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4 - Blaming Boomers for your problems, and Procrastination · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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okay welcome everybody we are now on episode four i'm back after uh well taking more time away as i
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how you handled it but no seriously um go ahead and hear us on the stretch goose podcast again i'm
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there kind of like a part-time co-host and uh but my brother has a lot of great points great show
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definitely check that out and his reach is pretty big right now so if you haven't heard it don't
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know what rock you're hiding under. We're always going to go with that though. Seven years or so,
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you said last few years, you know, is when you took it serious, but to be quite honest,
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there's a theme here, which is dig your heels in and put the work in and things will come right.
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And we were having a conversation earlier about a few things, especially the seems to be the
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dislike or hatred for the boomer generation, or it seems like anybody who is like, well,
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let's just say who looks old and we're going to get into that in a bit. But before we go there,
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this is a little related in terms of how people are feeling these days.
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Anyway, check yourself because I've been finding and I looked up, actually did a lot of research
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and looking up on this because I was wondering. I heard one day, I forgot what I was listening to,
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that procrastination is actually a sign that you may be depressed.
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and that was an interesting thing and i thought i'd bring that up and share that because
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if you are procrastinating for example i'm going to go to the marion webster um good old you know
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hey this is what procrastination means so let's go the dictionary it's basically to put off
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intentionally and habitually so why would we intentionally put something off and even make
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a habit of putting something off and according to psychology today and other psychosic um
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uh papers and whatnot that have to do with psychology it's been cited many times that
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for example um this is there's a lot of points here let's go to the point number three says
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when people are depressed it can be hard for them to plan out a sequence of behavior for instance
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if you need grocery shop meal prep to clutter your house or sort out debt you may feel intimidated
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about where to start. Planning out multiple step tasks can feel overwhelming when your mind is
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foggy due to depression. So that's an interesting statement there because it really leads to,
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well, if you're putting those things off and you can't plan or put things together, you're basically
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by definition procrastinating. You don't want to handle it and you don't want to deal with things
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head on. And so you procrastinate. And what I found with procrastination, because I'm guilty
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of this as well as you'll tend to get in a state of, I don't feel like it. I'll put it off. I can
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do it tomorrow or even get to the point where you just don't want to do anything at all. You'll talk
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yourself out of a major task, you know, that needs to get done, um, which could lead all the way to
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how it affects your work and your, and, and, and your relationships. So ask yourself if you're
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procrastinating why what's the reason behind it i mean we're all gonna avoid things here and there
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i could procrastinate on digging freaking forms out to pour concrete because who wants to do that
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in 110 degree to weather for example nobody wants to exactly but i don't think that's where this is
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talking about this is talking about every day you have an excuse as to why i don't want to do this
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or that for example you don't want to go to work nobody wants to go but you don't want to achieve
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a task at work and then all of a sudden you don't want to achieve another task and then you don't
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want to clean your house and i mean it could just bleed into other um areas of your life so be very
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careful if you find yourself constantly procrastinating maybe it's time to evaluate the
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reason why you are doing so uh do you not feel any value in yourself do you feel like
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maybe no matter what you do it doesn't make a difference these are signs of depression and
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maybe you need to talk to somebody about this well a qualified individual anyway because yeah
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don't don't talk to us yeah there's a lot of armchair psychologists such as myself yeah we
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we are not we we did not go to the school but um it's also about for example here's another point
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um procrastination can also be due to or lead to anxiety for example
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and if you're constantly anxious and putting things off what i'm getting at it it does
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have a it's very eerily um apparent that procrastination depression are linked and if
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you're feeling down but you also find yourself constantly putting things off you may want to go
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ahead and talk to somebody and see if you can get your shit sorted out because depression is a
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downward downward spiral that you're just not going to get yourself out of um it's like when
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you push the snowball downhill start small and then by the time it gets to the end you got this
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giant boulder sized snowball that's just going to basically bury everything and that's not where
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you want to be and so that's what we have to say about that and kind of related here we go with our
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next topic we wanted to talk about the hate for boomers do people hate boomers and why why why is
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there is such a disdain with the younger generations to hate those not just from the
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boomer generation but those who apparently just look like they're old in general even people like
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myself in my 40s all of a sudden i'm considered a boomer well you're it's it's our parents right
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yeah technically so basically um we'll just touch on what what the generations are for example
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um i was going to go on the younger i didn't even look up boomers so basically
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the boomers are before gen x so boomers are born between what was it early 40s to 1964 correct i
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think it's the late 40s to 60s yeah yeah and then a gen xer is technically the years of 1965 to 1980
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so if you're born within that time you're a gen xer millennials are basically 1981 to 1996
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and gen z were born somewhere in the 90s mid 90s to the 2010s or so so we're gen xers
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we are absolutely gen extras we're the people that are kind of like love and hate at the same time
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but i like being a gen x because here's the deal with gen x we got to see everything the development
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of technology rapidly advance i'm talking internet phones i you know you name it that's
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computers video games and we could reach back enough to remember how to dial a phone you know
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like the rotodile one to put your finger in there and you fucking you know the circle goes around
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yeah yep call collect anybody so we got a little bit of that transitional technological advancement
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which to me is great because you get to appreciate what is going on in technology
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and maybe we're getting to the point where it's advancing so fast that even we can't keep up with
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it but at least we have a great understanding so i don't think there's ever going to be a generation
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like ours for some time it's going to happen because there's going to be another great
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advancement but right now as ai right so we're we're also going to swing in on that as a we're
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We're experiencing that as well.
