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What Gen X Gets Right · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question our for American mamas, dear Mama's
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  Speaker 1: what does gen X get right that other generations miss? Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's ask our American mamas, Mamma and joining us now
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  Speaker 1: our American mamas Terry Ediville and Kimberly Burlasson. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was, I was just thinking about this the other day.
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  Speaker 1: There's a comedian that came up on my social media.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, this is what the baby boomers
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  Speaker 1: auld like, and this is what the millennials and gen
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  Speaker 1: Z are like. And I'm like, again, dude, again, there's
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  Speaker 1: one in between missed and I think back to the
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Times magazine that first used the
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  Speaker 1: coin that the phrase gen X in a in a
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  Speaker 1: big public and the reason they did was a this
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  Speaker 1: is an overlooked generation. This is not a defined we are.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to define because it's kind of overlooked. So
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  Speaker 1: what does gen X for? You know, X could be anything?
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  Speaker 1: What does gen X get right?
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  Speaker 2: I think that we got music right. I think the
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  Speaker 2: best music came from our generation. I don't think the
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  Speaker 2: music before that was fun, lighthearted, and I love Boomer music,
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  Speaker 2: but I think gen X we nailed it. We nailed it,
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  Speaker 2: and it has not been replicated since.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of great music if you go gen X,
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  Speaker 1: so you go, you know, the Michael Jackson, Whitney, Houston, Prince,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite Duran, Duran, But then you also have Nirvana
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  Speaker 1: and you get into the I.
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  Speaker 2: Think in the Eagles thirty No, that's eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Well the Eagles did drift into.
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  Speaker 2: Gen X.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I'll give you Eagles. There was a
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  Speaker 1: bon Jovie, you know. Yet a lot of the diversity
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  Speaker 1: of music for gen X, where on Top forty you
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  Speaker 1: would hear rap, you would hear heavy metal, you would
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  Speaker 1: hear country, you would hear dance music, you would hear soul.
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  Speaker 1: All on Top forty we listened to a why variety
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  Speaker 1: of music growing up.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you one thing before I tell you
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  Speaker 3: what we got right. The one thing we did get
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  Speaker 3: wrong is the hairstyles. I go back and look at
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  Speaker 3: that fags. I'll see these yearbooks come up on reels
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  Speaker 3: and it's girls that fright here with the bang sticking
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  Speaker 3: straight up or like it just was like that punk.
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  Speaker 2: Those horn things that came out of the side of our.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't get that right, but we were all in
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  Speaker 3: it together, so we all looked the same.
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  Speaker 1: But I kind of like the Tears for Fears Mullet.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, yeah, yeah, I mean just think about
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  Speaker 3: the you know, the rock stars with their big hair
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  Speaker 3: and all of that. The thing that I think that
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  Speaker 3: we did and it's right, it's so right, is we
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  Speaker 3: actually suffered the consequences of our actions. God it bad.
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  Speaker 3: We actually did have to. We had parents. Our parents
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  Speaker 3: were great about this. I mean at the time we
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  Speaker 3: probably thought they remain but if we forgot our homework,
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  Speaker 3: well you'll have to deal with that their teacher, you know,
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  Speaker 3: whereas I'm racing to the school with you know, we
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  Speaker 3: suffered the consequences, which was really good for us because
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  Speaker 3: it is something so valuable. You know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things you think of it when you
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  Speaker 1: think about a Gen X kid going up, especially a boy,
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  Speaker 1: the bicycle, the dirt bike and the ramp. Yes, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then go jump the ramp right, and you either
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  Speaker 1: landed or you crashed. And there was once you start
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  Speaker 1: doing that, there is no one to help you. You
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  Speaker 1: were going to suffer the consequences of your actions. So
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  Speaker 1: you better stick that landing or you weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: have road burn. Yeah, and that's that's just And we
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  Speaker 1: weren't wearing helmets right.
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  Speaker 3: Consequences, Well, there was. There was something that we were
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  Speaker 3: forced to learn that I think is missing in today's generation,
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  Speaker 3: and that social skills. It's so easy just to send
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  Speaker 3: a text, rather than in our time you had to
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  Speaker 3: call the person or the boy that wanted the date,
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  Speaker 3: had to call, get through the father to get to
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  Speaker 3: the girl to ask her for the date. You had
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  Speaker 3: to We were talking about this last night about kid too.
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  Speaker 3: It's so if you need to raise money, raise funds
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  Speaker 3: for baseball team or a softball team or whatever, you
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  Speaker 3: can just send a masked text out whereas before you
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  Speaker 3: had to write a letter, you had to.
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  Speaker 1: Call, or you went door to door or door.
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  Speaker 2: That's really a Boomer and gen X. I think the
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  Speaker 2: communication skills is so much better. Work ethic. I think
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  Speaker 2: the work ethic of those generations is like, point on, well,
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  Speaker 2: how many of.
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  Speaker 1: Your friends are working at the grocery store by age fourteen?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody everybody was working. Everybody's working, I mean not us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that day I worked at Domino's. No, I was babysitter.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I made babysitting all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I did that too, I was babysitting and I had
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  Speaker 1: a lawnmowing service.
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  Speaker 3: See it's like and nowadays there, you know, you have
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  Speaker 3: these kids who are like, I want to be an
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  Speaker 3: influencer rather than in our day, we know you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to work. Like we made babysitting two dollars an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, And our parents told us. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I remember my dad saying, now listen, they're paying you.
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  Speaker 3: So even when you put the kids to bed at eight,
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  Speaker 3: if they're not going to be home till midnight, you
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  Speaker 3: better make sure the kitchen's clean. Because they're paying you,
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  Speaker 3: you better make sure their laundry is put you know, uh,
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  Speaker 3: whatever's in the driver's folded. And it was we were
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  Speaker 3: taught you work for you earn your money. And then
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  Speaker 3: they would you.
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  Speaker 2: Want to buy those Jordan Ash jeans, oh yeah, or
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  Speaker 2: those guest jeans.
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  Speaker 3: Bo your own, Josh, We had to base.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you paid for it. Yeah. Whatever you wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be like, you.
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  Speaker 1: Had to pay for it. Wendy bought her own first car,
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  Speaker 1: I mean wow, from working.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: She actually had a car before she could drive.
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  Speaker 3: My grandmother, Kaki bought my car my mother's mom so
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  Speaker 3: that I could pay her back. She did such a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful job of keeping a ledger of when I would
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  Speaker 3: pay her back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 3: And it taught me something valuable, even though at the
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  Speaker 3: time I probably wished that she would have just given
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  Speaker 3: it to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yea.
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  Speaker 3: She was so proud of me when I finally finished
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  Speaker 3: paying her off, and I'm so proud of myself.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool. If you like to ask our American Mama
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  Speaker 1: Terry out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: in a you