The Generational Gap! Who Hates who the most!

It's the episode where NOBODY is safe — and everybody has something to say! This week, Jon (The Boomer), Jessica (The Millennial), Joey (The Gen Z), and special guest Bebe throw out the rulebook and get into it — passionately, hilariously, and without holding back. Why does every generation think the others are doing it wrong? Who's actually the most misunderstood? And who's the most guilty of not getting it? Spoiler: the answer is ALL of them.

From Boomers blaming everyone for being too soft, to Millennials caught in the middle of literally everything, to Gen Z doing whatever Gen Z does (and not apologizing for it) — this roundtable gets loud, gets real, and gets very, very funny. Bebe brings the heat, the laughs, and zero filter as the crew gang up on each other in the best possible way.

Because at the end of the day, closing the generational divide starts with laughing at it together.

🎙️ Listen now and pick a side — or don't. They'll argue for you.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to Jen is Us Podcast, where we dive into the dynamic world generational conversation with your host, John, the Baby Boomer, along with Jessica the Millennial, and Joey, the Gen Z. And welcome, welcome. This is Jen Is Us Podcast. I'm John the Boomer.

SPEAKER_04 0:19

Can you just introduce us into the intro?

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Yeah, this is the second one.

SPEAKER_04 0:23

We don't know why you do that.

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Well, okay, whatever.

SPEAKER_04 0:27

This is what I hate about boomers. They don't know how podcasts are.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

And today's subject is what do you hate about the other gens? The other generation.

SPEAKER_04 0:36

Hey, that's actually a great intro.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

The gens are the boomers.

SPEAKER_04 0:42

I'm the millennial, Jessica. Gorgeous.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

BB's are a special guest. She's a millennial. No, you're a Gen Z. You're Gen Z, and you're a Gen Z. We got two Gen Z and two boomers and one millennial.

SPEAKER_04 0:56

Yeah, the best, the best, the best generation with trauma.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

All right, right off the bat. And by the way, we're also being live streamed right now, but we're gonna cut it off in a minute.

SPEAKER_04 1:08

What up fuckers?

SPEAKER_00 1:08

What a fuckers. Um what do we this this episode is about what we hate about the other generation?

SPEAKER_04 1:17

Let's not say hate. Okay. It's a struggle.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

What do we dislike?

SPEAKER_04 1:20

What are our or don't comprehend?

SPEAKER_00 1:22

What's our comprehensive?

SPEAKER_04 1:23

What's our Joey's jeers about the other?

SPEAKER_00 1:27

All right. And I think Joey will probably agree with me on what I'm about to bring up. Oh, he probably will. I hope everybody. The other night we were watching uh the ACA Awards. What's the American A M A L A M A. What's that? American Music A American Music Awards. They fucking suck. What I've never even heard of that. American Music Awards.

SPEAKER_06 1:47

Music from our generation, I do not stand by at all.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

You know what?

SPEAKER_06 1:51

Okay, hairstyles.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

BTS, how in the hell behind the scenes more. What in the hell did these guys? I mean, what talent? They all look like they're prima donnas, like they were all made up by you know Michael Jackson. Dude, they're they're made like in a factory. They are, they're all factory made.

SPEAKER_06 2:09

Yeah, but their story is really cool. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

I don't care. No, it's not. Whatever. No, no, no, whatever. Yeah, I don't know. A wood chipper would love to eat them. Yeah. I I I would love to throw them in that wood chip. Right.

SPEAKER_05 2:20

All right, but baby, baby.

SPEAKER_06 2:22

Go ahead, express yourself. Yeah. I mean, I'm not a BTS fan necessarily, but like I appreciate a few songs. That's what it is for me.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

I appreciate nothing. No. Yeah. But like I don't even want to listen to them.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

I I wish I forgot that they existed.

unknown 2:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 2:37

I mean, how do people I thought only one of them went to war? No, all of them did. About one individual one.

SPEAKER_00 2:42

Oh, is that how they came back with those high voices that sound like they got something stuck down their throat?

SPEAKER_06 2:48

It was supposed to be lower.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

A lot of people go to war.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

A lot of people do.

SPEAKER_06 2:52

Well, they have to observe like a certain amount of time in their their army or whatever. Yeah, because it's what? South Korea? I think so.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Yeah, but don't they come back like those wooden the wood guys from Christmas?

SPEAKER_02 3:07

No.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

The nutcrackers. They march like the nutscrackers.

SPEAKER_05 3:11

You don't like the music of today.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

I do not like the music of today. It sucks. The only one that I do like is Bruno Mars because his music sounds. Right. It's more of what it also goes back to my era because a lot of his sound is um RB and it's got um a nice beat to it. Some soul. It's got some soul. It's got some soul. And I like that kind of music.

SPEAKER_04 3:37

And plus, he likes cocaine. And that's 80s.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 3:41

Well, and he embodies like Elvis a lot. Right.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Well, he was a mini uh Elvis impersonator. Did you not know that?

SPEAKER_06 3:48

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_00 3:49

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 3:50

That makes a lot more sense. I love him.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

But like, I mean, I the music today is just, I mean, even the mainstream music.

SPEAKER_05 3:56

But he's black.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

Who?

SPEAKER_05 3:58

Bruno Mars. Yeah, but he did a person. Used to do Michael Jackson in the commercial. Like a mini Michael Jackson. What? He did Elvis. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_06 4:10

Elvis' songs were from Seoul. Right. I know that.

SPEAKER_05 4:14

But he would impersonate Elvis when he was young. Oh, okay. Got it. Right.

SPEAKER_06 4:18

Because his outfit in his tour right now is Elvis. Like literally this. Inspired with my God.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

What the hell'd you do? You raped my Elvis.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

I gave that to my dad for Father's Day. You son of a biscuit. I'll have one of those.

SPEAKER_05 4:45

Yeah, you do. He's just deployed. So wait a second. Let's go to one of the people who usually don't hate anyone. How about you, BB?

SPEAKER_06 4:55

No, I hate. Or like music or anything about like generations. Oh, okay. This is kind of controversial. My butt hurt. Not really, but like I think in my mind.

SPEAKER_04 5:10

This is what I hate about boomers. They don't know how to use technology. Turn it off, dude.

unknown 5:16

He has like no impact on what's on.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Oh my god, that was the most annoying shit I've heard in my entire life.

SPEAKER_06 5:27

Poor BB keeps getting interpreted. I don't like millennial color in houses. Oh millennial gray. Millennial gray. Millennial gray, the millennial white. Like they lost all the like early 2000s, which is technically millennial. No, I think it's Gen Z.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

Gen X? No, Gen X is after me.

SPEAKER_06 5:49

Yeah, that's like Daniel.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 5:51

Like the guys' house, that is what I imagine like my future house. Oh. But like you mean like cluttered? No. No. Pieces of hair on the house.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

No, like the outside house. Yeah, the style.

SPEAKER_04 6:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 6:05

Like the brick. Like everything. My parents' house are beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 6:08

BB, do you do you know the movie Scarface? Okay. Well, watch the movie and then you'll know what I mean.

SPEAKER_06 6:16

Like there's a house or any of the houses from like the 80s and the 90s, those are the houses I like.

SPEAKER_05 6:23

Do you like all the crap that Trump's doing to the White House?

SPEAKER_06 6:26

What is he doing?

SPEAKER_05 6:27

Oh, the gold in gold. No, no, I will not do no.

