1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,759 And I think that that this generation now, I think that they're they're hungry 2 00:00:03,919 --> 00:00:08,759 for real intimacy, and we had that as a generation. We understood that, 3 00:00:08,839 --> 00:00:13,439 and I think we were the last real generation to understand that. And 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,399 that's sad to me. You know, I would never let my daughter go 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:22,320 out without like gobs of sun baby oil and the and the thing, the 6 00:00:22,399 --> 00:00:33,840 reflector plate. Right. Welcome to another deep dive edition of the Chicks on 7 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:39,159 the Right podcast. Today, we are going to toot our own horns just 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,240 a little bit, not just for ourselves, but for our entire generation, 9 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,320 Gen X, which I am officially dubbing the second Greatest Generation. I think 10 00:00:49,359 --> 00:00:53,719 so too, death I agree wholeheartedly we are because we learned from the greatest 11 00:00:53,799 --> 00:00:59,320 generation. We were like under the tutelage of the Greatest generation and the Boomers, 12 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,280 which are also great. They're fine, right, the Boomers are good 13 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:08,319 and so, but I feel like ours was maybe the last of the great 14 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:17,920 generations when it comes to loving our country and having and having high standards placed 15 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,000 upon us. Right. Well, if you think about it, we had 16 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:25,719 a lot of the innovators, the creators, the think about like you know, 17 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,799 the guys and the women who invented a lot of things, who created 18 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:36,079 a lot of things, who were like the the innovators came from our generation, 19 00:01:36,519 --> 00:01:42,079 and there's you don't see that any more. I'm sure there's really they 20 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:47,879 smart innovative people like the Steve the Steve Jobs and the Elon Musk and the 21 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,439 you know, the Bezos and that all that those are. I mean these 22 00:01:51,439 --> 00:01:53,680 are gen yeah, but some of the people that are really good at innovation 23 00:01:53,879 --> 00:01:57,359 are younger than that. I mean, when I think about all the people 24 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,319 that are involved in AI, it's a young crab. It's just that they 25 00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:05,040 are doing very destructive things. If you ask me, they're gonna destroy the 26 00:02:05,079 --> 00:02:07,960 world. Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna kill us all. I mean, 27 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:13,319 I'm not talking about like the guys who invented Twitter. I'm talking about the 28 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,039 guys who paved the way yeah for Twitter. Yeah, and that was our 29 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:21,159 that was our gent were just tougher man. I mean, I personally am 30 00:02:21,199 --> 00:02:23,840 not like a super tough person, like I would never I would never win 31 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,120 a street fight. Ever, you're tough. You're tough in a different way. 32 00:02:28,199 --> 00:02:31,360 Yeah, you're like you're you're mentally tough. I mean, I've been 33 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,960 through some things. Oh yeah, you're definitely mentally tough. I wouldn't be 34 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,800 friends with you if you are not mentally tough, you're mentally like a warrior. 35 00:02:39,439 --> 00:02:44,400 But you're But you and I together, like I'm the person you'd probably 36 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,879 be like, all right, she'll fight you. Like physically, you would 37 00:02:46,879 --> 00:02:50,520 put me in front of you if there is a physical fight, but like 38 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,240 mentally, i'd put you toe to toe, like in a war of the 39 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:58,840 words, I'd put you up against anybody for sure. So yeah, we're 40 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,319 a great team. Well, there's been a trend all over social media and 41 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,159 I remember, gosh, it was I feel like it's been months now that 42 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,759 we first shared a TikTok of a there's a TikTok account by the name of 43 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:15,039 gen x Talks, and we'll share one of those a little bit later in 44 00:03:15,199 --> 00:03:17,039 today's show. But that was one of the first that i'd seen where it's 45 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:23,520 it's a gen zer who has a gen X dad and he just puts his 46 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:28,039 dad on the spot all the time to get the perspective from a gen xer. 47 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,719 And this guy has zero percent patients for his son, and it's hilarious 48 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,919 and so it's all in good fun. But it just does show you the 49 00:03:35,919 --> 00:03:42,120 difference between the generations, and so we since TikTok has been sort of the 50 00:03:42,159 --> 00:03:45,520 source of a lot of these recent videos, there was one that we showed 51 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:52,560 in our morning show earlier this week of a woman specifically addressing the question from 52 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,479 a very chiseled gen Zer gen Wire whatever, a younger guy. It could 53 00:03:58,479 --> 00:04:00,039 be a millennial, millennial, Yeah, could be a millennial. I don't 54 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,360 know. But he was asking the question, why did you guys drink out 55 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,639 of hoses? And I thought her answer was fantastic. So let's kick off 56 00:04:10,759 --> 00:04:15,240 this discussion with that same video. Sure, when y'all are saying that y'all 57 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:19,560 used to drink from the hose? Were sinks not an option for FUCKA, 58 