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EP40 - The Generation Gap · Oh And One More Thing

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Some old friends facing our fears, laughing through the
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chaos and drinking some beers. So here's to the laugh, the
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crumbs and the cheers. All the awkward moments and
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we're still here 'cause in the end, we're just doing our thing.
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It's our crazy life. 01 more thing.
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Hey, I'm Brian and welcome to. Oh, and one more thing.
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Well, hi, Brian. Hi, Rob.
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How are you? Good.
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Thank you for your support. Aw.
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Remember those Bartles and James wine coolers?
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Yeah, I do. Thank you for your support.
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Wine coolers were all the rage back then, weren't they?
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And. They were gross.
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Well, I mean, if you liked that sort of thing, they were just
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kind of fruity. But have you noticed that how
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wine coolers sort of reinvent themselves every every so often?
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There's always like a new version of the same thing we had
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back. Back in the day, yeah.
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Now seltzers are big and I found a new drink I really, really
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like. What is it?
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It's called Surfside. Surfside.
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Oh, I've had Surfside. Right, it's a it's a non
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carbonated seltzer. Yeah, and it's very good.
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And it goes down like water. Yeah, it's like flavored water.
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Right. I like carbless though.
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Well, carbless is good too. Yeah, I like those too.
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There's no more flavor in carbless.
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Yeah, but the surf sides, it's like a lemonade tea.
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And there's like we had a Raspberry lemonade tea and a
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BlackBerry and and and those puppies went down I'd.
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Like to have one right now? Yeah, you know.
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Where they went down fast, what we were at the pool at my mom's
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retirement. Community.
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Oh yeah. Arizona this week.
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The hot sun. The hot sun, yes, it was
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fantastic. Yeah, although I'm a little
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scared. Why?
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I think I saw our future there. Not mine, just yours.
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Oh, definitely yours. So in the big Unity pool, we
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were hanging out and enjoying the sun and soaking up the rays.
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They put together this volleyball game for, you know,
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whoever wanted to come play. Right.
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And did you play? Heck no.
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And it was, it's kind of, it's kind of fun to watch.
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So they put up this big net and they, they put these little,
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the, the pool noodles attach a rope to do your volleyball
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space, right? So you're in and out and then 11
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people per side. OK, that's a lot.
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They were not quite cheek to cheek, but they could definitely
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touch each other. And can't run too fast, right?
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Right. And the rules of the game are
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don't let the ball hit the water.
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That's the only rule. Well, you had to keep the ball
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moving. And, and what I mean by moving
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is you could catch the ball and then kind of bop it in your
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hands a little bit and then throw it up or hit it somewhere
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else. But you didn't have to.
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Like, it's not like, you know, when you play volleyball, you
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have to like, hit the ball. Constantly you set it and you.
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Bunt it and you could catch it. You could catch it.
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That's not really and and. It wasn't like three hits per
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side and you could have like 25 hits per side if you want,
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basically as long as it didn't hit the water.
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That's like that, that balloon game you play with kids.
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Yes, hitting the balloon off to keep it off the floor.
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Yes, Yeah. Is that how life works?
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Start as kids, then you become adults, then you're back to kids
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again. Yeah, you crap your pants in the
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beginning and then you crap your pants at the end.
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I see my future and it scares. Me.
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Oh my goodness. So, hey, Brian.
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Hey, what? What's the biggest?
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Difference between a Gen. Xer and a Gen.
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Xer when they see a no trespassing sign I.
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Don't know what is it. Well, the Gen.
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Xer obviously ignores the sign because they've been fending for
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themselves since 1982 and figure no one is home anyway.
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That's right, you know the Gen. Xer ignores a sign because they
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need a liminal space aesthetic for the latest Photodome.
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It's kind of lame. It's kind of true though.
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But you know, talking about that age thing, have you ever noticed
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how midlife in Minnesota just means you own three kinds of
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coats and still can't figure out which one to wear?
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That's true. I still have a winter coat.
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I mean, we're, we're, we're in the April now.
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I still have winter coat in my closet because it's Minnesota.