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Yeah.
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But let's get down to,
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so why millennials and Gen Z in particular?
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Why do they hate our guts?
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Well, not necessarily just hate Gen X,
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but they really have a problem with the baby boomers.
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And the baby boomers were born post-World War.
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They were born right after World War II.
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Two, yeah.
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Post-World War II.
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Yeah.
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And they always have so much to say about them,
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and they have so much hatred toward them.
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And, you know, there's an old saying, always respect your elders.
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I do to a degree.
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I think age should be respected.
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But I also believe that respecting the person goes both ways regardless of age.
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You know, you're going to get what you put out.
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So we've got a little video.
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We've got a few videos here, which kind of really, well, it's basically the pulse of what's going on here.
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The inspiration is so out of touch with what the going rate for everything.
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I did. I'm gonna go ahead and start that over.
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It's so out of touch with what the going rate for everything.
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I visited my parents for the first time in about three years over the holidays and they sat me down really seriously and told me that my grandmother had set aside some money for me and it was supposed to be for, you know, a big moment in my life, like when I got married or bought a house.
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They said that when she passed away, she had kind of told them specifically that she wanted the money to go towards like a significant moment in my life to be kind of like a help to me.
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Now, I got married over the pandemic, and as most people my age know, I'm not going to be buying a house anytime soon, even with my partner.
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So they were kind of, but they were kind of debating, like, as they were sitting down whether or not they should give me the money or if they should wait because it was supposed to be for, like, something important.
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Now, I'm sitting here like, okay, how much money are we talking about?
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Because if it's a significant amount of money, then maybe I can plan for something in the future, plan for a big step like this.
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So I was like how much money are we talking about And guess how much money they were talking about after sitting there like debating in front of me whether or not to give it to me whether or not it was going to help with my eventual purchase of a house guess how much money they were talking about my plane
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ticket to visit them cost a thousand dollars it cost me $300 to ship the Christmas gifts they got
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me back to my house and they were debating over giving me $1,500 because it might help me buy a
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is so out of touch okay yeah we'll edit that other stuff out i'm sure no no that was fine
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um it's what it is so that was from andy astra from tiktok um and uh this lady has about 1.5
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million followers i believe the 1.5 million people liked that piece of shit why don't tiktok
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regardless 40 000 bookmarked that fucker and 28 000 commented yeah almost almost 29 000 almost
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so most of them largely agreeing with her which is sad um well what's sad is not the fact that
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okay i can understand the amount but to say that boomers are out of touch is ridiculous because
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we really listen to this video. I think this video represents how out of touch the younger
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generation is with what's really going on and how they really don't appreciate anything. Sure,
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1500 isn't really a lot these days, but you're talking about your grandmother. Okay, baby boomers
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are your grandparents now. Most grandparents got to the point where not everyone got the pension,
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by the way, like they think. They think everyone in the boomer age worked a union job, got a
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fucking pension for life. No, not everybody fell into that. Not everybody got that. Not everybody
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made investments like they think they did. And then when they get older, their costs are fixed.
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For example, a lot of them talk about how they bought houses for cheap. Well, what they don't
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understand with housing and buying housing and property is that, yeah, they may have bought it
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for cheap. And they based their budget around their expenses at the time. They paid their house
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off. But guess what happened? Their property taxes went up as they were appreciated. So today,
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that old grandmother or grandfather who paid their house off now has to still deal with a $2,000 to
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$3,000 monthly payment because of property taxes. So they're still having to pay out of their pocket.
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and they're doing it on a fixed income because maybe their 401k ran out maybe they're just living
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on what social security which is not very much money i think it maxes out at what 22 2400 a month
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something like that yeah so depending on how much service you gave you so if they had a three
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thousand dollar tax bill a month let's just say two thousand and they're only getting 2400 they
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have $400 left and then they still have to pay their, you know, their utilities and whatnot.
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They may be on Medicare. So they're technically, you know, most of the insurance is covered in
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terms of health, but if they don't have that for whatever reason, they have to pay that out of
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pocket. Now, young generation, have you, have you even stopped to look at how much healthcare is
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these days? It's as much as a house payment as you get older. Now you're paying 1500 to $2,400
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a month for healthcare. So let's say, let's say property tax now for them went up to 1500 a month.
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They're now paying 1500 a month in health insurance. They got a $3,000 a month bill on a
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fixed income that they're probably only getting 2400, maybe, maybe 3000 total, all their money's
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gone. And this lady, this young girl is complaining and basically putting her grandmother down for
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saving as much as she could to give her $1,500,
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which to the grandmother, I'm sure, was probably a lot of money because how much
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was she able to put away every month? $10? $20? $30?
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She was thinking of her. It depends, yeah.
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What's more egregious about this shit,
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about these fucking yodels, is they don't...
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You work to support the elderly.
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and those elderly people work to support those elderly.
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In most other cultures, correct?
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Usually.
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Yeah.
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And in America, we try to do that through Social Security,
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Medicaid, and all that,
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hoping that the young people are working.
