Im starting to think anyone who grew up in the 70s 80s and 90s lived in the best period in human history to date. Best music , movies , tv and relatively safe freedom as a kid.
No wars was big, I suppose. My dad would have been to Nam' if not for a motorcycle accident crushing his foot. And no social media to worry about. If we did something stupid, as kids will do, we didn't have to worry about someone catching it on camera and it going viral.
Absolutely Correct! 👍🏼👍🏼 I'm in my 50's and don't give a BLEEP! These Millennial Pansies couldn't imagine what Gen Xer's had to grow up with and survive and enjoyed every moment of it! 😁😁
@@sweezlesquee That makes some sense. In the 90's and 2000's, I was too involved in my life to pay much attention to the World- Until Oblama was emplaced and started to gradually Destroy it! Then, by 8 years of that crap, I finally started to get serious, found out about Arkanscides, etc, and voted for the first time- For Trump! I fear many of us have been basically distracted, and now it might be Too Late.
@@erikdeeNOSPELLSNOI agree 100 percent. Boomers are too old, and the others are too soft. Distrust is at an all time high right now and we have plenty of experience!
The only time gen x wanted t.v. was for wrestling and weekend cartoons. The other 99% of the time we were in the woods with sticks commencing medieval battles.
GenX was the first generation to become familiar with the VERY rapid development of technology, and grew up knowing they had to keep up. Which is why there's 50 year old parents who not only are building their kids PC's, but still remember how to set the time on a VCR. We can set up a VPN, beat Super Mario Brothers in one life, fix a roof and toilet, and were there when Tool and Rage Against the Machine were brand new (not just being "rediscovered"). Fear us - we're bullet proof.
Yep, I knew in high school when I sat there with a Walkman, portable TV, brick phone, calculator, video camera, that it would all be on a device the size of my wallet some day.
I was born in 1980, FAFO should have been on a banner in our house…unless it made you look like a whore.👀 I love the 80’s. I couldn’t wear nail polish, but our parents would lock us out of the house until dinner time in the summer🤣. We weren’t allowed to curse, but we watched “Die Hard”,Child’s Play”, and “Nightmare On Elm Street” as a family…. Oh AND “Purple Rain”! 👀 We were too grateful to our parents to point out the contradictions. 😂 The fact that I can afford therapy should be evidence that I turned out just fine😬
Our dads used that phrase to encourage us. Our mothers used it as a warning not to disobey them. And our friends used it as a way to get us to do the dumbest sh*t. And they all taught the same lesson actions have consequences but no one promised you'd enjoy the consequences.
"My job to translate between the generation"... I literally said that verbatim a couple days ago at work... I work with a 22yr old who has no real world experience and surprisingly doesn't know some ofthemore rudimentaryfunctions of computers (like what Tab does or what a Zip File is)... And a 60yr old who complains every few minutes about his computer being stupid because he has 40yrs worth of real world skills, but now he's supposed to do it on a machine he barely knows how to use... I gave the applicable aforementioned speech of "The best way for this team to work together is for me to translate between the two of you" Surprisingly they BOTH openly embraced it and we've been getting along great so far. 😁
"I had to print out 28 pages of MapQuest" TRUTH! Then staple them together and hopefully flip through them during the drive without causing an accident.
This is why Generation X was not considered to have general computer knowledge until like 5 years ago; why Generation Y is the standard generation about "Mom can't do shit and millennials design shit stupidly on purpose", rather then Generation X being chosen for most tech support. (Plus any Gen X that could do tech support would have to be an actual nerd, instead of how almost any member of Gen Y can do even when "my mom has a Facebook account and that's bad" was still "true".) Exactly how are you using MapQuest that you manage to print "47 pages" instead of 2-3? And if it takes an entire page or more to get to the closet 40-mph road, then why you are you including those pages in your print job? You literally can't even exclude the unnecessary pages from a print job or print without images (and even if you include the images, how the hell do you possibly get enough pages to expand the joke to 47 EVEN THEN?), yet you think you're tech support instead of Generation Y? I mean yeah sure you might just have the stupidest relatives on Earth, but when your criteria is generations that's not about your relatives. And by the way, millennials are MORE likely then Generation X to know tech shit as long as it's on a computer. Because they actually you know USED the computer (not at work, and not with some weird internal OS) before like 2018. They were themeing their Tumblr blogs and shit. A non-nerd and non-job-related Gen X'er probably doesn't know any HTML at all. Sure the number of non-geek Gen Y who knows HTML for text is only 20% higher probably, but at least almost every member of Gen Y can actually print shit, or whatever else the non-computer-using Gen X was typically doing "colloquially Boonerish" before a very very late year! If you were a normie but were online randomly for an hour, you maybe even used AOL chatrooms!