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Well, yeah. We can get 3 feet of snow
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tomorrow, right? We're not going to, but we
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could. I did.
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Move my big winter coat though up to the upstairs closet.
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Yeah, because I only wear my North Face smaller coat all
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winter, even sub zero weather. Right, because that.
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Depends on whether it's November cold or February trying to kill
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you cold. Right bro, that's a thing.
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Right. I know it is, yeah.
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So growing up here we knew when it was seriously cold when your
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dad called it character building and refused to turn the heat
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above 62°. Right.
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Why is that a thing? Yeah, I don't know.
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Definitely a different I think. Definite generation issue there.
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I mean, did did heating fuel cost that much more like in the
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60s than it doesn't now? Because.
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I don't know if it cost a lot more.
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I mean, we all. We all grew up in that house.
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But did you? Did your house use fuel?
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Oil. No, no, we actually had natural
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gas. We had fuel oil they had to get
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come and get pumped into the tank in the basement, you know,
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So it's old. Yeah.
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But I don't know what it costs. Yeah.
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And that. Is a little different though,
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because obviously the more you use, the more they got to come
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fill up and right, there's a charge with that.
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There's a charge, right? My issue, and we talked about
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this in an earlier podcast, was we finally got AC like in the
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late 70s, OK, but we hardly ever used it.
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Why? Because it's expensive.
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Because it pulled too much electricity.
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Yeah, so instead I'd sit there and sweat out my sheets in the
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middle of night because it was 90 freaking degrees outside and
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100% humidity. We never had AC, not a window,
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not nothing. I grew up without that.
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Yeah, it was hot. I love my AC so.
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You've heard of that phrase generation gap, right?
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Well, people talk about the generation gap like it's
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something new, but every generation has complained about
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the next generation. Socrates was criticizing young
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people over 2000 years ago for being disrespectful and lazy.
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This isn't a modern problem. That's true, but but the gap
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feels wider now because change seems faster, right?
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Right. I mean, technology alone has
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transformed life in one generation.
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I mean, for example, back in 1995, only about 14% of US
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adults use the Internet. Today it's over 90% and I debate
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that it's only 90%. Right.
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It's got to be, well, you got older adults who don't.
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Use it, you're OK. You're right, that doesn't make
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sense and most Gen. Z can't remember a world without
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smartphones. I know I find that it's that's
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fascinating to me, right? Yeah, I think it's funny that if
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you literally put a Rotary phone in front of them, they'd be
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like, what the hell is this? Right.
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Oh, that's so true. It is.
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A story for you that when my oldest daughter was young and at
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a dance class, A ballet class, and she didn't feel good and
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she's very young. And when my wife went to pick
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her up, she didn't dance the whole time.
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And she asked her why didn't you call me?
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And she looked over at the phone and she didn't know how to use
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it. Oh, my.
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It was a Rotary phone. I mean, she was probably 5 or 6,
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right? Right.
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And she didn't know how to use it, so she couldn't call.
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Did she even know the phone number?
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She knew the phone number, but she couldn't use the phone.
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Yeah. That is the one thing we taught
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our daughters, both very, very young.
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We taught them both our phone numbers.
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So if you remember nothing else. These remember these the 2.
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Ten sets of 10 digits, you must remember right If anything ever
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happened. So they they at least knew our
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numbers. Now they asked me to call them
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and if I don't have my phone with me, I'm like, what's your
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number? And then?
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Yeah, no idea now. Might you?
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I bought their phones and got their numbers assigned to them.
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I don't know the number is right.
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Exactly. No idea.
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No, I I can't tell you my kids numbers either.
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Yeah. No.
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No clue. No.
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Clue. So referencing those stats
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above, you know, the speed of change is definitely part of
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what's happening. When I entered the workforce in
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the 80s, staying at one job for at least a decade was normal.
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Oh yeah. Everybody did that, yeah.
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But you know, pensions were common.
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College tuition was affordable, right?
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In 1985, average annual tuition to a public College in the US
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was about $1300 it. Was never that cheap.
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I know, I couldn't believe it. Right?
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And the private college is only around 6000.
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Oh my God, there's no way that's.