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,399 who's gonna tell them? You want me to tell them, I'll tell them 59 00:04:25,079 --> 00:04:28,160 we weren't allowed in the house. I don't know why that's so hard for 60 00:04:28,199 --> 00:04:32,199 people to understand. Our childhood was like one never any episode of that TV 61 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:38,000 show Survivor. Okay, we are indestructible. We've never sat in car seats, 62 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:41,360 nobody's ever given us swimming lessons. We've all been either shot with a 63 00:04:41,439 --> 00:04:45,920 baby gun or stabbed with a fucking jart. The television stations had to make 64 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,160 a commercial reminding our parents that they had kids. I shoot you not. 65 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,439 Every night on the ten PM news, the voice would come on and say, 66 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,120 it's ten pm, do you know where your children are? To remind 67 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:03,040 our parents that they had fucking kids? So no, sir shirtless with the 68 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:09,800 beanie sinks, we're on an option. Do you remember that? Oh my 69 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,439 gosh. I didn't until she mentioned them, and then I was like, 70 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,439 oh my god, they really did. Now they have to just remind parents 71 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,959 to not leave their kids in cars. That's the new version of the tillam 72 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,319 in the backseat right for the dumb ass parents that do that. And we're 73 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,920 like, oh, those parents are dumb asses. But they literally had to 74 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:30,040 remind our parents that they had us at ten pm, Like do you not 75 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:33,319 like have the ability to look around and go are my kids in the room 76 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:36,959 with me? Like? Are they even here? Because it's the thing. 77 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,319 We were also free range. That's the thing. That's what I and my 78 00:05:42,519 --> 00:05:46,800 daughter is thirteen. You know you have your son. Both of your sons 79 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,759 are older, but but your youngest is a little bit are my youngest is 80 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:56,279 thirteen? Your youngest is seventeen seventeen, and so I mean I look at 81 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:59,800 her, and all the parents that are around me are so much younger than 82 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,800 me. So we're older parents. And so sometimes I have to like bite 83 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,600 my tongue because I don't fit in sometimes with some of these other because there's 84 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:12,480 a lot of millennial parents that are parenting these twelve and thirteen year old girls 85 00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:15,519 that we hang out with. And so I do feel a little out of 86 00:06:15,519 --> 00:06:19,759 place sometimes because I'm a I'm a gen xer, and we parent a little 87 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:24,839 different than these some of these millennial parents. We do, we're a little 88 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,519 we are a little more free range parenting than some of these millennial parents. 89 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,680 And so you know, we're like just do your own thing, make your 90 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:39,399 own dinner, like do We're not what we're expected to like do these things 91 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:41,879 for you, like figure it out yourself, you know. I mean that's 92 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:46,879 where like other parents, they don't they're a little more godly. It's a 93 00:06:46,879 --> 00:06:49,680 little right because we and you and I were not used to that, Like 94 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:55,079 we were just in Arizona with your parents, and I mean your parents are 95 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:00,399 exceptional human beings, just like and I and and just awesome parents. And 96 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:03,120 I always joke about how I want your I mean, my mom's probably listening 97 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,800 to this, and I love my mother to death, but I always joke 98 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,560 about how I want your parents to adopt me because they're just exceptional parents. 99 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:14,319 And I was asking them when we were there, you know, like how 100 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,279 what do you do as parents? Like how do you explain your awesome parenting? 101 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,279 Like talk to me about your parenting? And your mom was even like, 102 00:07:19,319 --> 00:07:24,639 we weren't that great, and we really didn't do anything that special. 103 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,639 We didn't. We didn't we didn't coddle the kids, like I don't even 104 00:07:27,639 --> 00:07:30,600 know if she used that word, but I remember her saying, we didn't 105 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,519 do anything special. We just were there, you know what I mean. 106 00:07:33,519 --> 00:07:36,879 We just were sort of present, but like we let the kids free range, 107 00:07:36,879 --> 00:07:41,279 We let them do whatever. They just they just happened to turn out, 108 00:07:41,279 --> 00:07:44,360 okay, you know what I mean. Like it's it's interesting the way 109 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,680 that she described it, because I think she and your dad were probably a 110 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:53,079 lot a lot like a lot of other parents in that generation where they didn't 111 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:59,800 coddle, they didn't like overly nurture. They just were parents of gen xers, 112 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,759 know, in that in that generation where we all just fended for ourselves 113 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:09,240 a little bit more. And now we regard our parents as pretty cool because 114 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:15,800 we ended up like self sufficient and independent and you know, reliant on ourselves, 115 00:08:15,839 --> 00:08:18,519 and we didn't. We're not blaming the world for our problems. We 116 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:22,519 just we we're a different breed of human Yeah, I think so too, 117 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:28,759 and I and we were taught independence at such early ages. Now granted some 118 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,320 I mean, like our culture sucks so hard now that in some ways that 119 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:37,279 you and I would probably love to parent that same way we were parented. 