And I think that that this generation now, I think that they're they're hungry
for real intimacy, and we had that as a generation. We understood that,
and I think we were the last real generation to understand that. And
that's sad to me. You know, I would never let my daughter go
out without like gobs of sun baby oil and the and the thing, the
reflector plate. Right. Welcome to another deep dive edition of the Chicks on
the Right podcast. Today, we are going to toot our own horns just
a little bit, not just for ourselves, but for our entire generation,
Gen X, which I am officially dubbing the second Greatest Generation. I think
so too, death I agree wholeheartedly we are because we learned from the greatest
generation. We were like under the tutelage of the Greatest generation and the Boomers,
which are also great. They're fine, right, the Boomers are good
and so, but I feel like ours was maybe the last of the great
generations when it comes to loving our country and having and having high standards placed
upon us. Right. Well, if you think about it, we had
a lot of the innovators, the creators, the think about like you know,
the guys and the women who invented a lot of things, who created
a lot of things, who were like the the innovators came from our generation,
and there's you don't see that any more. I'm sure there's really they
smart innovative people like the Steve the Steve Jobs and the Elon Musk and the
you know, the Bezos and that all that those are. I mean these
are gen yeah, but some of the people that are really good at innovation
are younger than that. I mean, when I think about all the people
that are involved in AI, it's a young crab. It's just that they
are doing very destructive things. If you ask me, they're gonna destroy the
world. Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna kill us all. I mean,
I'm not talking about like the guys who invented Twitter. I'm talking about the
guys who paved the way yeah for Twitter. Yeah, and that was our
that was our gent were just tougher man. I mean, I personally am
not like a super tough person, like I would never I would never win
a street fight. Ever, you're tough. You're tough in a different way.
Yeah, you're like you're you're mentally tough. I mean, I've been
through some things. Oh yeah, you're definitely mentally tough. I wouldn't be
friends with you if you are not mentally tough, you're mentally like a warrior.
But you're But you and I together, like I'm the person you'd probably
be like, all right, she'll fight you. Like physically, you would
put me in front of you if there is a physical fight, but like
mentally, i'd put you toe to toe, like in a war of the
words, I'd put you up against anybody for sure. So yeah, we're
a great team. Well, there's been a trend all over social media and
I remember, gosh, it was I feel like it's been months now that
we first shared a TikTok of a there's a TikTok account by the name of
gen x Talks, and we'll share one of those a little bit later in
today's show. But that was one of the first that i'd seen where it's
it's a gen zer who has a gen X dad and he just puts his
dad on the spot all the time to get the perspective from a gen xer.
And this guy has zero percent patients for his son, and it's hilarious
and so it's all in good fun. But it just does show you the
difference between the generations, and so we since TikTok has been sort of the
source of a lot of these recent videos, there was one that we showed
in our morning show earlier this week of a woman specifically addressing the question from
a very chiseled gen Zer gen Wire whatever, a younger guy. It could
be a millennial, millennial, Yeah, could be a millennial. I don't
know. But he was asking the question, why did you guys drink out
of hoses? And I thought her answer was fantastic. So let's kick off
this discussion with that same video. Sure, when y'all are saying that y'all
used to drink from the hose? Were sinks not an option for FUCKA,
who's gonna tell them? You want me to tell them, I'll tell them
we weren't allowed in the house. I don't know why that's so hard for
people to understand. Our childhood was like one never any episode of that TV
show Survivor. Okay, we are indestructible. We've never sat in car seats,
nobody's ever given us swimming lessons. We've all been either shot with a
baby gun or stabbed with a fucking jart. The television stations had to make
a commercial reminding our parents that they had kids. I shoot you not.
Every night on the ten PM news, the voice would come on and say,
it's ten pm, do you know where your children are? To remind
our parents that they had fucking kids? So no, sir shirtless with the
beanie sinks, we're on an option. Do you remember that? Oh my
gosh. I didn't until she mentioned them, and then I was like,
oh my god, they really did. Now they have to just remind parents
to not leave their kids in cars. That's the new version of the tillam
in the backseat right for the dumb ass parents that do that. And we're
like, oh, those parents are dumb asses. But they literally had to
remind our parents that they had us at ten pm, Like do you not
like have the ability to look around and go are my kids in the room
with me? Like? Are they even here? Because it's the thing.
