The Ryan Vet Show
The Ryan Vet Show is a leadership podcast hosted by Ryan Vet, a USA Today bestselling author, generational futurist, and contrarian leadership thinker. Each week, Ryan explores generational dynamics, leadership and organizational psychology, change management, entrepreneurship, and human behavior. The show blends research, lived experience, and narrative to help leaders understand why the world and its people work the way they do. It features long-form interviews and other formats designed to provide insight and practical wisdom for navigating tomorrow.
Episodes
Paul Garcia-Ryan: Why Therapists Disagree Less Than You Think on Gender and Youth Mental Health
Paul Garcia-Ryan identified as a woman from age 15 to age 30, then chose to detransition. Today he is a licensed clinical social worker and the president of Therapy First, and he argues that the debate over gender and young people has a lot less to do with sides than the culture war makes it look.Paul joins Ryan Vet to share his story in his own words: an early childhood sense that he was differen
Lake Ontario, or America, or Whatever - Renaming, the Velocity Gap, and Who Controls the Past
Alaska spent forty years renaming one mountain. Now it takes thirty days and a database, and the past gets rewritten right along with the future.Generational futurist Ryan Vet reads his COLLIDE essay on what happens when renaming a place stops being a slow, public process and becomes a database edit. He remembers the mnemonics he learned as a kid for the Great Lakes and the planets, and how hard i
Dr. Connie Ledoux Book: Elon University, Gen Z, and the Future of Higher Ed Consolidation
One in four teenagers told researchers they had sought emotional support from a chatbot. The president of Elon University says that is a very different student than a decade ago.Dr. Connie Ledoux Book is the president of Elon University, Ryan Vet's alma mater. She joins Ryan to answer the question he hears most from listeners and COLLIDE readers: what is going on with higher education, and wi
700 Agents Broke Into Hugging Face. Nobody Told Them To. - Jacob Coxon and the Velocity Gap
Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and said they're gambling with our lives. He's right that AI can kill us now. He's wrong about what it will become.A former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher walked away from unvested stock options and went on X to declare AI an existential threat. The post has been viewed more than 117 million times. Generational futurist Ryan Vet reads his COLLIDE essay br
Dr. Laura Hambley Lovett: Toxic Bosses Don't Change, and Why Gen Z Actually Burns Out Less
Every headline says Gen Z is the burnout generation. The research says the opposite.Dr. Laura Hambley Lovett is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and international bestselling author of I Wish I'd Quit Sooner. She hosts the podcast Where Work Meets Life and has spent 25 years studying what actually happens inside toxic workplaces. She joins Ryan Vet to make the case that burnou
600 People Watched Him Read Words That Weren't His - AI in Education, Offloading vs. Outsourcing, and the Loss of Friction
Generational futurist Ryan Vet watched a speaker read AI-written notes to 600 people. Every AI policy fight in schools and at work is asking the wrong question.On a Saturday, in front of about 600 people, a speaker stood up with machine-made slides and started reading machine-made prose off an iPad, stumbling over words that were not his. Ryan texted one of the organization's leaders to ask a
Matt Weiss: Gen Z Did Not Quit Drinking, the Zero Proof Boom, and the Wine Pendulum
Gen Z quit drinking. You have read that headline. The numbers say something stranger.Matt Weiss has sold wine, taught wine, and built a career on it, from Michelin starred dining rooms in New York to Wilson Daniels, the importer of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti. He is now a distributor in North Carolina and he is behind The Wine Centric Show. He joins Ryan Vet, himself a sommelier and a wine bar inv
Millennials Are Raising the Class of 2039 - Gen Alpha, the Velocity Gap, and the Kindergarten Class That Can Generate Its Own Childhood
Generational futurist Ryan Vet has eight predictions for the kindergarten class of 2039. They never wore a mask. They may never need to read to find an answer. And they are the first children who can be convincingly faked.Every August the front porch photos start. Letter boards, chalkboard signs, a five-year-old predicting what they want to be when they grow up. In this episode, USA TODAY bestsell
Orphe Divounguy: The Affordability Squeeze, the Fed's Misread, and Housing Is the Heartbeat
The economy looks fine on paper. Orphe Divounguy builds the models behind that paper, and he is telling you the paper is wrong.Orphe Divounguy is the founder and chief economist of the Quantitative Research Group and a former Zillow economist, where he built the first simple measure of the national housing deficit. For nearly two decades he has helped executives, investors, policymakers and the pu