120 00:08:37,639 --> 00:08:41,720 It's not possible because the world is so unsafe in so many ways. Yes, 121 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:46,360 but you know it's true. Like we we let ourselves into the house 122 00:08:46,399 --> 00:08:50,120 after school when both of our parents were working their full time jobs, and 123 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:56,919 so I had my mom gave me a leather like it was a leather necklace 124 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:03,200 that had a little it almost looked like a Native American pouch, like a 125 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,759 little leather pouch that that I would hang around my neck and that is what 126 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:09,759 I wore my key in and I wore it every single day. I think 127 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:13,200 I have it in like my third grade photo. Yeah you do? Do 128 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,960 you still have it? Do you still don't think I still have that actual 129 00:09:16,039 --> 00:09:20,639 pouch, but it was just this little triangular leather pouch, and that's where 130 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:22,960 my house key went. And my parents, you know, I'd get home 131 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,799 at what three, three thirty whatever from school and then my parents wouldn't come 132 00:09:26,919 --> 00:09:31,159 until five thirty or six o'clock. And I had that, I knew that 133 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,759 I was supposed to get certain things done, homework, whatever, and that's 134 00:09:35,799 --> 00:09:39,039 just how it was. But it's completely different than that now, totally different, 135 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,799 totally different now. I was the same way, like I was a 136 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:43,519 latchkey kid, my parents the same way. I would come in, and 137 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,039 I remember there were some days where like I didn't have a thing around my 138 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,480 neck, but my parents would hide the key, like in the yard somewhere, 139 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,120 and there were days where I'm like, oh shit, where's the key, 140 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:58,639 Like I couldn't find the key, and so I was super adept at 141 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,440 break into my own my gosh, Like I remember going into the back and 142 00:10:03,519 --> 00:10:07,480 we had a three story house at the time, Like we had a basement 143 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,200 and a main floor and then an upper floor. It was like a tall 144 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:13,399 house. And I remember going to the back, like climbing up onto the 145 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:18,720 deck of the main floor and breaking into my kitchen because I couldn't find the 146 00:10:18,759 --> 00:10:22,279 key, and I'm like, well, I gotta get into the house because 147 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,440 I mean, I gotta do the stuff. I gotta make my mac and 148 00:10:24,519 --> 00:10:28,320 cheese. I got to watch Island, right, I gotta watch you know, 149 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,360 the things in the all the afternoon shows exactly. And this is I 150 00:10:31,399 --> 00:10:33,720 remember breaking into my own house, and like, can you imagine if somebody 151 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,679 would have seen a kid like in my cause there are people backed up to 152 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:41,519 our house, like in the backyard you can see other houses. Can you 153 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:46,799 imagine watching a kid breaking into their kitchen or just anybody, But most people 154 00:10:46,799 --> 00:10:50,120 would call the cops. I can't believe I didn't go to jail breaking in 155 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,960 a mind that your parents didn't neglecting you. That's what would happen now exactly 156 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,240 today. My parents are right, My parents are probably they go to jail 157 00:10:58,279 --> 00:11:03,639 for a plethora of reasons, Like just I would sit on my dad's lap 158 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:09,120 and steer the car like through a busy neighborhood. I was like nine years 159 00:11:09,159 --> 00:11:11,799 old, and I would do this. I mean, the things that they 160 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:18,480 allowed us to do and just and not to mention, like just being outside 161 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,919 until ungodly, Like I don't know, nine o'clock at night, and I 162 00:11:22,919 --> 00:11:26,559 would be out. I can't, I would never let my oh my gosh, 163 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,600 and you'd be gone. We'd be gone from daily, yeah, all 164 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:33,039 day, all day until it turned dark all day and then sometimes a little 165 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,600 after dark. And there was never a worry, there was never checking in. 166 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,519 Everybody knew that everybody of other everybody else's parents were sort of all kind 167 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:46,080 of looking out for the kids. But we would often go to the park 168 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,440 that was like blocks and blocks away, or a swimming pool there was blocks 169 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,200 and blocks away a mile or two, and you didn't nobody thought twice about 170 