GenX who raised 2 GenZ, and I'm disappointed about my work as a parent. Two anxious teens that don't want to leave the house. I'm still trying to find out where I failed.
Same, I've got no idea either. I even restricted screen time to less than my Nintendo playing brother ever had & arranged my life so I was way more available than my parents were, but not a helicopter. Maybe it's just too much knowing w/o knowing enough...& that can change, so there's hope.
Maybe sharing some of your own story or just reflecting on it whatever’s comfortable , you can protect them from the world but still show it to them.. idk, anyway, thanks for sharing that, I wish everyone would just lay it down like that, and be respected for it, and work it out, but not everyone does give respect, helps when picking friends i guess , anyways haha, muuuaaaahhh❤ ☮️
"Gen X is a generation nobody messes with for a reason. Their rock stars committed suicide, loved heroine, and dressed like lumberjacks. Their rappers murdered each other. Their parents raised them by just opening the front door Friday night and vaguely making sure they returned home for school by Monday. Unlike the millennials, nobody cared about their trauma, and unlike Baby Boomers, their economy has sucked enough that they've had plenty of it. They know how to survive in a world before internet, cell phones, and people caring about offensive words, but they're young enough that they had to learn all the above to stay employed. They don't give a damn about generational identity because they saw their Boomer parents do that in the 60's as a shallow self-congratulatory exercise that solved nothing. Then they've seen Millennials distracted with narcissistic self-worship and self-involvement that's no better. Gen X is left alone because they don't care about the spotlight enough to be noticed. But it's unwise to mess with people who don't care about the spotlight, because that means they don't care about responding to your sh*t in a popular way. Gen X is perfectly fine with you giving their response to you a 1-star rating and an unsubscribe."- Henry Rollins
LOL, Henry tooting his insufferable BS. Projecting. Don't forget, gen x also destroyed good rock and gave Canada (with Castro's help) Trudeau. If he wasn't so egocentric, he'd have realized that the generations before had lived through his time, AND theirs. DA
Thank you this made me laugh because when I was an attendant anyone who drove past the signs on the highway for the zoo and were lost. I'd send them in the wrong direction for not being observant. Keep in mind there was about ten signs the size of an SUV saying the exit to get off at back in the day.
1969 Gen X metalhead D&D nerd here. We learned not to trust the government. We saw the TV lie about the Dungeons and Dragons we played and the Judas Priest and Ozzy we listened to. We had racism on the ropes. We laughed at racist jokes about others and ourselves but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. The person making the hard-core racist jokes usually got the hint nobody was laughing with him and occasionally he got knocked out. Anthrax and Public Enemy onstage together was a good example of the vibe. Too much togetherness isn't good for those at the top sticking it to us so Division became the game again. Politicians been playing that game since forever but Telecommunications Act in 96 made it much easier to control the info and keep the division going. They are doing the ae thing now with the Restrict Act. Don't let the TV, tablet, phone or Teacher make you hate your neighbor. Keep talking and keep thinking, People. Chris Forever Young
I remember the racist jokes and also thinking out right racists were idiots. Taught older people to not say colored and then these dips brought it back In 2016. Bizarre.
@@daveshore8671 I'm pretty sure the “dips” who brought it back, aren't who YOU think. Or even who is actually offended by the words. I'd bet you teach older people SHIT. And are probably part of the crowd behind (ignorantly) the periodic name switching.
