The millennial midlife crisis
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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.
New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the gray area. I'm John Glenn Hill, sitting in for Sean Illing. Emile Niazi is a columnist at The Cut. She spends a lot of time writing about work and motherhood, and not too long ago, she wrote a piece examining how the midlife crisis is
Different for millennials. Aging seems to change with each generation. So I invited her on to talk about the changing markers of adulthood, the eternal optimism of the millennial generation, and why, at the end of the day, it might just be late-stage capitalism's fault. I had a really great time having this conversation, and I hope you enjoy listening to it. Emil Nyazi, welcome to the show.
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