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,960 that. Everybody just expected the kids could handle being kids on their own, 171 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,799 and we did. And you had no idea, like your parents had no 172 00:11:58,799 --> 00:12:03,440 idea if you were fed or watered or alive. I mean, it's like 173 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,759 exactly like you were gone all twelve hours, you were fine, and then 174 00:12:11,279 --> 00:12:15,399 it was completely fine, and then you know, they for some you would 175 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,519 just be called home by some call, like there'd be somebody who would whistle 176 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:24,559 for you or like scream for you in the neighborhood, and then all the 177 00:12:24,639 --> 00:12:28,120 kids would just come home from that mom call, like there'd be some mom 178 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,440 in the neighborhood or somebody you would just call, some bill that would get 179 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,240 you in the neighborhood. You'd come home and then you'd be like, all 180 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,679 right, I'm home, you know, either that or it would be dinner, 181 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,320 Like maybe sometimes I'd come home for dinner. But I mean, for 182 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:45,000 the most part, we were just so incredibly free range, and I guess 183 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,559 you know that's we were just really resilient in that respect. It was different, 184 00:12:48,759 --> 00:12:50,840 so different back then. I don't know. I look at my daughter, 185 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:54,000 I'm like, would she be able to do that? I don't I 186 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,840 don't know if my thirteen year old I guess maybe. I don't know if 187 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,679 she'd really do that. It just would be such a different experience for her 188 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:03,679 than what it is right now. Because now I feel like kids, their 189 00:13:03,759 --> 00:13:07,960 days are so planned. Everything is so like you have to do this at 190 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,320 this time and this at this time, and then you have this activity and 191 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,720 that activity, and we didn't have that, you know, even like with 192 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,639 sports and all that kind of stuff. I even think sports now, my 193 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:22,440 god, it's so different. It's completely yeah, it's utterly, totally and 194 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,440 completely different. And I don't know that it's better. It's so I don't 195 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,159 think it's better because I was able to play and do a lot of different 196 00:13:28,159 --> 00:13:31,600 things when I was younger. Now it's like you have to pick your sport 197 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:35,799 and you have to you know, if you're you have to be really good 198 00:13:35,799 --> 00:13:39,039 at it, and it's you have to pick one thing to be good at. 199 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,440 And I don't know if that's I don't think that that's necessarily better. 200 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:45,399 I think it was greater for us because we could try a lot of different 201 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,039 things and do a lot of different things and meet a lot of different people. 202 00:13:48,159 --> 00:13:50,840 And I think it was better for kids back then because they didn't have 203 00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:56,600 to be freaking adults at age thirteen. And you know, and remember they 204 00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:00,279 give you kids. I know you did this too, I just know it. 205 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,480 So there's a six year split between me and my sister. And whenever 206 00:14:03,519 --> 00:14:07,080 there was a road trip, not only were there no seat belts in the 207 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,559 back seat, but we also had a hatchback at one point, and we 208 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:15,440 would lay the hatchback seats down and we would create this giant bed in the 209 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,080 back with all kinds of snacks and blankets and everything stillows. And then we 210 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,480 would also drive down imaginary line between the two of us and if she dared 211 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,960 cross the line, it was hell to peg. God, it was like 212 00:14:26,039 --> 00:14:30,879 hell on earth, hell on earth. Not only that, but my mom, 213 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,360 like I remember my mom and dad would give us like say, they 214 00:14:33,399 --> 00:14:35,720 gave you like each a cookie, yeah, you know, and then I 215 00:14:35,759 --> 00:14:39,000 would like hoard mine. I'd like, I'd be kind. I was eating 216 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:41,720 it and I'd hold it and my sister would eat hers, and I'd be 217 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:45,919 like, oh, I still have some left. I still have some cookie 218 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,000 left. I mean, we would torment the crap out of each other on 219 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,799 those car rides. It would just be like picking and edgy. And then 220 00:14:52,919 --> 00:14:58,279 I would ride in the back window. We had an old mobile sedan. 