Speaker 1: Vogue magazine put out an article that suggested maybe jen
Speaker 1: X people born between nineteen sixty five and nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: might be the coolest generation and got it all right,
Speaker 1: heck you, that's what I say too.
Speaker 2: I believe the article is written by a millennial too.
Speaker 2: Yes it was, yeah, and we'll get into that in
Speaker 2: just a second. But I hope you guys checked out
Speaker 2: our social media. There was a video that I posted
Speaker 2: from a woman that I met. Her name is Aaron,
Speaker 2: and I had a separate It was a business lunch
Speaker 2: with her, and she had told me a great story
Speaker 2: about listening to JB and I when she was a
Speaker 2: little girl and growing up, and so after the lunch,
Speaker 2: I asked her to retell the story and it was
Speaker 2: pretty cool, very cool. She was a girl that had
Speaker 2: a tough childhood and from the time she was eleven,
Speaker 2: you know, all the way for many years after, she
Speaker 2: would get up early in the morning and walk to
Speaker 2: school hours before school started and sit outside of school
Speaker 2: waiting for school to start and listen to us.
Speaker 1: And she was like, you guys were like a family.
Speaker 1: And it was just a kind of a cool video.
Speaker 1: And I was as I watched it and as she
Speaker 1: told the story, I was like, this, that makes it
Speaker 1: all worth it, you know what I mean? You can
Speaker 1: connect with one person like that, And we were comforting
Speaker 1: to her and she j she said, you guys were
Speaker 1: the only normal thing in my life, Like I knew
Speaker 1: that my family was going to be there on the
Speaker 1: radio and listen to you guys.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it makes me want to give her a hug.
Speaker 4: I was just annoyed that you didn't, Tiger, because I
Speaker 4: wanted to follow her. She's adorable, she is, and it
Speaker 4: was a sweet story and I just wanted to connect.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'll find her. I'll get her Instagram for you, JB,
Speaker 1: and I'll find out that the stalking began, yes exactly.
Speaker 4: No, I just thought it was sweet, like she just
Speaker 4: she's there there, she was telling you the story, and
Speaker 4: they're just there was something in her face and her expression.
Speaker 4: I go, oh, I just adore And at the end,
Speaker 4: you were like, can I give you a hug or
Speaker 4: something like that?
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4: And I think everyone who watched that video wanted to
Speaker 4: give her a hug, and we didn't even know why.
Speaker 1: Right exactly, You're right, something about the way her voice
Speaker 1: was and the way she looked and she told the story,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was.
Speaker 5: It was touching. Put it that way, very very touching.
Speaker 1: So you can find that on our Instagram at JB
Speaker 1: Sandy ATX. You can also find it on our Facebook
Speaker 1: page search the JB and Sandy Morning Show, and Aaron,
Speaker 1: if you're out there listening, that that story that you
Speaker 1: shared made it worth it, you know, because it's you know,
Speaker 1: the early hours are tough, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And so doing that it was glad.
Speaker 5: It's just like I was watching it as kind of
Speaker 5: a radio nerd.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's how you connect with listeners right there.
Speaker 1: You don't connect with listeners by doing wacky prank phone calls. Second, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that type of thing. It's never been our style, and
Speaker 1: it's we've often JB. Would you agree been misunderstood on
Speaker 1: our approach to doing this because we never did the
Speaker 1: things that everyone else was doing.
Speaker 4: Those are all fine and entertaining, but you can get
Speaker 4: those kind of things in your life anywhere.
Speaker 5: Right exactly.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you build a connection with another
Speaker 1: person that way, you know what I mean. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: let's talk about an article in Vogue that was basically
Speaker 1: said Generation X might be the coolest generation. She said,
Speaker 1: despite being over shadowed by debates about Gen Z and millennials.
Speaker 5: So the girl that wrote it, her name is Daisy
Speaker 5: Jones and Tricia. You are right.