Racism was on life support, the left and especially Obama recisutated it for political purposes and to weaken the people, everything the op said is spot on.
Shit I was born in 65 and me and my black friends would tear each other apart with racist jokes, we would just laugh and no one was bothered by it. One friend asked me and my brother to get off his cough when his son came in, we were like damn nigga whatcha gotta be racist for 😂 He was pulling a sawed off out from under the couch to sell to his son 😂😂😂
@@jasonrhodes9726 the commercial first aired in 1973 along with its accompanying jingle. Our boy on the dock with bologna on his line. The 1965 commercial was “Oh, I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener…”. That was a cartoon.
Gen X ghosting was Letting the answering machine take your phone calls 😂while you screened. Plus we were better with numbers because we had to remember every damn phone number of every person we ever knew 😂
I STILL remember all the numbers of all my friends from middle school but NO numbers from after I got a pocket monitor. It's great for when I have to change passwords every 90 days. The name of someone I haven't spoken to in 35 years + a 10 digit number that has long since been assigned to some random.
Back in high school, I'd get off the bus and start calling girls lol I could remember dozens of phone numbers easily, now I can barely remember my own, technology ruined the entire culture of this country, and now we're circling the drain
This is a great comedy routine that could be a TED Talk. He nails the dynamics between the generations. Also he forgot Michael J. Fox in his list of Michaels.
Just want to clarify GenX starts at 1965. I was born in 68. Right after the assassinations of MLK Jr & RFK, & Vietnam was still happening, although I was to young to recall that. I was listening to the Jackson Five & little Michael when I was 4-5 yrs old.
Yeah, all of the comedians who talk about Gen X seem to be from the latter half of our generation, growing up in the 1980s. Those of us born in 1965 had quite a different life from those who were born when we had reached high school in 1979. Some of us were indeed alive during the Vietnam War and watched the moon landing in real time at an age old enough to remember afterwards. As for Michael Jackson, “Off the Wall” came out at the perfect time for me to appreciate it, and the “Thriller” album was in those last two years of high school.
All my friends growing up had brothers or cousins who had been to Vietnam and came home flucked for life....and when I was in the school we were told to hide under our wooden desks to save our lives in the event of a direct nuclear strike.....and had drills doing it. I remember Old alzheimer ridden reagen telling the russians "bring it"....and wondering if I would live another week/month/year. yeah gen x...I guess
Jason is hilarious and hit the nail on the head. I'm a 52-year-old Gen X and everything he said, I connected with. The only thing he didn't bring up was Boomers lived in the time of free love, but Gen X lived in the time of sex equals death (AIDS), because there were no good treatments until the mid 90s.
born in 69 Pussy literally fell from the sky on my D in the entire 80s decade. It was insane. I was a dead ringer for Sean Cassidy + Scott Baio love child so that helped. Pretty crazy time for me.
As generation x, we ghosted all the time , it was easy . No cell phones , 🤷♀️ We didn’t answer the phone , and it was easy to forget a number just rip it up ,
That didn't work for most of us, because they'd find us outside in the world. Always that one annoying fk you couldn't shake, & if you did then another annoying fk would take their place...
Hey! I'm a Gen X born 1966. I do remember the Vietnam War. As a 7 year old I thought the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkheit was about Vietnam. A Gen X 70s memory.
Taking my hard EARNED allowance to the hood 7/11 for the newly Ordained "Super Big Gulp" on the way to what my mom assumed was the pool in the Summer....It was actually a railroad bridge spanning the Spokane River near downtown perfect for jumping off of. I was 11, and that was 85'. W3 learned how to be Self Sufficient, instead of self indulgent. Self important.Self Centered! I wholeheartedly approve of this response!
I'm GenX and went K - 5 at a school that was later closed down for asbestos removal and the playground was demolished for having 40 times the limit of lead paint on the equipment.
I think we should take Gen Z, drop them off in the 80’s and they have to live like we did. No phones, locked out until dinner. They would last a week, and that’s giving them 6 days. If you know, you know.