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Times have changed, buddy. Oh my gosh, my, my, my youngest
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daughter is, I'm looking at going to a private college this
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this fall and they're just giving her $11,000 to help
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offset tuition. I know, so why don't you just
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drop tuition all together? I know it's, I don't.
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I don't get it. Yeah, I mean that's.
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A huge difference from now. I mean today average public
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tuition, college tuition is about 13,000 per year, not
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including housing. Right then that's.
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Yeah, that's just the tuition. Yeah, right, right.
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You throw in a housing, you're talking $30,000 easily.
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Right, exactly. Yep.
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Meanwhile, wages haven't kept pace, so adjusted for inflation,
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young workers wages have grown only modestly since the 80s,
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while housing costs have skyrocketed.
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They really have, but doesn't it seem like that?
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At least to me it does. In my older perspective, younger
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generations seemed less loyal to their employers.
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Oh for sure. Job hopping every two years
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would have been seen as risky or irresponsible when I was young.
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Yeah, I've had two main jobs in my life and both have been over
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18 years. I mean, just job hopping.
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Job hopping is not in our DNA, I don't think.
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It just doesn't happen. And I've had a couple jobs where
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they, I lasted nine years in them each.
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Yeah, now it's, it's really short.
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Yeah, I mean, job hopping is often about survival, not
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disloyalty. I mean, studies show that
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millennials and Gen. Z change jobs more frequently,
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partly because the pensions disappeared and layoffs became
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common. According to a labor data study,
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the average worker today stays at a job for about four years,
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compared to 7 to 8 years in the early 80s.
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Oh wow. I also think the social media
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has widened the generation gap. Face to face communication was
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how we used to build trust. Yeah, now nearly 95% of
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teenagers have access to a smartphone, and many spend
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several hours a day online. I can debate that number.
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I think it's 100%. OK, you can debate all you want.
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That's what the interweb says. And I believe everything on
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there. Yeah, but social media also
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reflects historical patterns. So every new medium caused
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panic, like radio in the 1920s. Oh sure, Television in the
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1950s, and for us, a big one, Video games in the 1980s.
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Oh yeah, you remember that? Oh my God, they're gonna warp
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our little minds. Yep.
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Remember the commercial? The fried egg?
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Yes, this is your brain drugs. Drugs.
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I don't correlate directly to video games, but it was played
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at the same same time, yeah. Yeah, and I still play video
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games to this day, and I think I'm normal.
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Are you? Shut up.
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Research shows technology changes how we socialize, not
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whether we do it or not. Right.
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Or maybe the generation gap isn't about values disappearing,
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but values adapting to new conditions.
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Exactly. I mean, younger generations tend
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to prioritize flexibility, mental health, and social
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justice, while older generations emphasize stability and
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tradition. Those differences often come
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from growing up in different historical moments, wars,
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economic booms, recessions and even pandemics.
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When you put it that way, the gap sounds less like a divide
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and more like a misunderstanding shaped by history.
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Yeah, isn't the most misunderstandings like that?
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I think so, yeah. Yeah, and understanding that
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history, the economic shifts, the technological change and
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cultural evolution might be the best way to bridge it.
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Yeah, that's kind of cool. Hey Brian, I was just outside
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trying to enjoy the yard and the mosquitoes are driving me nuts.
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Oh, you got to call Spring Green for that, Rob.
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Spring green? I thought they just did my
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fertilizer and weed control. Oh, they do that and our lawn
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looks amazing because of it, but their mosquito control is a game
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changer. We can actually use our patio.
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You know how bad the state bird gets in Minnesota?
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I'm. Pretty sure that's the loon, but
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point taken. So they do lawns and mosquitoes.
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And total home pest control. My house is completely mouse
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free. They even do liquid aerations
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and lawn insect control. Wow, I'm only using them for
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half of what I could be. You should fix that.
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Oh, and one more thing, Sancha. So you notice how we slid right
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into that topic? We're good like that.
