Brett Cooper

Somebody else said, damn, these comments be weird.

I mean, really?

Who would sacrifice their house like this?

Like it is such a foreign concept that somebody in my generation cannot even fathom inviting people over, throwing a rager, all that jazz.

Now I will say, as a disclaimer, I never threw a big house party.

I never threw a rager.

I was far too much of a goody two shoes, way too close with my mother.

And I also had just a ginormous stick up my ass because I actually got my older brother in trouble for throwing a house party like this.

I was like Nancy Drew on the case.

I was like, why is there a whistle in my room?

Why is my strawberry plant that I spent all spring working on, why is it mysteriously gone and I see fragments of the pot strewn about the patio?

It was because somebody got drunk and threw it off the patio.

That's why, anyway.

I read, love you, I hate that I got you in trouble.

But anyway, my generation was not growing these types of parties.

Now, we have talked about this loneliness epidemic obviously a lot on the show, a lot on comment section, it is something that I care a lot about, but I do wanna put some numbers to it today because I think it's important and it is genuinely shocking.

So, between 2003 and 2024, so the last 20 years, time spent attending or hosting social events dropped 50% among Americans 15 and older.

Now, for the youngest Americans, ages 15 to 24,

These are like prime socialization years, prime house parties, frat parties, college parties, game nights with your friends, whatever it is.

The decline was 69%.