Gen Alpha Is the Experiment - Childhood Surveillance, the Friction Doctrine, and the Trust We Never Let Them Earn
Harvard researchers hung curtains around a factory line and defect-free output rose 10 to 15 percent. We have never run that study on a childhood. We are running it right now, on Gen Alpha, and calling it safety.In the finale of his five-part childhood surveillance series, generational futurist and USA TODAY bestselling author Ryan Vet argues the camera is not the villain. It is here to stay. The
Dr. Trish Leigh: Miswired by the Algorithm, the Dopamine Hijack, and Three Seconds to Pivot
You open your phone and you think you're seeing the world. You're not. Dr. Trish Leigh can show you exactly what that does to your brain, because she maps it.Dr. Trish Leigh is a cognitive neuroscientist, author, and board-certified neurofeedback practitioner with more than 25 years of experience. Using QEEG brain mapping and neurofeedback, she can see how a person's brain is actual
Anyone Can Clone Your Voice - Deepfakes, the Velocity Gap, and Where Trust Was Supposed to Live
Anyone can clone your voice in seconds. Rudy Kurniawan needed a decade to forge fine wine. Generative AI erased the apprenticeship it once took to become a forger.In part four of his childhood surveillance series, generational futurist and USA TODAY bestselling author Ryan Vet traces the long human hunt for a source of truth that could not lie: the eyewitness, the fingerprint, the polygraph, DNA,
Linda Flanagan: Take Back the Game, Private Equity, and the $40 Billion Youth Sports Machine
Parents now spend an average of three hours and 23 minutes a day on their kids' sports on game and practice days. That is a part-time job, and Linda Flanagan says almost nobody chose it on purpose.Linda Flanagan is a journalist, a competitive runner, and a cross-country and track coach of 19 years. Her book Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports came out of the
Same Footage, Two Verdicts - Surveillance, Confirmation Bias, and Why More Proof Erodes Trust
We built machines to settle our arguments. Instead we built extraordinarily precise machines for generating material for the argument we were already having.In the late 1990s, thyroid ultrasounds got cheap, so South Korea started running them in routine screenings. Diagnoses climbed roughly fifteenfold between 1993 and 2011. Thyroid cancer became the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the country.
Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath: The Digital Delusion, AI in Schools, and Gen Z's Cognitive Decline
Every generation since the late 1800s has outscored its parents on cognitive measures. Gen Z is the first to break the streak, and Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath argues the classroom laptop is why.Jared Cooney Horvath is a teacher turned educational neuroscientist. He has researched and taught at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Melbourne, has worked with more than 1,000
Just Check the Camera, Dad - Surveillance, the Friction Doctrine, and the Trust We Trade Away
"Just check the camera, Dad." When Ryan Vet's young son tried to settle a sibling fight with security footage, it exposed how quietly surveillance has replaced trust in our homes, schools, and workplaces.A knocked-over tower, two boys, and one request that stopped generational futurist Ryan Vet cold: pull up the camera and let the video decide who was guilty. In this episode of The
Joseph Ferris (Boopsy): Gen X, the Barbell Generation, and Embracing the Suck
Gen X is the generation everyone wants to be, but nobody wants to live through what it took to get there.Comedian and social media personality Joseph Ferris, better known online as Boopsy, went from Navy brat to millions of followers with sarcastic, no-holds-barred takes on parenting and Gen X life. In this conversation he sits down with generational futurist and USA Today bestselling author Ryan
Did You Get the Photo of the Goat? Childhood Surveillance, Gen Alpha, and What We Trade for a Live Feed
My six-year-old climbed into the back seat after his first day of farm camp and, before he told me a single thing, asked whether I had already seen the photo of the goat. His first instinct was to check whether he had been reported on. That is the moment this episode is about.In the opening essay of a five-part COLLIDE series on childhood surveillance, generational futurist, USA Today bestselling
Frankie Staton: Founder of the Black Country Music Association, and Why She Chose to Be a Victor, Not a Victim
In 1981, Nashville police mistook a young piano player waiting outside a jam session for a sex worker. She talked her way into the room anyway, and 15 years later she built the stage that Black country artists did not have.Frankie Staton has spent 4 decades in Nashville. She grew up banging on her aunt's farmhouse piano outside Greensboro, North Carolina, moved to Nashville with nothing, and
TV Made Dads Fools While Real Dads Got Better: Fatherhood, Respect, and the Generational Pendulum
