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. 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, and not just for ourselves, but for our
entire generation Gen X, which I am officially dubbing the second Greatest generation.
I think so too deaf. I agree wholeheartedly we are because we learned from
the greatest generation. We were like under the tutelage to toot of the greatest
generation. And a 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 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 any more. I mean,
I'm sure there's really smart innovative people like the Steve the Steve Jobs and
the Elon Muss and the you know, the Bezos and all that those are.
I mean these are, 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 crowd.
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
are I mean, I'm not talking about like the guys who invented Twitter.
I'm talking about the guys who paid the way for Twitter. Yeah, and
that was our that was our ja. We was 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 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, shall fight you. Like physically,
you would put me in front of you if there was 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. So yeah,
we're a great team. Yeah. Well, there's been a trend all over
social media. Um and I remember, gosh, it was I feel like
it's been months now that we first shared a TikTok of 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 a it's a gen zeer 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 Zeer or gen Wi or whatever a
younger guy could be a millennial millennial, Yeah, it could be millennial.
I don't know. He was asking why he did you guys drink out of
hoses? And I thought her answer who was fantastic. So let's kick off
this discussion with that same video. Sure, when y'all are saying that you
all used to drink from the hose, were sinks? Not an option?
For fuck? Who's it gonna tell him? You want me to tell him,
I'll tell him. 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, a 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 thinks we're on an option, so true.
Do you remember those 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 them in the backseat right for the dumbass parents that do
that. And we're like, oh, those parents are dumbasses. 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 that'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 your son,
you're both of your sons are older, but um, but your youngest is
a little bit. Are my youngest is thirteen? Your youngest is seventeen?
Yeah, 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 coddle somewhere. It's a little right because we and you and I
were not used to that, like we were just an eras don't know with
your parents, and I mean, your parents are exceptional human beings, just
like and I 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,
you know, we really didn't do anything that's 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 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, you 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, rely on ourselves, and we didn't. We're not
blaming the world for our problems. We just were a different breed of human.
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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. Yeah, 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 a 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? You still
have it? Do You still don't think you still have the lactual 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 I knew that I was supposed to
get certain things done, homework, whatever, And that's just how it was.
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 now, 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 breaking into
my own 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 a 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 because 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 it cops. I
can't believe I didn't go to jail breaking in. Your parents didn't from neglecting
you. That's what would happen now exactly today they my parents, You're right,
my parents are. 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 and you'd be gone. We'd be gone from daily,
yeah, 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 else other everybody else's parents were sort of all
kind of watching, 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 that they 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 were
fine, and then it was completely fine, and then you know, they'd
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 it 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 I guess maybe.
I don't know, if she'd try to 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 it's completely yeah, it's utterly, totally and completely different.
And I don't know it's better. It's 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, remember, 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 fill out. And then we would also dress imaginary line between the
two of us, and if she dared cross the line, it was hell
to 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 horrid mine, I'd like,
I'd I'd be China, I was eating it, and I'd hoard 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 Oldmobile Sedan. It was like white with a baby
blue top. It was the most hideous car back then. I think it
was like really beautiful, but it was. It was so hideous by today's
standards. And I would ride in the back on the left window of that
car. Yeah yeah, I mean right, that had the way back and
the wood, Yeah, the wood. 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. What
what didn't even don't understand I know exactly. My seat belt was my mom's
arm, like you know what I mean, like we'd stopped. I remember
we had this old um the VW Beatles. 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 a car. I just remember it was, Yeah,
the car was too noisy. I think it was just making too much noise.