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You are. Anyway, historical data shows
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generation gaps widening in racial diversity, technology
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adoption, political views, and economic outlook, with
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millennials having less wealth but more debt than Boomers and
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Gen. Xers at the same age, and
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younger generations generally more diverse and less religious
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than older ones, creating significant cultural and social
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divides. Surveys indicate a rising public
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perception of a significant generation gap overtime.
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Interesting. Isn't that interesting?
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That's interesting. So yeah, I agree with the money
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was having less wealth but more debt then boomers and Gen.
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Xers at the same age. Do you think that's is that more
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just of a cost of living thing that's gone up so bad and then
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wages haven't kept pace or is it just the type of jobs or is?
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It, I think it's a combination of all of those things, I mean.
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Is it possibly even a work ethic thing?
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Where? Right.
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You know, I'm, I'm not please, my kids that are listening to
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this, I'm not criticizing you whatsoever.
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But when they are younger, their goal is to be like an
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influencer, right? I mean, so I mean, has the
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perception of what a job is, is that maybe changed a little?
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I think that it ebbs and flows all the time like that.
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But yeah, I think things have changed dramatically in costs of
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living and, you know, consumables that we do all the
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time. That sort of thing is all
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different. Yeah, I mean housing.
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For sure has gone through the roof.
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It has, yeah. It's almost impossible to buy a
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house as like a 20 something. Yeah, you can't.
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You can't. How can you afford that?
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Unless you have two people that make 6 figures each, you really
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can't afford it. And.
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It really depends on where you live, because, you know, you're
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in Waconia and a starter home is about $500,000, right?
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You know, that's crazy money. Yeah, and.
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You can go an hour West of here and it's like not say not half
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that, but it's definitely right, definitely.
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Less 3350. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah, yeah. So significant differences
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separate today's generations, most notably in the following
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areas. So demographics, Younger
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generations, so Millennials and Gen.
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Z exhibit far greater racial and ethnic diversity compared to
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older generations, Boomers and silence, who are predominantly
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white. So I don't really understand
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that. What does that mean?
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OK, so older. Generations, especially the
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silence. So that's the 1928 to 1945.
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Yeah. And the baby boomers, which go
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up to 1964, were shaped by US immigration policies that
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heavily favored European immigrants.
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OK. And the Immigration Act of 1924
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severely limited immigration from Asia, Africa and Latin
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America. Oh, so now I'm picking that up
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the same. Yeah.
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So as a result, the US population during the mid 20th
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century was overwhelmingly white.
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OK, so when boomers were born, the US was roughly 85 to 90% as
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compared to 57 to 61% now? Oh wow.
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OK, so that really has changed. Yeah.
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The separation continues with media and technology.
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While older generations still rely heavily on traditional
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media like TV, radio and print, younger generations are heavily
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invested in digital and social media platforms.
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Yeah, it's funny that you mentioned print, because I would
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still, I used to bring my dad every time I'd go see him, I'd
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bring him the paper still, right?
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And he already saw everything on the news.
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He saw the sports scores. He saw all the stories.
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But it's that physical paper in your hand.
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Paper, that's what he. Liked, I think part of it to
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smell. I I loved the smell of a
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newspaper totally. Is.
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And I just think, I think, yeah, like holding something in his
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hand. And he would literally read
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every single story in that paper.
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Really. Every single one.
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Okay, I I skim. I used to skim the.
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Paper though, yeah, we stopped getting it when we up to like $5
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a paper. Yeah, kind of expensive.
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A little much and the and the economics and Millennials face
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unique economic challenges, including greater student debt
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and less wealth compared to where Boomers and Gen.
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X are stood at the same age. Conversely, older generations
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often contend with higher rates of unemployment and lower
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earnings. Oh yeah, that that's terrible.
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Yeah. For religion.
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Younger generations are generally less religious, with a
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large segment identifying as religiously unaffiliated, which
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is a stark contrast to the religious landscape of old
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generations. Why do you why do you think that
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is? I don't know.
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I don't know. Either I really.
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I don't know that, Yeah. I mean, I just, I want to get,
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try to stay away from religion and politics in general because
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you know, right, you're going to always upset somebody.
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I, I've never been huge into religion per SE.
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I grew up Catholic. I married Lutheran at one point.
