out to be a hoax, the story is much more complicated. They say they got real footage. when they show the footage again to somebody it oxidised. So they had to recreate 95% of it, but 5% of it is real.

And they've included it in the video. So it's so complicated, so bizarre, so strange, so interesting. Did you guys know about the autopsy video before? Yes, because wasn't there like a spoof film called like Alien Autopsy that was like a comedy, I think based on it. I could have made that up. I'm fairly certain that's true. I do remember hearing about this.

And maybe when I was younger, I think I remember reading it somewhere. Obviously it wouldn't have been in the Guinness World Records, but you know those kind of weird books we used to get that were like quite big books that would be about Mr. Ripley and stuff. Yeah, I was obsessed with books about like aliens, also was obsessed with like ancient Egypt and mummifying. Yeah. I do vaguely remember this story.

But are you more convinced about the aliens? Obviously Ryan thinks it's completely true. Yes. Does he? He's like, it's so obviously true. And he was like, he was a truther since he was in year two. He said that verbatim to me yesterday. Oh, we love a lot.

man at least. You know, he is loyal to the cause. I don't know. I find the whole thing so bizarre and it really challenges me. I think of myself and I used to be a fact checker. I used to work in disinformation stuff. So I find it so difficult to engage with this stuff without getting a bit sucked in, then feeling like a freak and then just finding it also confusing. I'm thrilled by the documentary. I find it really enjoyable. I just can't land on anywhere with it and I can't give you an answer, to be honest. But you'll never, you know, that's the point. It's you'll never know for sure. unless you see an alien. What is it?

It's like faith is belief without proof. So you've just got to have faith, make aliens your religion. I've looked this up actually. It does look like something I would enjoy. When you said at first, I thought it was going to be one of those. You know, the channels that buried like 900 deep

and they're really rogue. Like my granddad used to watch him would be like Judge Judy, followed by, you know, car chases on the I-99 and then something about aliens, something about ancient Rome. I was like, oh my God, him sitting in his lazy boy chair.

But actually, this does look like something I would watch. But yeah, it's basically, We promise it's real. It's just some guys being like, we promise we saw the vertage. If they seem credible, they could probably win me over. That's the thing. It's when people, for no reason at this point, decades after, are saying, I saw it. And then also they're claiming all of this mad stuff like they were followed. One of them was beaten up days prior to the release of the video by a group of men who said, are you and then said his name. A separate former RAF soldier from the US they've interviewed, said on his first day on the job, he'd seen a video similar to it. And there's just

so many people claiming it's true that when you're faced with them, it's like, am I going to be like you're all liars? I don't know. It's just so baffling. But it's also just, it's hard to feel with certainty that this can be true because it's also like you say, people's accounts. On the flip side, I would say to a load of flat earthers, like you're lying. Oh, a thousand percent. So quickly, I know we're talking about names that have gone obsolete, but Beth, you just made me realize, I think the granddad and grandma chair has gone obsolete. Like when I went to my granny's house, they had their own chairs and you could not sit on them. My parents, my parents, who are not their own chair. Oh, see, my dad's recently got his own chair, but it's not. And it does. It goes back and it goes, but it's not. So my granddad's one is a proper, like, leather, lazy boys had it forever. Like, it is literally stained with his jeans because he wears like blue jeans and he will sit down in it. And it's a very, like, beloved family object. My dad has got a nice fancy, artistic-looking one. Like, it still goes back, but it's like a piece of art. So I think the granddad chair is not, I mean, my dad's not a granddad yet.

But it's, I think the object itself has not died. It has just reinvented itself as something a little bit sleeker. Because my grandad's, I remember it was floral. It was kind of like those ones that look a bit like curtains. But I did think that it also did, had a higher back. It might have had like a leg extension scenario. You weren't allowed to sit in it. And then my granny sat in the chair next to it.

They'd sat next to each other facing the TV. It was really cute. I quite like that. Okay, I do have one more. So I mentioned it in our bonus that came out earlier this week, but I also read, I who have never known men, and I sometimes feel like if you struggle with a book, everyone's always like, it's okay, life's too short, put it down. But this is a book that I struggled with, but I also am so glad that I persevered and got through it. And that sounds like an insult, and I really don't mean it like that. I feel forever happy that I'll be able to bring this up

in a conversation where it's relevant and say, oh yeah, this book, like, is related to this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I feel like it's changed my perspective on that feeling of if you struggle with a book, Life's Too Short, Put It Down. I think sometimes it's really good to have one in a rotation where it's like an uncomfortable read. It's kind of challenging. It's not a easy, peasy, thrillery type thing. You have a different kind of diet, I guess, you're reading. Have you guys read this? I haven't read it, but it has been on my list for a while. But I also get really torn with that thing about, you know, Lives Too Short, Don't Finish a Book. Unless I think it's genuinely a bad book. If it's really bad and you're thinking this is actually kind of waste my time,

then don't. But I think if it's because it's hard, like you were saying, well, like, but it's some way going to be useful. Because I have said that to people, but privately, I would feel like devastated if I didn't finish a book I started. Yeah. I've read it and I did really love this book. I read it on holiday some years ago and it was one of those holidays when I was reading about 14 books. And it was one of the ones where I went, struggling to get over the hump of this. And then I finished it. I must tell everyone about this book and I must recommend it. So I really got a lot from this book. I've not forgotten the premise, but maybe if you can remind people, because I'm like, apocalyptic ladies, under the bunker. So I think you might need to fill everyone in because it's such

a good premise. So it is told from the perspective of a kind of teenage girl. She's not even certain of her age because she's basically grown up most of her life in captivity. She is surrounded by 40-ish women in a bunker. The rest of them are much older. And she's, She has never had many of the life experiences of freedom, just normal life, really. Her formative memories, most of her memories are just being raised in this bunker in captivity. So things like going to the toilet with everyone around you and not having privacy, that is normal to her, whereas to everyone else, they dream of having that freedom again. So it's really, really fascinating to imagine such a different perspective from somebody

who otherwise should have had so many of the same life experiences that we've all had. But there's so many good theories about it, which maybe we'll do this off. and then if anyone's read it, they can join in because there's so many theories about like, why they're in this bunker, which I just find so fascinating. And I read it and I was like, oh my God, this book. And it's like from 1995 or something,

some French book. I was like, this is just brilliant. I love post-apocalyptic stuff. Yeah, I think you'd love this. I'm not surprised. Okay, what about you and only? Well, to bring up one of your recommendations, which I think I had started,

but I hadn't got really into it, is I've got really into legends now, which I'm loving, which is the Netflix show, the retroboard to the table with Steve Coooo. about these kind of not trained undercover agents who become the people that kind of fight the war on drugs in averticomers' reign to try and stop her and coming to the country. Extremely good, loving that. I finished rivals because the whole of season two isn't out yet.

