The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Jon Stewart on Biden Halting Weapons to Israel | John Della Volpe

Episode Date: May 10, 2024

Jon Stewart tackles the media's obsession with Trump's hush money trial, while the GOP freaks out over Biden's new energy efficiency standards and a name change for the Boy Scouts. Meanwhile, Biden slows the flow of weapons to Israel, and after Trump shames Jewish Biden supporters, the Best F**kin' News Team stops by to give Jon a guilt trip. Also, John Della Volpe, Harvard IOP polling director and author of “Fight: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America,” joins Jon to discuss the Harvard Youth Poll and how economic stresses have been hard on Gen Z.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I mean, talk about innovative. Listen to the weekly show with John Stewart, wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central, it's America's only source for news. This is the Daily Show, my name is John Stewart, coming to you on a, what, what the heck? Thursday? Hi, everybody! Welcome to you, on a, what the heck?

Thursday! Welcome to the Daily Show. My name is John Stewart. Coming to you on a, what? What the heck? Thursday? John Stewart on a Thursday. It's like breakfast for dinner over here. Pancakes? At night? We do have a great job for you tonight. I want to be talking about a 2024 polling a little later with the polling director of the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. I don't believe you. But first, it has been another big week of wall-to-wall, non-stop, penis-to-penus coverage of Donald Trump's trial from the lingering glamour shots to the trial merch store, to a rudimentary court treasure map, to second-by-second real-time, closed captioning, and a QR code. You can scan for more coverage and I guess MSNBC's in-room dining menu. Why don't you need an... the ubiquitous coverage is numbing, fading into televised wallpaper

with insight that only occasionally crackles through such as. He greeted her at his hotel room in satin or silk pajamas. Which? Both are smooth materials but satin or whip. Which I need to know. She said she had my, I had my clothes and my shoes off. I removed my bra. We were in missionary position. Hmm.

Hmm. Missionary. No wonder Trump has locked up the evangelical voting block. Unlike those Democrats and their devil doggy style. They're devilish. They're devilish. Tell us more. Not wearing a condom.

Don't tell us anymore. But perhaps this hyper-focused by our news media is purposeful to distract Americans by keeping visions of dancing penises in their heads. All the while, Americans are losing their freedoms at home. The Biden administration's war on energy is reaching into the American home. Well, we were penicing! Apparently, the Biden administration is reaching around into the American home. Put a stop to the Department of Energy's continued crackdown on American-made appliances. Never in my wildest imagination would I have thought that I would stand here on the House

floor to defend my constituents' appliances and gas stoves. I was proud to lead the House Republican effort to protect our gas stoves. They can take our lives, but they can never take our cooktops. Apparently this is a bill that they passed to stop the Biden administration's new energy regulations and look I'm gonna be a hundred percent honest with everybody here I'm on the Republican side I can't hate electric stoves I fucking hate them I cannot cook unless I can see how high the flame is and I'll be damned if I start burning my signature

bananas foster because Joseph Gerbils Biden is trying to ban gas stoves. I'm sorry, I'm being told that that is not as what happened. That's sorry. Apparently the Department of Energy just set new efficiency standards for home appliances and that 97% of gas stoves already meet the new standards. So. So, unless this is where you cook, you're probably fine. And even so, at the end of the day, I mean, it's just your gas stove.

It's not just gas stoves, it's your washer, your dryer, your dishwasher, and much more. They started with gas stoves. And I did not speak up. And I did not speak up. For I was not a gas stove. Why did I do the Scottish accent for that? That's a German homily? All right. Look, no disrespect to any of these f-i-i-iates. But I think we can move household appliances down on the threat to democracy list, just below aluminum-free deodorant. Clearly, this was an overblown reaction, but that doesn't mean that this trial coverage

isn't obscuring some true horrors. They're dead. The Boy Scouts, we can pretty much declare, are dead. Oh my God, the Boy Scouts are dead! While we were all fixated on the titillating details in the Stormy Daniels testimony, the Boy Scouts all died. I'm assuming in a terrible Smoor's explosion, engineered by one Joseph, Charles Manson Biden. The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in history. The organization will be renamed Scouting America to emphasize its commitment to inclusion of all youth.

