The Ryan Vet Show
To lead well today, you have to understand the forces that shaped yesterday and the ones reshaping tomorrow. You were made to Inspire Forward...and every episode helps you do just that.
The Ryan Vet Show is where leaders come to understand why the world, and the people in it, work the way they do. Hosted by Ryan Vet, USA Today bestselling author, generational futurist, and contrarian leadership thinker, the show blends research, lived experience, and narrative to help you navigate tomorrow with more insight, perspective, and practical wisdom.
Each week, Ryan explores the ideas shaping today’s workplace and culture:
- Generational dynamics and the behaviors that form each cohort
- Leadership and organizational psychology
- Change management and the forces driving adaptation
- Entrepreneurship and real-world decision making
- Communication, influence, and human behavior
- How the past explains the present and the present shapes the future
The show features two core formats:
- Long-form interviews with leaders, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and creators whose stories reveal the “why” behind their work, decisions, and impact.
- Weekly readings of the COLLIDE newsletter, where Ryan breaks down cultural shifts, generational insights, and leadership lessons with a story-rich, research-backed lens.
Whether you’re an executive, a manager, an entrepreneur, an educator, or simply navigating cross-generational tension, The Ryan Vet Show gives you the insight and tools to lead with clarity, curiosity, and intentionality.
If you want a show that’s intellectually grounded, practically useful, and deeply human — welcome.
This is your place to understand the world more clearly and lead it more thoughtfully.
Episodes
57 episodes
600 People Watched Him Read Words That Weren't His - AI in Education, Offloading vs. Outsourcing, and the Loss of Friction
Generational futurist Ryan Vet watched a speaker read AI-written notes to 600 people. Every AI policy fight in schools and at work is asking the wrong question.On a Saturday, in front of about 600 people, a speaker stoo...
Matt Weiss: Gen Z Did Not Quit Drinking, the Zero Proof Boom, and the Wine Pendulum
Gen Z quit drinking. You have read that headline. The numbers say something stranger.Matt Weiss has sold wine, taught wine, and built a career on it, from Michelin starred dining rooms in New York to Wilson Daniels, the importer o...
Millennials Are Raising the Class of 2039 - Gen Alpha, the Velocity Gap, and the Kindergarten Class That Can Generate Its Own Childhood
Generational futurist Ryan Vet has eight predictions for the kindergarten class of 2039. They never wore a mask. They may never need to read to find an answer. And they are the first children who can be convincingly faked....
Orphe Divounguy: The Affordability Squeeze, the Fed's Misread, and Housing Is the Heartbeat
The economy looks fine on paper. Orphe Divounguy builds the models behind that paper, and he is telling you the paper is wrong.Orphe Divounguy is the founder and chief economist of the Quantitative Research Group and a former Zill...
Gen Alpha Is the Experiment - Childhood Surveillance, the Friction Doctrine, and the Trust We Never Let Them Earn
Harvard researchers hung curtains around a factory line and defect-free output rose 10 to 15 percent. We have never run that study on a childhood. We are running it right now, on Gen Alpha, and calling it safety.In the ...
Dr. Trish Leigh: Miswired by the Algorithm, the Dopamine Hijack, and Three Seconds to Pivot
You open your phone and you think you're seeing the world. You're not. Dr. Trish Leigh can show you exactly what that does to your brain, because she maps it.Dr. Trish Leigh is a cognitive neuroscientist, author, and bo...
Anyone Can Clone Your Voice - Deepfakes, the Velocity Gap, and Where Trust Was Supposed to Live
Anyone can clone your voice in seconds. Rudy Kurniawan needed a decade to forge fine wine. Generative AI erased the apprenticeship it once took to become a forger.In part four of his childhood surveillance series, generational fut...
Linda Flanagan: Take Back the Game, Private Equity, and the $40 Billion Youth Sports Machine
Parents now spend an average of three hours and 23 minutes a day on their kids' sports on game and practice days. That is a part-time job, and Linda Flanagan says almost nobody chose it on purpose.Linda Flanagan is a journalist, a...
Same Footage, Two Verdicts - Surveillance, Confirmation Bias, and Why More Proof Erodes Trust
We built machines to settle our arguments. Instead we built extraordinarily precise machines for generating material for the argument we were already having.In the late 1990s, thyroid ultrasounds got cheap, so South Korea started...
Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath: The Digital Delusion, AI in Schools, and Gen Z's Cognitive Decline
Every generation since the late 1800s has outscored its parents on cognitive measures. Gen Z is the first to break the streak, and Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath argues the classroom laptop is why.Jared Cooney Horvath is a teacher turne...
