About this episode

The episode discusses generational attitudes towards food and urban decline, focusing on the Silent Generation's worldview.

In the summer of 2023, Joseph and I were having a conversation in Podlasie Club about different generational attitudes toward ultraprocessed food. We shared anecdotes about how boomers in our personal lives had little to no reservations about consuming them, while the generation above the boomers had a healthy degree of skepticism and preferred home-cooked food. Joseph uttered the phrase “reject your parents, embrace your grandparents.” I quickly realized that the generation he advocated embracing was the Silent Generation, and the term began buzzing in my head. I had only known Joseph for a couple of months at that point, but we had amazing conversational chemistry and kept discovering that we admired many of the same things: public transit, cities, architecture, menswear, and aesthetics. He was even wearing his Crystal Castles long sleeve tee that night at Podlasie Club, which ended up being the third topic we did together and our all time most downloaded episode. I asked him to start the podcast with me after I realized that the worldview we shared was something that needed to be disseminated and preserved. The Silent Generation worldview is one that is predicated on decline…

People in this episode

Host: Unnamed Host

Guest: Joseph

Topics covered

• generational attitudes
• ultraprocessed food
• Silent Generation
• public transit
• urban decline

Keywords

• Silent Generation
• ultraprocessed food
• public transit
• urban decline
• generational attitudes

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Crystal Castles

Places: Podlasie Club, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis

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