221 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,240 It was like white with a baby blue top. This was the most hideous 222 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:07,399 car back then. I think it was like really beautiful, but it was 223 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:11,320 so hideous by today's standards. And I would ride in the back on the 224 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:15,720 ledendow of that car. Yeah yeah, I mean, or the station wagons 225 00:15:15,759 --> 00:15:18,000 right that had the way back, and they would yeah the wood. Then 226 00:15:18,039 --> 00:15:22,480 you would sit facing the driver behind you, right. If you were in 227 00:15:22,519 --> 00:15:26,679 the way back, that seat faced out the window. And so I mean 228 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:31,360 it's completely now imagine if you were building your little back seat paradise, you 229 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,120 know what I mean, And you weren't. You weren't seat belted, your 230 00:15:35,159 --> 00:15:39,840 parents would get arrested, They would get pulled over and take it and it 231 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,159 would be all kinds of child abuse charges. Oh my god. It's kind 232 00:15:43,159 --> 00:15:46,200 of like car seats. When I bought my my daughter's first car seat, 233 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,440 I was like, wait, there are different kinds and you have to put 234 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:54,200 it backwards and then forwards and what what? What? Didn't even say stand 235 00:15:54,879 --> 00:15:58,559 wait, I know exactly. My My seat belt was my mom's arm, 236 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,639 Like you know what I mean, Like we'd stop, We didn't. I 237 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:07,440 remember we had this old the VW Beetles. Do you remember those VW Beatles? 238 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:11,320 And I remember when I was itty bitty, I was like six when 239 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,399 this happened, and we got pulled over by a cop because it was too 240 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:18,039 noisy. It was making the car. I just remember, Yeah, the 241 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,600 car was too noisy. I think it's just making too much noise. Was 242 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,879 such a piece of shit and we got pulled over and I was just like, 243 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:27,759 what is going on? And we got pulled over because of the It 244 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,240 was just so I think it was just so awful that something was wrong with 245 00:16:32,279 --> 00:16:33,159 it. I remember, I'm like, are you, like, are she 246 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,639 going too fast? And I think he was just like is something wrong with 247 00:16:37,679 --> 00:16:38,639 your car? Man? And like She's like, I don't know, I 248 00:16:38,679 --> 00:16:44,720 just turned up the radio, right exactly. It was so now when you 249 00:16:44,759 --> 00:16:47,840 went on car trips and you went on road trips and you got to your 250 00:16:47,879 --> 00:16:52,000 destination. This is another thing I think is so funny because like nowadays, 251 00:16:52,039 --> 00:16:55,559 I would never let my daughters. We live in Texas and ever since she 252 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:59,559 was itty biddy, and I've had skin cancer like removed from my face and 253 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,559 so I'm really hyper sensitive to that. But I would never let my daughter 254 00:17:03,639 --> 00:17:08,519 go out without like gobs of sunsmek wore baby oil and the and the thing 255 00:17:08,559 --> 00:17:15,880 the reflector plate. Right, it's like til tinfoil on cardboard. You'd like 256 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,680 put it on cardboard and like shove it in front of your face and you 257 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,119 were completely fried. I had so many like blisters on my body, like 258 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,640 so many times I'd be like, no, it's final, it's fine, 259 00:17:23,799 --> 00:17:27,200 it's fine. Just give it a couple of days and it's fine. I 260 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,839 have third degree burns, but I'm fine. I mean, I'm totally fine. 261 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:33,759 And it's gonna look savage in like three days, it's gonna be great. 262 00:17:33,039 --> 00:17:37,000 It's fine. And then so yeah, remember the sun in Yes, 263 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,279 like we didn't get highlights in our hair, we didn't go to hairdressers to 264 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:48,440 get highlights. Well, and it was orange and we liked it. Yeah, 265 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:53,000 no wonder Donald Trump has orangeeries. Child's exactly right. Well that that 266 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:59,400 same that same video. I mean, there's been so many responses to that 267 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:03,319 video, and we have another one from another mom who is just as irritated 268 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,680 at all these silly questions about drinking for Moses and all that stuff. So 269 00:18:07,759 --> 00:18:12,319 let's do that one next. Who leut jett X off the hook? Why 270 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:15,599 are we talking shit about those because y'all don't want to get fucked up, 271 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,039 Because y'all don't this work, because we the lead generation that are really motherfuckers. 272 00:18:22,039 --> 00:18:26,920 Who ever met that's you're next, don't fuck with y'all, don't fuck 273 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,400 with nobody. Actually, we just chill, go to work and come home. 274 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,160 We ain't had no choice. We was legs key kids for real. 275 00:18:33,519 --> 00:18:37,160 We ain't handle therapy. We couldn't deal with our depression. We had to 276 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:40,079 eat that ship and keep it moving, so fuck out of here. That's 277 00:18:40,079 --> 00:18:45,599 why y'all don't fuck with us, but don't fuck with us. That's a 278 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,720 really great point though, Like there are way more depressed people and people with 279 00:18:49,799 --> 00:18:53,680 mental illnesses now than there were when we were kids, you know, because 280 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,079 people want that. It's very handy for anybody to be able to play a 281 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,920 victim card of any kind. And so now you know you can't bully. 