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I've taken that Eastern religions class which I thought
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was just fascinating to learn all about.
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That because it was different. Probably different, yeah, but
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everything at the end of it, to me, they're all different, but
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they're all the same. Right, right.
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I mean, it's amazingly the same. It's amazingly the same if
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there's such subtle differences between everything.
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So I'm it just, it kind of boggles me a little bit why
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religion has become so, you know, passe all of a sudden,
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right? You know, just weird.
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It's interesting to the contrast between you and me.
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You grew up Catholic? I grew up Protestant.
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Yeah. Never went to church.
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Yeah. And now I'm Catholic and I go to
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church all the time. I grew up Catholic and I never
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go to church, so you're right, that is weird.
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There's a growing awareness with the public's perception of a
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generation gap rose from 74% in 1969 to 79% in 2009, indicating
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increasing acknowledgement of the societal differences.
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Right. These points of data contribute
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directly to what's often described as a generation gap,
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not just differences in age, but in lived experiences shaped by
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race, ethnicity and culture. Yeah, a key demographic shift is
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evident in the United States. Younger generations, namely
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Millennials and Gen. Z, are significantly more
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racially and ethnically diverse compared to older generations
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like Boomers and the Simon generation.
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This increasing multiculturalism is consistently supported by
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demographic data and is a direct result of the differing
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historical environments into which these groups were born.
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I find that to be so interesting.
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Yeah, you know this the the how each generation is unique in
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itself and that how we all look at them so differently because
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of which one you were born in. And you know, it's funny to me.
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So reading all, reading all this material and everything we've
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gone through, we've mentioned the Boomers and the silence, the
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millennials and Gen. Z.
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Not once did we mention Gen. X, right?
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And I don't think that was on purpose, but I think that as a
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as a traditional Gen. Xer, here we sit in the middle,
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everybody's ignoring us. What's that?
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What's that game? Something in the middle?
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I don't know, stuck in the middle?
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Yeah, right. Yeah, Yeah, I mean too, that
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that's your typical Gen. next year.
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We're just, we're just the middle looking up both sides
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going what the hell kind of. Like being a middle child,
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right? Exactly.
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That's kind of what we do. So we have this game at home, my
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Daughters game, it's called Mind the Gap.
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Have you ever played it before? I I don't believe so.
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We we play another game that has to do with music.
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What's that called? It's called.
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Hipster. Oh, that's.
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Right, That's right, That's right.
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Where? OK, where you have a little card
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and you scan it and it plays the song.
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The song, you gotta guess the era that it falls in within your
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timeline. Yeah, which is super, super fun
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because you know more than you think you do, right?
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It's crazy. And it and I think in our age,
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our generation, we were so into music.
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Yeah, that, that all that stuff. I can just pinpoint that music.
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And I love that game. And I'm good until we get to
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about the 20 tens, the 20 fifteens, and then I'm like.
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Oh, then you're guessing. Then I'm kind of guessing like,
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well, it was after 2010. So that has a lot to do with the
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same game. We're talking about gap because
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you play generational questions. You answer generational
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questions about Boomers, Gen. Xers, Gen.
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Z and Millennia. Why have we not played this
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game? That sounds fascinating.
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Well. OK, I'll tell you why as soon as
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we get into it. OK, we're gonna play the game
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now. OK, we're gonna play the game
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and I'm gonna quiz you. I'll be Bob Newbanks and I'll
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quiz you and you can be the contestant.
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OK, only in one condition. What you do your best, Bob
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Eubanks voice the entire. We'll see.
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If so, anyway, the game says. Finally, a trivia game for
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everyone young and young at heart will have to answer
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questions about culture and the events that define each
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generation, Play with mixed teams of all ages and work
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together to get around the board or play against each other to
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determine once and for all which is truly the greatest
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generation. That's what the game says.
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I like it. I like it.
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OK, so I've got questions. For you, OK.
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OK, so here we go. OK, so and all just all trueness
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and clarity. I have not read ahead.
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Nope. And I'm gonna have you close
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your notes. OK, I'm I'm.
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Not looking the notes. The notes are done.