SPEAKER_04 6:30

You fixated on uh gold and yeah, the guys have the gold wallpaper in their foyer.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

Right.

SPEAKER_06 6:37

Yeah, well that you like wood, excuse me. No, like the like the guy's kitchen was like a wood um cabinet.

SPEAKER_00 6:45

That's that's the 1970s look.

SPEAKER_06 6:47

Okay, then I like them.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

That's the 1970s look. I like I like it so you like you would like Elvis's house because Elvis' Graceland is like that.

SPEAKER_06 6:55

So gaudy and gross. No, but it would it's not that it's like gaudy, because I don't like the gaudy look. It's more like I want a house to look like it's being literally like retro literally.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

You like the nostalgic look.

SPEAKER_06 7:08

Yeah, I don't want to see white on every freaking wall and then white trimming. I do like that. Don't get me wrong. Like that house is beautiful. But lucky for you, I just wallpapered my basement stairs black.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Looks very good. You did a very good job.

SPEAKER_06 7:23

Damn. See, like stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, pictures of Ozzy. That's the only thing you hate is other gents? Yeah. I mean Yeah, and I I just don't understand how they use technology, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Who?

SPEAKER_06 7:39

Like, well, not boomers, because I feel like it's funny, but like millennials, I feel like use social media as their like diary. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Diarrhea of the mouth.

SPEAKER_06 7:53

But I don't know. I don't feel like I really hate on anything. That's why I wanted to start with you first. Yeah. Besides the color.

SPEAKER_05 8:04

Okay, we we're gonna say dare do we go dare go to Joey? I'm scared. Go for it, Joey.

SPEAKER_04 8:12

All right, let's start with the perfect generation, World War II.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Oh, geez. You're joking, right?

SPEAKER_04 8:18

Grandma and grandpa.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

You're joking, right?

SPEAKER_04 8:20

Yeah. You know what I hate most about them is that they have dementia.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

But you know what? That's that's not a that's not a generational thing. That's uh you're gonna get old and probably get it. You know what I mean? Dementia. Think about it. We're all good. I someday I'll wake up and I'll think, uh, you know, not. I won't be thinking. You know what I mean? I I won't remember stuff and you know, that kind of thing. Luckily, my dad and and uh my mom never had that. You know, so I'm glad that Dementa died before she's in her sixties. Right. But um actually she was only months away from being 70, or weeks weeks away from being 70. But um uh in my family, it it doesn't really run. Dementia. I've never. No, we don't.

SPEAKER_05 9:07

Okay, well, we weren't talking to you. We're talking to Joey.

SPEAKER_06 9:09

Go to the Joey, what don't you like?

SPEAKER_01 9:14

I mean, here's the thing.

SPEAKER_06 9:18

Shut up!

SPEAKER_01 9:21

He's just I hate that. I hate constant dumb motherfuckers talking about stupid shit on technology. Uh but I mean, which generation do I even start with? Because I I I kind of like hate everybody. So I don't really know where to start.

SPEAKER_04 9:38

Our generation's probably the worst. Pokes my eye. My alpha's my.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

I mean, for real. I I really do. I mean, I think there's alpha.

SPEAKER_06 9:46

Alpha generation.

SPEAKER_01 9:47

There's shit to hate about every generation because everybody sucks. Um, okay, well, um, I I guess I'll start with yeah, the perfect generation. Um, stop fucking looking at me.

SPEAKER_02 9:59

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 10:00

Okay, for real though. That generation has the worst staring problem. Old people? Yes. Talking about old people. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Dude, what dude, they need to stop just because they can't move and they keep looking at you.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

No, it's more than just that. They because even when I'm walking away or whatever, they'll do the like the lingering thing where their eyes stay on you. What the fuck? You want to take a picture, bitch? Like, what do you wait what? It was a scenario. Oh my god, this happens to me all the fucking time. And you know what, Julia? Because they think he's a creature. They do.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Julia actually had a situation today where that happened to her. She was she told me that she was going coming out of uh were you going in to the elevator and somebody got had her walk or something like that.

SPEAKER_05 10:48

I was trying to go into the doctor's office.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

The lady was stuck in between the doors, straight out. The doors go like this.

SPEAKER_05 10:55

No, it was a single door. That's not somebody staring at her walker. Right, that's not staring at her. No, the lady was staring at the wall. Well, no, she couldn't get out, so I couldn't hold the door for her to get through with her walker. But anyway, so even like shopping in the store.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

Shopping, walking when when I still had my dog. Did you ever trip them? Like, uh stop looking at just a lot of people. I was I've been very tempted.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

Yeah, do you stare back at them?

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Um and then their eyes go like this. It depends on the situation, but nowadays I do. I I look the fuck back.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

But why why does that bother you so much?

SPEAKER_01 11:29

Because that's disrespectful and rude. Stop looking at me.

SPEAKER_06 11:32

Okay, do you feel that with children?

SPEAKER_01 11:36

That's different. They're kids. Yeah, but they could be children of the corn.

SPEAKER_06 11:40

I go off.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

They could be children of the corn. You know, like when a little kid looks at me, they're a little kid. They don't know any fucking better. I don't care if an old person's an old person, you're still an adult. Don't fucking look at me.

SPEAKER_05 11:53

The old people and the children are doing it.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

Yeah, well, old people actu have a pension and they have responsibilities and bills. So they can stop fucking looking at me.

SPEAKER_05 12:03

But see, they're looking at someone who they feel is different than they are.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Yeah, and it's really annoying and disrespectful.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

You don't mind kids looking at it. No, they're fucking kids. They don't know any better.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

That's happened before. I don't care.

SPEAKER_04 12:20

It's happened like, yeah. Multiple times.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

I get looked at all I get looked at by all different kinds of people weird ways because God knows why. But it's really weird. But when it's boomers, though, it just mmm, it's a boomers. Wait a minute. Not boomers, but like perfect generation. I would never stare at you. Well, because they also have this certain attitude about it too. Or what's this?

SPEAKER_05 12:43

What are you?

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Fuck off. I'm busy. I'm working right now.

SPEAKER_05 12:47

Oh, it's when you're like going.

SPEAKER_01 12:49

It's anything. It's while I'm working. Because you know, like, you know, when I'm on the road while working or while I when I'm driving, when I'm walking somewhere, literally anywhere. What's this? I almost gonna stare at this fucker for an hour. It's ridiculous. Like I I just I can't stand what like people that just stare like that. It's just disrespectful to me, and it makes me feel uncomfortable, so fuck off. But they they are the worst with that, though. The perfect generation. They are the worst with that.

SPEAKER_06 13:18

I don't know. I feel like Gen Alpha is probably Well, they're little kids. Yeah, they're little kids. I do the same.

SPEAKER_04 13:24

All of them have autism. Well, okay. Well, they're iPad kids.

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Well, you know that the autism where it comes from, right?

SPEAKER_04 13:30

According to Aspirin. Oh no, Tylenol.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

Aspirin. Well, no, no, that you typically the carrier is the father.

SPEAKER_06 13:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:37

That's really interesting. All right.

SPEAKER_06 13:40

Balls. No, I just feel like parents millennial things, so this actually might be another peepee. That millennials don't tell their kids how to act anymore.

SPEAKER_05 13:52

Right. They don't teach them manners.

SPEAKER_06 13:54

No, because like I would never stare at a grandparent, or I would never um my mom could attest to that. I I talk to everybody, but like I never judged somebody right away, or I never like made fun of somebody.

