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Ep. 267 - The Field Day Episode [VIDEO] (Patreon)

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2026-09-10 18:00:10
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00:00:00 - the mr beast book

00:03:44 - we had field day!!

00:05:24 - slime was the referee

00:09:20 - the podium

00:10:10 - the furthest removed person at field day

00:17:05 - aidens team

00:20:45 - the hidden challenge

00:30:00 - that was field day

00:31:40 - winning the man with a sign interaction

00:34:12 - suit shopping

00:37:37 - slime is playing valorant again

00:42:20 - valorant looks fun

00:45:03 - cigarette packs in the EU vs NA

00:47:30 - are the kids doomed?

01:01:18 - thanks for watching

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Griffin

Tuning in from Walgreens

Chris Vichot

Nick dropping the cyberpunk slang

WhyYouWahYoo

I think in like 20 years social media will be looked at like we do at cigarettes, like “wow can you believe this extremely unhealthy and dangerous thing was just in every single person’s lives, including children?” Like, I think the fact kids have phones will be like how we laugh at the Flintstones advertising cigarettes. It will probably also a be a very resentful generation as adults because of that fact (among others)

Benjamin Tate

Saw that Nick forgot the tag on the hoodie. Soooooooooooo embarrassing. I can't believe he did something so silly.

Natalie Clark

"this james patterson guy" is crazyyyyy do they know he haunts every librarian ever

Sunny D

Ludwig's jacket is so good

Olav Morten Elstad

that burgendy sweater that Nick wears looks really good! I must have missed that drop :(

Buttman333

It’s weird how ever-present Mr. Beast has been as a figure since the podcast started. I really wouldn’t be surprised if he was the most mentioned person across all episodes (outside Lud, Aiden, Slime, and Nick)

McCMayo

These guys don't understand the pack opening of buying tobacco or cigarettes in Europe, I just packed Throat Guy

Cadel Hammond

Yo is that purple yard hoodie for sale

Cawnor

tbf mlb umpires dont even know what the fuck they're doing 90% of the time. shoutout the 2012 nl wildcard infield fly call

blaze

graduated in 2020 i feel like im the last year of real school

Shizz

dude the guy in the air force shorts they're describing is literally just real life stone beard lmao

noah

dude when they said that my jaw dropped LMAO

oktina

i laugh out loud

Mason

As someone who graduated high school in 2024, what I mostly see in college is that the people who want to learn, are the only ones consuming any important information, which is how I always remember it being. It’s simply effort in terms of showing up for class and talking in class. I don’t know if social media is to blame more than online schooling.

based

I work with high schools are Aiden is correct. especially the kids who dealt with Covid 3rd- 8th grade. They have zero ability to do school work and all have anxiety disorders

Emma Santos

I feel like we might need kickball guy as our aimen replacement

Avery Gallegos

lick snizz is the new what are you talking about

Samer Dawud

Turns out Breslin from ASU faked his death and has been selling real estate this whole time… typical Breslin

Matthew Ritt

I’m disappointed in no mention of this being uploaded on the kirkiversery

Ash Meckler

He’s in EVERY section!! We all know he didn’t write that book either lol

BlueMua

My experience is probably not hugely representative of my generation as a whole, but I graduated high school this last year, and I had covid during my 8th grade-freshman year of high school. The biggest issue that most kids have right now (I feel) is a lack of effort, since there are so many tools, but most of them are actually capable of doing what is expected of them as long as they are helped along the way. They just don’t have much self-independence or patience to learn.

BlueMua

Also depression is at an all time high, and we all lowk feel like there’s no hope for things like… getting a house. Like we feel like it’s almost impossible to achieve things that were expected of college graduates like 30 years ago.

Jamie Hauken

Well, at least the images stopped Ludwig.

Jamie Hauken

I genuinely thought they just said that as an example author

Jamie Hauken

Maybe this is temporary? I remember gen Z growing up and all of us having extreme phone anxiety because phone calls had died out in our lives for a bit and then we grew out of it because we got jobs and it turns out phone calls aren't that bad.