282 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:06,279 There's all these anti bullying rules where really, I think growing up getting a 283 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:11,720 little bullied helped thicken your skin. It's what made you prepare to deal with 284 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:15,759 some of life's hardships with the Yeah, the real world, so I know 285 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:22,640 its soft. Everyone has gone so god incredibly soft. And I think social 286 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:27,160 media is like completely screwed up our society too. Like I loved living in 287 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:32,000 an era where there was no social media and all that, because think of 288 00:19:32,039 --> 00:19:36,359 all the stupid crap that we did do, like all the partying and the 289 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,799 fun stuff that we were able to do, and and just the I don't 290 00:19:38,839 --> 00:19:44,880 know, the living of life and not having to document everything. It was 291 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,799 nice not having to do that. Like we've took some pictures and then we 292 00:19:47,839 --> 00:19:51,319 get like I just sent my daughter to camp, and I sent her with 293 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,839 two cameras, like disposable cameras, and she was like, what am I 294 00:19:55,839 --> 00:19:59,519 supposed to do with these? And I had to show how to use an 295 00:19:59,519 --> 00:20:02,480 actual I was like, you have to wind it, and you click it 296 00:20:02,519 --> 00:20:03,960 and you wind it. And she was like, and then what do we 297 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,720 do with them? And like then you get them to bed. You can 298 00:20:08,799 --> 00:20:11,960 still buy those like a drug store, like a CBS or a Walgreens. 299 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:15,160 And I had to show her how to I mean, she was so far 300 00:20:15,319 --> 00:20:21,599 removed from that technology. She's going to be like to filter them. Where's 301 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:26,440 the I know, where's the Instagram? Felter? Yeah, I mean this 302 00:20:26,559 --> 00:20:32,440 is the thing is that they don't have a concept of waiting on what it's 303 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:33,599 going to. You know, she's going to take pictures and then she has 304 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,640 to wait. She's to sit and wait and be patient to see what those 305 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,960 pictures will look like. And I don't know three right, I mean, 306 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,440 this is the thing. And we did that. So we had cameras, 307 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,599 but we you know, we could always get the pictures back and be like, 308 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,599 oh my god, that's an incriminating picture and I throw it away if 309 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,160 it was a bad picture of if it was like a flash of our boot 310 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,039 or something, and it was gone forever. You know, we're real it 311 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:00,279 was gone for forever. But see on the inner that everything lives forever. 312 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:07,240 And somebody was saying that like our social media was somebody said on our on 313 00:21:07,319 --> 00:21:12,839 our Facebook insiders that that our social media was bathroom walls. Oh my gosh, 314 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,799 like writing things on bathroom walls about people or whatever, or just you 315 00:21:18,839 --> 00:21:22,880 know, passing notes to one another. Like if you remember that movie sixteen 316 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,079 Candles, have you ever seen one? Remember in the beginning, did you 317 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,319 touch it? Yeah? Right? I mean it's like remember when we say 318 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,000 I mean I wrote notes. Oh you would fold them like in the cool 319 00:21:34,039 --> 00:21:37,880 ways, and then you would do the things where you'd like the accordings, 320 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,960 and like I mean I have notes from like old boyfriends, from best friends. 321 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,119 I mean it's like that's how you get to know people, really get 322 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,599 to know them, was like writing notes and like learning so much about them 323 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,920 and then getting on the phone and talking to your new best friend for three 324 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,279 hours at a time. I mean that's I missed those days. That's and 325 00:21:59,319 --> 00:22:03,039 I feel like that made us like we were just we were more. We 326 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:07,400 were more of like a an intimate generation, Like we really got to know 327 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,720 one another, and we were I don't know, I don't. I think 328 00:22:11,759 --> 00:22:15,279 when it when it comes to mental illness and stuff like that, we just 329 00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:19,519 we were more. We were more into each other and getting to know each 330 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:22,759 other, and it wasn't so surface. It doesn't And it's weird, especially 331 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:27,480 because we're in such an oversharing culture, so you would think it would be 332 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:32,079 the reverse that, like people are so quick to share everything, but so 333 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:36,160 much of what they share is superficial. And that's the difference. It's soup, 334 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,359 it's so fake. It's also fake. It's not you're not getting below 335 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,839 the surface, you know. It's like that's what we were. We were 336 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:48,359 so much more human with one another. And I think that that it's like 337 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,960 that goes without saying. Our generation was so different when it came to that. 338 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,039 We really got to know one another and it's and and we had like 339 00:22:56,079 --> 00:22:59,960 a handful of friends rather than you know, a thousand friends on Facebook, 340 00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:03,519 which really aren't your friends. And I think that this generation now, I 341 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:07,960 think that they're they're hungry for real intimacy and we had that as a generation. 