GenX OG here. My dad fought in Vietnam. I grew up with that and the aftermath of him checking out of our lives, forever. He was not dead, just could not make connections with other people. Actually, this is true of my Boomer mom, as well. It was more important for them to appear as the smartest one in the room, than to be right. My friends fought in the First Gulf weekend with, yes, the OG Bush, the good one. Mapquest was hilarious. Then trying to track progress on the 28 pages, not printed to any scale with the first 17 pages to get on the interstate. Locally, I kept a map and a phone book in my car to find things.
"I did grow up Generation-X with the gender fluid music...so I might not understand what you're saying but I'm still gonna listen because I'm not gonna miss the next Purple Rain..." You know, there's a tremendous amount of respect in that one line. We don't have to understand others to appreciate what they have to offer. As it's always been, the real humor is just in seeing the truth of the times we live in.
I never bought into any of the grownups bullshit praise OR condemnation. It's a personality flaw that those kids want to believe they're the best thing in the world.
We were getting participation trophies in 1980, my first season a little league baseball. Not sure where this myth that not everyone got a trophy back then comes from. I lived in small town Texas growing up, the same kind of place where people brag that not everyone gets a trophy... yet we all got trophies in every sport I played back then.
First time seeing this guy!!😂 High school was every 80's movie for real. Best music ever!❤ As kids, we played hide and go seek until after dark with our neighborhood friends. Feel very lucky #Genxr
I just remembered how at a dinner party, as adults used to call having dinner at another adult’s place, us kids would wander around the very dark neighbourhood with one torch leading the way. The parents just happily waved us off - no time required for return.
"W'ere gunna use the thing that can see traffic from the sky. That's how this journey's goin." LOLOL BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Okay. This guy is reaaaaalllly goood xD
We grew up with MTV when it actually played music. We saw the end of disco, the Punk movement, heavy metal, atari, nintendo, grunge music, Carl Lewis broke the 100m sprint record, the start of the internet, new wave music, Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, the start of the PC, Hong Kong belonged to the UK, our dads and uncles were Vietnam vets, NASA's space shuttle was the next frontier in our quest for space. A great time to be young. 😊😊😊😊
You forgot to say we saw one of those space shuttles blow-up and we still went to school the next day. 😢😐 Unlike this new generation where your candidate doesn't win so you hold onto a teddy bear and color in a coloring book. And that was the college kids. 😳 Oh boy... Edit: I forgot to mention I was in elementary school when that happened. So having people that were twice my age behaving like that was... Disappointing. 😔
Yeah but we were too busy riding bikes, and being at the arcade, to not care. They told us to be seen and not heard, and that's what we did. The cold war wasn't that big of a deal, because both sides were too scared to do anything.
They don't know how to relate, because humor is & was regulated. Just like they tried to do to us GenXers(talking to you'z, moral majority & PMRC), cept we told em to fk off.
@@T25deTrump was responsible for race riots like Obama was responsible for increased racism. They were both saddled with the hatred of their opposition.
I call BS. My 3-point-turns are a work of art. If you wanna talk about generational turns, we can discuss the making-a-left-turn-while-in-the-left-lane as opposed to the what’s-a-lane-that’s-my-turn. A GenZ was talking about how she couldn’t stand driving without her phone. “You use GPS like ALL the time?” “Well yeah, when I’m using Netflix.” … I thought for a minute and asked, “Wait. You just use GPS as a notification overlay to let you know your turn is coming up while you’re focused on watching Netflix?!” …she just goes quiet and looks down with a maybe-i-shouldn’t-have-mentioned-that face.
I said “no tolls” I don’t care that it’s faster, of course it’s faster, because it costs money! NO! TOLLS!!! I end up screaming at Siri like David Lister screaming at Toasty the toaster on Red Dwarf. “We don’t WANT any toast around here!! NO TOAST!!”
Or how most generations have a avoidance of a good whipping. GenX is like dude it will hurt. But we will definitely have a celebration after moms done whipping you. Followed by it is ok I like it, then followed by did I get air?!?
