BONUS EPISODE from Tim's New "FYPod"
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Why did Tim Miller and Cameron Kasky start FYPod?
Hey guys, I launched FYPod with my buddy Cameron Kasky, who was a Parkland survivor that started March for Our Lives. And I did so because we wanted to talk to Gen Z influencers, Gen Z activists, people from across the ideological spectrum in Gen Z to get a sense for, you know, why... these guys, particularly guys, let's be honest, trended more towards Trump than us. Ernest Wessling, millennials, uh, understand what is happening culturally, understanding what's happening with them on their phones and with their anxiety. And, um, I'm super excited, uh, to do it with them. Um, you know, playing the, uh, I was about to say the dad. Could I be cool older brother? Probably not. There's a pretty big gap between us age-wise.
Anyway, I'm doing the best that I can to try to learn from the kids. And so we have a huge array of guests. They're going to be coming. I'm excited about some of the folks we have coming up. This week, the episode you're about to hear was episode two with Joshua Rush, who was a Disney star that then quit Disney. and became a political activist, political campaign professional. Now he's working in Texas. So he has more of a positive view on things than me and Cameron who are pretty jaded. So I just wanted to give you guys a taste of it. You can go to subscribe to the feed, go to FY pod on your podcast player of choice. We'll be having, I think next week's guest is going to be pretty fun and we've got some good ones coming down the pike. So
Would appreciate it if you subscribe to the feed. Give us five stars. Hope you enjoy it. Up next, FYPod with Cameron Kasky and Joshua Rush.
I'm Cameron Kasky. I'm Tim Miller. And this is FYPod. You are listening to the second episode of the record-breaking and historic look we are taking into Generation Z. And we're asking a lot of questions about why we're all acting so crazy. We're exploring the idea that maybe we're called Gen Z because Z is the last one. And it might be over, gang. It's over? It looks like it's over, man. I mean, last time we spoke, you and I, Tim, one of the president's puppet masters had done a Sig Heil in front of everybody. And then the president's puppet master said, no, no, no, no, no. One is not enough. Steve Bannon's got to go up and do the Sig Heil as well. So now we're two Sig Heils into this presidency and probably more to come.
We'll just see if the orange guy decides he wants to do it as well.
It's a Roman salute, Cameron. The SIG Heil is a nice transition into the topic I wanted to pick your brain on today. And it is the Germans. Do you have any thoughts on bratwurst now? It's not just about the Germans, but the Germans had an election. And They, you know, things went, I guess, better than they could have. You know, the Nazi party only got 20% of the vote and they finished in second place, which, you know, wasn't the worst case scenario, which is we can take our wins where we get them these days. But I was interested in this thread by a friend, Rachel Janfaza, who's a good follow for folks if they want to. Her sub stack is also pretty good.
71%.
That's what I like to hear.
Nice. Nice job, German youth. On the other hand, a lot of them were moving to the right-wing parties, including AFD. And she posited that COVID was a big reason for a lot of us. And a lot of the young Germans were not thrilled about the lockdowns and the distance learning and the social isolation. And my boy, Derek Thompson, wrote about a similar thing for The Atlantic earlier this week. So I just kind of wanted to start with that German election and see if you can shed any light for me on why these loners are turning to Nazism.
I think that a lot of right wing values, especially where the right has turned these days, are they require isolation. The Republican Party wants everybody to be further away from each other. And they act like, oh, we're going to stop lockdown. We're going to start the frat parties again so everybody can get COVID and have herd immunity. But they want you to be isolated.
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