TMI Show Ep 63: Re-run America: The Party's Over

America rock 'n' rolled all night long and partied every day. Then Boomers started dying, Gen X started having babies, Millennials fell in love with their phones and the pandemic kept us locked up. Only 4.1 percent (https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a2-2023.pdf) of Americans attended or hosted a social event on an average weekend or holiday in 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics--a 35% decline since 2004. Party City announced (https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/business/party-city-shut-down/index.html) that it would close after years of flagging sales. Teens are engaging in markedly fewer risky behaviors (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622009224) than they used to a major cause is that teenagers are having fewer parties.