2025-12-26
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Hi, it's Helen here.
Today in Focus is taking a little Christmas break so that we can recharge our batteries ready for 2026.
While we're off, we are replaying a few of our favourite episodes of the year.
Today, it's a fun one presented by Lucy Hoff,
who is now the host of our sister podcast, Today in Focus Latest.
As a geriatric millennial, my cheeks burned throughout when I listened to this the first time round.
Enjoy!
Why are millennials suddenly so deeply uncool?
Somewhere back in the Halcyon 2010s, millennials were the bright young things.
A generation of digital pioneers defying our diet economic outlook by frittering away any savings we might have on flat whites and short-haul flights.
I can't afford a house.
Why bother even try?
Let me have my Starbucks.
Let me have my avocado toast.
Let me have my Netflix subscription.
Let me have my...
Boomers and Gen X derided us as self-absorbed snowflakes.
And I think we could live with that.
But now, we have a much more dangerous enemy, Gen Z.