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But now the young people don't want to even fucking do that.
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So now we're at this part of where all this stuff
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is running out of money.
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They keep saying 10, 15 years.
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We'll see.
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That's why I hope we privatize it to where those payments can gain interest or whatever
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so that we can somewhat keep it going.
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But the youth don't want to do that shit either because it's too taxing on their fucking soul
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or whatever.
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Well, obviously, I mean, they're like, well, we're at...
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Okay, since I'm closer to the boomer, you know, in terms of the birth years and shit...
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We're the generation after.
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Right.
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and I'm the one that is
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going to defend the boomer here
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it's like we're not at a
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and I'm a part of it so we're not out of touch
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with how much shit costs
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we see it every day when we're in the grocery store
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we see it every day when we put gas
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we see it when we go to the fucking car lot
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and we have to buy something
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none of us are oblivious
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to how much shit costs
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and that's the bulk of what she's saying
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and that's not even remotely true
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we know
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I understand what she's saying and you're correct
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I just want to point out how
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their
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generation, I don't know what she looks like,
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a what, Gen Z-er, maybe?
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She's probably in the millennial or the Z.
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Or the tail end of the millennial, right?
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She's saying boomers
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are out of touch because a
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grandmother scrounged
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$1,500 together
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to give her.
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So a boomer's out of touch
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and she felt offended by
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the fact that a grandmother was even trying
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to give her $1,500.
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But that's because she's fucking retarded.
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Okay.
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So why is there the hatred for the older generation?
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Why are you expecting that your grandmother should have been able to save up 10, 20, $50,000?
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And why would you expect that that is the amount you would have gotten?
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So I think I'm a little appalled at how that person is acting because you're correct.
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Look, boomers are still alive.
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their heyday is what it was but they lived through the recession they're living through
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the economic times now they're on fixed income so how do you think they're out of touch when
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like you just said they're dealing with exactly what they are they're staring at the same shit
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and yeah the house back then might have been forty thousand dollars might have been 30 yeah
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because a lot of them were 35 40 maybe 70 000 was high back then correct maybe 100 grand is is your
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you're going for broke here,
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but maybe in the eighties or so.
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Yeah.
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But that doesn't mean that they were running tight,
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tight on money.
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It doesn't mean that they were just,
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you know,
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it just felt,
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you know,
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there were buckets of cash running around.
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Yeah.
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None of them were alive to understand the economic hardships of the sixties,
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the seventies,
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especially the seventies.
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When you go Jimmy Carter,
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that's fucking bullshit.
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True.
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You know,
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the downturn in the early eighties until Reagan,
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Reaganomics or whatever.
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They don't,
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they weren't around for that.
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They don't understand the hardship that they went through to save that money to build those,
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these fuckers are calling them empires.
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They didn't go through it.
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No.
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But they're living through the same exact situations that these millennials and genes years have got through.
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And how are these retards handling it?
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And yet, the story here is an old grandmother was still able to save something to give this person who,
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I'm sure the grandmother was on a very fixed income.
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If I was her dad, I would have said, fuck you then, go away.
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I would have took the money and put it back in the pocket.
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So boomers are out of touch.
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It sounds like these younger generations are out of touch
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with society and the world in general.
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So here's another one here.
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I forgot what this person was talking about,
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but we bookmarked it because, again,
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this is just the pulse of how things are with the younger generation.
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I think this one is a Gen Zer, actually.
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Yeah, she's a Gen Zer.
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She looks and actually says she is.
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So let's hear what this person has to say about boomers
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or basically just people who are older than them now, right?
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Why do boomers hate young people so much?
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Because their entire identity is wrapped up in their productivity.
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They only see their personal value as being tied to the hard work, right?
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Because it matters.
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They didn't have to work as hard to get things as we do.
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They see that as an attack on who they are as a person
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because they don't have any identity outside of how hard they worked.
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also they just don't have a frame of reference for it because when they were kids you had to like
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actively mess up in order to not be basically successful like as long as you had a full-time
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job working somewhere you would be able to buy a house and your measure of success was how nice of
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a house you had it was just assumed that you would be able to buy a house how does she fucking know
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that like us you don't have houses they assume that it's because we've made mistakes and we're
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just slacking and we're not trying hard enough because they have no frame of reference for an
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america where you can work 80 hours a week and still not have enough money to pay rent like they
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cannot conceive of that because it just didn't exist when they were kids also the heavy metal
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poisoning like they were exposed to a lot of heavy metals i need some data on that gas and like lead
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was just i'm just gonna stop this idiot yeah i i need some on number three the poisoning i need
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some data that the boomers were all poisoned exactly so this this person luke rants loke
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underscore rants loc so this one had about a hundred thousand likes um all right so gen z
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i will describe this person i don't care if you want to cancel it but basically half shave head
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it's uh blue on the other side yeah some teal there um doesn't mean this person's an idiot
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because I'm not trying to say they are,
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but they basically just came out as an idiot by speaking.
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This is a very assumptive rant.
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Number one, she's too young to even know what a boomer went through
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because she wasn't even alive to even judge a boomer
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or anyone from that generation and how they got where they were.
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I don't care what generation you're in.
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Anyone who built an empire or business had to put the work in
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and had to sacrifice to do so.