Oh. The Boy Scouts are alive. They just rebranded as an organization, partly because they started letting girls in five years ago and partly because they had a giant molestation scandal. I say that so that no one can hear me. I had a giant molestation scandal. Rebranding yourself is a tried and true formula for many such organizations. In fact, it's why the Catholic Church now goes by the name Gary. So, I feel terrible for anybody at home named Gary right now. What? So what is the issue?

There used to be sacred organizations where the children could really flourish. Is anything sacred, Bob Brooks? No. Yeah. Nothing is sacred. What did happen to all those sacred organizations? Gary. But as you all were saying, what happens to institutions in America and really all over the world, is patriotic people start these institutions and the left.

the left. But as you all were saying, what happens to institutions in America and really all over the world is patriotic people start these institutions and the left must destroy it. It's a sad day when young boys can't learn how to be strong men, we've wrecked it. Okay, I don't want to break character here or anything, but this thi, like this guy who is blaming the left for the loss of our institutions where young boys can become strong men. His name is Matt Schlapp. You may remember him.

He's the head of the American Conservative Union. You may remember that as the strong man who was sued. This guy was sued by another fellow for non-consensually grabbing his dick in 2022. Yeah. That only got dropped after a reported $480,000 settlement. The point being, when this guy talks about the depravity of our institutions. He knows of what he speaks. All of this false outrage is starting to make me cynical. It's starting to make me cynical about America's media ecosystem.

Is there anything else going on that does merit a Defcon one freakout? In the end, this is a sad day for America. A moral failing of a magnitude we can't even begin to calculate. Oh my god, a moral failing, we can't even begin to calculate. Perhaps it's a combo failing, an appliance that changed its name to be more inclusive. Is Mr. Coffee now they, them coffee? Is that, is that the danger we now face? President Biden threatening to withhold more military aid if the Israeli

military carries out an all-out assault on the city of Rafa. President Biden halting a weapons shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel. We paused one shipment of high payload munitions. Oh my God! The Biden administration has paused one shipment of 3,500 munitions of the over 300,000 munitions. Israel has already dropped on Gaza to try and prevent the Israelis from attacking the area where all the refugees of this war are currently sheltering.

I mean, oh my God. Or to put that another way. And now what the Biden administration has done is it becomes the primary protector of Hamas. He absolutely is citing with the terrorists. The only reason they're not dancing in Iran is because they don't believe in dancing. Joe Biden has been the greatest friend Hamas and Hezbollah that there is on planet Earth. Amen.

Damn, he's good. Yes, nothing says Gravitas, like, hey, what are you thanks. There's a terrorist everybody. What do you want? The only thing we have to fear is fair itself. You people are f-fired of the- You people are f-fiech-children. That came out wrong. But... That came out wrong, but... I am curious, why would Biden halt that shipment now? I've made it clear to Bibi and the war cabinet.

They're not going to get our support if in fact they go in these population centers. If they go into the population centers, the whole place is a population center. They've been in the population center for six months. Gaza's all population center. You know, you never hear around Gaza? Yeah, I don't live in the populated area. I live in upstate Gaza.

I live by the lakes. It's really quiet there. Is there no one who can offer a more nuanced analysis of our newly formulated position on this conflict? Preferably in some type of catacomb or echoy tunnel? What Biden is doing with respect to Israel is disgraceful. If any Jewish person voted for Joe Biden, they should be ashamed of themselves. My apologies to you, rabbi.

Ha ha ha ha. My apologies to you, Rabbi. Thank you so much for taking time off of your condomless porn star hush money trial to deliver a shame lecture to Jews. I will reflect on your moral standing next to Yom Kippur. You can be sure, uh, what about a Jew who might vote for him twice? What is that? Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!