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OK, I'm not looking so this is all off the cuff.
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OK, alright, great. So I'm I'm usually pretty good
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about the boomer and the Gen. X stuff, but I really suck at
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the Millennial and the Gen. Z questions.
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OK, so I I have something to look forward to.
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Yeah, alright. Although my kids are slightly
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younger than you, so maybe I'll have a better shot at the Gen.
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Z's. We'll find out.
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Oh yeah. We'll find out.
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We'll find out. Oh, yeah.
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If I didn't mention it already, this game is strictly about
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Boomers, Gen. X, Millennial and Gen.
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Z. OK, Got it.
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So we don't have the other. The other generation got in
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there. OK, good.
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All right. OK, so here we go.
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All right. And we're gonna ask you just
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Boomer questions to begin with here.
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OK, got it. All right.
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Question number one, this 1950s children's show has a peanut
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gallery and a clown named Clarabel.
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Now I've got multiple choice for you if you want them.
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Or do you think you could just guess them without multiple?
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Choice 1950. I and Clarabelle.
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I don't. OK, I remember.
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Yeah, I. So this is in my head.
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A 1950s show. I don't remember a clown.
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I remember a puppet. Howdy Doody.
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You are correct as Howdy Doody, yes.
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That's probably the only 50s kid show I would remember.
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OK, all right, question #2 what popular building toy was
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invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son to inspire kids to be
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creative? Oh again, I can give you
20:06
multiple. Choice.
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Hang on, I'll thank Frank Lloyd Wright.
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He's that super famous architect who is very like, you're, you're
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the artist guy. Like cubic kind of like it's
20:14
very, it's very shape itch. Yeah.
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Shape symmetrical, symmetrical triangles, that kind of thing.
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OK, that's him. And he did a lot of houses here
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in the Minneapolis area. Yep.
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And what toy did he invent? What toy did his son invent?
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His son invent OK and this is a boomer.
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So this is the 50s I'm gonna yes.
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What are those log looking things?
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Link Lincoln logs right? You're right again.
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Boom. Yeah, 2 for two, can we go?
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Back to our trivia game from earlier.
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And I didn't even give you multiple choice, you complained
20:43
about that. That's true.
20:45
That's true. OK, next what famous singer and
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pianist Blind at age 7 recorded in multiple genres but was best
20:53
known for his songs Hit the Road, Jack and Georgia on My
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Mind well. Blind.
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It's, it's got to be, oh, there's two of them.
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It's not Stevie Wonder, it's the other guy Die.
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He sees me smiling. He goes back and forth and
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saying Ray, Ray, Ray Ray. Ray Charles.
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Thank you. Ray Charles.
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Picture him. Yeah, you could.
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OK, so in 1955 the opening of the magical family friendly
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venue was seen on TV by an estimated 70 million people.
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Oh, that's Disneyland. I just watch a thing on that.
21:27
I knew you'd know. That was a great I'm Disney
21:28
Plus. It's a great behind the scenes
21:30
on the opening of of Disneyland. It's it's fascinating.
21:32
They found a whole bunch of old footage.
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Yeah, that's cool. It's.
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Really cool. So yeah, if you're into that
21:35
kind of thing, you're into documentaries.
21:36
Check it out. All right, last question of the
21:38
boomers. OK, who is famous for his
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phrase? What's up Doc?
21:41
Oh, Bugs Bunny, of course. I grew up on Bugs Bunny, I know.
21:44
I knew you'd get. These.
21:45
Oh my God, yeah. OK, now you're gonna get the
21:47
next set of Gen. X questions.
21:49
OK, OK, here's the first Gen. X.
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Question. So in theory I should get every.
21:53
Single one of them, you should get them all.
21:54
Without any help. Right.
21:55
OK, without having multiple choice.
21:57
OK. What game host joined Jeopardy
21:59
in 1980? Four.
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Well, Alex Trebek, right? See how easy that was?
22:04
Goodness, come. On you have to hear my multiple.
22:08
Choice here, Chuck. Woolery, Alex Trebek or Bob
22:11
Eubanks, they were all game show hosts.
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That is true. The exact same era.