To this day I tell my 76 year old dad that spanking a grandkid or sending them to bed without dinner works and never hurt anybody. It taught us consequences for our actions instead of incentives for bad behavior.
@@delanaveirs3411I totally disagree with you... Kid's these days have absolutely NO RESPECT for Elder's and people in Authority 🤬🤬🤬 and they also are extremely lazy and don't have good work ethic... I've experienced it many times in work environment's and at different businesses... although there are always exceptions (and maybe your kid's are an exception...and that would mean you've been an awesome parent ;) p.s. I don't mean my response in a rude way towards you... I just don't agree with your statement.
Shoutout to the Gen X soldiers who did serve in the Afghan, Iraq and Gulf wars. I appreciate your service, and I know a lot are dealing with it. I love comedy, but def don’t agree with trivializing the service you guys did.
@@patrickwrxGen X dealt with our parents going to Vietnam...we dealt with the boomers that spit at us just because our parents were in the military. This guy sounds like a very ignorant millennial,gay, liberal. Please.
@@patrickwrxmy husband was in the war the comedian trivialized . It wasn't nothing. For the families watching the missiles go off it was pretty damn scary we had no idea how bad it would get and if your family member would come home.
Are we full genXers though Jonny? We're kinda in that little space where we're not full X and not millennial. We were little kids in the 80's and did our teen years in the 90's. I had a bf who was born in 67 (so gen x) but we had completely different growing up experiences and references he knew I wouldn't always get. I got everything in this comedy act tho and it was really funny
He's wrong about Boomers giving us civil rights. The previous generation did that. The very oldest boomers, born right on 46, were 19 when the civil rights act was passed. So a very tiny fraction of them would have participated in the movment. Most of the work was done by the older brothers/sisters of boomers from the Silent Generation and the youngest members of the WW2 Gen. Boomers just took all the credit for stuff they were barely there for because it sounded cool. Nobody called them out on it, so they kept doing it.
A lot of Boomers are narcissistic and self-involved. They were the hippies that became yuppies in the 80s that became those retirees that bought up all the starter homes as investments after the crash in 2008…
This. Many forget, Baby Boomers, stemming from the baby boom after WW2's end. Less population, a fresh new start, ergo, had a boom (surge) in having babies.
As a GenX from New Zealand, I can only agree. Foot in both worlds, spending the whole day outdoors until street lights are on. Music united folks, community spirit was an all time high. We are blessed!
I am sorry but when do you think GenX started? GenX began in '65. I was born in '67, I experience Vietnam in my lifetime, I was introduced to Baby Michael, and got to enjoy the Jackson 5 in their heyday. I got to watch the Three Stooges cartoons in their first run, and the Brady Bunch. We had Star Trek TOS, and that's ALL we had and watched religiously every Sunday. I was born in the 60s, my entire childhood was the 70s, grew up in the 80s, matured in the 90s, and watch the world loose it's collective mind in the new millennia. If you were born at at time between The Monkees & MTV, that makes you GenX.
As a Gen X, we aren't really all that. Traumatized by narcissistic, neglectful parents who parentified us i.e. we had to act like THEIR parents. Living under constant threat of nuclear war and being taught in school how to brace in case of nuclear attack (ha!). Then when we become teenagers there's AIDS and sex becomes something dangerous and dirty and it felt like everyone you grew up watching on TV was dying of it. We get out of college and into the real world where you can only get McJobs, meaning the degree you worked for might as well be used as toilet paper for all the clout and relevance it has. Let's not forget it's in the 90s that Gen X are named by the book Generation X, talking precisely about the over-educated generation having only jobs way below their skill level available to them. Boomers hanging on for dear life to their overpaid jobs and bonuses and refusing to retire, so it's only in our 50s that we're beginning to get some financial stability. Is it any wonder we don't give af anymore? We don't trust anyone. But the worst of it is ... we never rebelled. We accepted all of it. We shrugged it off as if it had nothing to do with us, and we know that's a lie. At least Millennials care about something. I wonder sometimes if we Gen Xers only care about ourselves. We've become kind of spineless and nostalgic, as if the world has nothing to do with us. But we effing created this world, by our actions as much as our lack of action, just as much as the other generations did. At least let's own that.