We were also free range. That's the thing. That's what I and my
daughter is thirteen. You know you have your son. Both of your sons
are older, but but your youngest is a little bit are my youngest is
thirteen? Your youngest is seventeen seventeen, and so I mean I look at
her, and all the parents that are around me are so much younger than
me. So we're older parents. And so sometimes I have to like bite
my tongue because I don't fit in sometimes with some of these other because there's
a lot of millennial parents that are parenting these twelve and thirteen year old girls
that we hang out with. And so I do feel a little out of
place sometimes because I'm a I'm a gen xer, and we parent a little
different than these some of these millennial parents. We do, we're a little
we are a little more free range parenting than some of these millennial parents.
And so you know, we're like just do your own thing, make your
own dinner, like do We're not what we're expected to like do these things
for you, like figure it out yourself, you know. I mean that's
where like other parents, they don't they're a little more godly. It's a
little right because we and you and I were not used to that, Like
we were just in Arizona with your parents, and I mean your parents are
exceptional human beings, just like and I and and just awesome parents. And
I always joke about how I want your I mean, my mom's probably listening
to this, and I love my mother to death, but I always joke
about how I want your parents to adopt me because they're just exceptional parents.
And I was asking them when we were there, you know, like how
what do you do as parents? Like how do you explain your awesome parenting?
Like talk to me about your parenting? And your mom was even like,
we weren't that great, and we really didn't do anything that special.
We didn't. We didn't we didn't coddle the kids, like I don't even
know if she used that word, but I remember her saying, we didn't
do anything special. We just were there, you know what I mean.
We just were sort of present, but like we let the kids free range,
We let them do whatever. They just they just happened to turn out,
okay, you know what I mean. Like it's it's interesting the way
that she described it, because I think she and your dad were probably a
lot a lot like a lot of other parents in that generation where they didn't
coddle, they didn't like overly nurture. They just were parents of gen xers,
know, in that in that generation where we all just fended for ourselves
a little bit more. And now we regard our parents as pretty cool because
we ended up like self sufficient and independent and you know, reliant on ourselves,
and we didn't. We're not blaming the world for our problems. We
just we we're a different breed of human Yeah, I think so too,
and I and we were taught independence at such early ages. Now granted some
I mean, like our culture sucks so hard now that in some ways that
you and I would probably love to parent that same way we were parented.
It's not possible because the world is so unsafe in so many ways. Yes,
but you know it's true. Like we we let ourselves into the house
after school when both of our parents were working their full time jobs, and
so I had my mom gave me a leather like it was a leather necklace
that had a little it almost looked like a Native American pouch, like a
little leather pouch that that I would hang around my neck and that is what
I wore my key in and I wore it every single day. I think
I have it in like my third grade photo. Yeah you do? Do
you still have it? Do you still don't think I still have that actual
pouch, but it was just this little triangular leather pouch, and that's where
my house key went. And my parents, you know, I'd get home
at what three, three thirty whatever from school and then my parents wouldn't come
until five thirty or six o'clock. And I had that, I knew that
I was supposed to get certain things done, homework, whatever, and that's
just how it was. But it's completely different than that now, totally different,
totally different now. I was the same way, like I was a
latchkey kid, my parents the same way. I would come in, and
I remember there were some days where like I didn't have a thing around my
neck, but my parents would hide the key, like in the yard somewhere,
and there were days where I'm like, oh shit, where's the key,
Like I couldn't find the key, and so I was super adept at
break into my own my gosh, Like I remember going into the back and
we had a three story house at the time, Like we had a basement
and a main floor and then an upper floor. It was like a tall
house. And I remember going to the back, like climbing up onto the
deck of the main floor and breaking into my kitchen because I couldn't find the
key, and I'm like, well, I gotta get into the house because
I mean, I gotta do the stuff. I gotta make my mac and
cheese. I got to watch Island, right, I gotta watch you know,
the things in the all the afternoon shows exactly. And this is I
remember breaking into my own house, and like, can you imagine if somebody
would have seen a kid like in my cause there are people backed up to
our house, like in the backyard you can see other houses. Can you
imagine watching a kid breaking into their kitchen or just anybody, But most people
would call the cops. I can't believe I didn't go to jail breaking in
a mind that your parents didn't neglecting you. That's what would happen now exactly
today. My parents are right, My parents are probably they go to jail
for a plethora of reasons, Like just I would sit on my dad's lap
and steer the car like through a busy neighborhood. I was like nine years
old, and I would do this. I mean, the things that they
allowed us to do and just and not to mention, like just being outside
until ungodly, Like I don't know, nine o'clock at night, and I
would be out. I can't, I would never let my oh my gosh,
and you'd be gone. We'd be gone from daily, yeah, all
day, all day until it turned dark all day and then sometimes a little
after dark. And there was never a worry, there was never checking in.
