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It is time to leave your warriors outside in life
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Danielmalley along with Trey Trenholm.
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Today is Wednesday, July twenty third, two thousand twenty five.
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Would you enter a real life squid game for a
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shot at thirty three million dollars?
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Tray?
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Are you familiar with squid Game?
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No?
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So? Squid Game is a Korean based television show that
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Netflix put out into the world.
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I know it's a show on Netflix, but I have
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not seen a second of it.
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All right, Well, the idea of the squid Game is
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there's this nefarious group of people who invite people from
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society who are very downtrodden in debt up to their
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eyeballs for a chance at winning lots and lots of money.
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But in order to do it, they have to play
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some children's games, and those children's games have deadly consequences.
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So you're familiar with red light green Light? Okay, The
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very first game in the very first season of Squid
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Game that all the participants take part in is a
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really horrific version of red light green Light, where in
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if any movement is detected after red light is said,
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you immediately get shot and killed. Okay, that's the first game.
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If you survive that, then there's another game with deadly
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consequents and so on and so forth until at the end,
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kind of like Highlander, there's one person remaining. Now granted,
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they actually get to vote after each round whether or
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not to continue with the game. But of course, people,
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it's a really fascinating film because it shows or show.
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It shows how desperate people can be and how big
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of a role money plays in our lives. And it's
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a class warfare and everything as well. So it's a
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fascinating show. It's very gory to a lot of people.
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Some people it's too much for some, but I love
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the show. I'm about halfway through season three right now.
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So the reason why I ask you if you would
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participate in a real life squid game is because it's
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an extreme question. But the shocking thing is that in
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a new survey, forty six percent of people said they
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would consider participating in a real life squid game, despite
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the fact that the game has a ninety nine point
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eight percent death rate. But you know, thirty three million dollars, I.
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Mean, it doesn't surprise me. We live in an age
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where people will do a lot of weird things for
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money and fame. I mean, social media has certainly brought
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that to the forefront.
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I still feel like a lot of the people that
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answered they consider or would enter into a real life
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squid Game if given the opportunity with actual deadly consequences.
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I don't think they've seen the show because I think
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they think that they could. Actually, no, you cannot. So
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in the first season, that first game that I told
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you about, Light Green Light, that's actually not that bad
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as far as some of the other games are concerned.
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There was another one in an episode of Squid Game
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I just saw in season three where they have to
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do jump rope to survive. But here, here are the
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catches involved in it. Okay, they're on two raised platforms.
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Everyone's on one side, and there's two huge dolls doing
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a huge metal jump rope over a suspended platform that
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is no wider than a ladder, and if you follow,
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you're gonna die because it's like ten stories down. Okay,
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so you have to jump over the rope across a
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I don't know, eighteen inch wide pathway to get to
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the other side, while keeping in mind other players can
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knock you off. Oh yeah, and you have to do
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it inside of twenty minutes or you die.
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I mean I it goes back. It's like the story
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we read it.
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It was a couple of months ago about I think
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it was about fifty percent of people thought they could
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land an airplane.
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HM.
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Well, in my defense, when I said yes to that,
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I'm assuming that I would have autopilot assistance, and I've
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landed plenty of planes in video games, so I feel
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like i'd have a good shot at that. I honestly
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feel like I would have a better shot at landing
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a real life jet than I would surviving anything in
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squid game.
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We've really got to get it a simulator and let's see.
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Well, I'm not saying I would definitely be successful. I'm
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just saying I would like my odds better at landing
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the plane.
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I will think about it, and next time you're here
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in Texas, I'll see if I can't get us into
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an actual airline simulator, because I know, I know somebody.
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Okay, is there any way we can select the aircraft?
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Because I really don't want to be hampered by a
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seven forty seven. I'd like a little more maneuverability, something
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along the line, so of like an F sixteen or something,
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so I could pretend I'm in Iron Eagle.
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This would probably be a seven three seven, So no
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barrel rolls, No, I don't think so.