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It doesn't matter what time it was.
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It's harder in some eras than others, right?
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Right.
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But it just doesn't happen.
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This person's assuming that if you just decide one day,
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I'm going to open a law firm,
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that it's just going to suddenly be successful.
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Yeah.
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That's her assumption, right?
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Basically.
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That was her assumption when she was saying
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you have to actively mess up back then.
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So she's saying that they have no frame of reference,
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yet this person themselves has no frame of reference
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because they weren't even alive.
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Gen Zers were born in the mid-90s.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
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How is a Gen Zer going to judge what boomers went through
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when you weren't even fucking alive?
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Let's just be real.
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Labor, if that's their identity, that's a good one.
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Go for it.
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I was going to bring that up.
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That's a good fucking identity to have.
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It's better than having half a shaven head and a teal fucking hairdo.
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And sitting there pissing and moaning in your break room about how hard life is.
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Not trying to be too insulting, but the reality is, I mean, I hear you, right?
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Labor's their identity.
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Yeah, it is their identity, and God bless them.
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And that's why they're out of touch, because labor is their identity?
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No, is it labor are their identity, or the fruits of their labor are their identity?
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How about it?
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Basically, if you put the work in, you achieve something and build something, and that is
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their identity.
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Not the fact that just that they worked.
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The problem is with the Gen Zers most, and I can speak to this because guess what? I'm alive in
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your time and I see it and experience it, is that they want to basically just suddenly be famous
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or rich just for existing. And yes, they want to apply for a job and automatically make 200
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and something thousand a year. And if they're not offered that, they're going to turn down
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every other offer before that.
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You know another thing I hate is in some of these videos that they say they deserve the money What the fuck are you talking about Let me say something She can say that I out of touch by saying that but I have a frame of reference I an employer I tried to hire people I offered salaries
26:10
They still won't take it.
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No matter what it is.
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So I'm living in your
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time, so I have a frame of reference.
26:19
So do you.
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As far as labor is their
26:23
identity, no, the labor wasn't the identity.
26:24
It was what came out of the labor, what they put
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into it what they built is the identity i know exactly what that means so do you right this lady's
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talking in the break room um she doesn't have anything yet except for her tiktok which she's
26:40
building so her identity is what the fruits of her labor right same shit idiot yeah you're trying
26:46
to build your tiktok so you could be famous and make money off sponsorships so your identity is
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based on what your work i.e labor so what the fuck you talking about and then the heavy metal
26:56
poisoning listen she's just insulting people at that point she's calling everyone dumb that's all
27:04
she's brought yeah their iqs dropped with the lead yeah i get it so we went we went a little hard on
27:09
that but the reality is i'm not just trying to be reaction we're not just trying to have reactions
27:13
to videos what we're trying to do is explain look these younger generations hate boomers for whatever
27:19
reason and a boomer is now being defined as anyone who basically is older than them look if they're
27:24
born 90s of 2010s and we're born in the 70s and early 80s we're in that class we're the old people
27:30
now yeah so now they're calling us boomers they say that people like me and before me are out of
27:36
touch but they're just sounds like everyone is just whining because they're jealous that they
27:44
didn't end up with what their grandparent may have worked for and ended up with but that's
27:50
just sheer laziness though we can say it's laziness but it goes back to what we asked earlier
27:56
is sorry who is really out of touch though they are by a fucking mile it's like when she makes
28:03
that stupid reference about working 80 hours a week and can't pay her rent that is a you problem
28:08
that's not a boomer problem no and let me let me tell you something if you're a business owner
28:12
i'm working more than 80 hours a week but i mean the insinuation is is i'm working two full-time
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jobs i can't pay my bills that's a you problem i get it you got to figure out what what to cut
28:23
and what to keep and i mean that's kind of the reference in one of my episodes about the you
28:29
know everybody wants the same gold toilet it just doesn't work it is a you problem but i'm going to
28:33
play the advocate for um this gen z-er because in terms of what you just said because there is a
28:38
there is a thing going on where everybody has a degree mostly you can't even get out of college
28:43
and get a, I mean, you can't even get a job
28:46
without coming out of college with a degree.
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You can go to college and come out,
28:49
but you have to have that degree to even be considered.
28:52
But now the playing field is pretty much even.
28:57
So how are you standing out to get a job
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if everyone has a degree?
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Guess what?
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You're going to have to put the work in
29:04
to make yourself look like someone that they need to hire.
29:08
No one's hiring that.
29:09
Based on your skills and ability.
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I'm sorry, no one's hiring that fucking hairdo.
29:13
I'm sorry.
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I mean, she's going to have to change who she is
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and have some hard choices.
29:20
Well, this person is basically trying to build a social media career.
29:24
Yeah.
29:24
Everybody's trying to build a social media career.
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Right.
29:27
Nobody wants to be a plumber.
29:29
Nobody wants to fucking build houses anymore.
29:31
So the work of the previous generations, which were hands-on jobs,
29:36
is basically jobs that these Gen Zers don't want to take.
29:40
Yeah, because they're hard.
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and millennials did not want to take.
29:43
Now, I know I'm generalizing.
29:44
That may not be every single person from that generation,
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but at the same time,
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the Gen Zers and the millennials
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are being very generalizing as well
29:54
when it comes to people from our generation
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and from the boomer generation.