It's like half of season two is out. The second half comes out in November. I was watching it with my partner, which I told you guys, and I didn't think he was going to like it. And he has been telling everyone he thinks it's the best show on television. And I do agree, but I just wasn't expecting him to feel that way. I need you both have watched it because I don't think you have watched it

but the episode Did you finish it? Oh my God I can't watch the last night spoilers but the episode ends on I've not I've not I've not I've not even started the series So me and my partner had a fight

which I'll understand if you've watched it because I was really cross I was really angry with how it finished and he thought it was like really good writing really clever place to leave it and I was furious I was going to say we'll have to talk around this but I'm really because I actually really

liked the ending I was very moved by it That last episode is very exciting. It kind of takes place around like the real life event of the hurricane, which swept the nation. When is this set? In the 70s, the 80s. Of course, it's 70s.

It's too hot. I don't have a brain. So it's all very like pacey and it's all very dramatic. I really like that. And I will shout out Claire Rushbrook, who plays Lady Monica Baddingham in this series is just incredible. And in that final scene, she's getting, she just acts her heartbreaking little eyes off. I was just double-checking because I thought it was right.

But that was the hurricane, my sister. was born in, my elder sister. No. Way. 1987. Yeah, I thought it was that one. Because this is why, so there was the storm the other night and I was texting everyone. I text my group chat.

I text my partner. He was in Boston because he was watching the football. Text everyone else. Eventually text my family group chat and at 4.15 my dad replied because I was so scared about this storm. And he was like, oh, it reminds me of when I was on a camping trip with my brother. And my brother said he got lightning his eye and I was like, Dad, I'm literally crying when he just went offline.

But I think the reason is they'd experienced that storm of 1997. So you can't. Anyway, the reason I was so crossbeth, and again, we can't really go into this, is because there's something that I think could have been explored that has now been curtailed. We'll have to get into it. You're going to have to watch it. Okay. Now, yeah, now I'm fascinated. And I feel like I have to understand what you're on about. And also I fancy Declan so much. It actually upsets me. Your partner could grow a big mustache now. I'm not sure. Do you fancy him? I don't. He's very handsome, isn't he? I think he's more in this. series. Yes, he's handsome and he gets, I think, yeah, Rocher, I'd love for you to watch it and then report back because he does feel a different character.

He feels like he's kind of firmer in what he's doing and he's a bit kind of tougher and sexier and less straight laced is all I'll say. Because he's a bit of a sort of a wife guy, but he's a bit more of a sort of wayward wife guy. No spoilers. Okay, so those are my two, but sorry that I know they're not that fresh. And then my last thing, which me and Beth can get into together is on Friday last week, Beth and I went the store, Schneier Twain and Harry Style. That you want to take it away. Tell us about your third birthday. Oh my God. It was just delightful. We got tickets from Alaska Air and we went along in this really fun group. I mean, I rocked up with kind of no idea what to expect. Party bus, drinks were flowing. Anoni and I were just giddy and I were just giddy. And do you know what? Harry Sells was an absolute joy. I know I was kidding on about it being a Shania Twain concert because of course my heart is with her. She's fab. She was fab. She was just striding around the Harry ramp in just a saucy little outfit. But he was. I mean, I know it was the birthday joy. I know it wasn't only hype me up.

I know it was the sign. It was whatever. But he was just also on paper. So fantastic. He was joyful. He was energetic. He wore all those tiny little shorts. I was completely blown away.

And I was never not a fan of his. It turns out I know every one of his songs that you played. I don't think there was any surprises. No, there was one. Because I've got a video that you took where we were trying to work out. We were quite pissed at this point. So we were trying to put the phone to like film a video. And then we're sitting there and we're like dancing and I just turned to you and I go.

but we don't know the song and you're like, oh yeah, then we just, we stopped the video. But it was one from the new album. But other than that, we were like most of them, we knew. He's brilliant, isn't he? He's a great vocalist. He's a great performer. So you now are defender against all the discourse points we had a few weeks ago

about how the show isn't that good. It was underwhelming. People were pissed off, etc., etc. I really feel that was just the stage setting. From where we were standing, it looked like everyone must have been able to see. So I think they fixed that problem. And I mean, I've not seen it too much negativity coming out of Wembley.

Maybe one person had an obstructive view because of a speaker or a live fitting. But actually, I think it's the perfect venue for it. And I think they've just lowered that stage. Yeah, because it looked like he was really making eye contact. And there was like points where he like talks. And we were obviously in a box, which is a lovely way to experience it. But because of my eyesight is so bad, I was having to use my phone like a pair of binoculars to locate where he was on the scale of track.

So I'd be like, where is he? I couldn't find him. And then I would find him. But it was so funny because my mum was applying to all my stories. going, gosh, it looks packed. I was like, Mum, this is Wembley Stacey. Well, hasn't he done well for himself? Oh my gosh, I'm so jealous, but that sounds amazing.

I'm so glad that you did an update. Was it your best birthday yet, be honest? Birthdays do keep getting better. And I normally do, I've spent birthdays by myself. I've had parties. I've had so many good birthdays, especially in my 30s. But this was a complete, like one for the books. Because I started the day, I went to Westfield, Stratford.

I went to MNS, EGMI Happy Place. Oh, I spent ages getting ready. My boyfriend was just like treating me like a little prince. and then met Anoni and met some really fantastic people actually got to go on a kind of party bus that had never happened before it was just I was trying to be content queen actually when we were there and Anoni was doing that lovely thing where you film people in front of you doing having a nice moment and then you send it to them and then there was we did that I did that to the family in front of me and they were so pleased with it that they insisted on doing a nightclub

of us and you can see in the video I keep going to reach my phone and I'm like oh not done yet I was so awkward about it but it's so sweet so Harry Stiles doesn't spy love and devotion There was this couple in front of us, which are, who I'm not joking. They were just swaying. They were kissing. They were doing funny little turning to each other and like pointing their fingers. So I said to Beth, I was like, let's film them and we'll air drop it to them. But then I think Bath was filming it, but just talking.