First of all... Guys, American Jews are Americans. We do not have dual loyalties or citizenship. There's nothing for us to be ashamed of. That's not what Donald Trump says. Donald Trump says you should be a shame. Shame, shame, shame. No, so you should have been a doctor. to be a doctor. Guys, this is really, this is really, it's making me very uncomfortable.

Why? Donald Trump is just saying that there's good Jews and there's bad Jews, and we need to start identifying the bad Jews. Shonda? I don't like where this is going. Shade! Shanda? Yeah, I'm Jewish on you. Shanda?

Yeah, I'm Jewish too. What? I did not know that. Yeah, on my mother's side and so it's shit. Shame, shame, shame, shame. Get out of there, everybody go. My God, go! Go!

Yeah! As I was saying before I was really interlo- Shame! Oh, for God, so. Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame! I know.

So Ronnie, we already did the Israel shame bit, and uh... No, I was talking about deaf to Smoochee. I spent 10 bucks on that movie. Shame, shame on you. It's a good movie. So, are you not a shame? No, I'm not. Listen, here. Here's, here's 10 bucks. Just go. Thank you. This makes up for Israel. All right. Thank you. When we come back, John Delafi will be joining us. Don't go away. Why are you bothering you? Shame? Don't go away. Why are you bothering me? Shane! John Stewart here. Unbelievable.

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Welcome back, The Daily Show of My Guest tonight is the director of polling at Harvard's Kennedy School's Institute of Politics and he's the author of Fight, how Gen Z is channeling their fear and passion to save America. Please welcome the program John Delavobo, John! John! Save America. Please welcome the program, John Delavobo, John. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. You have spoken to Gen Z. Many of them here tonight, by the way. I don't know if you spoke to them.

How many of you spoke to them. How many of you spoke to John Z. Many of them here tonight, by the way. I don't know if you spoke to them. How many of you spoke to John for the... Okay, you get to... That's crazy. Turn this into a focus group? This is a focus group. Is that how you do? Is it, are these, how do you get to Gen Z? I have two of them in my house and I don't know what they think about anything. They want to be listened to. It's actually quite, quite, quite easy. You can bring a group of young people together and I ask a couple simple questions.

Do you feel understood? No. What do people like me, what do you think people like me don't understand about you? And then there we go for two hours? It's actually quite easy. Can I tell you something something something something something something something something somethingthe Breakfast Club. How is this today? So is this mostly focus groups? Are these checklists and surveys that you pass out? How is this done? What we do, and we've been doing this for 20 almost 25 years now

at Harvard, right? Because young people 25 years ago were interested in understanding their generation. And to do that well, you need to go beyond traditional polling and asking people what they think, right track, wrong track, you need to spend time, immerse yourself in these communities. We spent a long weekend in Michigan with a 25 students or so just a few months ago to begin to understand how... are these people? Do they? Do? Do? Do they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they to do to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do. We are to do. And to do. And to do. And to do. And to do. And to do. And to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do. And to do to do to do the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thei. thei. thei. thei. to to the. to the. to to to to or so just a few months ago to begin to understand. Now are these people do they do you put up a flyer or do you put that on? Well sometimes we literally go into coffee shops sometimes

we'll hang up will hang up posters asking people if they want to participate in a town hall sometimes we'll we'll recruit people based upon certain demographic groups we'll pay them for a couple of hours do you worry that you're that the sample sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the sample the s s s s s s s s s s s s s s. the same the the same. the the the the the the the the the their. their. the their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the'll pay them for a couple of hours on time. Do you worry that the sample size is skewed to people who visit coffee shops? Like, how do you adjust for them? That's just one phase, right? That's the qualitative. And then we learn from those kinds of questions and we conduct very large-scale surveys

of a relatively small population. So whereas most polls across the country might have a thousand Americans, maybe a couple thousand Americans. We do a couple thousand young people between the ages of 18 to 29 who are representative of that generation across the country. So we learn from those conversations and coffee shops and community colleges and you know online and we take those ideas. We learn from what we hear and we try to quantify that through very large-scale, very rigorous

surveys a couple times a year. And what then do you do with that? How is that, is that then sent to the media and they use it in a reductionist way that doesn't understand anything that you're talking about to make it seem as though on college campuses all across America all they talk about is Israel Gaza? Because I've been on those campuses. All they talk about is getting late in classes. It depends upon what media outlet we're talking about, right?