SPEAKER_02 14:08

Right.

SPEAKER_06 14:09

You know, and I feel like Jen Alf uh there are more bullies now. Yeah, they're more bullies than anything.

unknown 14:15

I do that.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Well, here's the thing there's so much anti-bullying stuff in school. Um, I I don't know what the meat like the median is, because you have to have something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:27

I'm not saying it's nice to bully. I am just saying though that not everything is peaches and cream all the time, either.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

That's true. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

You know, absolutely. Like, I'm all about and and take this, I was heavily bullied throughout my entire schooling year. So it takes something.

SPEAKER_05 14:41

Yeah, I imagine. Yeah, but you have manners, Joey.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

Oh, I know, but like I'm just saying, take this from somebody because you know, just in case somebody's like, oh, that oh, you can't say that that's so mean. Well, it's like, no, take it from somebody who was bullied. No, there does need to be a meaning because there needs to be, you know, um consequences for actions. So if you're acting like a buffoon, someone should call you that, you know, like because how else are you gonna learn from your actions?

SPEAKER_06 15:04

That's exactly it. Yeah, like for some reason, Gen Alpha I was gonna say gen afflect. Um, Gen Alpha, they just they can't be given that because they'll start crying. Yeah, they are very sensitive. Which I don't like I love.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

Gen Alpha is very fucking annoying. No, BB Well it doesn't no Gen Alpha is very annoying. I am just saying that I have a little bit more patience for little kids than old people, you know what I mean? Like old, old ass people. Like, especially like like especially like I don't know, just like white blue hairs. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 15:45

Well, you're gonna get there one day, so probably not. See, mine's the opposite.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

That's right.

SPEAKER_05 15:50

I got patience for old people. I don't I'm heading that way, so I feel so patient.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

I well, I do I okay, I do to a certain extent. I like physical stuff, absolutely, but when it when it comes to disrespect and rudeness, fuck off. Yes, it depends on that's when the patience goes away. You can go fuck yourself. You do not talk to me like that. Like I don't care if you're old and deteriorating. You know, you still know manners. So stop with that, you know?

SPEAKER_04 16:18

I don't know. It's kind of freeing to know that one day I just won't give a shit and be like, hey, shut up, you fat bitch.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Ah, I they can still go fuck off.

SPEAKER_06 16:29

I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of people. No filter, no problems. You know, that you you learn from like like my mom's a boomer, so like boomers that I feel like Joey and I learned.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Maybe not, but like No no, my my my parents are boomers.

SPEAKER_06 16:44

Yeah, so we learned I feel like more respect for our elders, more respect in school, more respect like overall that I feel like this new generation is doing. Like, don't get me wrong, there's some that are really good, but I feel like it's been lost.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

No, no, this new generation's like on a grand scale is a little scary.

SPEAKER_05 17:05

About you, Jess.

SPEAKER_04 17:08

Um, I think everyone sucks.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

Yeah, I see I'm on the same page.

SPEAKER_04 17:11

It's a general consensus of there's good and bad in every generation.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 17:16

Well like you know, with uh a perfect generation, they can go fuck themselves because they called themselves the perfect generation.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Yeah, what the f- Is that boomer? No, it's well no, that's before that's before, but you know what? Here's the thing they are I don't I don't think it's the perfect generation.

SPEAKER_04 17:34

That's what they call themselves.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

I thought it was the greatest generation.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

Oh, who that's even fucking worse.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

No, no, no. The reason why is because they endured World War II, and that's why. Because that's why the Great.

SPEAKER_04 17:47

Yeah, and the Great Depression.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

And the Great Depression, because they went through a lot. And you know what? Here's the thing. They went through a lot. Like my parents we went through a lot too. No, no, no. You didn't go through anything, trust me.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

That's what I hate about the Gen Z. Yeah, Gen Z. I went through a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

I mean, I'm not just talking about my generation, I'm talking about 11. I'm talking about Jessica's generation, I'm talking about COVID. COVID. Okay. No, everybody, let me finish, please. No, I'm I'm not saying my generation specifically. I'm talking about everyone's generation. Or like everybody's been through a lot.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

Your generation produced BTS, Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_06 18:23

How long are these generations? Like, I've I've obviously I know the terms, but like how long is it? It depends, I think.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

It depends. I think they give each generation a certain amount of time.

SPEAKER_04 18:34

And I think it's dependent on like uh cultural things that happen, but also years. So like millennials is uh like 1980.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Can you look that up?

SPEAKER_04 18:46

Seven to two thousand basically when you were born. And then Gen Z is like 2000 to like 2007, probably.

SPEAKER_06 18:56

Cause I know like with 2003, because you're 2002 or three?

SPEAKER_02 19:00

Three.

SPEAKER_06 19:01

Three. Um, that like they said like we could catalyze ourselves as millennials, oh but then up to 2007 as maximum. Did you ever have a Tamagachi? I looked it up. It says Silent Generation.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Where they stick they they shoot water up your ass?

SPEAKER_06 19:18

No. No, those are the little uh the gamings.

SPEAKER_05 19:22

Yeah, the digital pets. Yeah. I don't know what that is. Well, the silent generation is from 1928 to 1945. Wow. Okay. Baby Bone War II is from 46 to 64.

SPEAKER_06 19:33

Yeah, so why is the greatest generation?

SPEAKER_00 19:36

So then it's gotta be before that, right?

SPEAKER_06 19:38

I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 19:39

Greatest generation is during the silent depends on who's labeling them. This one I'm looking at is called the silent generation. Really? So that was Generation X is 65 to 80. Yeah, so millennials is 81 to 96. No, that's later than that.

SPEAKER_04 19:56

There's no way in hell that Daniel's the same generation as me, even though technically it we are. What would he be then? He's Generation X. Oh. But he's not, right? No, because here's the difference. When you got your first cell phone. That has nothing to do with it. It does. That's a generational thing. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yep. Especially the later ones.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Well, then I'll be a millennial.

SPEAKER_04 20:20

Did you grow up on biting your spears and spice girls? I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:25

No. Uh I think millennials uh they um I think we try too hard overall.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:38

And I think it it probably becomes it it it comes to an emotional need to try and get to the point of your parents in a lot of ways, like house buying career, and it's just not attainable. It is not attainable. Like so much debt to get to the point your parents are, it's just not possible.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

And then you know, my parents, they were able to save and buy their home.

SPEAKER_04 21:06

Yeah, because their home was like a quarter of what it would be now.

SPEAKER_00 21:10

Right, and and you're absolutely right. The affordability issue, and then this is gonna we're gonna go back into politics, but the affordability issue, by the way, shout out to Stephen Colbert. Um so yeah, the affordability issue right now is it's insanity. Insanity. I mean, gas is five dollars a gallon. Oh, more than that. Beef. The other day she wanted to order uh like ground beef. She bought it for like three bucks uh about a month ago. It's six bucks today. It's nuts for a tube of ground beef. I mean, this this administration is so out of touch with the economy, with what's going on. They pushed us to the brink where our children will have to pay our debts for decades.