Just Check the Camera, Dad - Surveillance, the Friction Doctrine, and the Trust We Trade Away
"Just check the camera, Dad." When Ryan Vet's young son tried to settle a sibling fight with security footage, it exposed how quietly surveillance has replaced trust in our homes, schools, and workplaces.A knocked-over tower, two...
Joseph Ferris (Boopsy): Gen X, the Barbell Generation, and Embracing the Suck
Gen X is the generation everyone wants to be, but nobody wants to live through what it took to get there.Comedian and social media personality Joseph Ferris, better known online as Boopsy, went from Navy brat to millions of follow...
Did You Get the Photo of the Goat? Childhood Surveillance, Gen Alpha, and What We Trade for a Live Feed
My six-year-old climbed into the back seat after his first day of farm camp and, before he told me a single thing, asked whether I had already seen the photo of the goat. His first instinct was to check whether he had been reported on. That ...
Frankie Staton: Founder of the Black Country Music Association, and Why She Chose to Be a Victor, Not a Victim
In 1981, Nashville police mistook a young piano player waiting outside a jam session for a sex worker. She talked her way into the room anyway, and 15 years later she built the stage that Black country artists did not have.Frankie Staton...
TV Made Dads Fools While Real Dads Got Better: Fatherhood, Respect, and the Generational Pendulum
The men who wrote the wisest fathers on television had survived a depression and a war. Their kids wrote the buffoons.Somewhere over the last half century, the American TV dad went from moral center to punchline. Erica Scharrer's ...
Tim Estes: AI and the Internet Kids Deserve
Content warning: this episode discusses online harms to children, including child sexual abuse, trafficking, and the death of a child linked to a viral online challenge. Listener discretion is advised. To report suspected online exploitation...
Is This AI? - The Credibility Hedge, Deepfakes, and Why We Are Learning to Doubt What Is Real
A deepfake of the President hijacked a live stream that 30,000 people were watching. It took generational futurist Ryan Vet five seconds to realize it was fake. That five seconds is the whole problem.On Father's Day, a stream-jac...
Izzy Kalman: What the Bullying Conversation Gets Wrong
Everything you’ve been taught about bullying might be making it worse.Izzy Kalman has been a school psychologist and psychotherapist since 1978 — and since the 1999 Columbine shooting, he’s been the anti-bullying movement’s most persiste...
Why Wozniak Got Cheered and Schmidt Got Booed: What Commencement Boos Reveal About AI, Gen Z, and the Velocity Gap
The Class of 2026 didn't boo the future. They booed being told the future had already been decided for them. The strangest commencement season in memory, and the leadership lesson hiding inside it.Generational futurist, USA Today ...
Tom LeNoble: Facebook Employee Number 57, the Adult in the Room, and Finding Unity
Tom LeNoble was employee number 57 at Facebook, recruited out of Palm, the Palm Pilot and Treo company, back when it was still "the Facebook" and still lived inside college networks. He was older than almost everyone in the building, the person...
Nicki Petrossi: Scrolling 2 Death, AI Companion Bots, and the Fight to Keep Kids Safe Online
Content warning: this episode discusses online harms to children, including suicide, self-harm, and online predation. Listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 in the US to reach the Suicide and ...
America Turns 250: They Signed the Declaration Without Agreeing - United Not Uniform, the Generational Pendulum, and the Middle Ground We Never Lost
On July 4, 1776, fifty-six men who agreed on almost nothing signed the Declaration of Independence anyway. Two hundred fifty years later, we have forgotten how they did it.Generational futurist, USA TODAY bestselling author, and ...
Weh'yee Barkon: The Millennial Digital Nomad, Africa Rising, and Building a Borderless Life
What happens when you trade a fast-rising San Francisco startup job for a one-way ticket to Casablanca and no plan past three nights in a hostel? Weh'yee Barkon found out. He joins Ryan Vet, a friend of more than two decades, to talk about t...
Is America Going Black and White Again? - The Wizard of Oz, Gen Z's Grayscale Rebellion, and the Overstimulation Era
The Wizard of Oz taught a generation to gasp when the world turned to color. Now Gen Z is deliberately turning its phones back to black and white.Generational futurist, USA TODAY bestselling author, and international keynote spea...
Lenore Skenazy: Free Range Kids and Why Overprotection Is the Real Danger
We convinced ourselves that childhood is more dangerous than ever, right as crime hit historic lows. Lenore Skenazy, founder of Free Range Kids and president of Let Grow, joins The Ryan Vet Show to explain why overprotection became the actua...