342 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,119 We understood that. And I think we were the last real generation to 343 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:17,119 understand that, and that's sadly me. You know, it is really sad. 344 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,200 Don't f with your face, mam, don't do it. I mean, 345 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,480 I'm not doing it. I've just kind of given up on thinking that 346 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:25,000 I need to f with my face. Instead, I'm using genusel. That's 347 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,200 what I'm doing. That's the better way. That's my old age plan. 348 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:32,279 We have a couple more videos. There's one of a woman I forget her 349 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,319 name, but she's she's become pretty popular on both Instagram and TikTok, and 350 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:41,680 she's like our generation. She's got like the purple hair and she's just cool. 351 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,039 And so she's also got some stuff to say about what things were like 352 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,240 back in our day. Gen X kid growing up, what looks something like 353 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:52,799 this. You wake up early and immediately put on your play clothes, grab 354 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:56,640 a pop tart, maybe a handful of Captain Crunch I had friends. When 355 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:57,519 you meet up with your friends, are all riding your bikes, and you 356 00:23:57,559 --> 00:24:00,440 now look like a minuture version of a motors gang, headed out to play 357 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:04,480 with dangerous things in dangerous places. You'll travel blocks, if not miles, 358 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,519 away from home. You'll probably cross several major streets, possibly a major highway 359 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,319 before you head back. On your way back, you'll probably stop to climb 360 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,359 a tree, wait in a creek, skip some rocks, or play on 361 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,359 the railroad tracks. And then you'll get back before the street lights come on, 362 00:24:18,519 --> 00:24:21,319 just in time for dinner. That is about twelve hours later than when 363 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:22,720 you left, and your parents just cursed that you haven't been home the whole 364 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,759 time. You'll wash your hands to sit down to eat your TV dinner on 365 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:30,319 a TV tray while watching TV on the couch alone until it's time for bed. 366 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:33,440 Your bed at support made out of your pillows in a blanket, and 367 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,359 you'll drift off to sleep while reading with a flashlight about adventures you can only 368 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,400 dream of. You'll do it all again tomorrow. I mean it was great. 369 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:45,920 It was It was great. I mean it was like in the eighties 370 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,599 were great. And one thing too, I think about, like growing up 371 00:24:49,599 --> 00:24:53,839 in the eighties as a gen xer, is you know another thing that I 372 00:24:53,839 --> 00:25:00,319 can compare my daughter to is like movies and music or better the music. 373 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,960 Obviously, I'm sorry, I will fight people like until the end our music 374 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:10,000 was freaking better. Just oh my god. And because and as evidenced by 375 00:25:10,039 --> 00:25:12,519 the fact that they're sampling our music now, So if it wasn't better, 376 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:15,559 you want to be freaking sampling you coming up with your own freaking music and 377 00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:18,880 saying. The movies they're redoing a lot of movies now too, because they 378 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,359 have no creativity now. But my like, my daughter doesn't really even enjoy 379 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,119 the movies anymore. Like I want to take her to movies, and she 380 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:27,759 doesn't really like movies. And I think part of that is because they don't 381 00:25:27,759 --> 00:25:32,960 have an attention span to sit for two and a half hours in a movie 382 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:33,799 theater, you know, an hour and a half, two hours in a 383 00:25:33,839 --> 00:25:38,000 movie theater. But I, oh my gosh, I love them. I 384 00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:41,759 absolutely loved it. And I love that you could go to a matinee for 385 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:45,519 a dollar twenty five. Yes, oh my god. I mean I just 386 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:48,920 remember going with my like I saw Dirty Dancing. I'm not even kidding you, 387 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,240 like nine times in the theater. I loved it so much. And 388 00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:56,680 it's so different now because my daughter just doesn't like, she doesn't I want 389 00:25:56,720 --> 00:26:00,000 to take her to movies, and she doesn't have a big interest in movie 390 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,000 and it breaks my heart. And part of it is because movies kind of 391 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,160 suck now. But I like guarding, but like gardens in the Galaxy, 392 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:07,160 I'm thinking, Okay, I can get her to go see that movie. 