SPEAKER_06 22:00

For a gold ball ballroom. Right. For a gold ballroom. See, I don't even think that I don't think we'll ever gonna pay it off. Like in like the theory thing, like we're just gonna keep leaving it behind. I don't think we're actually ever changing anything. And then not to like, I guess, believe political. You know what? We could go bankrupt.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

We just keep doing stuff. But we're gonna eventually go bankrupt. If the money keeps, if we keep borrowing from uh Paul to pay Bob or whatever, it's just not gonna work. I mean, we right now we are trillions. He added eight trillion dollars to the national debt. We already had trillions in in you know in debt, and it was starting to come down. Now this bozo has added eight trillion. The war alone is costing what is it, eight billion dollars a day or twenty-five billion dollars a day. It's nuts. And the the problem is that the Republicans don't see what corruption and what stupidity this is. Okay, go back to the gents.

SPEAKER_04 23:05

This is another thing I don't like about boomers. Everything becomes political.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

But bit's but telling us what to do. But you know what? Here's the thing. When we were when I was growing up, we didn't have any of what's going on right now.

SPEAKER_04 23:19

We didn't, you know, we I grew up with Yeah, because you didn't have social media to tell you or a 24-hour news cycle.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

We had news. We had like JFK being assassinated, we had uh Linda B.

SPEAKER_04 23:32

Johnson, but didn't you get it 80 channels at a time. No, but it's completely different.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

My dad, my mom and dad watched the news and we saw what was going on. But you know what?

SPEAKER_04 23:40

The economy for maybe two hours.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Right, right, right. But my point is that you know, life was a lot simpler back then. You you were able to pay for stuff. You could buy a fucking White Castle burger for 25 cents. What is it now? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 23:54

Well, okay, let me ask you this.

SPEAKER_06 23:56

Whatever it is, it's not worth it. You pick out diarrhea usually is where you have full-on a family conversations about like political stuff or like You can't. I feel or like, but like back then, because like I feel like every Thanksgiving or like every holiday or every like I don't know, just like for people like in our generation and your generation, we always ended up with those conversations where I can't see my mom, which is your sister, having those conversations at like the breakfast table in the morning. Did you have these conversations back then? You know what it's my aunts and uncles did.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Yeah, you know what it's funny. When I was a little older, we talked about it, we saw it, but my mom and my dad didn't really get into the politics of everyday life. I got they couldn't understand English. No, they understood English. Um, but the thing is, I as I grew up, I got more into uh political life because I I'm proud of being an American. Yeah, you know, this is where I was born. This is what I, you know, what I went to school here. I'm proud of the American flag, and unfortunately, we have an idiot running our our beautiful country. And at the worst time, it's 250 anniversary, and we have an idiot running a country where we should have somebody of leadership and someone who is um gonna talk about representing our country and uh you know respecting the flag, the constitution, all that, and he doesn't. He gives a shit. He could rub that on his ass and he wouldn't care. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_04 25:29

Yeah, and the people that support him wouldn't care, which is even more upsetting.

SPEAKER_05 25:32

Right. My aunts and uncles did get into the whole politics things, they did, but they also would get into big debates about their favorite actors and actresses, too. Yeah. Well, that you know what? It's funny. I remember arguments about who liked Ann Margaret and who didn't.

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Who didn't like I mean, who didn't like her? Is she by Bertie?

SPEAKER_05 25:50

Oh, I had some man that thought her she was slutty and stuff like that. That's okay. It was the whole when the whole Elvis Presley she danced on his movie. And I I remember, I don't know why I remember that conversation when one day when we were by their house for some holiday. Um, but it was kind of funny to hear them arguing about Anne Margaret.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Joey, who did you like when you were growing up? Who did you think was hot that you'd really want to use? Selena Gomez.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Who? Selena Gomez. Still do. Selena Gomez.

SPEAKER_06 26:20

The she was on Waverly, uh Waverly Play.

SPEAKER_05 26:23

Wizards of Waverly Waverly Players. Um just got married to that Benny dude. Benny Blanco.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 26:30

Producer. She was uh Justin Beaver's ex-girlfriend.

SPEAKER_06 26:33

Yeah, she was like um like the inspiration for Latina little girls, because she, you know There's a lot of them out there now, though, aren't they?

SPEAKER_05 26:43

I was proud of her because she, you know, started embracing her heritage.

SPEAKER_04 26:46

Yeah, and she's gone through some shit. She's like what bipolar, loss of kidney, uh has been polemic lupus, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 26:55

Yeah, and then after she had I think she ended up having a kidney transplant, then people were picking on her because she had a little weight gain. Like you go through some steroids and something else.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

She looks beautiful.

SPEAKER_05 27:06

Yeah, and so I got a pooch, who cares?

SPEAKER_01 27:08

She just survived the operation.

SPEAKER_05 27:11

She has to do that.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

If anything, I think it I I I think it's like not an improvement because she's always been fine as hell, but if anything, it was just an like a nice addition to me.

SPEAKER_04 27:20

Oh my god. They say your first crush is what like what you're gonna end up being with for your life.

SPEAKER_05 27:28

Oh, yeah, it's your type.

SPEAKER_04 27:29

Yeah. Which is very funny because I don't I never thought I would be married to like a tall, blonde, blue-haired. So what was your crush? Lance Bass.

unknown 27:40

He's gay.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

Who the fuck is that? He's gay.

SPEAKER_04 27:44

He's nuclear. I didn't know he was gay, and you can still be hot and be gay.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 27:51

What?

SPEAKER_06 27:51

Uh Lance Bass made um our marching band a video when we did InSync. Yeah. What? Yeah. I think they bought it, but like, yeah. Cause we did um InSync as our my senior, I believe, maybe not, our my sister's senior year marching band show. And they he sent us a video of like neighbor of North Ask you, we're so happy, like you did our song, like blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_04 28:18

Well, that's cool. Yeah. I'm sure someone paid him to do it. Um probably. But yeah, Lance Bass was my crush when I was my first crush I can remember. But then ever since then, I was always not attracted to blonde hair, blue eyes. And then I got what you got. I know.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

Hey Joey, have you been attracted to a man?

SPEAKER_01 28:40

What the uh no.

SPEAKER_05 28:42

We've already established he likes Latinas. That's right. That's right. No, I mean you could still fart on his face.

SPEAKER_00 28:50

You could still like uh a man, you know, because he's either manly or like an actor or whatever. You mean like a bro crush? Like a bro crush, yeah. You don't have a bro crush? Never have.

SPEAKER_04 29:01

Females do all the time.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Yeah, women like other women.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

Kind of well, I mean characters.

SPEAKER_00 29:08

That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

That's oh wow, wow. Forget it. Let's not ask him.

SPEAKER_05 29:16

Well, you were Diddy.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

It's like uh, you know, you you think that Barney's hot. Well, no, no, Travis Bickle isn't hot.

SPEAKER_04 29:23

I just John Wayne Gacy. Oh my god. Jeffrey.

SPEAKER_01 29:28

Travis Bickle is just like a really cool character and relatable in in some not always, but in uh some ways in some aspects.

SPEAKER_04 29:35

That's another thing. John Alvis Presley?

SPEAKER_00 29:37

No, actually, no.

SPEAKER_04 29:39

Lee Bangers. He wants to be Bond.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

I did have uh Bond Roger Moore.

SPEAKER_05 29:45

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Roger Moore.

SPEAKER_05 29:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

He was the coolest.

SPEAKER_05 29:48

He looked nothing like Roger Moore.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

What? He looked nothing like Roger Moore. What would I look like Roger Moore? He said he has a man crush. A man crush. On Roger Moore. Like who would, yeah. He was James Bond. You do like bonds. I'm I'm I'm a bond. Daniels.

