Parents, its your fault, You cant fix this.

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In this episode we discuss the difference between Gen X and Gen Z. What does our future look like, is woke a temporary fad or is it here to stay. We also talk about quiet quitting, work ethic and what it means. The everyone is always a winner myth, why participation trophy's are a huge part of the problem.

Transcript excerpt

what generation is the participation trophy generation. It was the end of the millennial in Zoomers have have carried that ever since and they that's about it. Yes. Like they want to be praised for being losers. Yes, a your your last price it plays It's okay. Did you know you still get a trophy? And you know what? Not even that you should get better trophy you do and you should be honored. Everybody really big? Yeah. Let's let's train everybody to be losers, you know? Oh, it's okay. Yeah. Okay. We're only competing in a competition to see who the best is. But let's encourage people to be the worst amount of fact, that's, that's crazy. Yeah, let's take the participation trophy people and put them in an F 15. And haven't go fly that thing around for a while. You know what I mean? Because, you know, I just watched the new top gun so I'm on top gun down right now. So I'm like, Yeah, you're saying you're saying the guys that actually won the prize versus the ones that came in? 15th? Yeah, we're the ones in favor and go Yeah, throw you in a $20 million jet and go Yeah, we're gonna trust you to fly that thing. Yeah. What do you do one day when you know they get you know, someone asked him a question like hey, do you play sports and and high school will be like yeah, man be like, I got like five participation trophies. You know, I mean, like, what the fuck man like, are these guys eight maybe

in the future maybe it's like your boss in there is like what you got five participation trophies. I only got three. Yeah. And he chose his participation trophy. Sure. Okay. So you don't know you know?

The thing about this generation is, it's kind of fun. I do, I can't even call. So number one, I'm gonna touch on

the generation that is saying it's okay to be big. And it's okay to be overweight and their kids are overweight as well. And if you say something about it, instead of being constructive criticism, like it wasn't our day, because when you tell somebody without being rude, you know, you're fat shaming him. Yeah, you're fat shaming now. But they, they put it this generation that we have here and a little bit of the ones before, all over the,

you know, they're, they're having plush models, and, you know, like, it's okay. And if you say something about it, then you're shaming them. And that would be the participation error. Like, like, it's okay to be unhealthy. Is that what it is? Oh, well, it's not even that is that is being celebrated. So you have these in, you know, and listen, I have no disrespect towards anybody. I've been a fat guy many times in my life, and I did not feel good about it. I had to lose weight. It was not very fun. But yeah, man, dude, it was hard. You know, I mean, I dropped 70 pounds. That wasn't that wasn't tough or easy to do. You know? So it's like, you know, it's not an easy thing to do. And so, yeah, and I felt it. But the thing is, is when I was when I was just blown out, just drinking every day just screwed up. Like, I didn't feel good about myself, these people are coming out and saying, oh, did you know I love myself, I love my buddy. They know that they are not that their body is unhealthy. And I'm not saying that somebody that's overweight, or somebody that we would say is overweight is unhealthy. But people know whether they're unhealthy. But what's happening is they're trying to say, Oh, don't body shame, which is giving them giving people a reason to stay unhealthy. And saying it's okay for you to be that way. It's okay. And they're just body shaming. And then you get a lot of those people that wind up losing weight, and they're like, oh, man, I can't believe I lived that way. And it's like, yeah, like, you know, you felt worse. You were overweight, you were unhealthy. You know, like, why do you want to live that way? It's not shaming you. It's telling you like, why do you want to live that way? But why do you want to raise your kids to think that it's okay to look like yeah, what do you want your kids to be unhealthy? And then, oh, my kid gets bullied in school. Well, first of all, I mean, fuck bullies. Regardless, I'm not saying that. That's okay. But they're around. But but they are around and they're kind of feeding the fire, you know, by by allowing your kids to get super overweight like that. I mean, I was watching a study that said that,