Everybody knew that everybody of other everybody else's parents were sort of all kind
of looking out for the kids. But we would often go to the park
that was like blocks and blocks away, or a swimming pool there was blocks
and blocks away a mile or two, and you didn't nobody thought twice about
that. Everybody just expected the kids could handle being kids on their own,
and we did. And you had no idea, like your parents had no
idea if you were fed or watered or alive. I mean, it's like
exactly like you were gone all twelve hours, you were fine, and then
it was completely fine, and then you know, they for some you would
just be called home by some call, like there'd be somebody who would whistle
for you or like scream for you in the neighborhood, and then all the
kids would just come home from that mom call, like there'd be some mom
in the neighborhood or somebody you would just call, some bill that would get
you in the neighborhood. You'd come home and then you'd be like, all
right, I'm home, you know, either that or it would be dinner,
Like maybe sometimes I'd come home for dinner. But I mean, for
the most part, we were just so incredibly free range, and I guess
you know that's we were just really resilient in that respect. It was different,
so different back then. I don't know. I look at my daughter,
I'm like, would she be able to do that? I don't I
don't know if my thirteen year old I guess maybe. I don't know if
she'd really do that. It just would be such a different experience for her
than what it is right now. Because now I feel like kids, their
days are so planned. Everything is so like you have to do this at
this time and this at this time, and then you have this activity and
that activity, and we didn't have that, you know, even like with
sports and all that kind of stuff. I even think sports now, my
god, it's so different. It's completely yeah, it's utterly, totally and
completely different. And I don't know that it's better. It's so I don't
think it's better because I was able to play and do a lot of different
things when I was younger. Now it's like you have to pick your sport
and you have to you know, if you're you have to be really good
at it, and it's you have to pick one thing to be good at.
And I don't know if that's I don't think that that's necessarily better.
I think it was greater for us because we could try a lot of different
things and do a lot of different things and meet a lot of different people.
And I think it was better for kids back then because they didn't have
to be freaking adults at age thirteen. And you know, and remember they
give you kids. I know you did this too, I just know it.
So there's a six year split between me and my sister. And whenever
there was a road trip, not only were there no seat belts in the
back seat, but we also had a hatchback at one point, and we
would lay the hatchback seats down and we would create this giant bed in the
back with all kinds of snacks and blankets and everything stillows. And then we
would also drive down imaginary line between the two of us and if she dared
cross the line, it was hell to peg. God, it was like
hell on earth, hell on earth. Not only that, but my mom,
like I remember my mom and dad would give us like say, they
gave you like each a cookie, yeah, you know, and then I
would like hoard mine. I'd like, I'd be kind. I was eating
it and I'd hold it and my sister would eat hers, and I'd be
like, oh, I still have some left. I still have some cookie
left. I mean, we would torment the crap out of each other on
those car rides. It would just be like picking and edgy. And then
I would ride in the back window. We had an old mobile sedan.
