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 1: Yes it was, yeah, and we'll get into that in
Speaker 1: just a second. But I hope you guys checked out
Speaker 1: our social media. There was a video that I posted
Speaker 1: from a woman that I met. Her name is Aaron,
Speaker 1: and I had a separate It was a business lunch
Speaker 1: with her, and she had told me a great story
Speaker 1: about listening to JB and I when she was a
Speaker 1: little girl and growing up, and so after the lunch,
Speaker 1: I asked her to retell the story.
Speaker 2: And it was pretty cool, very cool.
Speaker 1: She was a girl that had a tough childhood and
Speaker 1: from the time she was eleven, you know, all the
Speaker 1: way for many years after, she would get up early
Speaker 1: in the morning and walk to school hours before school started,
Speaker 1: and outside of school waiting for school to start and
Speaker 1: listen to us. And she was like, you guys were
Speaker 1: like a family. And it was just kind of a
Speaker 1: cool video. And I was as I watched it and
Speaker 1: as she told the story. I was like, this, that
Speaker 1: makes it all worth it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: you can connect with one person like that, And we
Speaker 1: were comforting to her and she j she said, you
Speaker 1: guys were the only normal thing in my life, Like
Speaker 1: I knew that my family was going to be there
Speaker 1: on the 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 Tigerr because I
Speaker 4: wanted to follow her. She's adorable, she is, and it
Speaker 4: was a sweet story.
Speaker 2: And I just wanted to connect. But yeah, I'll find her.
Speaker 1: I'll get her Instagram for you, JB, and I'll find
Speaker 1: out let the stalking began.
Speaker 2: Yeah 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, I just adore And at the end, you
Speaker 4: were like, can I give you a hug or something
Speaker 4: like that? Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's and I
Speaker 4: think everyone who watched that video wanted to give her
Speaker 4: a hug, and we didn't even.
Speaker 1: Know why, right exactly, You're right, something about the way
Speaker 1: her voice was and the way she looked and she
Speaker 1: told the story, and uh, it was it was touching.
Speaker 2: 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. It's just like
Speaker 1: I was watching it as kind of 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
Speaker 1: calls second base. Yeah, that type of thing. It's never
Speaker 1: been our style, and it's we've often JB. Would you
Speaker 1: agree been misunderstood on our approach to doing this because
Speaker 1: we never did the 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 2: 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 2: So the girl that wrote it, her name is Daisy
Speaker 2: 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: gonna guess about ninety nine percent of our audience listening
Speaker 1: right now is Jen App Yeah, I think so, born
Speaker 1: between sixty five and nineteen eighty. The cultural impact that
Speaker 1: she points out that gen X shaped nineteen nineties culture
Speaker 1: with the music, the films, and the literature.
Speaker 2: That came out in nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1: The style and the attitude of Gen X's the fashion,
Speaker 1: she says, a carefree, slacker vibe, contrast with modern trends
Speaker 1: like skincare obsession. Because in the eighties and the eighties
Speaker 1: and the nineties, gen X we were like just doing
Speaker 1: what we wanted, right, It was we weren't following Were
Speaker 1: we following trends?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean I think we were a little bit. It
Speaker 3: kind of depends on different what age you were. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but they were cool trends compared to some of the
Speaker 3: weird stuff that is trendy these days. You know, when
Speaker 3: you get the trends from TikTok and social media, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. Yeah, it's a different kind of
Speaker 3: 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 icon of Gen X, and jen K put out
Speaker 1: a lot of icons. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Eddie Murphy,
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise, Debbie Harry. It goes on and on, John Hughes, Wow,
Speaker 1: Robert Dowdy Junior, John, Johnny Depp, I mean, Axel Rose.
Speaker 1: It goes on and on of the quote unquote icons
Speaker 1: that come from from Generation X.
Speaker 2: But I always thought, go ahead, Jim, I'm sorry, No.
Speaker 4: I just say one of the I think, and I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna say one is 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.
Speaker 2: Meaning we didn't have the Internet.
Speaker 4: Our kids grew up fully digital. Yeah, we grew up
Speaker 4: on analogy. We're the last generation to be analog, where
Speaker 4: you go out and play until the sun goes down.
Speaker 3: And you didn't always know what your other friends were doing,
Speaker 3: what you were getting let out of exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't matter.
Speaker 3: Right, you didn't care because you were playing with the
Speaker 3: people who were right in front of you. Our daughter,
Speaker 3: they all track each other. Let me give you know
Speaker 3: where everyone is at every moment.