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You know, you're right.
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Their situation is a you problem.
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Yeah, it's choices.
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I'm sorry it's fucking hard.
30:04
Listen, we're all going through it.
30:06
We're live at the same time you were.
30:07
You went through the pandemic?
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We went through the pandemic.
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Yeah.
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The Great Recession?
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You're barely old enough to even fucking know what it was.
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You're barely being bored.
30:14
Guess what?
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We went through it.
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And unlike most of this generation that was afraid of getting sick,
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I didn't take a day off.
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I went to work.
30:25
You're right.
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I was around everybody, coughing, sneezing, whatever.
30:29
A lot of medical people were too.
30:31
Because we didn't have the option.
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No, we were considered essential in our fields.
30:37
So I guess it's a you problem.
30:40
I'm sorry.
30:40
I don't want to...
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It reminds me of...
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I don't know if we've got enough time on your show for this,
30:48
but it reminds me of...
30:49
We have as much time as you want.
30:51
You're the guest.
30:51
Oh, shit.
30:52
I never had this before.
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It just reminds me of watching that Obama's working Netflix shit.
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Oh, yeah.
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That docuseries that came out?
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Yeah, he's highlighting different jobs.
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Basically, people who work regular or average jobs, I guess.
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yeah and most of them are food service whatever anyway this one girl in on that show was it was a
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dentist person right she blows out her knee in some kind of sport and suddenly it's too painful
31:26
to sit in the chair so she quits that job we're talking about a six-figure job her next was a
31:32
dental assistant yeah got it and her choice this is all i'm saying about choices and she's from this
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generation her choice was makeup she loved doing makeup she wanted to be a social media makeupy
31:44
person and and to support that she decided to sit in a car with a bended knee for 12 hours or more
31:52
as an uber driver and a delivery driver for food it's kind of like what's my thing when i watch it
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like what you're a fucking moron okay your knee herded there for six figures you could have used
32:05
that money to support your shit right so you rather take the knee pain and work for what
32:10
generation was this lady from uh she's the millennial it was a millennial so very funny
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they cry how hard it is and a lot of people in these generations are about well i don't feel
32:22
good in the job i'm not getting rewarded from it but then you complain when things are hard
32:26
financially listen life is fucking hard yeah our society unfortunately even before my generation
32:33
and before the boomer generation was built on pay your fucking way if you want a loaf of bread
32:39
you got to pay for it yeah if you need the money to pay for it how are you to do it you exchange
32:44
your services or goods for money services being the labor you offer or the goods you produce as
32:50
a business if you can't do either you can't buy the bread it's just it's that simple and when you
32:58
make a decision because i'm glad you brought that was actually a good story because millennials and
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gen zers more gen zers are all about how they feel about the job what they're getting out of it
33:09
and they complain that they're not making the money they want and the career that they chose
33:13
because i feel good about making beads beaded necklaces these are great i'm making by hand
33:18
right but goddamn i i am owed a million dollars a year in income why am i not making a million
33:23
dollars a year it's because the boomers fucked it up for me no it's because he chose to be
33:26
fucking beading necklaces that's why it's just mind-boggling it's because she wants to have this
33:33
makeup career but she she's bitching about the funding and i'm just thinking in my head the whole
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time i watch this episode let's put a fucking knee brace on and go sit in the dental chair this this
33:42
goes back to the um the question that i had and you had when we were talking earlier before we
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started the show was um what's why the hate for the boomers number one why the hate for the older
33:54
generations and is is there hatred or or or um uh what's what's the other word for that not no
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let's call it hatred it sounds like they'll hate is it justified so so they're complaining that we
34:08
didn't get the financial opportunity oh it was easy to buy a house back then oh you didn't have
34:12
to pay pay your way as much well we already debunked that because boomers and our generation
34:17
are living through the same shit that these people did these people have no frame of reference because
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they weren't even born back then to even see what the boomers went through neither were we
34:24
to be honest yeah i mean so then they make decisions based on their feelings how rewarded
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they feel like like this example a lady has a knee that hurts gives up a six-figure down job
34:38
because she couldn't sit well guess what if you're sitting a chair you can move your knee around
34:41
but she supported herself to be a makeup artist right yeah cosmetologist whatever the fuck you
34:48
however you call them makeup by sitting in a car delivering or doing uber or doordash something
34:55
like that which with a bend a knee where they have to push a pedal which further exaggerates
35:02
the situation that they have with their knee but that was acceptable not making the money and then
35:07
when the career that they chose based on their feelings didn't work out they blame the generations
35:12
before them well i'm the knee still hurts so what's the what why why i understand i guess what
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i'm trying to highlight is the thought process and decision making of the younger generations
35:24
sorry to be general about it but there is a theme now i will argue that millennials
35:31
many of them did work hard they did i think the gen zers are a little bit more out of touch with
35:38
things in the millennials but why are we always attacking generations how and basically how are
35:46
the generations getting to the point now you know millennials gen z years wherever they come well
35:50
i don't know what's going to happen with the next generation but
35:53
why why do they have this thought process that they're owed something
35:56
i what do you think why why is that they feel that they feel that they're entitled because
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I mean, they're blaming everything from boomers
36:11
to Ronald Reagan, as we looked up earlier,
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to the fucking stock market, Wall Street.