It was like white with a baby blue top. This was the most hideous
car back then. I think it was like really beautiful, but it was
so hideous by today's standards. And I would ride in the back on the
ledendow of that car. Yeah yeah, I mean, or the station wagons
right that had the way back, and they would yeah the wood. Then
you would sit facing the driver behind you, right. If you were in
the way back, that seat faced out the window. And so I mean
it's completely now imagine if you were building your little back seat paradise, you
know what I mean, And you weren't. You weren't seat belted, your
parents would get arrested, They would get pulled over and take it and it
would be all kinds of child abuse charges. Oh my god. It's kind
of like car seats. When I bought my my daughter's first car seat,
I was like, wait, there are different kinds and you have to put
it backwards and then forwards and what what? What? Didn't even say stand
wait, I know exactly. My My seat belt was my mom's arm,
Like you know what I mean, Like we'd stop, We didn't. I
remember we had this old the VW Beetles. Do you remember those VW Beatles?
And I remember when I was itty bitty, I was like six when
this happened, and we got pulled over by a cop because it was too
noisy. It was making the car. I just remember, Yeah, the
car was too noisy. I think it's just making too much noise. Was
such a piece of shit and we got pulled over and I was just like,
what is going on? And we got pulled over because of the It
was just so I think it was just so awful that something was wrong with
it. I remember, I'm like, are you, like, are she
going too fast? And I think he was just like is something wrong with
your car? Man? And like She's like, I don't know, I
just turned up the radio, right exactly. It was so now when you
went on car trips and you went on road trips and you got to your
destination. This is another thing I think is so funny because like nowadays,
I would never let my daughters. We live in Texas and ever since she
was itty biddy, and I've had skin cancer like removed from my face and
so I'm really hyper sensitive to that. But I would never let my daughter
go out without like gobs of sunsmek wore baby oil and the and the thing
the reflector plate. Right, it's like til tinfoil on cardboard. You'd like
put it on cardboard and like shove it in front of your face and you
were completely fried. I had so many like blisters on my body, like
so many times I'd be like, no, it's final, it's fine,
it's fine. Just give it a couple of days and it's fine. I
have third degree burns, but I'm fine. I mean, I'm totally fine.
And it's gonna look savage in like three days, it's gonna be great.
It's fine. And then so yeah, remember the sun in Yes,
like we didn't get highlights in our hair, we didn't go to hairdressers to
get highlights. Well, and it was orange and we liked it. Yeah,
no wonder Donald Trump has orangeeries. Child's exactly right. Well that that
same that same video. I mean, there's been so many responses to that
video, and we have another one from another mom who is just as irritated
at all these silly questions about drinking for Moses and all that stuff. So
let's do that one next. Who leut jett X off the hook? Why
are we talking shit about those because y'all don't want to get fucked up,
Because y'all don't this work, because we the lead generation that are really motherfuckers.
Who ever met that's you're next, don't fuck with y'all, don't fuck
with nobody. Actually, we just chill, go to work and come home.
We ain't had no choice. We was legs key kids for real.
We ain't handle therapy. We couldn't deal with our depression. We had to
eat that ship and keep it moving, so fuck out of here. That's
why y'all don't fuck with us, but don't fuck with us. That's a
really great point though, Like there are way more depressed people and people with
mental illnesses now than there were when we were kids, you know, because
people want that. It's very handy for anybody to be able to play a
victim card of any kind. And so now you know you can't bully.
There's all these anti bullying rules where really, I think growing up getting a
little bullied helped thicken your skin. It's what made you prepare to deal with
some of life's hardships with the Yeah, the real world, so I know
its soft. Everyone has gone so god incredibly soft. And I think social
media is like completely screwed up our society too. Like I loved living in
an era where there was no social media and all that, because think of
all the stupid crap that we did do, like all the partying and the
fun stuff that we were able to do, and and just the I don't
know, the living of life and not having to document everything. It was
nice not having to do that. Like we've took some pictures and then we
get like I just sent my daughter to camp, and I sent her with
two cameras, like disposable cameras, and she was like, what am I
supposed to do with these? And I had to show how to use an
actual I was like, you have to wind it, and you click it
and you wind it. And she was like, and then what do we
do with them? And like then you get them to bed. You can
still buy those like a drug store, like a CBS or a Walgreens.