And I was like, you've got to catch. We can't talk. So we did it again and we erdropped it to them and they were quite pleased. Then we were getting a bit carried away and just doing it to like everyone was we've got so much, like, felt so happy from the credit that we were getting from this kind of act. I've never heard of that before. That is such a sweet thing to do. It also, I guess, depends on the person.

Because imagine if you got a video of yourself and you were like, what the, and like was looking around and like getting really stressed. Or it was like the cold play affair thing. Oh, damn. And like you filmed someone. Yeah. It sounds sweet unless people are doing something they shouldn't be. Yeah, I really.

That's so me. I'm such a busy body. I do it all the time. I'm like, someone will be like, sat with their partner on a bench. I'll be on holiday and I'll be like, I've just taken a picture if you want to I'll talk to you. And they're always really pleased about it. And my partner's like, please, can we just go for lunch?

No, no. You're an angel. I feel like most people don't have nice pictures of themselves with their partner. You just need someone like you. It's when it's like the backs of their head because you never get those ambient scene thing. That's when I always think, oh, it's actually nice that these people are not on their phones. So let me just document. Also, my karma has never been better since I started in public.

If I see, especially in the summer, a mum out with her kids or family and I will stop and go, do you want a picture altogether? Because mum so often say, oh, we've got no nice pictures. I'm taking nice pictures or I'm taking self to my kids. else taking them. And the amount of people, they've been like, oh my God, thank you so much. I would love that. My karma is shot through the roof.

So that's a little tip,lessness. Yeah. Or if it's like a boom, a couple and at the sunrise trying to do like a horizontal selfie, I'm always like, let me just say that. Though sometimes they do say no. I was going to say, they love it. They love it. People ask my dad, like, do you want me to take a picture?

And he's like, no, I'm good, thanks. And they're like, keeps my selfie. Yeah. I'm having a great time. These are all for Facebook. Okay, Beth. What are you recommending? apart from Harry Styles.

So what I have been loving is the 2009 Wes Anderson Classic, fantastic Mr Fox, which I have never seen and was only vaguely aware that this was Wes Anderson. I have watched this and did know that. But not for a while,

but it's really seared into my brain. 2009, no, no, no. It was a very, very long time ago. It was absolutely fantastic. Fantastic Mr. Fox. So for anyone who hasn't seen it, or was just born, it stars George Clooney

as the voice of Mr. Fox. so it's all stop motion animation. George Clooney voices Mr. Fox, who is this kind of chicken stealing, smooth guy, local farm-leaving kind of fox, where it's a very dapper suit, is a bit of smooth talker. Merrill Streep is his foxy wife.

She gets pregnant and says, you're giving up this life of risk and chicken stealing. He gets a normal foxy job. There's this great cast. You know, when you're listening to a film and you're like, I'm going to get, like, Brian Cox, I got Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, but also William Defoe's in it.

Jason Schwartzman, of course, classic Wes Anderson players, but the story is basically he wants to do one big job. He's got a teenage son now. He's a bit of a weirdo. He's just ready to do a final hit on these three local farms. And I mean, it is just the fact that it's primarily stop motion. Every time I see stop motion, I'm like, this is actually magic in front of my eyes. It's so, has that Wes Anderson precision, tautness, humor, movingness, but it's so funny, so pacey. Yeah, I just have to recommend if obviously everyone will have seen this film, but if you have somehow let it pass you by, or like that's a kid's film.

Please watch this film. It's just gorgeous. No, I need to watch it as an adult. I don't think I've ever watched it probably since around the time it came out. But was I an adult then? Well, 2009, yeah. You would have been 14 and 15.

Oh yeah. That's not an adult. That's a baby. Age appropriate. But it's one of my boyfriend's favorite films. And basically, and actually maybe I want listeners to wade in on this and he is just in the other room, so I'm going to talk quietly.

But my boyfriend's best friend messaged me just for his birthday and said, do you think he would like if all of us friends clubbed in and got him a PlayStation, five and I said brilliant that sounds great to me because we could finally watch the blue ray's on it because it's got a 4k blue ray player in it since then when I told people that they're like I can't believe you said yes your life will now be divided in between your boyfriend not having a

PlayStation and him having a PlayStation I've never gone out of the game and I'm about to absolutely rude today I can't imagine either of your boyfriend's gaming that's the thing or your partner I wouldn't allow that in my house we have a PlayStation in the house so I know this battle well and I will yeah off my call let you know how we keep the peace So the rumour that I spread was false, actually, I think, because I don't think Vogue did have the exclusive because Dewe actually shared the pictures of her Italian nuptials, which were shot by renowned British photographer David Sims, to her own Instagram on Saturday 20th of June. And then subsequently, Vogue did share the same pictures.

But I don't think it wasn't exclusive. So sorry for the misinformation. It was a Jue Leoper exclusive. The Bride War, Chanel. So Anoni, I think the other rumour that you spread was that she was going to. and wear Versace, so again, two for two. Apparently, the gown took 1,155 hours to make, and I have to be honest, I don't know if that's a long time to make a wedding dress. It does, I mean, it's a long time for me to make a wedding dress, but actually, no, it's a quick time

for me to make a wedding dress. Yeah, I was going to say, be very impressed. Me too, especially that wedding dress. Yeah, in the Vogue piece, they say, quote, we still don't know much about the wedding itself, but the main ceremony reportedly took place at Villa Valguanera, an 18th century mansion known as Little Versailles. But what does seem to be confirmed is that Elton John sang your song when they walked down the aisle, which is honestly magical. Unreal. And then I think you told me this best.