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I mean, guess what?
36:20
I was fucked by Wall Street, too.
36:22
Many people in my generation, their 401ks went to shit.
36:25
Yeah, everybody lost their shirt in that run.
36:27
What you're saying is why do they feel entitled?
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I think it just has to do with...
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I mean, I'm probably going to be off base here.
36:37
It's an opinion, though.
36:38
I think it has to do with
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their parents
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and I know when I had you on my show
36:47
a couple times we talked about this and I keep going back
36:49
to this but that's what I think it is
36:50
I think it is the parents
36:52
their upbringing, the way they're bringing them up
36:55
where they're
36:57
coddling them, they're handing them everything
36:59
they're telling them that
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oh I got that for you
37:02
can I have 50 bucks, sure
37:04
and then they go to get a job
37:06
and they realize they have to do shit
37:09
and then all of a sudden they start
37:11
blaming the mom and the dad
37:13
for not teaching them the right way
37:14
then they blame the grandparents for not leaving them anything
37:17
because they
37:18
because those parents
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which were the children
37:22
of the generation
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whatever the generation would be
37:26
I don't know if it's
37:27
our generation
37:29
so we were brought up
37:32
with the heavy hand
37:35
a little bit of the spanking, a lot of the cursing, taught hard lessons.
37:41
And then we don't want to teach that to them because we don't want them to experience the
37:44
pain and the suffering. So maybe, I mean, you just said it, maybe it is the Gen X,
37:50
our fault, right? Our generation's fault because we went through the, like you said, the discipline.
37:58
Yeah. And honestly, we weren't born in the best, you know, economically great eras either. I mean,
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Sure, the 80s had its time, but we're too young to really experience the 80s from an adult standpoint.
38:10
And then by the time the 90s hit, there was some stuff.
38:12
And then, you know, the housing markets in the 2000s and the crash.
38:18
Maybe it is our fault for wanting to not let them go through that.
38:23
We wanted to, you know, maybe our generation just wanted to give our kids the abundance and the leg up.
38:27
And here you go.
38:28
But through all of that emotional support and all the coddling, like you said, we forgot the one very important thing that all human beings need to succeed.
38:39
And that is the challenge.
38:41
Figuring shit out for yourself.
38:43
So we gave them the knowledge and the leg up, but we didn't give them the challenge.
38:48
Our generation didn't let them struggle.
38:51
And so here they are now.
38:53
Just expecting things to happen.
38:54
Yeah and now they projecting back against us So is their hatred of boomers justified Well the boomers didn really have anything to do with your gen z and millennials they were your grandparents if they were alive so how their
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grandparents fuck you up you were raised by i guess my generation well i i think they feel like
39:15
fucked over because those grandparents usually i say usually but i don't know the percentages
39:21
would have money well and i got a problem with that left i'm just saying that's that's the
39:27
thought process like they have money so therefore it should be left to me kind of like that 1500
39:33
lady yeah i got a problem with that to to grow up and just automatically assume that you're going to
39:39
inherit what your parents or grandparents work for i mean why and then living your life living
39:46
your life as if you think you could just rely on that and you could just coast because oh i'm going
39:52
get this from my grandparent or my parent that is some bullshit because i'm gonna tell you what man
39:59
if i worked hard to be rich and my kid turned out to be one of these fucking gen zers on tiktok
40:06
talking shit and not do anything with their lives do i want my i guarantee you i'll spend my whole
40:10
fucking fortune and that motherfucker won't get a penny because they chose their life yeah i mean
40:17
they don't even have there's no gratitude coming out of them or not i mean you walk across the
40:22
bridge every day how did it get there well you should show some kind of gratitude right i mean
40:28
and then we're talking this this is perfect because you earlier you you just made a few
40:33
statements about or about how they don't want to work right they feel like it should just and i
40:39
made a few statements about because they feel like well i don't want to work here because i
40:42
got to feel satisfaction out of my job yeah and then the story about the person who gave up their
40:46
six-figure job to continue hurting themselves by the way by putting themselves in a position where
40:50
they're going to continue hurting their knee because they want to be a cosmetologist it didn't
40:54
pan out and then they're pissed at the world and blaming you know the generation before them for
40:58
for the for why they didn't succeed uh you made a life choice it didn't work out get over it move
41:02
on do something better so let's watch this lady another a lot of stuff from tiktok today huh
41:07
hey the place man okay millennial crisis from demi colt saris i can't say her name you enjoy
41:15
that one. But here we go. So why millennials don't want to work anymore? Older generations are so
41:21
confused at why we don't want to work anymore, why we don't necessarily want to work hard or
41:25
prioritize our careers. We know how short life is now. And it didn't have to come from a life
41:31
changing, life altering experience like it did for those before us. You know that older person in
41:36
your life that had someone closer than pass away maybe when they were young and they live life to
41:41
the fullest because of that. Now we have that access to that information. We also had this
41:45
global panini that happened. So we view life way differently than we ever had before. So even for
41:51
a lot of us, if we've got a workplace that is purpose driven and they've got great values and
41:56
they're doing amazing work, we're still like, I want to travel. I want to do other stuff with my
42:00
life. And that's also confusing for us because we're like, oh my God, we've got all this like
42:04
privilege, like the work we're doing is great and all of this kind of stuff. Why am I still depressed?