Beefbowl24

I'm a current university undergrad that switched from mechanical to biomedical engineering specifically to help people, but there are a lot people I've had classes with that genuinely just want the Palantir/Lockheed paycheck its crazy

Jack Lowry

a third suit guy hit the pentagon

Calla Bird

I graduated highschool this year and yeah a large chunk of us are cooked my senior classes were full of 67 rizz mog and phone time, but also the people who aren't rotting like that are SUPER smart and it's cuz of them I have hope

star_of_thera

“this james patterson guy” when in reality he’s a world renowned author 😭🤣

Harley

Makes total sense that Mr. Beast would team up with prolific middle school slop author Jimmy P.

Byron

A curvy vegetable? Did Atrioc get in a car crash?

Byron

The powerful people in the US specifically act as though gen alpha will never make it to voting age. Pretty sure they just know we only got 20 years left and it's just not worth it for them to make sure they are capable human beings.

LemonSlater

Gen Z loves cigarettes truth did not work

E. Norma Stitz

Honestly I'll say I'm in the Ludwig "the kids will be fine!" camp, even if I secretly don't believe that. I'm 28, technically Gen Z, my little brother is 21 now and he considers me a millennial lol. I don't think brain rot TikTok slop is really that evil. Not saying TikTok / modern day social media is not harmful, but if we're just looking at the silly stupid content, it's not particularly alarming. COVID lockdown really ruined a lot of these kids' ability to learn and socialize (face to face) during their formative years. I really feel for them. The effects of that are even more clear now that it happened ~5 years ago. My brother is really sweet, he's a good reader and he is really responsible. But god damn, he is so awkward. I see that with his friends, and in my friends' younger siblings as well. A lot of them are super socially/emotionally stunted, and that bleeds into other parts of some issues that we can see clearly (inability to articulate their thoughts and feelings, major insecurity and relying on AI for information and/or emotional validation, depression, etc). Idk if this made much sense, but just wanted to slide in my two cents.

Brayden Allen

Hs class of 22 college class of 26. I agree that people with the drive to seek out information/ succeed are doing it, and its probably easier now to do so than ever before. But for the "bottom" 50%, its also becoming increasingly easier to bull shit your way through it. 20 years ago, if you had an essay, you either had to write it or fail. The act of writing it alone helps develop cognitive skills, even if you don't shoot for an A+. Now, the decision is try my hardest for the A+ or ai it for a B, which is a different math equation. And if you ai it, you don't develop those cognitive skills. It is entirely possible to succeed, but its becoming so much easier to do the absolute bare minimum and do well enough. I would say something similar about hobbies. If your choice is between being bored or picking something up, most people would be more inclined to pick something up. Being bored sucks. But if you can keep your brain lubed up with TikTok, you bypass the boredom that pushes you to learn a new skill. You might not be as fufilled as someone who has a lot of hobbies, but you’re happy enough

Dragau4

I agree with Aiden, there's a real decline... TikTok doomscrolling is actually brainrotting children, so many teachers literally crying every new school year because their class is literally unable to read....

low battery

I’m currently in college and at least for the doctor thing most of the people who I know who are pre med or currently in med school do it either for the prestige of being a doctor or because that’s what there parents did and they were raised with the expectation of that what they’re going to do. Helping people is part of the equation but only partially. If all you wanted to do is help people you can spend a lot less money and time and be a paramedic or nurse (not discounting them it’s just a lot less time in school.) Ultimately I think Slime is right with the point at the end with the amount of people in fields requiring degrees. While it does change there is still plenty of people interested in traditional fields.