And I had to show her how to I mean, she was so far
removed from that technology. She's going to be like to filter them. Where's
the I know, where's the Instagram? Felter? Yeah, I mean this
is the thing is that they don't have a concept of waiting on what it's
going to. You know, she's going to take pictures and then she has
to wait. She's to sit and wait and be patient to see what those
pictures will look like. And I don't know three right, I mean,
this is the thing. And we did that. So we had cameras,
but we you know, we could always get the pictures back and be like,
oh my god, that's an incriminating picture and I throw it away if
it was a bad picture of if it was like a flash of our boot
or something, and it was gone forever. You know, we're real it
was gone for forever. But see on the inner that everything lives forever.
And somebody was saying that like our social media was somebody said on our on
our Facebook insiders that that our social media was bathroom walls. Oh my gosh,
like writing things on bathroom walls about people or whatever, or just you
know, passing notes to one another. Like if you remember that movie sixteen
Candles, have you ever seen one? Remember in the beginning, did you
touch it? Yeah? Right? I mean it's like remember when we say
I mean I wrote notes. Oh you would fold them like in the cool
ways, and then you would do the things where you'd like the accordings,
and like I mean I have notes from like old boyfriends, from best friends.
I mean it's like that's how you get to know people, really get
to know them, was like writing notes and like learning so much about them
and then getting on the phone and talking to your new best friend for three
hours at a time. I mean that's I missed those days. That's and
I feel like that made us like we were just we were more. We
were more of like a an intimate generation, Like we really got to know
one another, and we were I don't know, I don't. I think
when it when it comes to mental illness and stuff like that, we just
we were more. We were more into each other and getting to know each
other, and it wasn't so surface. It doesn't And it's weird, especially
because we're in such an oversharing culture, so you would think it would be
the reverse that, like people are so quick to share everything, but so
much of what they share is superficial. And that's the difference. It's soup,
it's so fake. It's also fake. It's not you're not getting below
the surface, you know. It's like that's what we were. We were
so much more human with one another. And I think that that it's like
that goes without saying. Our generation was so different when it came to that.
We really got to know one another and it's and and we had like
a handful of friends rather than you know, a thousand friends on Facebook,
which really aren't your friends. And I think that this generation now, I
think that they're they're hungry for real intimacy and we had that as a generation.
We understood that. And I think we were the last real generation to
understand that, and that's sadly me. You know, it is really sad.
Don't f with your face, mam, don't do it. I mean,
I'm not doing it. I've just kind of given up on thinking that
I need to f with my face. Instead, I'm using genusel. That's
what I'm doing. That's the better way. That's my old age plan.
We have a couple more videos. There's one of a woman I forget her
name, but she's she's become pretty popular on both Instagram and TikTok, and
she's like our generation. She's got like the purple hair and she's just cool.
And so she's also got some stuff to say about what things were like
back in our day. Gen X kid growing up, what looks something like
this. You wake up early and immediately put on your play clothes, grab
a pop tart, maybe a handful of Captain Crunch I had friends. When
you meet up with your friends, are all riding your bikes, and you
now look like a minuture version of a motors gang, headed out to play
with dangerous things in dangerous places. You'll travel blocks, if not miles,
away from home. You'll probably cross several major streets, possibly a major highway
before you head back. On your way back, you'll probably stop to climb
a tree, wait in a creek, skip some rocks, or play on
the railroad tracks. And then you'll get back before the street lights come on,
just in time for dinner. That is about twelve hours later than when
you left, and your parents just cursed that you haven't been home the whole
time. You'll wash your hands to sit down to eat your TV dinner on
a TV tray while watching TV on the couch alone until it's time for bed.
Your bed at support made out of your pillows in a blanket, and
you'll drift off to sleep while reading with a flashlight about adventures you can only
dream of. You'll do it all again tomorrow. I mean it was great.
It was It was great. I mean it was like in the eighties
were great. And one thing too, I think about, like growing up
in the eighties as a gen xer, is you know another thing that I
can compare my daughter to is like movies and music or better the music.