There are some media outlets who take these headlines and they run them around the world as propaganda to say this generation. In a reductionist man. Yeah, to say this generation of Americans are anti-American, and you'll see that around the world. So you can use polling as propaganda. This project started because not enough young people were part of us voted in the presidential election. Thank you so much for calling me a young voter in

1996, when I believe I was old enough to have been president. What would you like this to be used for? What is useful in this in your mind? Because it's very difficult to take a snapshot of something and say, this is the picture of this generation without it being a general. This is what's so important. Okay. Is that, I think the goal of this or the goal of any public opinion research is to give voice to a generation.

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There was a woman in tears when I simply said, see, this is the difference between kind of what the polling is that you might see the reductionist polling versus true public opinion research. The way I get to this is I asked three questions. Okay, the first question is your name, where you're from, what's the best part of your life today? Next question, what keeps you up at night, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th, their, th, their, their, th.. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is the the the the the the the the the their is, is, is, is is, is, is, is, is......... the the the the their, is, is, is, is. the the the the the their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the their their their their their their their their the their the, very quickly it gets to the point that they open up. And this is something I think unique about this cohort of younger people, of Gen Zyrs, that they feel so disconnected from older generations, because older generations through the media

and otherwise consider them snowflakes, right? But no generation ever feels connected to the, the young generation never feels connected to the old generation, that's the whole point. They're here to replace us. They're, we're, our job is to breed swim upstream and then die off. Right.

But this generation, what this generation is, they're up front telling us about these concerns. And I argue that these concerns are more real and versatile than maybe our concerns. I don't think that's... What would you like our political system or our media system to do with this, other than to come out and go, hey, these guys are worried? Because what we ultimately end up getting, I'll watch the news and just see, the Harvard School of Politics Institute did a survey, and the number one concern is

inflation and number 15 is Israel Gaza. And 14 is Emo Music. Like it's, and it'll just give you this list. And there's no illumination there, it's just a list. What I want elected officials to do, and they are doing it is to understand these concerns so they can speak to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, and, and, their, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, their, and, and, and, and, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the do and they are doing it is to understand these concerns so they can speak to these concerns because if they speak to these concerns young people will be more likely to vote. Not only can they speak to these concerns but if they could show the track record and the progress that we have made because John this is a different and better country because young people vote in 2020 in record numbers. We don't have KBJ on the Supreme Court. We don't have the largest- They voted in record numbers in the last one? In record numbers. What was the percentage

of young people that voted? We look at 18 to 29-year-olds. It's the first time in history that more than half voted, 51-52%. Really? On college campuses, it was over 50%, even in Vietnam. the young people didn't vote. This is higher. Thevvvvian. Thevian. Thevian. Thevian. Thev. T. T, the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, in, their, their, their, their, their, their, their. In record, their, their, their, their, their their, their their their their their their th. They's is th. They's th. Wea, th. Wea, th. Wea. Wea. Wea. Wea. They's th. Wea. They's th. Wea. They's th. They's theanan Wow. On college campuses, it was over 60%, which is essentially the same rate as all Americans. And what's interesting about this is not only do we have a highest turnout ever, but also it was the youth vote specifically in those five battle ground states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Georgia, who by 20 points voted for Biden. Donald Trump won everybody over the age of 44. So it's a young people, in particular, who are responsible flipping those states from red to blue and elected Biden. So if you were young people today and you did that and you overcame that, what has been

done for you other than some of you, you know, in terms of like loan forgiveness or something along those lines. Do you think that the politicians did honor that vote? I think so because, let's start with student debt. A hundred and fifty billion dollars of student debt relief. Right. In the last three years, for over four million, soon to be 10 million Americans, that doesn't happen. We don't have, in my opinion, the first first the first th, the first the first the first the first the first the first thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the, do thi thi thi the, but do thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do thi. Do the the is the an the an the an thean. Do thean. Do thean. Do the an thean. Do the an the an the an the an the, soon to be 10 million Americans, that doesn't happen.

