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Teenager Talk

A Candid Conversation with a Middle Schooler and High Schooler (Younger Side of Gen Z) about Controversial Cultural Issues

 
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A Ghost in the Machine features hot takes on modern life from Daniel D, a regular human in a world gone mad. Daniel is nerdy and philosophical like Woody Allen, loud and angry like Sam Kinison, and full of shit like a clogged gas station toilet. It's all part of Life's rich pageant!
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Stock photo of some random teenagers sitting and doing teenage stuff …group of people sitting on white sand during daytime
Stock photo of some random teenagers sitting and doing teenage stuff (Photo by Amir Hosseini on Unsplash).

Greetings and salutations, fellow old-timers! In this episode, Daniel D discusses current events with two of his kids, one in middle school and the other in high school (both of them are at the tail-end of the age-range for Gen Z) to get a sense for how the rising generation feels about controversial cultural issues. There are some surprises (like which 80s bands are still popular among high schoolers and which ones aren’t), but spoiler alert: Cultural Marxism (a.k.a., Conformmunism) is NOT cool!

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