Obviously, I'm sorry, I will fight people like until the end our music
was freaking better. Just oh my god. And because and as evidenced by
the fact that they're sampling our music now, So if it wasn't better,
you want to be freaking sampling you coming up with your own freaking music and
saying. The movies they're redoing a lot of movies now too, because they
have no creativity now. But my like, my daughter doesn't really even enjoy
the movies anymore. Like I want to take her to movies, and she
doesn't really like movies. And I think part of that is because they don't
have an attention span to sit for two and a half hours in a movie
theater, you know, an hour and a half, two hours in a
movie theater. But I, oh my gosh, I love them. I
absolutely loved it. And I love that you could go to a matinee for
a dollar twenty five. Yes, oh my god. I mean I just
remember going with my like I saw Dirty Dancing. I'm not even kidding you,
like nine times in the theater. I loved it so much. And
it's so different now because my daughter just doesn't like, she doesn't I want
to take her to movies, and she doesn't have a big interest in movie
and it breaks my heart. And part of it is because movies kind of
suck now. But I like guarding, but like gardens in the Galaxy,
I'm thinking, Okay, I can get her to go see that movie.
And it's not. It's just not the same anymore. It's not. Well,
think about how different it is too. Just like if you were to
say, and I know this is true with my own kid, if I
were to say, even five years ago, when it was like playing age,
when he was twelve, if I would have said to him, Hey,
why don't you go outside and play? He would have no freaking idea
what to do, no idea because they don't go and like wade through creeks
or play on railroad tracks, or climb trees or build forts. They don't
do any of that, and they don't they have no desire to do it.
We did because that we didn't have a computer or a screen to just
stare at all day. So it's completely different. We had to find things
to occupy our time and our interest. Yeah, that makes me sad,
I know, which makes I think it's what makes us grouchy. Like because
we've got this great video from gen x Talks that we mentioned earlier of this
father who has these conversations with his much younger son about what it's like to
be Gen X, and he's grouchy. I think he speaks for all of
us with that grouchiness, just with the level of impatience we have for this,
for this up and coming generation. Let's look at that talk, Dad.
That's my little ray of sushine today. I've been thinking, and I
think your generation line aren't really that different. Well, I'm sure Grandpa used
to feel the same about you that you feel about us. Right, yeah,
I'm sure he's scraped just said more than once ago. And so what
oh wait, see we're the same. So why do you pick on us
so much? Well, you didn't like it, Okay, you didn't like
it when Grandpa did it to you, So why would you do to us?
Because we're different. You know, at the end of the day,
Grandpa and I can still sit down and talk in later in life. We
could have a beer. We had we had common ground, like loyalty to
family and country. There's enough ship. Well, my generation has common ground
too with us. You think you have common ground with my generation. My
generation happy to have a job of cold bean, working on their car and
a Saturday. You fuckers aren't happy until you wake up and turn down some
random American tradition just because it's there. Theos thing we got in common,
son is the doctor. We're gonna used to take my boot out of your
fucking ass. You can leave them, thanks for I love that kid too.
He's like, thanks for the video, Dad, thanks much. I
love that. I love that channel so much. Genius. He's grouchy,
but I understand it's grouchiness because because this generation really is trying to dismantle a
lot of the stuff that that our generation, the previous generation built for them.
Yeah, exactly, and they are and like you and I talked on
our daily show about how patriotism is at an all time low, love of
country is at an all time low. That breaks my heart. It's just
and it's like you can't what are you supposed to do about that? It's
like they don't bear. It's why we're we were bitter towards the other generations
because it's just like you said, they are tearing down what we built for
them. Yeah, and then for them to not show love of country,
a country that has been so good to us is just it's infuriating. It
is it's infuriating. It's just nauseating. I hate it. It just makes
me. It does. It makes me mad. It makes all of us
mad, which is like we're sort of that grouchy generation. And then when
I see shirtless dude in a beanie, which I don't understand, like why
are you shirtless? And if you're cold, put on a freaking shirt dude,
I don't understand how that makes you. Like that's dumb. There's a
disconnect there. But anyways, I don't. I just there's a lot that
I don't understand, and I just, you know, I think they're going
to be sorry because their country is they blame what other people for their problems.
They want their college educations to be paid for by other people, and
they, you know, they feel entitled to so much stuff, and it's
like we just didn't have We didn't have that. We took care of business
man, We just took care of it. And that is why Gen X,
I will maintain, is the second greatest generation. The