The Ryan Vet Show

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  Millennials Are Raising the Class of 2039 - Gen Alpha, the Velocity Gap, and the Kindergarten Class That Can Generate Its Own Childhood 17.09.2026 10min

  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 bestselling author and international keynote speaker Ryan Vet turns the lens away from this year's gra...
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  Orphe Divounguy: The Affordability Squeeze, the Fed's Misread, and Housing Is the Heartbeat 14.09.2026 43min

  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 public make sense of the economy, translating complex analysis on housing, labor markets and fisca...
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  Gen Alpha Is the Experiment - Childhood Surveillance, the Friction Doctrine, and the Trust We Never Let Them Earn 03.09.2026 10min

  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 question is what the camera is for: to protect, or to babysit. Drawing on Ethan Bernstein's tr...
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  Dr. Trish Leigh: Miswired by the Algorithm, the Dopamine Hijack, and Three Seconds to Pivot 31.08.2026 49min

  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 actually performing and what is driving a given behavior. That gives her an unusual vantage point on screens: she i...
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  Anyone Can Clone Your Voice - Deepfakes, the Velocity Gap, and Where Trust Was Supposed to Live 27.08.2026 10min

  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, and finally the camera. Every one of them was a surrogate we reached for so we would not have to...
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  Linda Flanagan: Take Back the Game, Private Equity, and the $40 Billion Youth Sports Machine 24.08.2026 46min

  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 gap between those roles: what she knew sports could do for a kid, and what she watched the system actually...
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  Same Footage, Two Verdicts - Surveillance, Confirmation Bias, and Why More Proof Erodes Trust 20.08.2026 13min

  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. Surgeons removed thyroids by the thousands. And the death rate never moved (Ahn, Kim & Welc...
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  Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath: The Digital Delusion, AI in Schools, and Gen Z's Cognitive Decline 17.08.2026 43min

  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 schools around the world, and testified before the U.S. Senate on technology in schools. His bo...
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  Just Check the Camera, Dad - Surveillance, the Friction Doctrine, and the Trust We Trade Away 13.08.2026 14min

  "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 Ryan Vet Show, USA TODAY bestselling author and international keynote speaker Ryan Vet argues that trust is lo...
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  Joseph Ferris (Boopsy): Gen X, the Barbell Generation, and Embracing the Suck 10.08.2026 38min

  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 Vet to trace the whole arc: the feral latchkey childhood that built Gen X, how that childhood sh...
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  Did You Get the Photo of the Goat? Childhood Surveillance, Gen Alpha, and What We Trade for a Live Feed 06.08.2026 9min

  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 author, and keynote speaker Ryan Vet reads the piece that started it all. A painted goat, a squi...
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  Frankie Staton: Founder of the Black Country Music Association, and Why She Chose to Be a Victor, Not a Victim 03.08.2026 46min

  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 worked her way from a Marriott salad bar to a 5-star restaurant's grand piano, sharing rooms with Cli...
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  TV Made Dads Fools While Real Dads Got Better: Fatherhood, Respect, and the Generational Pendulum 30.07.2026 10min

  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 study found male caregivers written as incompetent at nearly twice the rate of women. Here is the twist...
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  Tim Estes: AI and the Internet Kids Deserve 27.07.2026 42min

  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 the conversation about kids and technology is a conversation about keeping them off it. Tim Este...
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  Is This AI? - The Credibility Hedge, Deepfakes, and Why We Are Learning to Doubt What Is Real 23.07.2026 10min

  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, and a QR code asking viewers to send crypto. The unsettling part was not the scam. It was how convincing i...
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  Izzy Kalman: What the Bullying Conversation Gets Wrong 20.07.2026 46min

  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 as the right thing to do — training kids toward an external locus of control, fragility, and a v...
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  Why Wozniak Got Cheered and Schmidt Got Booed: What Commencement Boos Reveal About AI, Gen Z, and the Velocity Gap 16.07.2026 10min

  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 inevitably mention AI, the prediction came true. What he did not predict was the reaction from the seats. Fo...
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  Tom LeNoble: Facebook Employee Number 57, the Adult in the Room, and Finding Unity 13.07.2026 33min

  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 this conversation, Tom pulls back the curtain on the human side of that story: what it was like to meet M...
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  Nicki Petrossi: Scrolling 2 Death, AI Companion Bots, and the Fight to Keep Kids Safe Online 06.07.2026 34min

  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 become for kids, and she could not stop. Today she hosts Scrolling 2 Death, one of the most imp...
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  America Turns 250: They Signed the Declaration Without Agreeing - United Not Uniform, the Generational Pendulum, and the Middle Ground We Never Lost 02.07.2026 20min

  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 age from 26 to 70. They were lawyers and ministers, immigrants and planters, men of different faiths ...