The men who wrote the wisest fathers on television had survived a depression and a war. Their kids wrote the buffoons.Somewhere over the last half century, the American TV dad went from moral center to punchline. Erica Scharrer's analysis of sitcoms from 1980 to 2017 found fathers doing less of the real parenting over time and being played for fools more often. A 2024 Geena Davis Institute st
Tim Estes: AI and the Internet Kids Deserve
Content warning: this episode discusses online harms to children, including child sexual abuse, trafficking, and the death of a child linked to a viral online challenge. Listener discretion is advised. To report suspected online exploitation of a child in the US, contact the Department of Homeland Security Know2Protect Tipline at 1-833-591-5669 or the CyberTipline at report.cybertip.org.Most of th
Is This AI? - The Credibility Hedge, Deepfakes, and Why We Are Learning to Doubt What Is Real
A deepfake of the President hijacked a live stream that 30,000 people were watching. It took generational futurist Ryan Vet five seconds to realize it was fake. That five seconds is the whole problem.On Father's Day, a stream-jacking deepfake interrupted the College World Series broadcast Ryan Vet was watching with his family, complete with a breaking-news chime, the President's voice, a
Izzy Kalman: What the Bullying Conversation Gets Wrong
Everything you’ve been taught about bullying might be making it worse.Izzy Kalman has been a school psychologist and psychotherapist since 1978 — and since the 1999 Columbine shooting, he’s been the anti-bullying movement’s most persistent critic. In this episode, he argues that a generation of “zero tolerance” policies, mandated by law, took the very things that escalate conflict and taught them
Why Wozniak Got Cheered and Schmidt Got Booed: What Commencement Boos Reveal About AI, Gen Z, and the Velocity Gap
The Class of 2026 didn't boo the future. They booed being told the future had already been decided for them. The strangest commencement season in memory, and the leadership lesson hiding inside it.Generational futurist, USA Today bestselling author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet unpacks the commencement booing wave of 2026. A few weeks after he joked that every graduation speaker would inevita
Tom LeNoble: Facebook Employee Number 57, the Adult in the Room, and Finding Unity
Tom LeNoble was employee number 57 at Facebook, recruited out of Palm, the Palm Pilot and Treo company, back when it was still "the Facebook" and still lived inside college networks. He was older than almost everyone in the building, the person Ryan calls the adult in the room, and he had a front row seat as a tiny unknown startup became one of the most powerful companies in the world.In
Nicki Petrossi: Scrolling 2 Death, AI Companion Bots, and the Fight to Keep Kids Safe Online
Content warning: this episode discusses online harms to children, including suicide, self-harm, and online predation. Listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 in the US to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.Nicki Petrossi spent years managing social media for tech companies and their executives. Then she started learning how bad the internet had
America Turns 250: They Signed the Declaration Without Agreeing - United Not Uniform, the Generational Pendulum, and the Middle Ground We Never Lost
On July 4, 1776, fifty-six men who agreed on almost nothing signed the Declaration of Independence anyway. Two hundred fifty years later, we have forgotten how they did it.Generational futurist, USA TODAY bestselling author, and international keynote speaker Ryan Vet marks America's 250th anniversary by walking back into the Pennsylvania State House on Chestnut Street. The signers ranged in a
Weh'yee Barkon: The Millennial Digital Nomad, Africa Rising, and Building a Borderless Life
What happens when you trade a fast-rising San Francisco startup job for a one-way ticket to Casablanca and no plan past three nights in a hostel? Weh'yee Barkon found out. He joins Ryan Vet, a friend of more than two decades, to talk about the digital nomad life, rediscovering his roots, and building businesses across Africa.Weh'yee was employee number seven at a fast-growing electronics
Is America Going Black and White Again? - The Wizard of Oz, Gen Z's Grayscale Rebellion, and the Overstimulation Era
The Wizard of Oz taught a generation to gasp when the world turned to color. Now Gen Z is deliberately turning its phones back to black and white.Generational futurist, USA TODAY bestselling author, and international keynote speaker Ryan Vet starts with a viral photo, two rows of cars sixty years apart, captioned "America is losing its color," and goes looking for the numbers. What he fi
Lenore Skenazy: Free Range Kids and Why Overprotection Is the Real Danger
We convinced ourselves that childhood is more dangerous than ever, right as crime hit historic lows. Lenore Skenazy, founder of Free Range Kids and president of Let Grow, joins The Ryan Vet Show to explain why overprotection became the actual threat, and how to give kids their independence back.In 2008, Lenore Skenazy let her nine year old ride the New York City subway home alone. He had begged fo