So again, don't know if it's true, but Charlie XX apparently did a set. Did you tell me? Was that real? I saw on TikTok there was a woman who was staying just downwind of that and she could hear one Mark Ronson speaking and she could hear, I think, Charlie XXX. Then my favorite rumor, which again, is so funny. So I actually can't work out of it as a rumor. but basically there was this thing going around that she gave all of her guests a 12 piece

lucruzze set which i again at barbecue on the weekend was defending her choice my partner was like surely all of her guests already have pots and pans and also what a compass and gift to give people and then i was like no it's really nice because i agree i would love to have that and i think it's lovely anyway then i googled it and apparently that's also not true god this is misinformation central i personally i mean i would accept a tk max voucher so the 12 piece lucreuse set i'd be clanking my way back home very happily. I agree with you. I fully agree. Who doesn't want a 12 piece Le Cruz? I said that is an absolute dream. Right? Yes. And okay, so as soon as I saw the pictures drop, I immediately messaged the group because I was like, I'm sure, and no news all over this.

And you said that you had been chomping at the bit to talk about it. So I'm not going to stop you any longer. What are your takes and then we'll go into ours. God, I have waited for this. Like, I would wait Christmas when I was six years old. I can't explain how excited I was. And I wasn't disappointed. And I'm so into the tea of thoughts because I have obviously text every single I know asking for their opinion. Some people didn't like it. I loved her dress. I loved how extra it was. I love how do it was. I know that we did personal taste and like taste up and talking about that last week. And I think the reason why this dress for me was perfect is it was her personality like all rolled into this most extravagant, embellished. There was feathers. There was diamonds. There was

sparkles. It was just so doer. And I think we're coming out of an era of like paired back, clean girl wedding dresses, which is super, super simple. And I just thought it was so fun. And she, looks absolutely unreal. Did you guys like it? I loved it and I remember sending this on the group, but if you look at the side shots, it's quite low down. It's like really quite a sexy cut. If you were wearing a thong, it could be an exposed thong really. So it's both extravagant, both sexy, both flamboyant and really just running on that perfect balance of 20s glamour, I think, where it's like kind of campy but also just like very fabulous. And I mean, she always looks amazing. She does. But I agree with you. It feels so hard.

her and I don't think for ages I really associated her with having a unique, Jewish style. I thought she just always dressed well. But I kind of feel like I'm feeling more of her personality and I understand what her aesthetic and her vision is more and more, especially through this wedding. I'm feeling the taste of her specifically coming through. Yeah, I think you're right. I mean, she's very well dressed. It's very well tailored. It's something with a bit of drama. And I agree with you and only that this feels unlike anything that I've seen in a big celebrity wedding in years because they've all steered away from the or nay and the. glam to something that's far more simple and elegant.

I guess in an attempt to be timeless. But in fact, that just ends up being more easy to date because I think the 2020s, everyone else is doing the same in this attempt. It's a clean girl, but it's also very flowy. There's not really, this had such a pop of glamour and drama to it, which I think, obviously we all know it's 2026. I think it will end up being more timeless as a result because it does buck that trend. And really it does look of this era and of a million others.

I've really liked it. It's also giving kind of like Elizabeth Taylor, like she's an eye. on. It'll be an iconic dress, whereas there's lots of other dresses that are beautiful and the bride gets lovely. It's like this dress feels like a piece of art. And it was the first Chanel, I can never say, Ote couture wedding dress designed by Matthew Blaise for a friend of the house as per Chanel. So I really wasn't expecting her to wear Chanel. Obviously Chanel got so much shit for what it dresses celebrities in. And this was such a big departure. I just love how I had everything. It had crystals and it had feathers and it had, oh. And that picture of them under the veil, I just thought. stunning. I know. Every time I was going through the carousel, I was like,

it's a perfect picture. It's a perfect picture. It's a perfect picture. And I was doing like a live blogging to my friend when I was with that. That man is in love. And also I guess as a dress it's quite difficult to replicate

whereas for a lot of big celebrity wedding dresses, you could go to Reformation, House of CB and get it tailored. You could maybe do something a bit. Whereas this, it would look like shit unless it was made by Chanel and someone spent 2,000 hours on it.

It's going to be on one of those websites at Alibaba and some one's going to order it and it's going to be like all the jewels are going to be printed on a piece of shower curtain. Yeah. Stretchy fabric. In a very one show pivot, from Anoni's mostly hotly anticipated news to the literal hottest news of the week, we are recording in the middle of this, quite frankly, terrifying heat wave,

accompanied by equally scary thunderstorms, which caused flash floods and thousands of lightning strikes on Monday evening. On Monday, the UK Health Security Agency issued its second ever red. heat health alert for six regions of England, while the Met Office issued a rare red warning for Wednesday and Thursday. With temperatures predicted to pass 40 degrees, people are being advised to close doors and windows and shut curtains to stay cool at home. On Tuesday, France registered its hottest day on record, and Prime Minister Sebastian Le Corneux said, we're experiencing an episode of exceptional intensity. Every day and night, local and national temperature records are

being broken. This is the second record-breaking heat wave in Europe in two straight months. And despite a lot of the debates on the internet about how temperature in the UK is the norm for other countries, the difference is that in the UK, we do not have the infrastructure to support it. Our houses are designed to trap heat. And barely anyone has air conditioning and we have really, really high humidity. And it's the humidity that stops us from being able to cool ourselves down as it's the water evaporating that transfers energy away from the body. But this becomes impossible if the air is full of moisture. This heat wave has brought out such rage in me. I'm so annoyed at several different groups. Americans talk about Aircon. Also, have you guys been seeing the fucking 19706 brigade,

e.g. like the boomers, Gen Xers, who were alive in 1976, who were talking about bare heat web and going, oh my God, you're all so soft. We had this. We had a jolly of time. We just went to the beach. We didn't moan at all. We just had an ice cream. As though, obviously, any of us want to be complaining. I hate them so much. There's so many things that I'm just, I'm too tired to clap back at them because they're all likely... tweeting this at me from their properly cooled mortgage-free home county's homes. But it's so frustrating to have to argue with people. It was an anomaly then.

Now it's every bloody year. And then there's the Americans who are talking about why don't we all have air conditioning. I'm just fed up. It does feel like proper gaslighting, I think, with the generational divide. And obviously, hashtag not all boomers. But I feel like just seeing them kind of normalizing it. This is the problem. This is not normal.