We don't have, in my opinion, the first bipartisan gun violence prevention act in two generations. So that's just something. You feel like that information just has to be delineated to them or they're not feeling those effects yet? Or are they disappointed? Is this survey different for young people? Do they feel that they feel that they were heard? No, I think, well, I think that's the challenge, right?

Because what I care most about is participation, okay? And what drives participation is whether they can see a tangible difference in politics and government and their vote. And despite what I believe has been the most pro-youth agenda in several generations from the Biden administration, despite that, few young people appreciate that, right? Few young people know the climate, the gun violence and student-deaf forgiveness as examples. Right. Right. Are they thinking about things more immediate to their lives? Is that why they're feeling differently? I don't think they're they to their lives? Is that why they're feeling

differently? I don't think they're they're watching the news as closely. It's hard to get some of this information on the news so much what's in the news that's a negative part one. But the other thing is compared to what the policy preferences are for seniors like you can feel $2,000 prescription drug cap. You know that. That's immediate, right? You can see in your 401k, right, the record, the record performance. You can feel that. These things may take a generation to actually feel, with the exception of debt relief. So wouldn't it make, I wonder if it made more sense if instead of, if the idea is to make it useful information for people that can be actionable, is the idea maybe to to to thiiiiiiii thi thi thi thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I'm, I'm thi, I'm, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, th... th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thee. thi. that's, that's, thi. thi. that's, th idea is to make it useful information for people that can be actionable, is the idea maybe to think of this more as a customer survey, the way that a corporation

might, to say what is your satisfaction with the United States government or the government or your life and how would, what would improve it? Do they do that? We essentially do that? So it's like a customer service. It is essentially a customer survey and I will tell you it was pretty tricky, very difficult 20, 25 years ago when we started. Right. We have been honored inside the RNC, the DNC, our students have briefed the Obama administration, the Trump administration and the Biden administration directly.

So we are honored because of the work of the young the the the the the the the the the the honored because of the work of the young people who craft the questions here that we do have the ear. And you think there's an understanding now of this? Are you finding the kind of polarization that we see on social media and is the algorithm driving their opinions in a way that wasn't happening 25 years ago? Absolutely. And of course, there's no equal side to the algorithm, right? It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, is it radicalizing this generation? I think there's an element of it, for sure. Right. I certainly think there's an element of those people who feel like the kind of the backlash,

right, who don't feel connected. The thing about this generation is essentially two-thirds of this generation share a relatively common set of values in terms of what's important for government to focus on and to fight for, right? So if you're a part of that one-third who feels disconnected, there is that opportunity, I do think with these algorithms to go into some pretty dark places. Where's the disconnect from the media, from how the politicians utilize that information, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and I, their, is, and Ie, is, is, is their, is their, is their, their, their their their their theatseaugh, islipha, their, their, their, islapsehomenke.e.e.e.e.e, the disconnect from the media, from how the politicians utilize that information, from their own misunderstanding of how the world should listen to them? You know, where is then the disconnect? I think it's all the above. I do think that young people, you know, they're used

to information quickly, right? They're used to, you know, asking for something in a instant or be delivered to them, right.. th, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, their, their, their, the, the, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, their, their, their, their, their, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, their, and, and, their, their, their, their, their, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the They're used to, you know, asking for something in receiving it, you know, in an instant, right? Or be delivered to them, right? So there does need to be, I think, some greater appreciation for the system and the process, part one. But like governments in, specifically the government and political parties need to understand that elections are won and lost based upon what young people think these days. 40% of the electorate are going to be Gen Z or Millennials. 40% and this coming election. This election? This election? Gen Z and Millennials.