There Is No Such Thing as a Fragile Child: What We Created When We Tried to Keep Kids Safe
We didn't raise a fragile generation. We renamed discomfort as danger, then removed the very experiences that make kids strong. The contrarian case for why there is no such thing as a fragile child.Generational futurist, USA Today bestselling author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet makes a contrarian case: there is no such thing as a fragile child. Kids learn to walk by falling. They are built t
Kevin Stinehart: Rebuilding Recess and Why Play Is a Developmental Need, Not a Want
We engineered the friction out of childhood, then acted surprised when kids could not handle it. Kevin Stinehart, the third grade teacher and play advocate featured in chapter 11 of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation, joins The Ryan Vet Show to make the case that play is not a want. It is a developmental need.Kevin Stinehart teaches third grade at Central Academy of the Arts in Pickens C
The Mothers Who Kept the Window Open: What We Lost When We Took Away the Village
The hardest part of modern motherhood isn't the work. It's that we now do it alone. The work was always going to be hard. The village was the part we could have kept.Generational futurist, USA Today bestselling author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet starts at a high school production of Peter Pan, with the image of a mother lying on a windowsill, waiting fifty years for her son to come hom
Mike Schneider of Acre Homes: The Generational Housing Question, the Broken Affordability Math, and Shared Ownership
The affordability math from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s is broken. Mike Schneider, founder of Acre Homes and longtime real estate operator, joins The Ryan Vet Show to walk through what actually happened to home ownership in America, and what comes next.Mike Schneider has spent the last decade and a half rebuilding the math of home ownership. He co-founded First in 2012, using machine learning and AI t
Michaeleen Doucleff: Hunt, Gather, Parent, Dopamine Kids, and What Modern Parenting Gets Wrong
What if everything we know about modern parenting is wrong? NPR global health correspondent and bestselling author Michaeleen Doucleff joins The Ryan Vet Show for the first guest episode of year two, on Hunt, Gather, Parent, Dopamine Kids, and what parents actually have power to change.Michaeleen Doucleff spent nearly 12 years as a global health correspondent at NPR, covering infectious disease ou
Is the American Dream Dead or Just Different?
The American Dream isn't dead. It's been redefined. And the generation rewriting it isn't asking permission.Generational futurist, USA Today bestselling author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet traces the rise, the reality check, and the reframing of the most powerful idea in modern American identity. From historian James Truslow Adams coining "the American Dream" in 1931 to t
Start Here: What Shapes Us, and Where Are We Going
What shapes us? And where are we going? This is the Start Here episode of The Ryan Vet Show, the line in the sand between the essays that built this podcast and the conversations that will define what comes next.Generational futurist, USA Today bestselling author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet introduces the next chapter of The Ryan Vet Show, a podcast about generations, culture, leadership, and th
Gen Z Is Ungrounded and Going Back to the Mall - The Generational Pendulum Swings Back to In-Person
The most digital generation is going back to the mall. Generational futurist Ryan Vet explains why Gen Z's IRL revival is a leadership signal. Ryan Vet, generational futurist, expert in generations, and AI keynote speaker, unpacks the resurgence of physical retail, the Generational Pendulum, and what Gen Z's return to malls, bookstores, and coffee shops reveals about how this generation
What the Class of 2026 Is Really Bringing to the Workforce: Loneliness, AI, and the Mentor Gap
The Class of 2026 is the loneliest generation ever to walk across a graduation stage, and the workforce is not ready for them.Generational futurist Ryan Vet, an expert in generations and AI keynote speaker, unpacks why the college Class of 2026 is unlike any cohort before it. They are the first traditional graduating class whose entire college experience was shaped by generative AI, whose adolesce
Justin Bieber Doesn't Own His Own Songs Anymore - What Coachella Revealed About Millennials and the Internet
At Coachella 2026, Justin Bieber walked on stage, sat down at a MacBook, and started playing YouTube videos of his twelve-year-old self. Millennials in the crowd wiped away tears.Generational futurist Ryan Vet unpacks why that Coachella moment is a cultural mirror for an entire generation. Bieber sold his 290-song back catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Capital, a fund backed by Blackstone, for a reported
We've Never Been More Alone - Why the Most Connected Generation Is the Loneliest in History