We can feel our skin not able to deal with this. Can we at least have like a rational conversation about it? it i.e. the impacts of climate change are so fucking severe and we feel them every year increasingly this is so terrifying can we actually just be normal about it and just accept that one fact? There was a really good piece I was reading and I thought was in the Guardian I was just trying to find it about why the 1976 heat wave is not the same as today even if the temperatures are the same it's actually has a completely different impact but yeah these kind of camps on social media that like oh it's not even getting it's only saying like 35 now it's not even going to get to

40 so what are you talking about? And there were was Nick fricking Ferrari on LBC going, right, so they're saying they're going to shut down the schools. Like, what does that say to kids? He goes, I remember seeing pictures of kids with gas masks on their desk and they were still in education. He was like, I'm not saying that I want to go back. Sorry, what an absolutely terrible comparison to make. But also, this isn't just like, oh, it's a bit hot. It's like these extreme weather temperatures can cause fatalities, even in people who aren't necessarily susceptible to, like they're not elderly, they don't have any respiratory issues, whatever. This is everyone is impacted because of this. Is it called

wet bulb or whatever is basically that humidity thing yes which i had to google this i can do a little i was so smart yesterday and then i was like actually too depressing but i i'll do a little explainer from at home that's like what are people talking about i thought it's about light bulbs it's not basically wet bulb temperature is the lowest temperature that can be achieved by evaporative cooling which is what we're talking about the top sweat evaporating from the skin to cool the bodies that's how we've evolved to cool down naturally and the higher the wet bulb temperature the less possible that is i think in a very humid climate so like somewhere like this our wet bulb temperature is just higher and higher and higher.

So we're sitting here not getting any cooler. It's measured by you wrap a wet cloth around the bulb of the thermometer and then you measure at the temperature. I was like, blew my mind. But I read the critical threshold for wet bulb temperature is 35 degrees, not 35 degrees, not wet bulb. And at that point, it's when a very fit and healthy person, even someone in the shade, even someone with access to water,

would not be able to cool themselves. So obviously before anyone panics, because I was like, oh my God, what are we approaching here? In the UK, we've never had anything even remotely close to that. During the Indian heat wave of 2015, when temperatures in summer areas reached 48 degrees Celsius and when 2,000 people sadly died, the wet bulb temperature there reached 30 degrees in one area. Look, it's not, I'm not saying like we are approaching this, but you can already feel how uncomfortable it is.

And as the temperatures everywhere are shooting up, we are approaching and approaching and approaching just that threshold. I do think it is worth being very alarmed now that this isn't every. year fixture. I mean, even in 1976, there was like 20% excess deaths. People were actually not just on the way to have a jolly in the shit was very, very bad. And also, sorry if I'm really thick, but I've been really about the side. So I'm like, I hadn't even considered about the fact that because we're an island, we're surrounded by water, which is really bad because it means it's just constant moisture, just stuff like that I'd never thought about. But it was so funny because

they said at the top about when the storms were happening and I was getting so angry at my parents. They were like, oh my God, it must have been spectacular. I sent them this map where all the lightning had struck. At one point, I went in the hallway with my duvet, with my duvet, with Astrid because my partner's not here because I thought the windows were like going to shatter and they just weren't taking it seriously so then I sent them loads of really scary things about climate change and I was like what do you think this is going to be the coldest summer in the next 15 years and like this is our future and then they did feel bad but the boomers they'll be like oh let's go dance in the lightning I know look at them they're kind of just going

oh we've got a saga cruise book so we must have to get too upset remember don't push yourself do stay cool look after yourselves it is genuinely very very intense in the UK right now drink lots of water as well. And do you know what I would advise? If you've got a hot water bottle, fill it up now, put it in the freezer. That's the only thing that allowed me to get any seat last night. Because it does, once they're fully frozen through, last for most of the night. But yeah, I just don't do anything if you can at all avoid it.

I mean, I'm saying that from a very cushy position. But it's really scary out there. Can we not normalise having kids at 40? My parents have me at 40 and my Omar will never know the adult version of me. It reads the now viral quote to eat from at slucks. Queen, very hard to read, accompanying the news shared by pop culture naughties that Anne Hathaway is expecting her third child with Adam Shulman. Posting to her own Instagram, Anne announced her pregnancy in a reel where she enters her gorgeous living room in a floaty white cord before dropping her arms to reveal her bump, cradling it and then making a sweet little smiling face and exiting the frame with the caption reading,

Baby, I'm yours, matching the overlaying song. The internet for some reason is very angry about this. Slith's Queen then replied to her own tweet after it blew up saying, quote, but if mommy works for another 10 years, then the baby can have a wealthier childhood. I'd rather have known my grandma for another 10 years, she said. And in response to this, at Barrett Adair said, your mothers and grandmother's lives do not revolve around your existence. They have experiences from before you existed that they wouldn't trade for an extra 10 years with you. And there's nothing wrong with that. Go have your own

diva, which has 72,000 likes at the time of recording. One of those is definitely mine. The internet is now squabbling over what's a normal amount of time to know your grandparents, with many pointing out, people can die at any age, and then it's fairly normal to not necessarily have all of your grandparents into adulthood. What they seem to be conveniently leaving out is the mother's agency, or reasoning for wanting to have a baby when she wants to have a baby. And in fact, a 2014 study published in Demography found that people aged between the age of 35 and 40 report the most positive response to becoming parents.

Quote, the fact that among older and better educated parents, well-being increases with childbearing, but the young and less educated parents have flat or even downward happiness trajectories may explain why postponing fertility has become so common. Dr. Margolis said. And in a paper from Columbia University, several studies have found that late maternal age at last childbirth is associated with maternal longevity. So I remember when you posted this in the group. I actually just found the discourse around Anne Hathaway's pregnancy so foul. I don't know what you guys think, but I am so confused. just the audacity, quite frankly, of people to start discourse around somebody else's exciting fucking milestone, new life being brought into the world.

It just feels so crazy to me. I feel like this tweet is such a projection, such an unruly, wild projection. What do you guys think? People love talking about women having children in nature and life. But what people seem to be forgetting is this is her third child. I'm the third. My mum had me at 36. And lots of people are quote tweeting this saying,

I'm the third child. My mum had me in her 40s. Like it is actually quite common with the last child to have them at a later stage in life. And so it's not like this is a new phenomenon. I think it is slightly newer phenomenon, the rates of women that are having their first child in their 40s. But this isn't a new thing. Just the selfishness of being like my mom should have me 10 years earlier. So I've got to hang out with my grandma more. What are you on about? And there was a really good tweet actually. It was very salty, but it said, conservatives have a very weird obsession with mourning relationships they've never had and prioritising them over the agency and well-being of actual living people. And I thought it was such a good point because I would love to know how much the original poster actually saw or spoke to their granny, probably like not that often. Do you know what really winds me up is when people talk about the timing, you know, being a bit frustrated with the timing of their own birth or anything relating to it. Because even if your mum and dad had waited until the following afternoon, you wouldn't have been born.