SPEAKER_04 30:02

I was in front of Daniels Man crushes, Sam Worthington. He's watched like every movie that guy's in. Okay, that's hilarious. Just wrong. Which one is this? Sam Worthington? Isn't he uh he's uh Australian, but he's in like the clashes.

SPEAKER_00 30:16

Is he the crocodile Dundee guy? Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 30:19

Wrath of the Titans. He was in like Man on the Lege. Myth of Khan? Uh no. Um he's oh, he's an Avatar. He's the the main guy.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 30:33

Well, it's yeah, he's got became an avatar. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

I gotta tell you, I'm not an Avatar fan. I think Avatar is like the stupidest movie ever made. I've seen it. Huh?

SPEAKER_01 30:44

I've never seen it.

SPEAKER_06 30:45

I love it. I saw it with grandpa when I first came out. When um when growing funny enough about Avatar, do you remember when movies used to be apps?

SPEAKER_00 30:54

What?

SPEAKER_06 30:54

On the phones. I remember um my Aunt Gloria, she would let me and Maria use her phone, and all she had was that app and it would just repeatedly play the movie. It was so cool. Yeah. Yeah, and then uh on my mom's phone, she had a Michael Jackson app, funny enough, and it would only play his videos. It'd only be Kitty porn.

SPEAKER_04 31:21

Only play his videos.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

Barney humping uh cookie monster.

SPEAKER_04 31:25

It was Bonjo. Oh no, Bubbles.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Bubbles the clown bubbles and the chimp.

SPEAKER_04 31:30

Yeah. No, I know it was it it would play. Are you sure it wasn't through an app that like like voodoo or uh like Netflix?

SPEAKER_00 31:38

It was I have no clue what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_06 31:40

And then it was literally Michael Jack.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

Oh, probably because you had to download it from like those codes that you get in uh DVDs.

SPEAKER_05 31:48

Yeah, maybe it was I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 31:50

You'd stream them, and then it would save to your phone as well.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

Right, now I know they don't do that anymore.

SPEAKER_06 31:56

Oh I don't know. I thought it was cool. And when we when me and Maria would get her phone, we'd be like, okay, let's watch Avatar. And then I never watched it full out until I was older.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

Because it was porn?

SPEAKER_06 32:07

No. Oh, because it was Avatar. Have you ever seen Titanic? Yeah. Yeah, so good. I watched that with uh my aunt.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

Did you see the one where um I watched it like five times in the movie? Did you see the one where um he knocks the girl off the door the door and he gets on it and she does?

SPEAKER_04 32:21

Yes, it was AI. That's called AI. Here's another thing I don't like about boomers. They don't know when it's fake. Oh, yes, we do. AI. No, no, not we do.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

We know when it's fake.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

But not everybody. No.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

Yes, we know when it's fake.

SPEAKER_05 32:37

On the other hand, I don't like when you read a story on frickin' uh Facebook and you think it's real, then you have to go cross-check it on the internet, and it turns out it's a lie. Yeah. And like, why do you put out stories that are made up? And then after clicks, because you spent the time reading it.

SPEAKER_00 32:52

You know what? Today, I downloaded uh Claude AI. Claude. You know what Claude AI? It's like the newest AI app you can get. It's like 20 bucks, it does everything for you. It you could produce anything.

SPEAKER_04 33:05

I just heard of that from a colleague today.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

You could produce any, it's like 20 bucks a month, but it's you could produce anything. You put in what you want, and it'll produce uh a character. They they have a movie. We were talking about today. We heard on the radio on uh MS Now that uh a complete movie that was submitted for an award show or uh whatever for awards. I think I don't I don't know what awards, but cans or something like that. Completely AI. It's a movie. I'm so upset about this because I don't think that AI should be involved in producing movies. Well, that's the problem. Yeah, it takes away from actors, it takes away from writers, it takes it takes away the creativity. Whoa, and it's the whole idea of the arts. Yeah, it's creative artwork for from individuals. And it's why would you want a computer to produce something that's completely soulless? You know what I mean? It's that's nuts. I mean, I'm a boomer and I think that that's just completely wrong.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

No, it it because it is wrong. It's fucked up, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 34:08

Well, and I think uh the biggest thing I know in like Wisconsin is um they're trying to put like in like an AI building because it needs water.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

You mean a data center?

SPEAKER_06 34:20

Yeah, like in Milwaukee on a river walk, uh-huh. Like clearly in the middle of like boats and like the scenery, and it's just like we don't want that. Like, I I will admit I use AI for certain things in school. Yeah, absolutely. But like I feel like that's always what Ceres was Siri was or Katana or Alexa or Katana from Mortal Kombat? No, from Google. Like I feel like that's just what it is, but they wanted to but they wanted to do more with it, so that's how we got at least that's how I think it is, but I don't know. I don't think I don't like it.

SPEAKER_04 35:01

It's creepy.

SPEAKER_00 35:02

It is.

SPEAKER_05 35:02

I mean I okay, I have a question. What do you guys feel about traditions? Ooh. Because I well, yeah, because you were talking about what we don't like about the other ones. And I feel that anyone after Gen X, you guys don't believe in traditions.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

I mean that's true.

SPEAKER_05 35:25

I think I mean it's we grew up with traditions doing things regularly on a regular basis. You know, you did this on the holidays, or you did this, you know, going to church on a regular basis. And it's like after our generation, everything's like immediate gratification. If it doesn't suit your your moment or your schedule, forget it. They're not doing it. But you know what? We visit the cemeteries. I can't see the younger ones doing that. No, it's creepy. No. No, it's not. I mean, but time dissolves.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

Time dissolves all that. It really does. I mean, think about it. You know, the traditions that I have were handed down by my parents. I've tried to keep those, and I know they'll die with me, because I don't even have, you know, pretty much I don't pretty much don't have a family. You know, now it's just you, my daughter. No, it's my daughter and you know, uh her kids and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_05 36:22

But as far as like, you know, my parents are gone and the rest of the family is pretty much, you know, but I'm saying is like if I like my mom's buried and you know, like on Mother's Day, you know, we used to go to the cemetery all the time and and go to the grave, sacred flowers or whatever. You know, same thing from you know, my dad. But I can't see like my child's not gonna do that if I end up undergoing.

SPEAKER_00 36:47

Yeah, but your child has completely No, I'm not talking about that.

SPEAKER_05 36:49

You know it's not only my child. No, no, I'm just well, Jess doesn't go to the the mausoleum to go visit. No, because I don't want to see people there.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

There are no people dead corpses.

SPEAKER_04 37:00

No, there's people that go every day, and I don't want to see them.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

They don't go every day anymore. I feel like I I Well like tomorrow, like tomorrow's my mom's my mom's birthday. I'm going, and I don't care who I see. You know, I'm I you know I I just go because my mom okay.

SPEAKER_04 37:15

Here's the difference is I think as we get further down the generation, right? You know, like for me, I think people become more spiritual and don't feel like you have to go to a physical place to remember those people. Like, same thing with like church, right? I just don't think I think people become more spiritual and they don't believe in like a um a guy with a beard and the yeah, that, but also just like you don't have to go to a cemetery to remember that person. Well, no, that's you can remember them all the time if you want. And some people aren't even in cemeteries, some people carry around the ashes, you know, like their house or whatever.

SPEAKER_05 37:57

Yeah, my sister's with her son.