Owen

Nick is kinda right where we just kinda had to learn stuff on our own or have people like my cousins who are in there 30s to see this happening and then help us grow but pretty much did shit on my own, schools for English literature really suck

Anthony

Dont get got sounds really fun

Keegan Holland

Aiden is so right about Covid in high school. I graduated 2020, so senior year of hs and freshman year of college were midst of Covid and it permanently altered the course of my life. I dropped out and am only now going back to school part time as I work full time and probably won’t graduate till 2030

Evan

i had covid during highschool and it didn't effect anything except one semester of my freshman year. i learned everything the exact same as my older brothers. idk about the US but canada was just the same and this is a social media problem and not school

Michael G

What field day are they talking about

Alex Meiller

Idk who we is, I have never and will never fuck with phone calls. I'd sooner drive to wherever they are and talk in person

based

I see what you mean but I did not have phone anxiety and am Gen Z. I think the amount of high schools with anxiety meds and diagnoses is drastically higher (but I could see the argument of not taking mental health as serious before) so it’s all anecdotal

Daniel Alzate

That sweater that nick is wearing is heat!! I need it

Vincent Nap

Late Gen Z here, I went through covid in MS/HS, while I think that social media and COVID hit our generation hard, and absolutely there’s is a major literacy crisis going on, I think it’s also unfair to say our generation is doomed, when there are still many of us who withstood these blows and have grown into intelligent and literate people. There are many people I’ve met who simply didn’t care about school or learning, but as I’ve gone through college most of the people I meet are people genuinely excited to learn, and are very capable individuals. I think a lot of people in the coming years are going to finally begin to heal from COVID and actually grow into the people they were meant to be. Were off to a rocky start, and things ain’t great, but I try to be optimistic, so i’m with lud, the kids will be alright. Gen Alpha though? I can’t say, we will have to see how they turn out…

Alex Meiller

I'm in the same boat, 2020 grad, dropped out of college after 2 months. It also changed my life(for the better, I'd say.) I was on planning on a masters in CS, and now I work in a factory. I think I would've stuck it out and had a whole different life trajectory if the dorms weren't on covid lockdown with all virtual classes

Captain Space

I’m blind I’m deaf I was born to be a ref!

Twah

I graduated HS in 2020 and college in 2025 and I feel as if I'm like in between these two groups of Gen Z where there are those that got the worst of it in the earlier high school/middle school years, and those that were less impacted since they were already in college or about to graduate. I definitely feel the impacts of COVID and AI but to a lesser extent if that makes sense. Gen Z feels really broad but segmented in a way and I feel like I'm between an older and younger segment. Idk if anyone else here feels the same.

Aaron Campbell

HS of 22, class of 27 for me. I work in education with middle schoolers currently, and I feel like the difference between kids with higher adverse childhood experiences (poverty, death/divorce of a parent, developmental stage during COVID, etc) and those who have less is really significant. Check out this study/review for more info on ACEs and their effect on individuals and society: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3968319/ In general, kids who have healthy support systems around them tend to do better in most significant metrics, which seems pretty obvious but so many kids aren’t getting that support. Whether it’s because their parents can’t afford to spend quality time with them; reading, playing catch or whatever, because they’re too busy working 2 jobs. Or because even if they do have time, it’s just takes so much less effort to as @BraydenAllen put it, “keep your brain lubed up with TikTok, than to push yourself to grow.” Which is true for all parties involved, not just the kids. Kids on their own can have a difficult time pushing themselves without some extrinsic motivation, like validation from peers, rewards, or even just getting a good grade. If their parents aren’t pushing them, and their teachers aren’t either for a multitude of reasons (large class sizes, underfunded, districts pushing AI usage, etc). It makes so much sense that they’re just gonna let the little guy in the back of their brain that tells them that “it’s okay to just let the AI do it for them” win. I personally don’t think this system is sustainable, and when, inshallah, the AI bubble pops I just hope that we are resilient enough to rebound from it and can build a better system to prevent it from occurring again.