Like that is literally the lottery of conception. You're a blend of sperm and egg that happened to occur in that moment. I just think people are either missing that or willfully ignoring it. It's so stupid. Like you're only alive because of the precise circumstances of your conception. Change them even slightly. You know, maybe they took a little bit longer. They tried a new position.

Possibly you are, you know, you're not you. It's such a random thing. And it's like sometimes you think maybe it would have been nice if they had because you were twice annoying. You were conceived in doggy style. And if they'd done missionary, it wouldn't, if it would have been your brother. Precisely. And we would have been happier.

Just kidding. But I do think the stats on this are really interesting. And in some cases, really heartening the amount, you know, that older mothers are now at numbering teen moms. Over the last 40 years, the percentage of live births to women aged 35 and over has increased and women aged 40 now of a higher fertility rate than women aged under 20, which is a trend that was last recorded in the 1940s, which then goes hand in hand in a long term decline in UK teenage pregnancies and conception rates, which in 2008, about 39,000 girls under 18 became pregnant, which is a rate of 40 per 1,000. by 2018, that had gone down to 17 per 1,000, which is a reduction of almost 60%, which is unequivocally great. I think unless you are one of those pronatalist traditional conservative weirdos that think women are born with this biological destiny that they need to get pregnant immediately and as quick as possible, several years after the first period. And that is honestly what these critics of Anahadha sound like to me. They sound like frets, sound like pronatalist weirdos rather than sensible adults who actually care about women.

Yeah, definitely. And we've said it before. obviously people are choosing to have children later. It just only feels like a better thing if that is the choice that you want to make. It just feels like the kind of aggressive standards that used to be so ubiquitous for like, you know, our grandparents' generation, our mother's generations even, are slowly kind of getting dismantled, which is only an incredible thing. And just to feel this like regressive pushback from people on social media who could be our age demographic is so bizarre to me.

Because I'm like, surely you should be in our camp. Why are you kind of setting off the bombs from within the house? house. It's so strange. I just feel like as we're kind of making really slow progressions, really slow steps forward, people are getting so angry and so enraged and trying to drag us back. I loved the bit from that Columbia study that was saying because there's been more things recently but I couldn't find exactly where it was, but there was something recently where people were saying that women that have babies later in their life are much more likely to live into their 90s. And I think the other thing people are forgetting is we're younger at an older age. My parents

are both in their 70s and I've said this a thousand times, but they are not my grandparents in the 70s. we are in our 30s and we're younger than our parents were in our 30s. We are living longer. And one of the things I found so interesting from that Columbia study was about, have you heard of microchimerism? No. So this is basically, after you give birth, your mother retains some of the cells from the baby in her body.

And lots of people talk about it when they lose pregnancy, the joy of knowing that they still carry their baby inside them. Because you actually, obviously the baby gets your DNA, but they actually give stuff back to you. And they were saying that that might, the microchimerism that is retained in the mother's body from the fetus during pregnancy might actively help repair damage organs and boost maternal health. So it can actually just make you live longer in general.

And I think stuff like that is just brilliant. I mean, I find everything to do with kind of babies so fascinating. And I was talking about this other day, but the thing that babies don't know, I'm sure he's saying on this, they don't know that they're not you for like eight months. They just think you're one person. It's so cute. I think that's so sweet. I mean, there's someone that's just trying to resist every rudeness in my body.

I'm just like, oh, but it is cute. I guess the count, it's not really counter to this. The other things are, that's so missing from this debate is one, the men and the sperm, we are, everything we know about older sperm points to quality decreases, volume, motility, shape, all decreases after 25. Older sperm is more prone to DNA mutations, damage. So the same people saying like, God, isn't terrible this woman is doing this, you know, her body, her eggs, her this, always seem to get that a man is involved.

I don't think personally, I think, especially in the case of very rich couple, let people live. It's very difficult for non-rich couples. to have babies before they are financially ready, which is happening later and later. But I do think, well, come on then. If everyone's going on with the microscope, let's think about all of these old fathers, including like Donald Trump had a baby in his 50s, all of these rich old men. I don't mean your sperm is up to much then if we're going to have this conversation.

Also on this idea of like, obviously, yeah, men's spine quality decreases with age. And obviously women, egg count can decrease and women's egg quality can also decrease with age. However, the natural, again, this is from that Columbia study, I found this also interesting, The natural ability to conceive and bear children at an older age typically suggests that a woman's reproductive system and her body as a whole is aging at a slower rate. Later pregnancies are strongly associated with longer telomeres, which are markers of cellular longevity. So actually if a woman can carry a baby at an older age, then that actually means that they're healthier, which is like not something that you find for men because they could just be shooting out whatever kind of random things. But they often are. There was a piece in the telegraph earlier this month titled,

Gen Z Women won't have their first child until 35. And it looks at data from the ONS that says, the typical woman born in 2008 will have their first baby in the mid-30s compared with 32 for millennials born in 1992. Also forecast that Gen Z women will have smaller families, averaging 1.48 children compared with 1.95 children, which is the average for women born in 1979. And they also paired this one in the last statistic that a baby boomer born in 1953 would typically have had her first child by age 27, whereas one in four 27-year-olds today are still living with

her parents. So the minute you zoom out at this and you go, oh right, we've engineered this situation to be exactly what it is. Pranatalists, I go, what is your rebuttal for this? Because even the women that would be loved to be mothers much earlier are not able to do it. I'm hearing a lot of complaining and not a lot of solutions. Yeah, it's such a good point because even though I said choice is a big part of this, actually just like structural issues is a massive fucking driver of a lot of the reasons a lot of people will not be able to have children until very, very late. And it definitely leads on to a subject we are going to talk about, which is the bedroom generation. And on that, I think this is why it's so funny. And someone did tweet something like,

so sorry that Anne Hathaway personally calls you to not know your grandmother. But if we're going to be talking about women having children later on, I think the women that we should be focusing on are the ones that would love to have them earlier, but don't have the socioeconomic stability to do so, rather than Anne Hathaway, who I'm assuming is quite a lot of money, quite a lot of nannies, probably really good health. Her skin looks amazing. I don't think she goes in the sun. She has like a full wetsuit. She's going to be fine. Yeah. That tweet you read out earlier is the perfect thing. Like go have your own experiences, Diva. Stop wasting your own young feminine life.