42:08
Why do I still hate my life?
42:10
Why do I still not want to work?
42:11
And it's because we don't place the same value that was drilled into us before on that.
42:16
And so we shouldn't.
42:17
The access to information has made us smarter.
42:22
Who's going to...
42:22
So you're smarter.
42:24
But who's going to unclog the toilet?
42:25
Based on the information that was drilled into you, but you just also in that same statement said,
42:32
even though you know better, you're choosing not to work.
42:38
Did any of that make any sense?
42:39
I got nothing on that one.
42:41
I got nothing.
42:45
So we're confused why millennials don't want to work because we don't
42:50
understand their struggle in not having job satisfaction, basically.
42:55
Now, is it job satisfaction or is it that most people think that they can be
42:58
a YouTube or TikTok star?
43:01
Was that the boomers fault?
43:05
No.
43:06
You know whose fault that was?
43:08
I'm going to blame it on Bravo, the network.
43:11
Why?
43:12
Fucking Kardashians.
43:13
Fucking reality shit.
43:14
Reality TV.
43:16
In fact, it goes before that.
43:17
It goes to MTV, right?
43:18
What was the first one?
43:19
The Hills?
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I don't know.
43:21
Fuck it.
43:21
It doesn't matter.
43:22
I mean, MTV Cribs is also one.
43:22
Because reality TV glamorizes just waking up, putting makeup on, and drinking wine and champagne all day.
43:30
And not doing any fucking thing to earn a dollar.
43:32
outside of waking up, putting makeup on, dressing up,
43:37
and drinking wine and champagne all day.
43:38
That's all they're doing.
43:40
And cussing each other out and fighting in a bar.
43:42
So was it the boomers' fault?
43:45
Or is it society's fault as a whole?
43:49
And that came out of the era of the millennials.
43:56
You made that shit up.
43:58
You taught yourselves to be that way.
44:00
The boomers didn't.
44:02
My generation didn't.
44:05
Yeah.
44:06
That's.
44:07
Yeah.
44:09
You fucked yourself up.
44:10
And now you have an opinion of the generations before you fucking your life.
44:16
Because you think we financially or economically screwed America up for you.
44:23
I also think monetizing on social media has also screwed the planet.
44:30
Agreed.
44:30
And that came later.
44:31
You should not be getting.
44:32
But that was more, what, Gen Zers, right?
44:34
That was like late 90s.
44:36
Actually, more like early 2000s, right?
44:38
Where that really started becoming a thing.
44:40
But the minute that word got out that, hey, you can make a buck posting dog shit on YouTube.
44:51
People are making money by literally just farting in a fucking microphone.
44:55
Yes.
44:55
Like, seriously.
44:56
and because of that
44:58
all of your millennials
45:01
and your Gen Zers ran over there
45:03
because they were like oh I can make three four thousand
45:05
a month just you know
45:06
saying dumb shit into a camera
45:08
why the fuck do I want to go be a
45:11
construction worker
45:12
or go be a
45:15
scientist somewhere why I can just do this
45:17
and I can get millions of people to stare at it
45:18
I get a couple thousand bucks
45:20
why bother trying to
45:24
do anything hard
45:25
I mean you're I mean the big guy is what Mr. Beast with his 200 million followers you go to his
45:32
earliest videos which got him started that motherfucker is literally screaming at horror
45:39
video games and that's it and all of a sudden boom 200 million followers he's doing all these weird
45:47
videos of you know I'll give you 500 grand if you can stay in a room with a guy all this dumb shit
45:53
and all the millennials and the Gen Zers
45:57
and even some of our Xers
45:58
have given him that platform.
46:02
So it's basically,
46:04
here's the irony of everything.
46:06
What you're saying
46:08
and where we are all getting this info
46:12
as to how the millennials
46:15
and the Gen Zers feel about Gen X
46:18
and the boomer generation,
46:20
we're getting it all from social media.
46:23
where all the millennials and Gen Zers are on social media,
46:27
trying to have a successful social media page in order to try to make money.
46:33
So is it the boomers that fucked your shit up?
46:36
Or is it your skewed perception of how you're going to be successful that fucked you up?
46:41
Because I know some people that are considered millennials or even Gen Zers who went to college,
46:49
became scientists and engineers.
46:53
got a job doing so and are making six figures.
46:58
But the majority are trying to make stupid videos on YouTube,
47:02
trying to be Kardashian fucking two, three, 4.0,
47:07
whatever it is now,
47:08
because they've reinvented themselves.
47:09
I don't know how many times.
47:10
Yeah.
47:10
And they think that they can just talk shit,
47:15
get a laugh and become a millionaire.
47:18
I mean,
47:19
so they screwed their own generation up.
47:22
Was it us?
47:23
no no was it the boomers there was no fucking facebook back then what are you talking about
47:28
we they did not teach you that to be successful you just make a video spend all your time every
47:38
day making videos and putting makeup on in the mirror the majority of the complaints are coming
47:43
from people on social media who are trying to build their social yes media they're all they're
47:48
all grifting off each other.
47:50
That video right there on that screen.