SPEAKER_06 37:58

But I don't know. I feel like I am the opposite because like I feel like growing up with Johnny with your family, like we and like we had like the big Christmases and we what good that did. Well, no, no, but we did big Christmases, we went to church on um that we did Thanksgiving, we did all these holidays, and like I know like with everything that happened with our family, like we don't really do that stuff or at all anymore. That like when my mom um like one year we went for with your family for Easter, that like completely threw me and Maria off because we're used to having like it with like your family. Well, I'll say our family, but like our your family that we like would go to church, um, you know, we'll be late or whatever, but then we would go you had a divide cemetery the two sides. Yeah, we would go to cemetery and then we would go to like the Easter brunch and then we would go home and all fall asleep. Like that was something like I want to bring to my kids when I'm my future kids because I think that's a beautiful tradition. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

Yeah, you should bring, you know what? I think whatever you remember and you want to keep, you can keep. Yeah. Because everybody evolves, everybody has their own way of thinking, everybody has okay, yeah. I like those traditions, but you know what? Things fracture, families fracture, you know. Now it's just, you know, us.

SPEAKER_05 39:23

Yeah, but it's not a matter of fact, families fracturing. People get divided, they do their own thing. They don't when our parents were around, everyone was together. Everyone went to one place, you know, whether and we included aunts and uncles, um, and we all went to one place and celebrated.

SPEAKER_06 39:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:41

Now it's like when we got to a certain age, my brother, who's this is his next one down. We're boomers, he's a Gen X. He's 70. He doesn't believe in religion. And now I don't even talk to him about it because we debate about it going back and forth. But we were raised by the same parents.

SPEAKER_06 40:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:01

You know, so he does his uh traditions different with his girls. And I try to follow what my mom taught me. Well, now I have to battle John because he wants to do his traditions, I want to do my traditions. Um but it's just different. I don't see it being carried forward. And like his girls also don't believe in religion. And it's just a shame that that's being lost. Because I am not hardcore with my religion. I like Jessica said, I believe that I can be spiritual anywhere. But I still respect the church enough, at least on the holidays, I try to go, but because of my physical shortcomings right now, I don't.

SPEAKER_06 40:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:49

But it would be something I like, my son won't go to church. And it's it's just very discouraging.

SPEAKER_06 40:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:54

And I feel like we're gonna just lose all our traditions.

SPEAKER_04 40:58

Yeah, but I don't think your traditions have to center around church. No, no, I'm just I used that as an example.

SPEAKER_05 41:03

Yeah, she's yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:04

For me, I feel like traditions is about spending the time with the people that you love and making, you know, an effort. And you know, it like the every time I say, okay, my birthday is coming up, or like Christmas or Easter, I don't care what we do. I just want to be able to spend time together. Like you don't, I don't want presents, I don't need anything, but like let's just go out to dinner or like come over and hang out. Like, that's for me more important than going to a physical location and feel like I'm fulfilling something that someone expects of me.

unknown 41:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:44

True. Word. Word.

SPEAKER_00 41:48

No, I I agree.

SPEAKER_01 41:49

I completely agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

I mean, Joey, do you think that you know down the road you're you're ever gonna have like some traditions that you're going to does your mom have any traditions?

SPEAKER_05 42:02

Yeah, they go see the grandparents on every Thanksgiving. But it's not really a is it? That's true.

SPEAKER_04 42:07

It's a thing. She goes every Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

She goes. Um, I try to go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:14

Sometimes I don't try. I sometimes stay home. Yeah. Uh but uh yeah, I mean, there's that.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

Well, now you got uh a pussy to take care of, right? Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

That's true. I do have a his name's Jerry. He's awesome. Yeah. Great, great cat.

SPEAKER_04 42:29

Well, Easter I usually host. You host a lot. Christmas Eve I host.

SPEAKER_01 42:34

Right. Yeah, you host a lot. It's awesome. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:36

Um, yeah. So I mean, usually And she says prayers.

SPEAKER_05 42:41

Right. We do pray at the time.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

It's very, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:44

I do. That is true. And I what we always say what we're thankful for.

SPEAKER_05 42:47

Yeah, but it's not like no, but it's a tradition she's showing her boys. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:52

Right. And they'll remember that. And they, you know, down the road, they may say, Okay, I want to do something like that. So you you you get to start making tamales on Christmas.

SPEAKER_06 43:00

No. Yeah, well, see, that's something like I think that's what I like about tradition, is that like you don't have to make up what you're gonna do every year, if that makes sense. Like you could change what like game, what movie we're seeing, but like every year we're gonna go to the guys' house, we're gonna do Christmas, and then spend the whole week in there. And we're gonna open our toys, and some of them are gonna leave because they're gonna go get like their discount places until like you're on your own this year. Yeah, you know, like that's something like that was you know, you got to look forward to not having to plan anything.

SPEAKER_05 43:33

Well that had that what she's describing hasn't happened in oh god, a long time.

SPEAKER_04 43:38

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:39

Even before your dad passed.

SPEAKER_04 43:40

Also, guess what, PB? That's because you were a child. Now you're an adult, and when you have your own family, you're gonna have to do your own things and figure out your own traditions.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

You're gonna build your own traditions, you're gonna do your you'll be the same. But you'll remember the things that you did as a child and maybe incorporate that in your own life. Yeah, you know, like The thing is, I was stuck with a certain situation and I always wanted to keep those traditions also. Yeah. You know, but at some point in your life you gotta say, you know, things are not gonna work out.

SPEAKER_04 44:12

So here's something that I think of is a boomer thing is you guys hold on to things and situations like because it's it's some sort of loyalty thing or like an emotional thing. And it's like I I can think of a situation uh with my in-laws where they held on to this place because of history or because of you know, they had memories there, but this it wasn't a livable place, and it it was like so far away from where we lived. It's like a seven or eight hour drive. And instead of like investing the time and effort into making new memories with somewhere where you can go closer by with your family, it's like they held on to this notion of what was, and it's like it to me that does not make sense.

SPEAKER_05 45:12

Boomers tend to live in the past, yes, yeah, yeah, they really do. But it's because they I can cherish the mem the good memories from the past, but move on.

SPEAKER_01 45:22

Thank you. For real, because yeah, there's awesome stuff from the past, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

Definitely, well, the past makes who you are. That's true. But you don't have to live it verbatim every day.

SPEAKER_01 45:34

But also, okay, this is a boomer thing that drives me nuts. Um I know can I hear a news story, please? Can I hear a news story that I haven't heard 10 fucking times before?

SPEAKER_05 45:45

I know exactly. But you know what he's saying, you know. Those are our memories. That's the only thing we got to do.

SPEAKER_04 45:51

Yeah, I have a lot of memories. Your memories.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Yeah, and okay, cool. But like ten times in a year.

SPEAKER_04 45:58

Oh, I agree.

SPEAKER_01 45:59

I agree, dude. Come on. And also, um, maybe try checking out some new media forms of media once in a while. Like maybe there's actually some cool stuff you just gotta you gotta find. Do you say me?

SPEAKER_04 46:13

Media.

SPEAKER_01 46:14

Media.

SPEAKER_04 46:16

This is what I'm talking about, is like forming new things. Yes, stop holding on to what you know, and I know that's difficult to say because everyone has their hangups, but like you you're so engrossed with what has been, what was, and you wanna hold on to that instead of venturing out and doing something new for yourself. Like you need to make your own self. That's one thing I think millennials are really good at is they try to self-discover because we do therapies. Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_00 46:49

Oh, yeah. But I think you I think you rely on that too much as far as being your own person. I think you rely on having somebody tell you something about yourself that you don't already know.