Tweeting shit on the internet. Your grandma would be ashamed. Someone said, good point. Ideally, you should have your first child at 11 to maximize her grandma time. Honestly. So let's get into Britain's bedroom generation, which is a term being used for the nearly 1 million 18 to 24-year-olds in the UK who are not in employment, education or training. So Alan Milburn, a former Labor Health Secretary, has compiled a new government report on this issue. Speaking to the Times just before the report's release, he said, the system is trapping people in worklessness rather than enabling them into work.

We're at risk of just writing a whole generation off. This is a bedroom generation. They are sort of living in their bedrooms. And in part one of the report, which is about 67,000 words long, he writes, nearly one million young people aged 16 to 24 in the UK are not in education, employment or training. One in eight young people and rising. Behind the statistics lie individual lives, aspirations thwarted, opportunities lost, futures placed on hold. This group has also been described as the lost generation, the anxious generation,

and neat, N-E-E-T, which stands for not in education, employment or training. The report goes on to say, Shockingly, six in ten young people who are neat today have never had a job up from four in ten in 2005. At the very point where there should be starting adult life, gaining confidence, building skills, learning the habits of work and taking their first steps towards independence, too many are becoming detached from education and employment altogether.

We are at risk of a lost generation. He also describes this as a moral crisis that has economic consequences. He explains that the longer a person is out for work, the more expensive it is to get them back in, and estimates that the cumulative annual cost of these one million neat young people is $125 billion, which is more than is spent on education per year. The government said that in 2025, the proportion of needs in the UK is higher than many other developed nations, about twice the number as Japan or Ireland, and three times as many as the Netherlands. In 2014, the UK was around the European average, but by 2025, the only country with a higher

rate was Romania. The pandemic was a really big driver of youth unemployment across Europe, but whilst France has since stabilised, the UK has not. And in a survey carried out for the report, 84% of neat young people said they did want to find a job, education or training. And Martin writes, I do not accept the caricature of a generation that is not interested in employment. I do not accept that mental health is simply an excuse, nor do I accept that the answer is to tell young people who are struggling to simply try harder. These are myths, sometimes cruel ones. Young people are not to blame. Institutions that should have provided opportunities to them are the ones that have failed. In the report, he also points to the pandemic, the cost of living crisis, housing, social media,

and social inequality as contributing factors. I mean, this makes so much sense to me because we are not the bedroom generation, but we are already feeling the effects of a post-pandemic world of a totally coming to a whole economy of a time when we kind of just came up and then it all disappeared, like the things that we thought we wanted. I would feel like I was in such a crisis if I was of this generation because most people have done the right thing. You know, they've gone and got their degrees. Some of them have got and got their masters. They've done training. And there is just nothing available to them. And I actually saw a tweet from someone the other day that was like their mum would threaten them. Like if you don't, you know, work hard and get good

grades and you're going to have to go and end up working in a supermarket for the rest of their life. not that there's anything wrong with that, but that was them trying to be like, you know, you've got to have higher aspirations. And they said they applied for a job at Tesco's and got rejected and they have a master's. And they were like, I never really thought that this would be the situation that I find myself in. Have you heard many stories about this? Do you feel surprised? I think the numbers are more shocking than I would have expected, but not totally unexpected.

I feel like I've been waiting for more stuff about unemployment to come out because I've said this before, but from January to May, so about five months, I was full. unemployed literally no work and that's changed now but I was on Reddit on all of these kind of subreddits like get employed get a job all these kind of different forums dedicated to people sharing tips about CVs and like their experiences of job hunting a lot of people in the US as well and there are so many people at crisis point if you go on a lot of those subredits people are posting like every few minutes so many so many posts talking about people who've been unemployed for a year fully loads of young people who said they've just come out of uni, they've finished their degree last year and they

still haven't found anything. They can't even get a pub job because people are distrustful of them just moving on quickly. So they're reluctant to take somebody on who's just come out of a degree. AI CVs, I've spoken about it before. There's so much filtering on like keywords. So if you are somebody who doesn't know how to exactly frame your experience, you just won't even get a chance. And there's so much knowledge I had to equip myself with just to say the exact same things on my CV just to get somebody to look at it. I think I applied for 120 jobs and I got maybe like five interviews and that is crazy. And I'm in such a privileged position. I've had so much work behind me for young people. I actually don't even know what to say to them. I wish I had advice for it. It's such a

crisis and like reading about it makes me feel good because people are now taking it seriously. But I think this has been going on for like at least two years from the stuff I've been seeing on Reddit and I feel so, so worried for people's futures just because nothing is changing. The circumstances seem to be getting more acute with financial developments, with the rise of AI. I also think a lot of businesses are becoming a lot more scared to take risks in taking people into long-term contracts. There seems to be all of this like bitty work, which is not great if you're trying to get by, if you're trying to move out of your parents' house for the first time and start life. It's really worrying, and especially being in the trenches of bloody LinkedIn, everyone's only posting about how difficult it is, regardless of age.

So the worst people off are the young people, I think. That is such good insight. So I've been seeing videos on TikTok for some months now by parents of kids, their adult kids who are in this age bracket who are just completely checked out, who are living at home, literally not going out of the bedroom, no social life beyond their phones. And then often not even much for social life within their phones. And it's really heartbreaking because as the evidence finds,

it gets harder and harder to enter society the longer that you feel that you're stuck outside of it. And as you get older, you do get stuck in a groove. if you don't learn the skills or the rhythm of a workplace, of casual dating, of friendship, of love, of being in the world and being in community. And I think it's a massive and enormous shame. And I mean, it's the social contract breaking down, which we're seeing all across society from, you know, the kind of daily micro things of people not putting their litter in bins, of people not letting you on the train before, letting you off the train before they get on. And in much bigger ways where young people have been told, this is the formula by older people for who that formula absolutely worked. And so they've accrued their debt.

gone to university, they've exchanged their time and hard work and sacrificed a lot to get a job and a house. And guess what? They are not getting a job or a house or any of these things that they were promised. And I do, I think this report is excellent. I mean, as I said, it's 67,000 words long. But even if you just scroll down and get, you know, there's so many different sections, it explores social media, it explores the pandemic. It explores migration. It explores gender, who disability, who is most at risk and things like that. And I really rate what he says. This is not It's no fake generation. This is not a soft generation.