I am from the first batch of Gen x’ers and I used paper maps most of my life. When Map quest came out…man - I thought it couldn’t get any better than map quest lol. . Gps didn’t become popular until like mid or late 2000’s i think. I didn’t start using it until a few years ago. Now I wonder how all those years ago I was able to drive all around the country without it 😊.
same. i used to know where all the highways and routes connected. in my state. i actually used to be really proud of that. now i just mindlessly reach my destination. most of the time i don’t even know what im on. im just getting there.
me too but moving to philadelphia and on different job sites weekly ,getting around on public trans would have killed me with stress.i dont think i would have made it.the gps tells you when to get off and get on this and that.maps are easy compared to this
Average age of enlisted personal like 90% is 18 to 21 years of age so yes the oldest millennials went into the war in 03 so your probably wrong about that
@@tyler-y4s Yeah tell that to all the people I know who were there. The youngest Gen X were 21 in 2001. The NCOs etc were all GenX and Boombers remember the youngest Boomers turn 60 in 2024.
Ah the 80's when it was safe to ride your bike after it got dark. When kids didn't know the stuff their parents worried about. When you were raised to respect people until they gave you a real reason not to. When we bought little pink houses and vacationed down in the Gulf of Mexico.
I am a millenial. My dad is a boomer. And I have had that GPS conversation in the car so many times 😂😂😂. I got so frustrated once I almost pulled the car over 😂😂😂
Coming from A “Millennial”(Generation Y) with parents who came from the “Baby Boomer” Generation .. I can say this whole stand up .. IS THE COMPLETE TRUTH! Lol 😂💯💯
5:51 omgggg talking about the trips with boomers and the maps and the angry spouse as their gps brought me wayyy back to when I was 14 and my grandparents brought me and my 14 year old cousin on a road trip half way across canada to see family 😂😂😂 oh man… lol before that, I always thought my grandparents didn’t even have angry voices abd still loved each other.. I learned SO quick! Lmao 😂
Im starting to think anyone who grew up in the 70s 80s and 90s lived in the best period in human history to date. Best music , movies , tv and relatively safe freedom as a kid.
You would be right. Born in 1965, still rockin out...
Relatively is a stretch.
I've had so many bad things happen growing up from 1965 on.
Most people today would blow their 🧠 out.
Before the communist left took over everything.
No wars was big, I suppose. My dad would have been to Nam' if not for a motorcycle accident crushing his foot.
And no social media to worry about. If we did something stupid, as kids will do, we didn't have to worry about someone catching it on camera and it going viral.
Absolutely Correct! 👍🏼👍🏼 I'm in my 50's and don't give a BLEEP! These Millennial Pansies couldn't imagine what Gen Xer's had to grow up with and survive and enjoyed every moment of it! 😁😁
Why is GenX trending so much lately? Are we finally getting the recognition that we don't care about?
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We are the Only Hope for Mankind!
@@sweezlesquee That makes some sense. In the 90's and 2000's, I was too involved in my life to pay much attention to the World- Until Oblama was emplaced and started to gradually Destroy it!
Then, by 8 years of that crap, I finally started to get serious, found out about Arkanscides, etc, and voted for the first time- For Trump! I fear many of us have been basically distracted, and now it might be Too Late.
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@@erikdeeNOSPELLSNOI agree 100 percent. Boomers are too old, and the others are too soft. Distrust is at an all time high right now and we have plenty of experience!
The only time gen x wanted t.v. was for wrestling and weekend cartoons. The other 99% of the time we were in the woods with sticks commencing medieval battles.
Dam right.