SPEAKER_04 47:02

Okay, first of all, that is exactly why you don't understand therapy. That is not do I need to? Yes, if that's how you're describing it, I go to therapy too.

SPEAKER_00 47:12

I don't need somebody to tell me that, hey, John, you're a great guy. That's not what therapy is, though.

SPEAKER_04 47:17

If that's what therapy is to you, then you have the wow, wow.

SPEAKER_01 47:22

That's not that's not even close to what therapy is.

SPEAKER_05 47:24

John does not understand shortcomings or disorders.

SPEAKER_00 47:28

Because I deal with my own.

SPEAKER_06 47:31

How is that working out for those?

SPEAKER_00 47:33

It's pretty good. But but everybody's different though. Yeah, pretty good.

SPEAKER_06 47:37

But boomers couldn't say, like, I feel sad today. Yes, right.

SPEAKER_00 47:41

Whereas if something And if you did, you dealt with it because you know what? You had to. Back then in our day and age, we didn't have therapy. We had to either deal with it or not.

SPEAKER_04 47:54

Exactly, but we have it now where you can deal with it. That's why you can get the high.

SPEAKER_00 47:59

That's why you developed ticks back then. But my my but do you really but do millennials rely on somebody tell them telling them something that they already know what they have or they how to do it? Obviously, they don't if they're going up to a right, and it's uh exactly, yeah. Instead, you know, you deal with life as it comes, and in and you know, that's it.

SPEAKER_04 48:21

You know, it's not that okay. Your whole entire thought process on therapy and mental health is a completely boomer reaction. No, it's a John reaction.

SPEAKER_05 48:32

No, it's a boomer. My character I've experienced it with my son. I've taken him to the city.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

But you have a different situation though.

SPEAKER_05 48:39

He has a son and he has depression, he has anxiety, like bad. And he's gay. But I have a lot of things going on.

SPEAKER_06 48:47

You need to be um like in a home. Yeah. Like where now it's like if you're sad or you are, you know, have uh you're just spitting things out, that could be cured, or you are you have dealt with something in the past where you you need to figure it out now.

SPEAKER_04 49:03

How many times have you heard of stories of mothers who've had postpartum depression who just committed suicide because they didn't know where to go or how to get help or what was wrong with them?

SPEAKER_06 49:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 49:14

Or the fact that they hid a disorder because it was an embarrassment to do that. Exactly. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

All right, but let me ask you this. Um, how many times did you hear of boomers or the silent uh generation have the problems that millennials and Gen Zs have today?

SPEAKER_04 49:33

A lot. The issue. Exactly right. And it's not that they didn't have the issue, it's that they weren't getting the assistance that they needed. That's correct. And they didn't talk about it. They didn't talk about it. That's why they're called the silent generation because they're burying it down. Burying it. Okay, but who all the assignments? But who are you? And it burdened their kids to having those things.

SPEAKER_00 49:54

Okay, but who are who are the ones that are shooting up uh schools and the people that are killing themselves and all that? It's not boomers or silence.

SPEAKER_04 50:03

It is fucking serious? There is mass shootings.

SPEAKER_01 50:09

Was he a boom killer? Yes! He was a Gen X. No, he was a boomer.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

It was a boomer.

SPEAKER_01 50:15

And okay, there are serial killers, there were mass shootings, and there were plenty of suicides back then.

SPEAKER_04 50:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 50:20

But oh and and and those degree that is today.

SPEAKER_04 50:23

No, we know about it more today because of social media.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

Because it's more documented. Well, and also. But there is still there are still plenty of grotesque shit back in the day.

SPEAKER_05 50:32

Marilyn Monroe committed suicide. Come on. Yes, they didn't have Marilyn Monroe committed suicide. Well, no, Judy Garland was overdosed.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

She was oft. Come on. Marilyn Monroe? Marilyn Monroe. Okay, those are celebrity examples. Yeah, those are, yeah. She was a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 50:46

But still, but still, though, there was plenty of suicides. There's a oft.

SPEAKER_05 50:51

How many of these celebrities, and now the only reason I mentioned them is because they were in the forefront and people talked about it and knew more details because of the gossip. Didn't Alvis get hooked on drugs in that? Why? Because he had issues that he didn't confront. Same thing with Marilyn Monroe. Same thing with Judy Garland.

SPEAKER_06 51:07

If you go down the line, Robin Williams committed suicide. I feel like they were a lot more hospitals. You know, you know, you're into paranormal. So, like, a lot of those places that paranormal people go to are sane asylums that used to just hose people house people that like who had post- or were epileptic.

SPEAKER_04 51:28

Yeah, because they were being considered less than, yeah. They were just sent to a home because people didn't know how to deal with that or didn't know.

SPEAKER_06 51:34

The the silent generation and you know, the boomers, and this is why Joey has the problem with the staring with boomers, is that they didn't have like they they couldn't, they had to be normal, they had to be like the perfect person. That's true, and that's what we saw in like Leave It to Beaver. Um be like everybody else. Yeah, be like everybody. You have to stick with like the realm where now millennials are like teaching their children that oh, you can be sensitive, you can have a rap, you can like talk to your teachers, you can talk about whatever you want with me because I'm gonna be there for you. Gen Z is starting to realize that we can post anything we want, we might get reprimanded by society, but we're still going to have our thoughts and opinions. And then Alpha, they're only knowing social media, they're only gonna know that I can only say my mom gave me um a timeout today. They're gonna post that. Where violent generation and literally boomers could not do any of that. Well, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:37

Yeah, I just gotta say that if I were in a different generation, I would have been put in a home for sure.

SPEAKER_04 52:43

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:44

I no, for real, I would have been put in a home with what I have. Like, no, no, no doubt about it. Like I'm it's actually kind of scary to think about.

SPEAKER_04 52:53

I wouldn't be around.

SPEAKER_00 52:54

Yeah, me neither. See, when I was going to school, they wanted to put me in a special program.

SPEAKER_04 53:00

And they should have.

SPEAKER_00 53:01

And they didn't. Because I don't.

SPEAKER_04 53:05

By punching a nun?

SPEAKER_00 53:06

You know what? There is a t-shirt that I'm gonna get next time we're we're all together. It's boomers. Uh they dealt with all sorts of shit. They um uh it's a really cool shirt, but it says on there that boomers dealt with all sorts of shit, that they uh put up with all sorts of shit, and they they're not they weren't lazy, they were they were go-getters and all that. In today's generation, I think things have fallen off quite a bit. I mean, all you have to do is look at society today as far as like the music that's being put out, the the the movies that have no creativity. I mean, we had The Godfather, we had, you know, uh Dog Day Afternoon.

SPEAKER_04 53:49

Back in live day.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

Yeah, I mean, we had really good movies that had creativity. Now they're basically rebooting every fucking movie that that was done 20 years ago. There's no creativity, and AI, now AI is gonna help you masturbate, you know, because they can't.

SPEAKER_04 54:06

Oh god. Here's my final comment. Just because you did deal with it doesn't mean you have to deal with it alone. I deal with it. Your mouth hole doesn't mean that you needed to cope without having any type of I'm not saying just you. I'm just saying it doesn't mean that you have to deal with it alone or not know where to go. And I am very, very thankful that my kids have all resources if they need it. Yeah and that we have resources that we need it in case we need it, because I did need it, and I know Joey needed it, and I'm so thankful that my kids are able to dip into that if they need to. And I don't think there's anything wrong with saying like I need help, yeah, and I can't deal with this alone, and there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean you're less than, or that you can't cope or deal with life, it just means that you need some help.