47:52
Make four minutes
47:54
on what name for this fucking
47:56
dog.
47:58
Exactly.
47:59
3.5 million likes.
48:02
There are 3.5 million
48:04
people that sat for four minutes
48:06
to find out the dog's name.
48:07
I think the failure is not
48:09
the generations before you.
48:12
The failure
48:13
may have been our generation that failed you
48:16
because obviously you were not educated.
48:18
correctly the fact that your entertainment from i mean think of like you just said guess the name
48:26
of a fucking dog yes 3.3 million likes or followers i can't you know four four minutes of this and
48:32
then right next to it is somebody cooking fried chicken for three million so is this
48:37
so hate you okay i know we're gonna we're slowly drifting off topic because well we are because
48:47
we're finding more holes
48:49
in their arguments. It is almost hilarious
48:51
at this point. And it's not necessarily the things they're saying,
48:53
it's the actions, right?
48:55
And I feel like maybe we
48:57
did fail the younger
48:59
generations because
49:00
obviously the education level is just
49:03
not there.
49:05
No.
49:07
No. No, it's not.
49:08
When your entertainment and the way you make money is by...
49:12
I don't know. People must be
49:13
stupid if they're feeding into the fact
49:15
that I want to see what this dog's name is.
49:17
I mean, if you're just doing it because you have downtime and you just want to laugh or something,
49:22
great. But people are spending all day looking at stupid videos that are put out by stupid people.
49:29
And maybe they're not so stupid. What do I know? They're making money off of it. Maybe I'm the
49:32
idiot. Maybe I need to make dumb videos. No, there's 3 million idiots that thought that was
49:37
amazing. So the boomers that the millennials and Gen Zers keep blaming for their situation
49:43
are not the cause of your problem the cause of your problem is what your own generations did
49:51
in trying to glamorize a very very highly unachievable measure of success by becoming
50:00
a social media star or a kardashian 4.567 whatever oh that's what the real issue is we didn't do
50:09
anything to you the boomers didn't do anything to you you guys fucked yourselves because you had to
50:14
feel a certain way about what you did for a living guess what not everybody likes fucking mopping up
50:19
shit you know or uh sweeping a floor to school but you know why they did it because they paid
50:25
their bills with it and they got a fucking retirement out of it you know what they did
50:28
on the weekend drank their ass off went fishing went hunting had time went on vacations they
50:34
plan their life. Unfortunately in America and everywhere now, you're going to have to come to
50:40
the realization, you got to work for what you want. And even if you're trying to build your social
50:45
media presence, guess what? You still have to put the fucking what work in to get there. And every
50:53
day you got to wake up and do your recordings and do your production and put it out there because
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you have to keep feeding content or you get lost in, you know, this big, vast hole that we call the
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internet um so you think you're smarter and you think you're doing what you want but you're still
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a slave to the system because you still have to work and you're not even fucking realizing or
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acknowledging it so i i'm on board that's all i'm gonna say i'm on board there's just there's just
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too there's just too many people trying to achieve something that very few people it's a small
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percentage that actually get rich
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off this shit.
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Everybody's so focused on this type of shit
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that we're leaving the other stuff
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behind
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and we're running out.
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There's not enough of the...
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I guess my point is
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to some of this
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is there's not enough people
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turning the wheel of production
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to
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keep the
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elderly cared for
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or your child cared for.
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everybody's so hyper-focused on creating content
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content and 99% of it is dog shit.
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And I'm,
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I'm,
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I just,
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I don't want to,
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I don't want to take over the one on a rant.
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I'll just,
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I just,
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I don't,
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I don't want to like,
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well,
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you're,
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you know,
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you're,
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you're giving your opinion on this thing.
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And,
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um,
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so let's circle back,
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you know,
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I,
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I'm sorry.
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A world of blaze audience.
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I just,
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is,
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is,
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is the,
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the hatred
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or disdain
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for the boomer generation justified?
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No.
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Okay.
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God, no.
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Is the disdain
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or hatred for our generation justified?
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No.
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We did probably
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not raise them correctly by,
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you know, like you said,
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trying to be,
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here's everything.
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I don't want you to live like we did.
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Yeah, I don't want you to suffer like we did.
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We didn't give them the challenge.
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We should have let them
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fucking fall, break their arm, figure it out, get in a fucking fight, see who wins.
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You know, those little things, as they may seem barbaric today and uncalled for in society,
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are kind of what build your character and make you who you are. You know, you need a challenge.
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You need to know where you're at and how you can overcome situations so you can get where you want
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to go in life so gen z i sorry but it all about life choices millennials half of you did pretty good the other half just kind of sucked off the tit of social media and failed and um i sorry but
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this is my opinion i try to be objective as possible but you know just through the three
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videos i know is not a an overall representation of things it's just it's just a small sampling but
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believe me this is not all the all the information we've ever seen or gathered no but we we thought
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these were pretty good videos to go off of and give you an idea what's going on so with that said
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i think we've um i don't know you want to go ahead and end this let's go ahead and walk this thing
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out of here i think we've beaten the horse to death i think we beat the horse and i think it's
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time for us to end the show and we want to thank everybody and um want you all to
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tune in to the next one hear us on the stretch goose podcast and also hear my brother on the
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father son podcast thank you very much see you next time
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Bye.