22:16
That is true. That is true.
22:17
That is true. Woolery 2 and 2.
22:21
OK, what 70s and 80s blonde supermodel was known especially
22:26
for her pink bikini poster and swimsuit pictures in Sports
22:29
Illustrated? You're.
22:30
Going to hate me because I had this pulse on the back of my
22:32
door as a kid. Heather Locklear.
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No. No, it's not.
22:35
No, no, no. It's.
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I'm going to give you give me the.
22:39
Multiple choice? No, I did have this.
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Fawcett, Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Teigs or Bo Derek.
22:44
It's Farrah Fawcett. Wrong.
22:46
Not Cheryl Teigs. Then I didn't.
22:49
I had a Heather lock. Their pulse.
22:50
I know I had a Heather lock there.
22:52
OK. All right.
22:54
You got one wrong, one wrong in your era, too.
22:56
Oh, damn it. All right, next question.
22:58
What artist received the first MTV Best Female Video award in
23:02
1984 for Girls Just Want to Have fun?
23:04
Oh, Cyndi Lauper, of course. I mean, who doesn't know that,
23:07
Rich? Some people don't, I suppose.
23:09
Next is name the two men who started Apple computers in 1976
23:14
I can give you. Jobs and Wozniak I don't
23:20
remember. I know his first name is.
23:21
Steve Wozniak. Steve, Is Steve OK?
23:22
Yeah, Steve and Steve, OK, Jobs and Wozniak.
23:25
And you know the reason? I know that's Wozniak, why he
23:27
was recently on an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
23:31
I saw that one, yes. All right, here's your last Gen.
23:35
X question. OK, what was the meaning of the
23:37
question? What's the skinny?
23:39
And here I want to give you the multiple.
23:41
Choices. I don't know.
23:44
Multiple choices. The first answer would be how
23:47
much weight have you lost? Yeah.
23:48
No. What's the story of your gossip?
23:50
Yeah, that's it. What's your favorite diet?
23:52
Yeah, it's the story of gossip. It's gossip.
23:53
I had to think about it for a second.
23:54
Yep. Got it.
23:55
OK. So that was where the Gen.
23:57
X, now we're going to get a little harder for us, I think,
23:59
or maybe for you. These are the millennial
24:01
questions. OK.
24:03
And we might the first one you're going to get.
24:04
So it's not it's not even it's a non issue.
24:07
What NB CS show adapted from auk show with of the same name was
24:12
filmed in a mockumentary style. Oh, the office, the office.
24:17
OK, this one you're not going to get.
24:18
I already know, but we'll see. OK, Brittany and Justin once
24:23
wore matching outfits made entirely of this material.
24:26
And I'll give you the multiple choice sequence denim or
24:30
spandex. It's.
24:31
Got to be spandex. It's denim, Really.
24:34
Yeah, I had no idea about that. Okay, Because it's like not my
24:39
area. Athletics is more of an 80s
24:40
thing. Yeah, okay.
24:42
Okay, you'll know this one. What Smash Mouth song was
24:45
featured on the Shrek soundtrack?
24:47
All Star, All Star. Yeah, I had kids at that age.
24:50
Right. We both do, yeah.
24:52
What was the name given to the expected computer glitch
24:55
disaster on January 1st, 2000? Oh, the Y2.
24:58
K bug? Yeah, Y2KY2K.
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OK, here's 1 I think. It's funny about that.
25:02
What, like everybody panicked for like 2 years before that?
25:05
Panicked, we had to rewrite all your codes, everything.
25:09
And absolutely nothing happened. Right.
25:11
Well, because they rewrote all the code.
25:12
All the power grids are going to go down.
25:14
No, the computers are going to work.
25:16
Nothing happened. Next question and your last one
25:18
for Millennial. OK, in The Princess Bride, this
25:22
was Wesley's response to Buttercup's ever request as.
25:26
You wish seen the movie about 2000 times.
25:32
All right, so those were Gen. Z.
25:34
Now we're gonna. No, those are millennial.
25:36
Now we're gonna move into Gen. Z.
25:38
OK, what movie included the song?
25:40
Everything is awesome. Everything is.