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and to stand up for the vulnerable, whether it's voting, whether it's protesting. Did you really think they're different than past young generations? I mean, that kind of idealism and that kind of activism has always, fuck it. Well, listen, generally, I mean, that's been my experience. I mean, that's the whole, you know, what happened, the hippies and the yippies

and the yippies turned into the yuppies, and they all went down to Wall Street. And, you know, it's, I feel like we keep getting trapped and the cycle keeps repeating as though we didn't also have the potential to do it, but we didn't and they... I think, so two things. One is, this generation of younger voters voted at twice the level as millennials, genectors, number one.

That's still twice, like when we were their age, 14, 15% of us voted. Okay. Now why we were building a society. We were out in the streets, bricks and mortar building a society. And how to go, right? Not well. Right? So, um, so that's part, that is part one. But I am, and telling you that they are committed, they are committed to dealing with these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these these issues these issues these issues these issues these issues these issues these issues these issues these issues, these issues, these issues, the issues, the issues, these issues, the issues, their, their, their, their, their, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, thi, thi.a, but I am telling you that they are committed, they are committed to dealing

with these issues because I'll tell you why. We're just the ones you talk to. That's only my curiosity because I have two. I have two of them. I don't talk to them. You didn't talk to my kids. You'd come on here to night and go, they just like watching Netflix. They're, they, they, they, they, they, the, the, the, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, toend to want to look at it and make sweeping judgments about who these kids are and we tend to then simplify it into a monolith and that is the first step in misunderstanding

and misrepresenting what they actually do. I liked much more what you talked about when you broke them down and they started talking to you as individuals. It's maybe when we have to to make to make to make to make to make to make to make their to make to make their their their talking to you as individuals, it's maybe when we have to take the reality of their lives and make them into data that we go wrong. Is that possible? I think so, but in each generation does have a central identity. So for example, Gen Xers, okay?

We were, in terms of politics and ideology, split relatively the many as conservatives, as liberals, republicans as Democrats, whereas this generation is different. The reason that this generation is different, this is important, that no generation, no generation since the greatest generation has dealt with more chaos, more trauma, more quickly than Gen Z. All of this, at their footsteps, before the age of 25. Listen to me, listen to me. No, that's that's to to to to to to to to to to the the the their their their their their their their their their their that's their their that's their their that's con that's con that's con that's con that's con theirus, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as that is, as that is that is their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their, as their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th, as conservatives, as conservatives, as conservatives, as their, as their, as conservativesir at their footsteps before the age of 25. Listen to me, listen to me. No, that's completely not true. Great, absolutely yes. When I was growing up Martin Luther King was killed, John of Kennedy was killed, Robert Kennedy

was killed, the Vietnam War was on and then there was water and we put someone on the moon we came together for that. This generation, this generation, but that did negate all the other shit? It did not, it did not, and every generation has their trauma. Yes. But this generation hasn't seen America at our best. No, no, no, no, no. When was the last time, this, your kids felt good about being American and connected to everybody. This morning, really, again, this is the kind of generalization that I think I take the the the thak the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thate thi, thi, thi, thi, thr-a, thateat, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a, thr-a,? Yeah, again, this is the kind of generalization that I think I take issue with. That idea that like this generation has had challenges in a way that no one else has. I just think that's putting upon them a sense of victimhood that is not necessarily, and I think can ultimately have them play into that identity as opposed

to saying, yeah man, your perspective is this is the worst the world has ever been. But I'm going to tell you something. The world is hard and it's horrible sometimes and it spins out of control. All we can do is fight every day to make the world more look like the one that you want it to be, but to treat them as though they have faced some kind of condition that is so anathema to everything that all these other generations have faced doesn't feel real to me. I didn't say more than all other generations. What you said since the greatest generation. What in the difference though is without seeing America united. The difference between a millennial in my view in a Gen Zier is a millennial remembers September 11th