It is an anxious generation. They've got reason to be. Yeah, I mean, it's just such an obvious consequence of outsourcing all these jobs to AI. Like, what did you think was going to happen? It's going to be so expensive for the economy to have this many people out of work. And I think that people just really didn't have the foresight. Everyone's thinking, oh, my God, it's amazing. Optimize and automise and whatever else, the language that they use.

But really, there has to be jobs. Like, it is so much more expensive to support people out of work than it is to have people working and contributing to the economy. I just find it. It's really shocking and it's so demoralising and it's really going to change the fabric of a society which is already breaking down at the seams with people feeling disenfranchised and disillusion from governments with sort of like the gender ideology walls that goes on between genders, the young men that have been radicalised into the in-cell movement and

the young women that feel like they can't identify a partner because of heteropessimism. It's actually going to cause such hostility between this group that feel like they have no ability to achieve not even their dreams, but just like a standard way of living, which is also something that we have absorbed. In our generation, we've had to accept, you know, we might not be able to buy a house. We might not be able to have kids until much later in life, if ever, if we can't afford it.

They're not even, they don't even have the before. It's taking me back right to the beginning, Richard, when you were saying about the woman who doesn't remember life before the bunker, these are kids that are growing up, not knowing what it felt like to have the freedoms of your own income that means that you can, you know, go and see your friends or go out, dinner by yourself, or live in a house where you could not feel like you've got your parents breathing

down your neck. It really is going to actually genuinely have huge, huge consequences. And these people are going to grow up and they are going to grow up to be our politicians, our leaders, the people that are going to be dealing with the climate crisis. And I also think, and there was a quote from the report about, you know, like the impact of social media. And it said in polling of nearly 1,716 to 24 year olds, 62% said social media does more harm than good. Everyone of a group of 10, 12 and 13 year olds told us they went to bed between midnight and 3 in the morning because they were scrolling on their phone. Did their parents ever take their phones away, the answer was a very clear no. And I think that there's like so many things

happening at this minute that is all unprecedented, not research, kind of release these things into the wild, whether it's the social media impact on kids, which people are trying to crawl back on, but obviously we have spoken about our thoughts on the kind of the legislation surrounding how that's going to work. But it's like we are now feeling the effects of these things that people, very powerful people, just made decisions on for their own benefit and absolutely didn't think about how it's going to impact everyone else. Just to back up what you were saying. about the cost in the economy, being a neat, not in education, employment or training, costs an estimated 125 billion pounds annually in lost GDP tax revenues and increased welfare.

And for the individual, the lifetime cost, approaches 300,000 pounds per person due to long-term scarring effects on future wages and productivity. The thing is, it's like a perfect storm because it is the AI of it all, but really it's also just like these very tangible financial measures that young people are bearing the brunt of. So changes in UK taxes and VAT. have an effect on the amount of recruitment drives that companies will have. There's a piece in The Guardian called Young Bearing the Brunt of UK Tax and Wage Changes, says BEOE Economist.

And it talks about how the combined increase in employers' taxes and minimum wages has been a particularly acute reason for young people not being hired. And that was a piece from February of this year. And then there was one in the BBC from June of this year that says there's a number of job vacancies hitting a five-year low in the UK. and they basically speak about hospitality companies just cannot kind of continue to hire in the way that they used to. So it's that, it's AI, it's financial issues, it's post-pandemic economy kind of catching up with us. And I feel like all of these things all together have just created a maelstrom when it comes to unemployment.

And it is so scary because yes, hopefully financially will end up in a better position. But at the interim, companies are kind of plugging the whole. with AI. And that's not going to stop. It's not going to be a stop gap for them until five years. They're like, oh yeah, we'll hire somebody back and we'll get rid of the AI. It's almost like, because both of these things are happening at the same time, the fixes are just pushing people out and closing the door into employment in the future, rather than it being kind of a temporary thing like previously. Like we hoped when we came out of uni, around the time of like, you know, horrendous economic impacts of the 2008 crash, people were like, oh, it's really bad, it's really bad. But when I look,

Back at the 2010s, it feels so much more optimistic and so much more hopeful than it does now. These feel like quite tangible, long-lasting changes that I really worry do not have the same impact that the changes we had were, which was they were difficult, but there was still some hope. It feels like things are changing irreparably. I think our generation, especially us, too, we have a lot we could gripe about, but in so many ways, as we said at the shop, like I do feel lucky. Gen Z's born in 2008, have lived through four once in a lifetime economic events before turning 20. So that's the financial crisis.

the pandemic, the energy crunch after Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and now the war in Iran and the biggest all supply shock in history, that combined with absolutely everything that you just listed, Ruchera, I do feel it's rare as a millennial of this age that I feel lucky and luckily placed, but I really do. I just think it's absolutely shocking. I saw a tweet, and this was before Kirstarmer really even hinted at resigning, but it said, so Andy Burnham had been quoted saying, I'll keep the triple lock and give pensions a tax car, and someone on X had replied, To be under 35 in this country is simply not worth it. And I've forced to agree, like, point me to a policy or a bit of fortune for young people

that is any fraction of the golden tickets that a lot of Gen Z and Boom has got. Like, we are a generation divided on lines of luck and inheritance, and it's just, it is not good enough. And whoever does, I mean, I'm assuming game Andy Burnham at this point, but whoever does take on this burden next, like has to look to this, cannot just keep focusing on the pensioners. cannot just keep focusing on a very small group of individuals, like we are heading for disaster. We're already there. It is just like a horror film where everyone's going,

oh, it's going to be okay. I mean, I'm feeling it with the climate crisis. It is just crisis on crisis on crisis. I saw someone on X say that we've had more stability with the sugar babes line up with our prime minister. And that's true. Maybe sugar babes could run this country. I would happy listen to Mucha Wenner on, I don't know,

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