393 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,880 And it's not. It's just not the same anymore. It's not. Well, 394 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,400 think about how different it is too. Just like if you were to 395 00:26:14,519 --> 00:26:17,119 say, and I know this is true with my own kid, if I 396 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,480 were to say, even five years ago, when it was like playing age, 397 00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:23,240 when he was twelve, if I would have said to him, Hey, 398 00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:29,720 why don't you go outside and play? He would have no freaking idea 399 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:33,400 what to do, no idea because they don't go and like wade through creeks 400 00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:37,160 or play on railroad tracks, or climb trees or build forts. They don't 401 00:26:37,279 --> 00:26:41,759 do any of that, and they don't they have no desire to do it. 402 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:45,720 We did because that we didn't have a computer or a screen to just 403 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:48,920 stare at all day. So it's completely different. We had to find things 404 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,119 to occupy our time and our interest. Yeah, that makes me sad, 405 00:26:52,759 --> 00:26:56,200 I know, which makes I think it's what makes us grouchy. Like because 406 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,079 we've got this great video from gen x Talks that we mentioned earlier of this 407 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,440 father who has these conversations with his much younger son about what it's like to 408 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,720 be Gen X, and he's grouchy. I think he speaks for all of 409 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:14,720 us with that grouchiness, just with the level of impatience we have for this, 410 00:27:15,079 --> 00:27:18,880 for this up and coming generation. Let's look at that talk, Dad. 411 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:23,079 That's my little ray of sushine today. I've been thinking, and I 412 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:30,039 think your generation line aren't really that different. Well, I'm sure Grandpa used 413 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:32,960 to feel the same about you that you feel about us. Right, yeah, 414 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,400 I'm sure he's scraped just said more than once ago. And so what 415 00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:37,839 oh wait, see we're the same. So why do you pick on us 416 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,160 so much? Well, you didn't like it, Okay, you didn't like 417 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,240 it when Grandpa did it to you, So why would you do to us? 418 00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:45,559 Because we're different. You know, at the end of the day, 419 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:48,319 Grandpa and I can still sit down and talk in later in life. We 420 00:27:48,319 --> 00:27:49,960 could have a beer. We had we had common ground, like loyalty to 421 00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:55,720 family and country. There's enough ship. Well, my generation has common ground 422 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,359 too with us. You think you have common ground with my generation. My 423 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,279 generation happy to have a job of cold bean, working on their car and 424 00:28:02,319 --> 00:28:06,000 a Saturday. You fuckers aren't happy until you wake up and turn down some 425 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,480 random American tradition just because it's there. Theos thing we got in common, 426 00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:11,640 son is the doctor. We're gonna used to take my boot out of your 427 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:21,920 fucking ass. You can leave them, thanks for I love that kid too. 428 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,119 He's like, thanks for the video, Dad, thanks much. I 429 00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:30,119 love that. I love that channel so much. Genius. He's grouchy, 430 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:36,240 but I understand it's grouchiness because because this generation really is trying to dismantle a 431 00:28:36,319 --> 00:28:40,519 lot of the stuff that that our generation, the previous generation built for them. 432 00:28:40,599 --> 00:28:42,920 Yeah, exactly, and they are and like you and I talked on 433 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:48,240 our daily show about how patriotism is at an all time low, love of 434 00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:52,359 country is at an all time low. That breaks my heart. It's just 435 00:28:52,759 --> 00:28:56,079 and it's like you can't what are you supposed to do about that? It's 436 00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:59,759 like they don't bear. It's why we're we were bitter towards the other generations 437 00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:03,440 because it's just like you said, they are tearing down what we built for 438 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,880 them. Yeah, and then for them to not show love of country, 439 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:12,039 a country that has been so good to us is just it's infuriating. It 440 00:29:12,119 --> 00:29:15,920 is it's infuriating. It's just nauseating. I hate it. It just makes 441 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,920 me. It does. It makes me mad. It makes all of us 442 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,880 mad, which is like we're sort of that grouchy generation. And then when 443 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:26,400 I see shirtless dude in a beanie, which I don't understand, like why 444 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,799 are you shirtless? And if you're cold, put on a freaking shirt dude, 445 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,759 I don't understand how that makes you. Like that's dumb. There's a 446 00:29:33,799 --> 00:29:37,559 disconnect there. But anyways, I don't. I just there's a lot that 447 00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:40,359 I don't understand, and I just, you know, I think they're going 448 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,240 to be sorry because their country is they blame what other people for their problems. 449 00:29:45,279 --> 00:29:51,200 They want their college educations to be paid for by other people, and 450 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,279 they, you know, they feel entitled to so much stuff, and it's 451 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:56,799 like we just didn't have We didn't have that. We took care of business 452 00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:00,799 man, We just took care of it. And that is why Gen X, 453 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,839 I will maintain, is the second greatest generation. The