Speaker 2: I'll 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 2: Yeah. That's different world. Yeah right, wow, I was. My
Speaker 2: 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 2: Would yes, we all ended up there. Oh we can
Speaker 2: build stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were fairal we were just Jimmie, you're you're right.
Speaker 1: We experienced the world way differently than the millennials.
Speaker 2: The gen Z's did you had.
Speaker 4: You had to entertain yourself right every single day.
Speaker 3: I don't think that our bodies are built to wake
Speaker 3: up and instantly know all of the horrible, terrible things
Speaker 3: that are going on around the world, all of the
Speaker 3: bad things that happened in your city while you were asleep.
Speaker 3: All that does is just produce so much more anxiety,
Speaker 3: and then it makes parents parent differently than when our
Speaker 3: parents would be like, do not come back in this
Speaker 3: house until it start 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,
Speaker 4: You had no idea.
Speaker 3: You had no clue about your day, right, so your
Speaker 3: 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 2: Yeah, and I don't think we're supposed to know. You
Speaker 2: know what I mean by that.
Speaker 3: Rains are meant to take on all of that stress
Speaker 3: 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, which was the Walsh Yes yep,
Speaker 1: and he said you can literally go back to win.
Speaker 1: That movie aired on network television as the day that
Speaker 1: the Helicopter Parent was born, and kids stopped playing outside
Speaker 1: because you were afraid of that unsuper afraid that they
Speaker 1: were gonna be kidnapped, which I mean, that's a fear.
Speaker 2: Of course, every the odd odds are.
Speaker 3: Also, though, don't you remember when you were sent outside
Speaker 3: and you couldn't come back in like you're you'd be
Speaker 3: out doing stuff, not getting in trouble. You had some
Speaker 3: friend who'd be like, let's go do this that you
Speaker 3: knew you weren't supposed to do, and you had to
Speaker 3: rely on yourself to go over in your brain, what
Speaker 3: would happen if my mom finds out? What are my consequences?
Speaker 2: Am I willing to? Like you had to make the decision.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now kids aren't allowed to play outside by themselves,
Speaker 3: so the bad kid doesn't have a chance to put
Speaker 3: you in a position to have to decide am I
Speaker 3: going to be good?
Speaker 2: Am I going to There's no Chris McCormick anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no kids to get you in trouble because
Speaker 3: your parents are right there and tracking you at 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 2: Oh oh yeah, bazillion times. Yeah, so many times. Yeah,
Speaker 2: 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.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, it's amazing we're alive. Yeah, I mean, anyone
Speaker 1: can 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
Speaker 4: when she was twenty. I would go, I would say
Speaker 4: to my daughter, I go, my parents didn't know where
Speaker 4: I was. At your age, we might have gone a
Speaker 4: month or more without talking, like while I was in
Speaker 4: school and just off doing things.
Speaker 2: They like where I was. Hey, dude.
Speaker 1: They had to on television, had to put up a
Speaker 1: message at ten o'clock every night asking parents if they
Speaker 1: knew where their children were. Literally they literally, it's ten o'clock,
Speaker 1: do you know where your children are? That's how out
Speaker 1: of touch they were. To be remind Yeah, that had
Speaker 1: to be reminded to see if your kids were at
Speaker 1: home ten o'clock. Remarkable, But I will I'll say gen
Speaker 1: X got it right, I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely we're fortunate, 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 until a die. But then we
Speaker 4: started going, wait a minute, why.
Speaker 2: Do I want to work for the man? I don't
Speaker 2: want to work for the man.
Speaker 4: And then grunge music came along and it was a
Speaker 4: big f you to everything.
Speaker 2: It was just do you.
Speaker 1: Remember, like compared to not everyone's billy, I use all
Speaker 1: these like that like Local Lost and Company Poppy. They
Speaker 1: just built up and I believe sold for a bazillion
Speaker 1: dollars to esoda.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a soda that has a probiotic in it,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: And they built it up and they sold it.
Speaker 1: That's everyone's goal now when they build a business, to
Speaker 1: build it up and sell it to the big guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We called you a sellout if you did that, right right.
Speaker 1: We were like, what you're gonna sell out to the man?
Speaker 2: Done this work and build it up, and now you're
Speaker 2: gonna get rid of it. Well, whole point now is
Speaker 2: the money. Right.
Speaker 1: Remember how mad we got when when certain songs got
Speaker 1: used by Pepsi or somebody two song and Pepsi?
Speaker 2: What sell out?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh it was Apple. That's what it was with you too.
Speaker 4: It was like that's when they saw My daughter was
Speaker 4: so mad about that that automatically put it on her device.
Speaker 2: Oh people are still mad?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, definitely right anyway, gen X, in our opinion,
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