and September 12th and 13th for that period of time when we came together, a red county and a blue county hung the flag, we came together. That's like a day. Right, it was a short period of time. But this, this generation doesn't understand that. And it's been division after division. And it would be easy for them, in my opinion, to not engage in politics, not try to work with

other people to try to address this. How much of that is a fiction? How much of that is imposed upon them through the algorithm and through the media? We were just talking about this. A young woman in the audience said, how th it it it it it it it it it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's th, it's th, it's th, it's th, it's thi it's thi it's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi thi thi thi thi the it's the it's the. And it's the. And it's thi thi thi thi thi. And it's thi. And it's thi. And it's thi thi. And it's thi. And it's th thi, and it's th. And it's th. And it's thi, and it's thi, and it's thi, and it's thi, and it's thi, and it's thi's thi's thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's been thi's thi thi thi. and through the media. That somebody, you know, we were just talking about this, a young woman in the audience said, how do you remain hopeful? And I said, the way I remain hopeful is to separate the world that you read about and hear about on the news and in the algorithm from the world that you experience as a human being every day. And aren't we by creating these data points of the horror that they all live in. Like, yeah, it sucks to have shooter drills.

But we had nuclear war drills where we hit under desks. And I didn't know that much about the atomic bomb, but I was pretty sure my desk wouldn't help. But do you understand what I'm saying? I do. So we create this mythology around these things that is part of that separation. But there's nothing seeing children slaughtered in schools. We didn't see a nuclear war is not mythology. But we were seeing in Vietnam, we were seeing

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The rights to own a home or piece of property. Right. Those are the rights. But isn't that a different conversation? Isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, isn't, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the.the rights. But isn't that a different conversation? Isn't that that's it's about any? It's not, it's not, listen, young people live in the same economy that we all live in. And you know, I would look at it like, sometimes we'll think like, I happen to be in an unbelievably fortunate situation, but I look at the crunch that people feel, you know, just as they get into middle age after having worked for so long and they just get to that college age where they're putting their kids through college, their parents start to need help and you're in that crazy squeeze, but separating that through generations doesn't isn't that losing the overall thread

economically? No, there is clearly economic stress around all Americans right now. Right, right. Listen, before we did the survey, do we really need to talk to the Gen Z anymore? Before the, right? Don't we know enough already? I watch the Tick-Tock. It's everywhere. Are they, do they, do they, do you think social media has hurt them? Unquestionably it's hurt them.

Really? Yeah, it's hurt them. What would you do to ameliorate this feeling that Gen Z is having and to, or has it helped them organize and so you wouldn't lose it because it's a double-edge? There's certainly some pros to it. I mean, there are folks who feel vulnerable who can find community on that space where they can't find in their own community. And that's good, right? They can organize from it. But the degree to which fear is instilled in their lives, I was talking the other day in terms

of what people are anxious about. And a lot of young men, I talked to have feeds every morning of car crashes like horrible horrible car crashes in their Tick-Tock Instagram feeds where they're concerned about driving to work the economic fears about wait what yeah like the terms of the algorithms right oh it just feeds them car crashes to them it feeds car crashes to them it feeds car crashes to them how the fuck does that even start that I that's just one that's just kind of one example can I tell you all thI th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th that that th th that th that that that that that th. th. thi the that thi thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi the the the the the to to to to tooooooo teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea their the the the the kind of one example. Can I tell you all I get is that one girl going, I'm two days into college and on three lectures behind. And then it's just a thousand people dancing to that. That's your algorithm, right?

That's, they found you. I'm doing it wrong. Thank you very much for coming by. Harvard's John Delovolby. It is, what is the name in the book again? How James? Jen Zee, we're going to do a quick break and we'll be right back after this. Are they?

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