25:44
Awesome. And I'm going to give you the
25:45
multiple choice The Hunger Games, The Lego Movie, or The
25:49
Lizzie McGuire Movie. Lego Movie.
25:51
It was The Lego Movie. Jen's ears bought large
25:53
quantities of glue, but not for school.
25:56
What was it used for? I.
25:57
Want to make slime? Yes, yes, make slime.
26:00
Absolutely, we all made slime back then.
26:03
Well, you guys did OK, here's another question for you.
26:08
What was the name given to Justin Bieber fans in 2010?
26:12
I don't know. I'll give you multiple choice,
26:14
all right, BB fans, Bieblers or B Bazers.
26:19
I don't like any of those. What was the first one?
26:22
BB fans. No, that's too lame.
26:24
Second one. B Liebers.
26:25
I'm going with that one. It's the B Liebers.
26:29
I had no idea. I had no idea.
26:31
Yeah. In November 2016, what Major
26:33
League Baseball team won their first World Series since 19 O 8,
26:37
defeating the Cleveland Indians in four games to three?
26:41
Has to be the Red Sox. Multiple choice are the Red Sox,
26:45
the Chicago Cubs or the Dodgers. No, it's the Cubs.
26:48
It is the Cubs. It's the Cubs.
26:50
Yeah, it's the Cubs. Yep, Yep, Yep.
26:52
OK, here's another one. What was the term used for a
26:55
person who was bad at playing video games?
26:58
No idea really. OK, I'll.
27:01
Give you a multiple choice, a noob, a bot or a scrub.
27:05
Oh. I'm a noob or a scrub.
27:07
I'm going with. It's called scrub.
27:10
It is not scrub snoob. A noob is inexperienced.
27:14
A bot is the correct answer. Plays poorly What?
27:16
A person who plays bad at playing video games plays
27:20
poorly. They're a bot and a scrub is low
27:22
skill or refuses to learn. All right, I had to look that up
27:25
because I had no idea I. Had no idea.
27:27
All right. So that was it.
27:28
That was pretty, pretty fun. That's kind of the questions of
27:30
the game. OK, that sounds fun.
27:32
But you have to. It's best to play with a younger
27:34
person and an older person on your team because then when you
27:37
get to those certain questions, you have a whole card of these
27:40
questions and you land on whatever icon on the board and
27:43
and that's what you. Have to answer.
27:44
So what you're saying is we must play this game with our kids?
27:46
Right. Absolutely.
27:47
I'm with you. That sounds like fun.
27:48
Let's do it, OK? All right, so I think that's it.
27:50
So, Rob, close us out on this topic.
27:53
All righty, the generation gap has both benefits and
27:55
challenges, shaping how societies adapt and evolve.
27:58
On the positive side, differences between generations
28:01
encourage innovation, as younger people often introduce new
28:04
technologies, values, and perspectives, while older
28:07
generations contribute experience, stability, and
28:10
historical insight. I'd agree with that.
28:13
This exchange can lead to creative problem solving and
28:15
social progress. However, the generation gap can
28:17
also create misunderstandings and conflict, especially when
28:20
rapid technological change, different economic conditions,
28:23
and contrasting cultural norms make it difficult for
28:26
generations to relate to one another.
28:27
When these differences are not addressed, they can lead to
28:30
stereotypes, communication breakdowns, and tension in
28:32
families, workplaces, and politics.
28:35
Ever talk about politics with family?
28:38
Balancing respect for tradition with openness to change is the
28:41
key to turning generational differences into a shared
28:43
strength rather than a source of division.
28:45
Yeah, I think that's a really great statement.
28:47
Yeah, kind of like bridging the gap, right?
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The generation gap isn't a divide so much as it is a relay.
29:16
One generation hands down experience while the next brings
29:19
fresh perspective and progress. Happens when both generations
29:22
realize they're running the same race, just in different shoes.
29:26
Yes, Preach, brother, preach, right?
29:28
Love it. Bye everybody.
29:29
Everyone, Hey, we you know, we may be from the same generation,
29:32
but I'm still younger than you. Yes, you are.