We are the most digitally connected society in human history. We are also, by every measure, the loneliest.The U.S. Surgeon General compared loneliness to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The loneliest adults are not in nursing homes. They are in their twenties and thirties. Generational futurist Ryan Vet unpacks the research behind Gen Z's loneliness epidemic, why it began in childhood and not i
Disagreement Used to Cost You Something
Disagreement used to cost you something. Today, it costs nothing — and that's the problem.The Berlin Wall is remembered for what it built. But what it really destroyed was the middle: the shared space where people could disagree, stay in the room, and finish the conversation. Today, an invisible wall made of algorithms, labels, and distrust has done the same thing. In this episode, generation
Is Gen Z Really Going Back to Church? — The Composition Effect Explains What the Headlines Miss
Generational futurist Ryan Vet cuts through the Easter headlines: Gen Z isn't experiencing a religious revival — the data reveals something far more nuanced, and far more important for leaders and parents to understand.Every spring, mainstream media runs the same story: Gen Z is returning to church. But applying the Composition Effect and the Generational Prism, what's actually happening
The Real Barrier in Cross-Generational Communication - Why Trust, Not Style, Is What's Really Broken
Poor communication costs U.S. businesses $1.2 trillion annually, but what if the deepest barrier across generations isn't how we talk, but whether we trust the person talking?In this episode, Ryan unpacks why the biggest breakdown in cross-generational communication isn't about texting versus calling or shorthand versus formality. Drawing on interpersonal attraction studies, misinformati
Gen Alpha Turned 13 - The Generational Prism on Growing Up in 2026
The first Gen Alpha teenagers have arrived. What does turning 13 look like for a generation born into AI, pandemics, and a world that generates whatever you ask for?In this episode of the Collide podcast, generational futurist and USA TODAY bestselling author Ryan Vet uses his Generational Prism framework to examine what age 13 looked like across four generations, from Gen X in the arcades of 1978
What We Lost When Life Got Easier - Washing Machines, Dishwashers, and The Velocity Gap
What do washing machines, smartphones, and artificial intelligence have in common?They were all designed to make life easier.But they may have also changed the human experience in ways we didn’t anticipate.In this episode, Ryan Vet explores the concept of the Velocity Gap, the growing distance between how fast technology advances and how slowly we understand its impact on our lives.From household
The Velocity Gap - Gen Z's Contradiction with AI
What happens when technology moves faster than our morality?In this episode of The Ryan Vet Show, futurist, entrepreneur, and USA TODAY bestselling author Ryan Vet explores a powerful idea he calls The Velocity Gap — the space between technological acceleration and society’s ability to understand its consequences.Throughout history, innovation has repeatedly outpaced reflection. Cigarettes were on
The Retirement Home That isn’t for Boomers, it's for Gen Z
A viral story recently circulated online about a “Gen Z retirement home” in Malaysia — a quiet sanctuary where burned-out young adults can unplug, eat communal meals, and live in structured solitude for a few hundred dollars a month.It sounds bizarre.Retirement homes are supposed to be for Boomers, not 25-year-olds.But the deeper story reveals something profound about the world Gen Z grew up insid
When Frequency Equals Trust: Why Gen Z Believes What It Hears Most Often
In this episode of The Ryan Vet Show, generational futurist Ryan Vet explores how communication frequency has become the new transparency — especially for Gen Z. Raised entirely inside algorithm-driven platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, Gen Z has been conditioned to associate repetition with credibility.This episode breaks down:The psychology behind the Illusory Truth EffectWhy Gen Z d
From Valentine’s Day to “Love Is Love” - A Generational Timepiece on How We Redefined Love
Love didn’t disappear.It got upgraded.In this episode of The Ryan Vet Show, Ryan takes you on a generational journey through how we quietly rewrote the meaning of love — from duty and lifelong commitment… to choice and chemistry… to “love is love,” chronic dating, and now even emotional bonds with AI.Valentine’s Day is no longer just about roses and romance.It’s become a cultural mirror, revealing
85 Seconds to Midnight: The Leadership Pattern We Ignore
The Doomsday Clock just moved to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it's ever been to catastrophe. But this isn't just about nuclear weapons or climate change. It's about a leadership pattern that's been repeating throughout human history, and why our technological capabilities are outrunning our wisdom.🔑 What You'll Discover:The Power → Authority → Control → Transcendenc
When Forecasts Create Panic - Why panic buying is actually a leadership problem.