Speaker 1: She is a millennial and writes for Vogue. But she
Speaker 1: makes a lot of good points about gen X. I'm
Speaker 1: a guess about ninety nine percent of our audience listening
Speaker 1: right now is Jena. Yeah, I think so, born between
Speaker 1: sixty five and nineteen eighty. The cultural impact that she
Speaker 1: points out that gen X shaped nineteen nineties culture with
Speaker 1: the music, the films, and the literature that came out
Speaker 1: in nineteen nineties. The style and the attitude of Gen
Speaker 1: X's the fashion, she says, a carefree, slacker vibe, contrast
Speaker 1: with modern trends like skincare obsession. Because in the eighties
Speaker 1: and the eighties and the nineties, gen X we were
Speaker 1: like just doing what we wanted, right, it was we
Speaker 1: weren't following Were we following trends?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I think we were a little bit. It
Speaker 2: kind of depends on different what age you were. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but they were cool trends compared to some of the
Speaker 2: weird stuff that is trendy these days. You know, when
Speaker 2: you get the trends from TikTok and social media, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Yeah, it's a different kind of
Speaker 2: of trends. I feel like that we followed.
Speaker 1: She also points out in this article again this is
Speaker 1: an author from Vogue magazine saying that, you know, Gen
Speaker 1: X was probably the coolest, which I think we would
Speaker 1: all agree because we are that. But she talks about
Speaker 1: the icons of Gen x X and Jenek put out
Speaker 1: a lot of icons.
Speaker 5: Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince.
Speaker 1: Edbie Murphy, Tom Cruise, Debbie Harry. It goes on and on,
Speaker 1: John Hughes, Wow, Robert Dowdy Junior, John, Johnny Depp, I mean,
Speaker 1: Axel Rose. It goes on and on of the quote
Speaker 1: unquote icons that come from from Generation X.
Speaker 5: But I always thought, go ahead, Jim, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: No, I just say one of the I think, and
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say one's better than the other. It's
Speaker 4: always different. But one of the things that I think
Speaker 4: about being a Gen X or that we're so fortunate
Speaker 4: is we got to grow up analog and then go
Speaker 4: fully digital, meaning we didn't have the Internet. Our kids
Speaker 4: grew up fully digital. Yeah, we grew up on analogy.
Speaker 4: We're the last generation to be analog, where you go
Speaker 4: out and play until the sun goes down.
Speaker 2: And you didn't always know what your other friends were doing,
Speaker 2: what you were getting left out of exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it didn't matter.
Speaker 2: Right, you didn't care because you were playing with the
Speaker 2: people who were right in front of you. Our daughter,
Speaker 2: they all track each other. Let me give you know
Speaker 2: where everyone is it every moment.
Speaker 5: I give you a great example of that.
Speaker 1: So on Saturday, Landry and I went up to the
Speaker 1: middle school track for a running workout and we're there
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, her friend Miley shows up
Speaker 1: and she was like, She's like, oh yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: on the find my app that you guys were here
Speaker 1: at the track, so I thought I'd come work out
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah. That's different world. Yeah right, Wow, that was my
Speaker 5: mind was blown.
Speaker 4: When we were that age, we we ended up at
Speaker 4: the same place because there was leftover construction.
Speaker 5: Would yes, we all up there. Oh we can build stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were fairal we were just Jamie, you're you're right.
Speaker 1: We experienced the world way differently than the millennials.
Speaker 4: The gen z's did you had to You had to
Speaker 4: entertain yourself right every single day.
Speaker 2: I don't think that our bodies are built to wake
Speaker 2: up and instantly know all of the horrible, terrible things
Speaker 2: that are going on around the world, all of the
Speaker 2: bad things that happened in your city while you were asleep.
Speaker 2: All that does is just produce so much more anxiety,
Speaker 2: and then it makes parents parent differently than when our
Speaker 2: parents would be like, do not come back in this
Speaker 2: house until it's dark outside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, national news becomes local news in the modern world.
Speaker 4: So when we were growing up the town over, children
Speaker 4: could be disappearing right and left, and you didn't know, You.
Speaker 2: Had no idea, you had no clue, So your day right,
Speaker 2: so your parents didn't lock you in the house.
Speaker 4: It still now there could be something happening across the
Speaker 4: states over and it puts the fear in you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't think we're supposed to know, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean by that.
Speaker 3: Brains are meant to on all of that stress and information.
Speaker 1: I did see a really interesting interview with this woman
Speaker 1: that pointed out that you can literally trace back the
Speaker 1: helicopter parenting, the over protective parenting, trace it right back
Speaker 1: to the movie Stranger Danger.
Speaker 5: Which was the.
Speaker 1: Walsh Yes yep, and he said you can literally go
Speaker 1: back to win. That movie aired on network television as
Speaker 1: the day that The Helicopter Parent was born. And kids
Speaker 1: stopped playing outside because you were afraid that I'm super
Speaker 1: afraid that they were gonna be kidnapped, which I.
