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As Elon Musk closes in on becoming the world's first trillionaire, wealth has drifted so far out of reach that Americans can't fight it the normal way, so they've started to troll it. A mayor announced a tax from the sidewalk outside a billionaire's $238 million penthouse. A movie star walked the Met Gala in a gown titled "The One Percent." On May Day, three thousand protests marched under one ban...

Fannie Mae just accepted its first crypto-collateralized mortgage. 75% of Americans say starter homes are priced like luxury homes. And most Americans say the housing market feels frozen, buyers and sellers waiting each other out. John and Libby unpack why nobody's moving and why an entire generation is rewriting the rules of who you buy a home with. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

Hundreds of Gen Z singles showed up to a Brooklyn warehouse to wrestle strangers for a first date.  Meanwhile, Bumble has lost 90% of its market value, and 77% of singles say dating apps feel more like a marketplace than a love story. So what actually replaces the swipe? In this episode, we unpack "Love Off Script" — the full-scale reinvention of how people meet, why the date itself cos...

81% of business leaders admit most companies in their industry are faking their AI readiness. Meanwhile, 68% of workers are navigating the biggest economic shift of their lifetime completely alone. John and Libby dig into the dangerous silence between boardrooms and break rooms  and find a surprising 83% consensus on what comes next that nobody's acting on yet. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Why IRL: Intimate, Random, Life Experiences Are Bringing Humans Back to Life. What happens when the first fully digital generation decides screens aren't enough and starts paying $800 to sleep in a cabin with strangers just to make a real friend? Humans are sprinting back toward each other — and toward friction, mess, and absurdity — as a form of resistance and relief. Now we need to u...

What if GLP 1s just turned off the engine that powers billions of dollars in consumer spending? GLP-1s were supposed to be about weight loss — but people keep using one word to describe what they actually feel: quieter. Less food noise. Less doomscrolling. Less drinking. Less wanting. When 54% of Millennials are taking or considering a drug that dials down desire itself, that's not a wellnes...

A man got his heart broken by an AI bot that was literally designed to agree with him. He's not alone — there are 54,000 people in a Reddit community called "My Boyfriend Is AI." And recently the world's first AI dating café opened in NYC with a waitlist. In this episode, we explore the Attachment Economy: how AI moved from answering your questions to capturing your heart, and what it...

What if buying a $500 spell on Etsy is the most rational financial decision a young person can make? What happens when you've done everything by the book and still can't afford the rent? The systems have stopped working, and young people are turning to witches for hope, thankfully, over nihilism. Now, we need to understand what that means for marketers. This episode unpacks the age of Lottery Over...

So, Get This — Hosts John Gerzema and Libby Rodney (The Harris Poll) will share unexpected and uncomfortable insights you need to hear. Each episode will break down new cultural insights grounded in research that forces you to rethink what you thought you knew. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.