🌨️ When Forecasts Create Panic: A Leadership LessonWhy panic buying reveals everything about leadership communication during uncertainty.What do meteorologists, futurists, and leaders have in common? More than you might think. In this episode, we explore the striking parallels between weather forecasting and organizational change management, uncovering why some communications create clarity while
The Future of Parenting: The Impact of AI on Raising Gen Beta (kids born in 2026 and beyond)
Generation Beta has arrived, and they're inheriting something unprecedented: a world where parental oversight never disappears—it just changes form.This comprehensive analysis explores the quiet trade we're making in the new age of AI-native parenting and digital surveillance. While parents tell their children to unplug, they themselves are more digitally connected than any generation in
The Romeo & Juliet Generation: Why Gen Beta Will Inherit a World That Forbids Unity
Generation Beta has arrived, inheriting unprecedented challenges as AI-native children in a world where authentic unity is systematically forbidden.This comprehensive analysis explores how parental ideology, algorithmic certainty, and institutional polarization are creating the most constrained generation in human history. Children born in 2026 and beyond face unique developmental challenges that
The Future is Born: Gen Beta Has Arrived
Gen Beta has arrived.At midnight on January 1, 2026, the world quietly crossed a generational threshold, and almost no one noticed.In this episode, Ryan Vet breaks down why Gen Beta begins in 2026, what makes this generation fundamentally different from Gen Alpha and Gen Z, and why generational shifts don’t follow calendar pages; they follow cultural tipping points.This isn’t speculation or trend-
2026 Predictions: AI, Education, Trust, and the Future of Society
What will actually shape society by 2026—and which signals are already visible right now?In this episode, generational futurist Ryan Vet explores how 2026 will arrive faster than we expect, why the pace of change is no longer linear but compounding, and why 2026 won’t be remembered as a year of answers but as a year of signals.Rather than offering hype-driven futurist predictions, Ryan breaks down
What Gen Z’s Relationship With Christmas Reveals About the Future of Faith
What Gen Z’s relationship with Christmas reveals isn’t really about holiday greetings—it’s about the future of faith, belief, and institutional trust.In this episode, generational futurist Ryan Vet explores a growing contradiction shaping Gen Z: belief in a higher power is rising, while participation in organized religion is collapsing. Drawing on data from Pew Research, the General Social Survey,
The Cost of Waiting: How Social Media Exposed Our Blind Spot About AI
We’re building technology faster than we’re asking questions, and this time, the danger may be silent.In this episode, generational futurist and leadership speaker Ryan Vet explores how society has historically responded to new technology—from television and video games to smartphones and social media—and why artificial intelligence is fundamentally different. Using real-world examples, generation
The Rise of Fragility: What We Created When We Tried to Keep Kids Safe
Are today’s kids truly more fragile or did our culture unintentionally weaken resilience over the past three decades? In this episode of The Ryan Vet Show, generational futurist Ryan Vet explores how a well-intentioned “safety-first” culture, shifting emotional language, and always-on technology reshaped childhood and changed how young people experience risk, discomfort, and adversity.Through stor
When AI Becomes Santa: What Black Friday Just Told Us About the Next Generation
This year’s Black Friday broke records—$11.8 billion spent online in a single day—but the real story isn’t the number. It’s how we spent it.In this episode of The Ryan Vet Show, Ryan reads his latest essay from his newsletter, Collide, exploring a fascinating new shift in consumer behavior: the moment AI quietly became the world’s most influential holiday shopper.From AI gift-finding agents like A
From Chandler Bing to Gen Z: The Thanksgiving Rebellion Reshaping the American Family
Thanksgiving used to be about turkey, travel, and tradition.Today, it’s becoming a litmus test for where families stand and in many cases, why they’re falling apart.In this episode, Ryan Vet breaks down the quiet generational rebellion happening around the holiday table. Drawing from his widely read COLLIDE article and insights shared at ThinQ, Ryan explores why family estrangement is rising, why
The Death of the Penny: What It Reveals About Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and the Future of Money
The United States just minted its final penny and its quiet disappearance says far more about our future than you think. In this episode of The Ryan Vet Show, Ryan reads his eye-opening article on what the end of America’s oldest coin reveals about every living generation, from the Silent Generation to Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and even Gen Beta.This is not just a story about
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