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This is Later with Lee Matthews the
Lee Matthews Podcast. More of what you

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hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Doctor Jane Twingey is a PhD and professor

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of psychology at San Diego State University, author of more than one hundred scientific

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publications, the latest of which is
really easy to understand, and I think

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it's important that you do understand it. It's called Generations, the real differences

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between Gen Z Millennials, Gen X
Boomers, and silence and what they mean

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for America's future. Doctor Jeane Twingey. I love this kind of stuff because

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I study it all the time in
my business, and I think you've taken

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this and made it more manageable for
people to understand. Yeah, that's that's

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really the goal here is to help
the generations understand each other better by trying

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to find as much information as possible
and what those differences really are, not

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going on the mists or the observations, but really digging into it. Lovely

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wife and I have an argument all
the time, and that is she was

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born in nineteen sixty four, I
nineteen sixty six. She loves to claim

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that she is a baby boomer,
and I have to tell her, well,

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yeah, technically you are, but
you have the sensibilities of a gen

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xer like me. Let's get into
you know, how these generations are defined

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and why. Yeah, so it
is true that by the technical definition,

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baby boomers are those born between nineteen
forty six nineteen sixty four, and then

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Gen X nineteen sixty five to nineteen
seventy nine. But of course you're right,

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you know, depending on where you
grow up, and especially if you're

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right near one of those caught offs, you may have more of the characteristics

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of the other generation. Yeah.
For instance, a lovely wife doesn't remember

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watching Gilligan's Island in prime time,
but that's because she was in her family

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was stationed over in Europe for the
first ten years of her life. Yeah,

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but does she remember the Brady Bunch? That's what we are. Ah,

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yes, yes, I remember the
Brady Bunch. But I was small

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when I when I saw the Brady
Bunch. So Jean twenty is with us.

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She is the author of the book
Generations, The Real Differences between Gen

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Z Millennials, gen X Boomers,
and Silence. Let's get into what these

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silence are as. The silence are
born nineteen twenty five to nineteen forty five,

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so they were the leaders of the
civil rights movement and the feminist movement.

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So Martin Luther King Junior, Ruth
Vader Ginsberger two members of that generation.

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So their name is a little bit
of a misnomer. Well, how

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do they differ then, from the
greatest Generation? So the greatest generation is

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those born nineteen o one to nineteen
twenty four, So they were the ones

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who fought World War two and save
the world from save the world from destruction

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in many ways. Absolutely, there
are very few of them, laughed.

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So now our senior citizens are the
silent generation and the upper our older end

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of the Baby Boomers. So then
the baby Boomers, that's the one that

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seems to get all the attention,
at least up until a few years ago.

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Yeah. So baby Boomers are just
the very large generation. That's what

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they get their name from, and
as a result, they have really dominated

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the culture at at pretty much every
stage of their life cycle. But they're

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starting to retire. It's starting to
change some although a lot of our political

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leaders are still boomers, who then
usually gave birth to the gen xers,

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but also millennials. Because I keep
seeing studies that the boomers are the first

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generation to have multiple families. Well, it is true, the divorce eight

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is fairly high for boomers. That
has really started by the Silent generation,

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and just yeah, a lot of
a lot of more instability in relationships that

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started to occur, especially with during
the nineteen sixties nineteen seventies, and then

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millennials, contrary to popular perception,
have higher household incomes. But I would

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I would say that's because they are
getting paid more than the boomers did for

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the same kind of work. Well, we can look at say median household

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income collected by the US Census,
and yeah, twenty five to forty four

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year olds are have higher incomes even
corrected for inflation. So that takes into

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account the cost of housing and healthcare
and TVs and cars and everything. And

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that's partially because after to the Great
Recession, which is very tough on millennials,

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the economy really rowed back. And
now now we have a labor shortage

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because a lot of the baby boomers
are retiring. So even though inflation has

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also been high, a lot of
young people have been able to get very

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good, high paying jobs. Well, and then there's this interesting thing about

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the gen xers because there's fewer of
them than the boomers and fewer of them

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than millennials. Yep. So gen
X is nineteen sixty five to nineteen seventy

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nine and often forgotten. Gen X
is the middle child of generation sandwiches between

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boomers and millennials, often having to
mediate between those two mediate in which ways.

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Well, a lot of times in
the workplace, gen X kind of

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can understand the perspective of both the
boomers and the millennials. Sometimes in politics,

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with a lot of Boomer leaders and
Gen X coming up and with a

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lot of the younger millennials, so
there's some political gaps there which are already

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interesting will become more so. I
also wonder if the millennial generation has more

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income because they don't seem to spend
a lot of money on material things.

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For instance, China patterns for a
wedding present. You don't see the millennials

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buying those. You don't see millennials
buying expensive jewelry. You don't see millennials

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spending lots of money on a car. Well, they do, they do

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buy cars that just about the same
rate. But I think a lot of

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millennials will tell you they're they're spending
that money on rent or you know,

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saving up for a house, although
others would say, you know, I

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want to spend my money on experiences
instead of on things. And as far

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as the workplace right now, are
we we're seeing boomers come back into the

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workplace from retirement because of our work
shortage or are we seeing more gen xers?

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Are we seeing more millennials? Well, we're seeing some of both.

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I mean the so called Great Resignation
which has taken place over the last two

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years. A lot of that was
boomers retiring on the early side, and

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a few of them have come back
because of the labor shortages that we have.

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But really what that's done has opened
up a lot of opportunities, particularly

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for millennials. And we haven't talked
about gen Z. What did your study

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of these generations come across with gen
Z? So gen zs those born nineteen

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ninety five to twenty twelve, So
they're kids, teens, young adults,

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and they are the first generation to
spend their entire adolescence in the age of

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the smartphone, and that had a
lot of rip effects across many areas of

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their lives. So they also spend
less time with friends in person, and

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that might be one reason why they
have very high levels of anxiety and depression.

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Doctor Jean Twine is with us and
the Bookist Generations, the real differences

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between Gen Z Millennials, gen X
Boomers, and Silence and what they mean

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for America's future. It's a fascinating
read and if you want to understand pop

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culture and today's world, I would
highly recommend it, at least as a

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summer read. I thank you for
joining us, Thank you thanks for listening

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