Yonah Budd
speaker
107 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Jan
Yonah Budd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's kind of grim, the report.
The only positive thing, the only downtick is that drinking alcohol in the last year, people who report that has gone down.
And I think that might have to do something with Gen Z not loving drinking as much as older people.
It's just like a generation that doesn't report drinking as much.
But beyond that, every kind of negative societal like mental health addiction kind of thing has gone up by a certain percentage over the last six years.
When I was 33 pre pandemic, if the weekend was going to roll around and it was Friday night or Saturday night, I would get this like anxiety all week.
If my calendar wasn't full and I didn't have something fun to do that would involve going out, whether it was a comedy club, I was doing standup at the time.
whether it was a bar, whatever it was.
And it was just this profound discomfort of the potential of isolating at home.
Now, I lived alone then.
Now I live with a woman.
But I'm approaching 40 this year.
And this idea like, oh, if the weekend's free, if Saturday night's free, that's a great blessing.
I'm happy to just be on my computer and be at home and watch TV and hang out with my girlfriend or cat.
Or if she goes out, hang out with the cat.
The cat doesn't go out.
Uh, is that like a, just a life change or is this something that I learned during the pandemic where I was sort of like, okay, it's fine to social isolate, uh, socially isolated.
I'm okay with it.
I've learned that skill.
Drinking a non-alcoholic Corona with a lime in it.
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