Woodus

Do you consider youtube a social media? Because by that logic that also has to like become cigarette? But reality tv isn't less slop. There's really bad tacky cheesy novels. Obviously theres aspects of social media that are awful and parents need to be more active in keeping younger people off them. But Kids having "phones" you mean smart phones or at least phones without a screen to watch stuff. Because If i i had a highschool aged child that i was letting you know "touch grass outside instead of be on social media" while im busy at work. I want them to have a device to call for help. You are just gonna say im strawmanning and that "I understood what you meant by phone" but fuck off. "phones are gonna be cigarettes" is just so regressive and chudly im sorry. This shit happened with TV lmao. We will get better at managing it. We will hopefully get actual laws that regulate the social medias thats the other part. Social media is built for capitalism not to be social. its a buisness not a tool for being social. There's ways you can fix it. This feels like this over reaction to "Cameras at concerts". Memory issues are real. And I dont care im taking a video of my favorite song for like 30 seconds. I don't want my memory to mutate. Its 2026 stop being scared of technology for the love of god. I agree going to the concert and you hand having the phone recording is degenerate. WHO SAYS THATS HEALTHY. But to act like ALL photo's etc. Sure no video of the actual concert? take photo outside of the venue to like have a nice captured moment from it. such an interesting virtue signal that's rotted so many people. The whole department of education was fucking nuked, but oh yeah its the phones and the social medias ENTIRE fault for why students can't make coherent sentences. cultural literacy and relevance with your peers also matters a lot. Thats why abstinence approaches to this stuff will just make children martyrs. Its embarrassing to not know Harambe if you are our age. Im sorry it just is. Moderation is key.

Zack ZoBell

Nick, you can delete YouTube from your phone, and install opera, then use YouTube through opera which also has an adblocker

Thomas

I own a few small businesses that employ high school students who want part time work. From what my experience has been over the past few years, I think 25-33% of those kids will be pretty successful, and 33% have next to no social skills/are just not prepared for the real world at all

Woodus

But do we have data about the students in those grade ranges from other historic pandemics? Or was education not even a thing for most children at those ages? What data are we working with? In reality have we ever had a situation like this. How does the data compare to "quarantined" situations like say a Hurricane Katrina and its destruction surely had ripples in students if we really put a lens on it. OBVIOUSLY its a problem. BUT lets wait and see how things fair for a non covid cursed generation. I think guess what itll be normal. Its unfortunate, unfair, and will take new things like adult schooling resources, adjusted classes, general education screening, idk. But i doubt its gonna be a thing with 8th graders in 2032. 3rd-8th grade is a lot of people. But we got bigger captialist problems then that. "OH wow they can read the data farms still took all the water dude. Peter Thiel did what? Oh gee they analyzed the themes of huckle berry sahur and now they can buy a house and start a family with enough dietary resources for proper nutrition. ALL because they read and do math well like other generations with no global pandemic. " idk i just think theres so unnecessary doomerism around this topic. Its like yeah its gonna be complicated but what you thought lockdown ended and everyhing was gonna be magical? The poor elderly teachers used to paper in all those grades. Like the world was just not set up to handle it man. but im INSANELY optimistic about this issue.

Zach Rothrock

im 20 and gen z im absolutley fucked

WhyYouWahYoo

I’m not at all scared of technology in general, I just genuinely believe that the internet in the form it has taken now is quite literally poisonous to us and especially poisonous to kids. There are ways it can be fixed, there are ways to interact with it to ensure you’re not harming yourself. But as with anything that dangerous, maybe there should be parameters and rules that at the very least inform people of those dangers. I use the internet and YouTube a lot and even occasionally social media, I’m not sitting here saying it’s the sole reason everything has gone to shit. I’m not saying it doesn’t have uses. And I’m certainly not naive enough to think that the negatives of it will lead to people going scorched earth on all of it. All I’m saying is that the form it takes now and the pervasiveness of it in our current world is not going to be looked back upon well.

Smoke

im dumb kid dumber unfortunate

based

Too long didn’t read

Leah

There’s a podcast game similar to this mini challenge thing where everyone has a secret word that they have to sneak into the podcast and everyone will guess at the end each others words. Definitely holds retention and is kinda a fun mystery for the viewers too

Caitlin Pointer

Watching this ep as a teacher got me fkd up

Slawncha

I forget they don't have the fucked up images on your tobacco or cigs in America. You become so desensitized to it. I even have a favourite pic which is the one of a baby with a pacifier but the pacifier has a cigarette in it. The erictile dysfunction one is a close second though. The blind one is also pretty cool

Michaelnonya

I just subscribed to the yard patron on 9/11!