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Can I at least select a custom paint job in
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the setup screen so at least I look good as
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I go down?
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You know, I'm not sure about that. Well.
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I mean, if I can put like a flame paint
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job on the cone of the seven thirty seven in
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the simulator, does it? Does it matter?
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I mean, you know, before it burns, Yeah, it'll look great.
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Yeah, I'm just just self fulfilling prophecy on there. Again,
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I'm not saying I could definitely do it. I just
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like my odds better of landing the plane than I
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do surviving squid game.
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I mean, I I think.
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I'm surprised that we haven't gotten to a point yet.
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And you know, you've saw it in movies and years ago,
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and I think it's only a matter of time before
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we kind of start seeing some dystopian shows where people
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really are willing to lose their lives and you know,
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for a chance at fame or money.
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Because no one, no one's being physically killed. But they're
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in other ways, they might be doing very questionable, questionable
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things ethically.
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Oh, I mean people are gonna would literally get killed.
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No, I'm with you. I think we're probably close to that.
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That's why that's why shows like this are extreme. But
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at the same time, you it feels very real realistic
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to think that. Yeah, I think a lot of people
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today would do this.
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Yeah, I mean.
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We see idiots do plenty of other things for free. Yeah,
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I'm Dan, He's Trey. Today is Wednesday, July twenty third,
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two thousand, twenty five. Trey, are you familiar with the
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gen z stare?
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No, No, I'm not.
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It looks a little bit like this. It's a very
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non plus vacant, void of any thought or emotion stare.
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It looks kind of like the if I remember correctly,
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it looks a little bit like the looks on the
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faces of the kids and children of the corn back
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in the eighties, the Stephen King movie.
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Just that.
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Kind of look.
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That look is.
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My look when I am thinking but don't want to say, Wow,
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you really are the dumbest mother.
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In the world.
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To anybody.
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Yeah, okay, it's that blanket just.
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Like And that's why the rest of society is having
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such an issue with the gen z stare, because that
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look on all of the rest of our faces is trouble.
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Whereas the gen z stare may not necessarily be some
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passive aggressive thing. It's just the thing that's a trend
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that they're doing without thinking about the repercussions of it.
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Is it a trend or is it just that they
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really aren't that good at talking?
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Okay, that's a great question. I don't know if the
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gen z stare is intentional or if they really are
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dead inside.
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Yeah, they just don't know what word to say.
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You're right, they may just be vacant.
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Yeah, I've seen that look from gen Z and that's
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just what I assumed is they were just didn't know.
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Uh I, God help us.
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That's yeah, gen Z, the youthful masters of the TikTok
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trend are being hoist by their own petard. But they're
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probably just staring at their phones with blank and expressionless faces.
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The gen Z stare has become the rare social media
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sensation that turns the mirror back on gen Zers instead
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of vice versa. You may recognize the gen Z stare
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if you've had an unsettling experience with a barista while
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trying to order a coffee, or if you were discussing
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an assignment with a colleague and weren't sure if they
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were understanding you, because without saying anything, they just stared
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back at you. This particular TikTok trend is quickly becoming
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a flashpoint in debates about workplace culture, generational divides, in
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the future of soft skills. While it may seem like
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a fleeting meme, the gen Z stair is emblematic of
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deeper economic and social shifts as the youngest working generation
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reshapes the labor market. One Reddit user described visiting a
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chocolate shop to pick up a birthday gift, saying the
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young person working at the counter just stared blankly at
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me as I smiled and said hi, she said nothing
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even when I said thank you. After the interaction, it
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makes me self conscious and I start wondering if I
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did something wrong. And the gen Z stairs typically described
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as a vacant, unresponsive gaze, often replacing traditional greetings or
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small talk in service roles. Now gen Z says the
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stair is a reaction to awkward or nonsensical customer interactions,
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or simply a preference for authenticity over forced pleasantries. So
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if you get a gen Z's and think it's personal,
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it probably is. I also expect an increase in gen