It 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 something wrong with
your far man, and like it was like I don't know, I just
turned out 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 daughter because we live in Texas and ever since she was itty
bitty and I've had skin cancer like removed from my face and so I'm really
hypersensitive to that. But I would never let my daughter go out without like
gobs of sunscreen, baby oil and the elector plate. Right, it's like
tinfoil, tinfoil on cardboard. You'd like put it on cardboard and like shove
it in front of your face and you can get completely fried. I had
so many like blisters on my body, like so many times I'd be like,
no, it's fine, it's fine, just give it a couple of
days. Fine, it's fine. I have third degree burns, but I'm
fine. I'm totally fine. And it's gonna look savage in like three days,
it's gonna be great. It's fine. And then remember the sun in
Yes, like we didn't get highlights in our hair. We didn't go to
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have another one from another mom who is just as irritated at like at all
these silly questions about drinking from Moses and all that stuff. So let's do
that one next. Who let jen X off the hook? Why are we
talking shit about those because y'all don't want to get bucked up, Because y'all
don't will this work? Because we had the lag generation that a real motherfuckers
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fuck with us. That's a really great point though, Like they're way more
depressed people and people with mental illnesses now than there were when we were kids.
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 prepared to deal with
some of life's hardships with the yeah, the real world. So I know
we've gone interesting 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 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 her 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 developed. You can still
buy those like a drug store like a CBS or a Walgreens. And I
had to show her how do you I mean, she was so far removed
from that technology. She's gonna be like, how do I filter them?
Where's the I know, where's they Instagram felt there? Yeah. I mean
this is the thing is that they don't have a concept of of waiting on
what it's gonna you know, she's gonna take pictures and then she has to
wait. She has to sit and wait and be patient to see what those
pictures we look like. And I don't know three gosh 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 then 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, it was gone for forever.
But see on the Internet, 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 member in the beginning? Did you touch it? Yeah? Right.
I mean it's like remember when you say, I mean I wrote notes,
Oh my god, and then you would fold them like in the cool
ways, and then you would do the things where you'd like the accordions,
and like, I mean I have notes from like old boyfriends, from best
friends, I mean, and 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 an intimate generation, like we really
got to know one another, and we were I don't know, I don't
I think when 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 surfacing. It doesn't and it's weird,
especially because we're in such an oversharing culture, so you would think it would
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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 Head friends.
When you meet up with your friends are all riding your bike, and
you now look like a miniature version of a motorcycle gang headed out to play
with dangerous things in dangerous places. You'll travel blocks, if not miles,
away from home, and 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, waiting 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 are supposed that you haven't been home the whole
time. You'll wash your hands and 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 is 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 too, is like movies and music. What about the music?
Obviously, I'm sorry, I will fight people like until the end,
our music was freaking little 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 it, be coming up with your own freaking music and sam
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 oh yes, I absolutely loved it. 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. 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 movies
and it breaks my heart. And part of it is because movies kind of
suck now. But like Guardians, 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, right, 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 talks and
dad, how's my little ray of sunshine today? I've been thinking, and
I think you're generation mine aren't really that different. Yeah, well, I'm
sure Grandpa used to feel the same about you that you feel about us.
Right, Yeah, I'm sure he's grouchy, said more than once about and
so what Oh wait, see we're the same. So why do you pick
on us so much the same? 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 could still sit down and talk and later in
life we could have a beer. We had we had common ground, like
loyalty to family and country. You guys, enough ship. Well, my
generation has common ground too with us. You think you have common ground with
my gen My generation was happy to have a job of cold brand working on
their car on a Saturday. You fuckers aren't happy until you wake up and
tear down some random American tradition just because it's there. The most thing we
got in common, Sun is a doctor. We're gonna used to take my
boot out. You're fucking ass. You can leave now. I love that
kid too. He's like, thanks for the video, Dad, thanks so
much. I love that. I love that channel so much. Talks and
he's grouchy, but I understand its grouchiness because they because this generation really is
trying to dismantle a lot of the stuff that that our generation, the previous
generation built for that. Yeah, exam 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 and it's like you can't. What are you supposed to do about
that? It's like they help. It's why we're we're bitter towards the other
generations because it's just like you said, they are tearing down what we built
for them 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 the 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 in anyways.
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 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 didn't have to businessman. We just took care of it,
damn straight. And that is why gen X, I will maintain is
the second greatest generation. Amen to that. Amen, sister, I'm right
there with you, and I feel like, you know, we have a
case that we're right about that gen X Forever