Nick Santana

I'm HS class of 16, college class of 20 (literally graduated right as the lockdown started). I have since gone back for a different degree. The AI thing is so real and weird to me as someone who was on the tail end of not having AI to write essays. I had to write a mini thesis for my degree. I took so many fucking writing classes (a basic writing class, an Honors writing class as part of my curriculum, a scientific writing class, a lab course that was actually a scientific writing class in disguise, a thesis course etc.). I never enjoyed writing essays but naturally it's something I learned to do. But now in my courses, I can easily tell if someone is using AI to write their discussion posts. Everyone is doing it because the ease of access is just right there. It's weird to be on the "boomer" side of things ("back in my day" type beat). To me, the cognitive skills you described are so real because I have talked to coworkers who are younger than me and part of that AI wave who just don't know about certain things or are just not as articulate. It's also exactly what you said about hobbies. I used to just lie down when I got home and stare at the ceiling and now we are drinking short-form content 24/7 from the hamster water bottle. I am thankful to have graduated before the age of online schooling because I can't imagine what it was like to do that and lack the connection of being in person. There is definitely an increase in the culture of just using AI to get by rather than put in the time and effort to go to class and actually learn things. It's a relic of trying to survive lockdown and learning online which is a terrible to learn unless you are currently a career changer like me and need flexibility.

Nick Santana

Putting anyone else on game for buying their first suit on the cheap since I finally bought and tailored one. Normally, I think most people would recommend you go made to measure from like Suit Supply or Spier and Mckay if you can afford it. But I ended up just getting a decently fitted one from Nordstrom Rack for like $200. I got measured at a Men's Wearhouse so I had a vague idea of what to look for off the rack. Normally they are supposed to have an in-house tailor but mine didn't so I got mine tailored at the flagship Nordstrom near me for like an additional $100. If you live near a rich area, you can try thrifting for like a nice Italian one (Zegna, Canali, Giorgio Armani) but I live in Utah so all the suits in thrift stores are old Mormon missionary/Sunday church ones lmao

FaderTot

Attending school post-COVID really showed how much intra-generational knowledge got lost with just ~two classes graduating online. American HS culture might recover, but those hand-offs from year to year of tradition and responsibility were severed entirely for a good two years. When I returned to class, I remember talking with my peers how we were all Seniors now with the associated responsibilities they had always had, but still felt like sophomores. College is even worse, IMO. Just graduated class of 26, and the AI use is rampant just to get the day by faster. Part of it's the anti-education wave in the 2000s and 2010s, part of it is the timeless affinity for an easier way out (as Nick mentioned with Chegg). I think the biggest thing is young adults and kids not fully understanding the lasting effects tasks have on neuroplasticity and learning, and how learning *itself* is a skill requiring constant work to better yourself, else everything remains hard first try. Convenience is probably the most prolific drug at this point, where the easy way to a 'good enough' result gets passed along without mind for larger consequences down the road. My biggest concern is when this mindset remains unchecked later in life, and now we have working professionals who genuinely don't care. They're either cushioned from consequence by support systems already straining from post-COVID apathy, or mistakes and negligence pile up until a catastrophe mounts and regulation is forced to catch up. My hope is that disdain grows for the ever-present corporate push for these corner cutting measures, and that the next generation wakes up to the massive psy op that is hustle culture. Social media has permeated this concern with perfection that's unprecedented, to where people would rather slop out a 'finished' product than ideate and scrap a WIP project for something better. I still talk to friends and artists today that understand the harm this mentality can cause, and it gives me faith in a tomorrow better than the barrel staring us down yesterday. Not a lot, but some.

Paulsack

there is definitely some truth to the fear of losing necessary professionals like doctors. I'm 22 and I'm an accountant studying to become a CPA, cause most the US CPAs are old as shit and gonna retire in like 10 years. I definitely fear that we will lose a lot of necessary professionals, but doctors are probably safe cause medical is such a big industry and people like money

Pineapple Scuddleduck

Hs class of 24 just like you. I would like to add my experience. I never use AI because my friends would hate me, I like reading and I just passed the jlpt n3. The thing I hate most is the infinite scroll and I would pay to have myself zapped every time I scrolled. I do think there are some kids that are fucked and some that will prosper but Im honestly the most worried about the babies that are currently watching ai slop.