Speaker 5: Mean, that's a fear, of course, every the odd odds.
Speaker 2: Are also, though, don't you remember when you were sent
Speaker 2: outside and you couldn't come back in like you're you'd
Speaker 2: be out doing stuff, not getting in trouble.
Speaker 3: You had some friend.
Speaker 2: Who'd be like, let's go do this that you knew
Speaker 2: you weren't supposed to do, and you have to rely
Speaker 2: on yourself to go over in your brain, what would
Speaker 2: happen if my mom finds out?
Speaker 3: What are my consequences? Am I willing to? Like you
Speaker 3: had to make the decision.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now kids aren't allowed to play outside by themselves,
Speaker 2: so the bad kid doesn't have a chance to put
Speaker 2: you in a position to have to decide am I.
Speaker 5: Going to be good? Am I going to There's no
Speaker 5: Chris McCormick anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no kids to get you in trouble.
Speaker 2: Because your parents are right there and tracking you at
Speaker 2: all times.
Speaker 4: Do you sometimes think about how many times, growing up
Speaker 4: as a kid of the seventies you evaded death?
Speaker 5: Oh oh yeah, bazillion times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so many times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's so many, many times.
Speaker 4: Oh, and then even as a teenager, just the way
Speaker 4: I live, like, I can't believe we're still here, Like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's amazing we're alive. Yeah, I mean, anyone can
Speaker 5: say that.
Speaker 4: It's funny because you talk about helicopter parents and I'm like,
Speaker 4: my daughter's twenty three, and I remember saying to this when.
Speaker 5: She was twenty.
Speaker 4: I would go, I would say to my daughter, I go,
Speaker 4: my parents didn't know where I was. At your age,
Speaker 4: we might have gone a month or more without talking,
Speaker 4: like while I was in school and just off doing
Speaker 4: things like where I was.
Speaker 1: Hey, dude, they had to on television, had to put
Speaker 1: up a message at ten o'clock every night asking parents
Speaker 1: if they knew where their children were.
Speaker 5: Literally, literally, it's ten o'clock, do you know where your
Speaker 5: children are? That's how out of touch they were to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that had to be reminded to see if your
Speaker 1: kids were at home. Remarkable, But I will I'll say,
Speaker 1: gen X got it right, I think, yeah, definitely, we're fortunate,
Speaker 1: don't you think?
Speaker 4: No? When I think, when I also think about it,
Speaker 4: like not only did we get to grow up analog,
Speaker 4: which was super cool, but we were also prior to
Speaker 4: our generation. You you went to school and you got
Speaker 4: a job with a company and you worked there until
Speaker 4: you retired. Yeah, we were the first to go f that. Yes,
Speaker 4: and just like or I'll work for myself, like it
Speaker 4: just we were the first to just do that, just
Speaker 4: to and it was still that way. We were right
Speaker 4: on the cusp because when you know, all my friends
Speaker 4: were graduating college, like, oh I got an offer from
Speaker 4: such and such, you know accounting firm, and that's where
Speaker 4: they're going to work in del a d. But then
Speaker 4: we started going, wait a minute, why do I want
Speaker 4: to work for the man? I don't want to work
Speaker 4: for the man. And then grunge music came along and
Speaker 4: it was a big f you to everything.
Speaker 1: It was just do you remember, like compared to not
Speaker 1: everyone's building I use all these like that like Local
Speaker 1: Lost and Company Poppy. They just built up and I
Speaker 1: believe sold for a bazillion dollars to Koda. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a soda that has a probiotic in it, you know,
Speaker 1: And they built it up and they saw it. That's
Speaker 1: everyone's goal now when they build a business, to build
Speaker 1: it up and sell it to the big guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we called you a sellout if you did that, right right,
Speaker 1: We were.
Speaker 5: Like, what you're gonna sell out to the man?
Speaker 2: Done all this work and build it up, and now
Speaker 2: you're gonna get rid of it? Well full point now
Speaker 2: is the money?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Remember how mad we got when when certain songs got
Speaker 1: used by Pepsi or somebody.
Speaker 5: Two songs and Pepsi what sell out?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Oh it was Apple, That's what it was with you two.
Speaker 5: It was like that's when they saw.
Speaker 4: My daughter was so mad about that that it automatically
Speaker 4: put it on her device.
Speaker 5: Oh people are still mad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, definitely right anyway, gen X, in our opinion,
Speaker 1: they got it right.
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