SPEAKER_01 55:02

Yeah, everybody needs help. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_04 55:06

Amen. Okay. Any other way it doesn't make you a man to say, I just dealt with it and I pushed it down, and one day I'm gonna swake up.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

I had a boner and I couldn't get it down.

SPEAKER_04 55:25

Okay. All I'm saying is there's nothing wrong with meeting them.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

And that's why there are different generations, because we all dealt with things differently. Nothing.

SPEAKER_04 55:35

And because you didn't deal with it, maybe that means because I that's why I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 55:40

I'm saying in general, I'm saying in general, we all, every generation dealt with their own problems in their own way, and and it's always gonna be like that. You know what I mean? Every generations past Gen Z are gonna deal with life in their way. I dealt with life in my way and the boomers' way, and Gen X dealt with theirs and all that.

SPEAKER_04 56:02

So I mean, because that's the resources that you have.

SPEAKER_00 56:04

Right, and that's fine. And that's fine. I mean, and what all I'm saying is that yes, they have the resources, and tomorrow there's gonna be different resources, and they're gonna be able to tap into that. We didn't have that. We dealt with life the way it came. We were able to go out, have a great time at the park without being uh you thinking that someone's gonna fucking abduct you or rape you or something. But that did happen.

SPEAKER_04 56:28

But it did happen. That's the whole point.

SPEAKER_00 56:31

But it happened like very few. You could go out. It happened more. No, Dad, it happened tons in the 70s. No, look at the stats. The today, that could happen anytime. Back then, you could go out to the park, look at all the stuff that came out in the 70s, 80s. You can go to the park, have a great time with your friends and all that, and not worry about it like look around you.

SPEAKER_04 56:53

Yeah, you wouldn't worry about it because you didn't know about it. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 56:57

All the kids had everything back then. No, all the kids, all the kids back then had a great time. They played in the the water. It was a simpler time.

SPEAKER_04 57:06

It was simpler because they didn't have it shoved down your throat like they have it now.

SPEAKER_00 57:10

But that doesn't mean that it's got to be shoving it down your throat. That's why.

SPEAKER_04 57:14

But Dad, to say that you are having a blind eye. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 57:19

Social media is shoving it down your throat.

SPEAKER_04 57:20

But we're it's because we're aware of it more. It doesn't mean it didn't happen back then. It just means that we're aware of it more because of social media and the news and everything. You cannot tell me that that shit didn't happen back then. It certainly didn't.

SPEAKER_00 57:34

All right, give me the stats that says there were 20,000 shootings back in the 70s. I thought we were talking about 20,000 shootings in the middle.

SPEAKER_05 57:42

There were riots in the 70s.

SPEAKER_00 57:45

But those are riots.

SPEAKER_05 57:46

They were 50s. Think about the civil uh there was woodstocks.

SPEAKER_00 57:49

There were shootings at schools.

SPEAKER_05 57:52

There was wood stocks, there was guys pimping girls out left and right. Come on. No woodstocks.

SPEAKER_00 57:55

Yeah, look at New York in the 70s. I mean, that place is a concert.

SPEAKER_05 57:59

Honey, no, no, no. You know what you didn't hear about a lot of it? Your parents shielded.

SPEAKER_06 58:04

I was gonna say because I think I think that's the you didn't live in the city.

SPEAKER_00 58:09

I went to college, I studied a lot of the stuff.

SPEAKER_06 58:12

Our generation don't be telling me that I that I don't know what I'm talking about. If they're not saying it yet, like I that's a perfect example. Like Woodstock, if I heard about it, oh, it's the 70s. Like that one was fine. Woodstock 90s, it's different. That was way worse. Right. The amount of children that went and got assaulted, like that's totally something we all know now, where your generation just didn't know about that.

SPEAKER_04 58:37

Okay, but let me ask you, you are you're telling me that like um rapes didn't happen back then.

SPEAKER_00 58:43

It did happen.

SPEAKER_04 58:44

Give me a fucking burden.

SPEAKER_00 58:46

They weren't as you know, plentiful as they are today.

SPEAKER_04 58:50

False. No, completely didn't have that.

SPEAKER_01 58:53

That's happened since the dawn of man. Completely that that's happened since the beginning of mankind.

SPEAKER_04 58:58

Yes, on a frequent basis. Yes, yes, okay, it just wasn't documented.

SPEAKER_01 59:02

Yes. I mean, look at New York in the 70s. I mean, that place is a cesspool of all different kinds of filth.

SPEAKER_05 59:08

It was just more of a man's world, so they didn't talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 59:11

I mean, and women didn't want to talk about it. Think about all the shit they're going on now because yeah, it was an embarrassment.

SPEAKER_06 59:17

Like, I don't mean to bring it up.

SPEAKER_04 59:18

It wasn't like embarrassing.

SPEAKER_06 59:19

The Bible has a lot of it too.

SPEAKER_04 59:22

Right. Where the Bible is a story that we're put together by humans, but okay.

SPEAKER_06 59:28

No, but what I mean is that like if the Bible boomers we just didn't have a word for it back then, where now we do, and like people are like, oh my god, I'm getting into a little too much, but like it like people got married younger. Right. That should not happen now. They were married off. Yeah, they were married off, they were arranged marriage, or like like 12-year-olds should not be getting married. 22-year-olds maybe get married. If you're between 20 and 30, like that's a well that only happens if you're a Republican. Or a Mormon. Or a Mormon. Or a Mormon, I guess, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:03

No, someone just let their 16-year-old marry some guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:06

Well, didn't that happen to Elvis? I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:08

To who? Elvis.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:09

No. This is recently. Priscilla was 15.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:12

No, that was Priscilla, and that was she they weren't uh uh he hadn't met her, he hadn't married her till she was in her 20s, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:20

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:21

Nope. Her parents No, he didn't marry, he was like 32 when he got married, and she was like 28. You had to wait until she was legal. Right, that's what I'm saying. No, it's like married.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:32

As long as her parents signed for it. Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:35

You're making this shit up.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:37

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:39

Don't be desecrating, Gracelyn.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:44

Priscilla. Yeah, Elvis was 32, Priscilla was 21.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:48

Yeah, see? I know my shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:52

But they were together. They were. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:55

Hang on, let's put on some.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:57

Let's put on some ills.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:58

No, time to wrap it up.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:00

Uh hook, uh hook, a burning love. Well, thank you very much for listening. We'll see you next week. Um actually, uh, we'll probably be coming back with a 4th of July episode uh after this one. So we'll be in costume.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:12

She was 14.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:13

Yeah, I think that's when it met.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:15

When they met. Yeah. And started dating.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:18

But they didn't have any fornication until after. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:21

Bullshit. Yeah, right. Honestly. On that note.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:24

Well, you know what? When we do the paranormal stuff, then we'll ask Elvis from from beyond.

unknown 1:01:28

Oh God.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:29

He was 25. We'll see. If they got married, she was he was 32 and she was 21.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:38

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:38

That's an 11-year difference.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:40

Right. So think about it. When she was 14.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:43

He was 25.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:45

Insane. Good personity.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:47

That's sick. Yeah. That's actually kind of sick.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:49

All right. Thank you for listening. And we love ya. Go get help if you need it.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:54

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