William Bottka

As an educator, the convo around education in America was like tick damage

TdogFlex

You guys should do a whole podcast in front of a green screen with the normal set as the background and then right at the end you knock the green screen down and you’re in a parking lot or something. Just to send some of the viewers into a schizophrenic episode.

Kieran M

As an elementary school teacher(I’ve taught since 2020). The future will be okay. Gen Alpha is alright. There will be some dumb iPad kid adults, but it’s the same as the dumb TV kids. It’ll all work out in the end

Colton

Aiden is absolutely right. I am an older student that graduated pre-covid, and I recently went back to community college. Some of these kids who missed high school/middle school because of covid are really not doing well. They can't form independent clauses. They can't write basic sentences or speak or make eye contact. They scroll tiktok in class during lectures and tests. They use AI to write their "introduce yourself to the class" posts. I was in denial about it for a long time but after having group discussions with them I can say I am genuinely worried about our future. I know it's not their fault, schools in the area are criminally underfunded, but it's really sad to see.

Tanner Fink

what a great LS ep at the end

Cryptid Summer

Class of 2020 and we didn’t even have prom

juliette

as a tux specialist lud calling out the lapel types is so fire hell yeah

SCORPIO

as a child of a european chainsmoker i’ve had nightmares abt those weird images

Mel

So instead of con/non-con we have Beast/NonBeast fanfic, 2026 is so interesting

Mel

Does he just rail tons of blow and crank out books like Stephen King did in the 80s?

Mel

Oh the guys would love the account that does the "menswear guy thing" but for professional movie lighting

Mel

I'm an "elder" millennial and have a gen zer working for me and i have, in fact, put him on a forklift. He's brilliant! For reference, this is in a pretty small community (think 5000ish people in most towns and no cities over 200k), in BC. So far my experience employing Gen Z has been positive and I won't be swayed by media pushing generational divides because I'm sick to shit of still hearing about avocado toast this far removed from 2008, and I'm sure he's tired of hearing that Gen Z is useless and unemployable. I do think that city kids are going to be way more screwed than any kid that lives in the sticks and still gets booted outside to go play with their friends or get pushed to get a hobby because there's not much else to do out here

Mel

You got this! I'm cheering you on

Mel

I lived in Aus when they made all the packs baby shit brown and started charging obscene amounts for tailor mades, so everyone i knew would just buy loose and roll it for smoko

DZRCH

Kelby and zipper

Quackers Clone

Graduated high school in 2022, covid for sure ruined any desire I had to learn in a school environment, I was a B+, A- student but after distance learning I just coasted and played games in class, and once we got back into school I would consistently zone out during class and lost any love I had for learning, at least in a school setting.

Reek

We had a girl at work who didn't know quarters were 25 cents. She just kept passing out a bunch of dimes for change for like 3 months.

Hayden Jackson

Gen zs revolution will actually look like a big party !

Dashinator18

I graduated class of 26' (Covid during 7th thru 8th grade) and the last two years of high school I did online school. The reason I did this was because I had horrible anxiety and I genuinely had like 30 percents in some of my classes when I was going. I didn't know what to do with my life or if I even had a future. I started college a month ago and it really changed how I see school because it is just easier than high school. I work hard in college and so do my peers I don't really see anyone just flat out not trying or using ai for every assignment or anything like that. I think that the future is bright if the AI doesn't kill us all before we get there.

Dashinator18

Also we got nettspend and osamason in this generation we already have better art and music than millennials

Tate Lohmiller

Gen Alpha is the generation yall are talking about btw, zoomers are entering or out of college lol

Ninjahollan1008

From my experience people who are super passionate about or interested in what they are studying are less likely to use AI for projects and tests, since you end up just straight up not understanding nearly as much about the subject area

ekcin1

I'm late but I will say this about the Gen Z shit, we are getting dumber, the amount of people I would see with chatgpt installed on their cellphones who sit in classes in highschool and just use AI for everything and can barely read is awful. Ludwig said that Gen Z is more confident too, and Aiden is right that we really aren't.