WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:07.960 So several people have asked me who exactly are gen X, because it's one 2 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:11.640 of those weird we we all these terms of boomers, greatest generation, slid 3 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:15.279 generation gen X, gen used to be gen Y, but now it's millennial, 4 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:18.600 gen Z, gen ALF, all these things. So these are some 5 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:23.920 people, and it's also the Zenials and Zeniols and the young boomers and all 6 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:28.760 this stuff. So I'm fifty plus. This is fifty plus, so we're 7 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:38.359 all talking about anything over fifty, So that would be nineteen seventy four and 8 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:44.479 before. So let's let's just get into it a little bit. So gen 9 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:53.520 X, by most accounts, I said nineteen seventy four backwards is the fifty 10 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:59.759 plus crowd. So fifty plus or anybody born nineteen seventy four back that's part 11 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:06.959 of it. Gen X is nineteen sixty five to nineteen eighty. We follow 12 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:15.719 baby boomers and we receive millennials. So from nineteen sixty five nineteen seventy four, 13 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.120 you are gen X, and that's my time here. I was born 14 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.439 in sixty nine, so you're a part of so we're part of that. 15 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:30.280 So that's fifty to sixty six. No, sik, Yeah, sixty six 16 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:36.000 this year fifteen to sixty six. You guys, we are no no fit, 17 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:42.680 no wit fifty Yeah, because I'm fifty five, fifty five, fifty 18 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:48.040 to sixty one sorry, or sixty or sixty fifty nine like that. So 19 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:53.319 that's you, guys. Gen X is known as the first generation to be 20 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.959 raised by working mothers, where the frust ration to come up within the age 21 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.719 of Internet. We're also called the forgotten generation, and we were called the 22 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:07.039 slacker generation. We were called the MTV generation. We were first generation experience 23 00:02:07.479 --> 00:02:12.319 music videos of course, and all that. We had the Great Recession, 24 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:15.759 we had to stop crash at twenty eighteen, We had the Cold War. 25 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:21.520 We had disco for many of us had disco, and afterwards New Wave, 26 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:28.719 we had MySpace, you know all that stuff. I mean, it was 27 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:34.199 it's very much from sixty five to nineteen eighty. Now, I say sometimes 28 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:39.800 the Federal Reserve Board or Social Security says nineteen sixty four, in nineteen seventy 29 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:44.800 nine, so it's only it's a year off, but it's like it's just 30 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:50.680 a year off, right. There are books Thomas Copland did, Douglas Copeland 31 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.759 did gen X. That was a book that he did. I read that 32 00:02:53.879 --> 00:03:00.199 years ago about us, and they said this about sixty two, you know 33 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:01.800 us running around, So there you go. But the generations are there's the 34 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.520 Lost generation, the Greatest generation, the silent generation. Then are most of 35 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:12.840 our parents and older siblings are baby boomers, that's forty six to sixty four. 36 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:19.680 Then there's us. Many of our younger siblings or children are millennials at 37 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:23.759 the least, be called Gen Y, and then Duration Z the zoomers. 38 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:29.439 There must My grandkids are ninety seven to twenty twelve. Then of course I 39 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.599 have my other grandkids, our Generation Alpha. It's twenty tens now to mid 40 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:38.840 twenties. So I don't know the next one be called, but it's A. 41 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:43.759 But that's that's where the thing is done. Douglas Copa and Copeland is 42 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.719 now which about in nineteen eighty one. I have it. It's called the 43 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:53.240 Tales for Accelerated Culture. Interesting read. So that's that's that's that's the question. 44 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:58.479 Short answer. You're looking up and see what else that means. But 45 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:05.199 it's nineteen sixty five, sixty fourty five to nineteen eighty that's who Gen X. 46 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:06.719 We sorry, that's we are. We have a lot of it. 47 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:10.759 We have a lot. We had a lot going on. We remember three 48 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:15.919 channels, most of us, uh, you know, we remember before cable, 49 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:18.079 remember the emergence of cable. There's a lot of things we remember that 50 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:20.560 I talk about on the show, that I talk about regularly on the show, 51 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.839 and we'll continue to highlight them. And we're living longer, many of 52 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.800 us are living a lot longer, and we're here. But so what we 53 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.199 are in the same you know, fifty plus is us and the boomers and 54 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.480 the Greatest generation and the sun a generetion. We're all we're all kind of 55 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:39.120 there's some ful of flots, all hundred whatever, and so we're all. 56 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:41.680 We're that. But always say, mostly I talked to you, I know 57 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.160 my groups. It's gen X and boomers. That's mostly who we are in 58 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:51.199 this in this thing. So that that's sure. That is your cute story. 59 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:57.120 So that's your answer. I'm James I Junior, and I'll talk to 60 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:57.680 you next time.