What Happened to Decades?
Factually! with Adam Conover
Headgum
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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(In addition to your weekly Factually! episode, this week we're bringing you a monologue from Adam. This short, researched monologue originally aired on the Factually! YouTube page, but we are sharing audio versions of these monologues with our podcast audience as well. Please enjoy, and stay tuned for your regularly scheduled episode of Factually!)
Seriously, what happened to the idea of decades? We’re already halfway through the "20s," yet for the past twenty years, the cultural conversation has been dominated by "generations" instead. Here’s why that shift isn’t doing anyone any favors.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | So I know it's been 2025 for a month now, but doesn't it kind of feel like we've all been |
| 0:10.0 | trapped in the same year forever? |
| 0:12.0 | Like time has been barely passing at all? |
| 0:15.0 | I mean, the pandemic feels like it was yesterday, but doesn't it also feel like it was |
| 0:18.7 | a hundred years ago? |
| 0:20.0 | And how are we already up to |
| 0:21.6 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3? I don't even remember Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It feels like two weeks ago |
| 0:26.6 | we were all making fun of this guy, and now you're telling me I already missed the debut of |
| 0:30.7 | Tails and Knuckles, and they've already moved on to the pervert hedgehogs for the real Sonic |
| 0:35.7 | freaks? What the hell is going on? |
| 0:38.1 | Now look, before you say I'm just getting old, |
| 0:40.8 | even posters on R slash Gen Z thinks something weird is going on. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, you're right, small boy 2004. |
| 0:47.8 | It does feel like time is moving a lot faster, |
| 0:50.5 | and it's not just because you're a teeny little guy. |
| 0:53.4 | So I've put a lot of thought into this, and I have a theory. |
| 0:56.0 | I think it's because in the last 25 years, our culture has quietly experienced a huge linguistic shift |
| 1:02.0 | that no one is talking about, but that has literally changed how we experience and remember the passage of time |
| 1:08.0 | and alienated us from each other and our own culture, all because |
| 1:12.1 | the words we use to talk about time have changed. But before I explain, let me just remind you |
| 1:17.6 | that I'm on tour right now with a brand new hour of stand-up comedy. The Nileism Pivot Tour |
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