100%
don't forget the iconic hockey night in canada theme song.. for us canadians :P
@@ruffwm Those powder blue blazers of CBC. Very nice! ;)
had to have a TV for Atari and Intellivision too though xD
GenX was the first generation to become familiar with the VERY rapid development of technology, and grew up knowing they had to keep up. Which is why there's 50 year old parents who not only are building their kids PC's, but still remember how to set the time on a VCR. We can set up a VPN, beat Super Mario Brothers in one life, fix a roof and toilet, and were there when Tool and Rage Against the Machine were brand new (not just being "rediscovered"). Fear us - we're bullet proof.
Well said ~GX71 😎
🤘79🤘, just made it lol
Yep, I knew in high school when I sat there with a Walkman, portable TV, brick phone, calculator, video camera, that it would all be on a device the size of my wallet some day.
If there's one thing we've proven it's that no one is bulletproof. That's part of why less of us lived to see 40 per capita than any other generation.
I say, I can rebuild a carburetor and a computer.
GenX kids (of all generations) are awesome because our parents said "go ahead and do it. See what happens" a whole lot.
I was born in 1980, FAFO should have been on a banner in our house…unless it made you look like a whore.👀 I love the 80’s. I couldn’t wear nail polish, but our parents would lock us out of the house until dinner time in the summer🤣. We weren’t allowed to curse, but we watched “Die Hard”,Child’s Play”, and “Nightmare On Elm Street” as a family…. Oh AND “Purple Rain”! 👀 We were too grateful to our parents to point out the contradictions. 😂 The fact that I can afford therapy should be evidence that I turned out just fine😬
Our dads used that phrase to encourage us.
Our mothers used it as a warning not to disobey them.
And our friends used it as a way to get us to do the dumbest sh*t.
And they all taught the same lesson actions have consequences but no one promised you'd enjoy the consequences.
Followed by, "See? That's what happens when you do that!"
@@TheErikaShow😂😂😂 so true
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"a map the size of the house" 😂 And, when you were done, you had to fold that map back up and fit it in your glove compartment. 🤣🤣🤣
Still carry one 😆 and have had to teach a few to read one.
Then came mapquest print outs from your printer.
Somehow it never fitted back in the glove box. It had to go in the boot.
I still buy road almanacs.
And if (heaven forbid) you get lost, you had to pull the map back out of the glove box, and open it inside the moving vehicle.
"My job to translate between the generation"...
I literally said that verbatim a couple days ago at work...
I work with a 22yr old who has no real world experience and surprisingly doesn't know some ofthemore rudimentaryfunctions of computers (like what Tab does or what a Zip File is)...
And a 60yr old who complains every few minutes about his computer being stupid because he has 40yrs worth of real world skills, but now he's supposed to do it on a machine he barely knows how to use...
I gave the applicable aforementioned speech of "The best way for this team to work together is for me to translate between the two of you"
Surprisingly they BOTH openly embraced it and we've been getting along great so far. 😁
Thar's a vital skill! Good job bridging the gap. It can be frustrating
I'm definitely GEN X, and proud of it- 1974❤
same 5/23/74 im sure you dont need the 19 in there.i still dont see how people need that
@@chrhadden do 1974 really bother you , 🤣🤣😭 too lazy to do the whole year. But you gave the world you whole Birthday. 5/23/74🤣🤣
@@Venomous_471 You just caught his dodgeball, sit down hadden...
I’m CLASSIC GEN X: 1965🤣😃
@@chrhaddenbecause we earned it, so did you 🤗
**PEOPLE START PAYING ATTENTION TO GEN X**
Gen X: **annoyed sigh, goes into bedroom and shuts the door**
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Or start playing my drums again. I actually haven't listened to Henry Rollins in awhile...
We dont need the attention
*wonders why Gen Z that they raised is so messed up*
"I had to print out 28 pages of MapQuest" TRUTH! Then staple them together and hopefully flip through them during the drive without causing an accident.
I also printed out MapQuest. My stepfather needed it to pick me up from college.
This is why Generation X was not considered to have general computer knowledge until like 5 years ago; why Generation Y is the standard generation about "Mom can't do shit and millennials design shit stupidly on purpose", rather then Generation X being chosen for most tech support. (Plus any Gen X that could do tech support would have to be an actual nerd, instead of how almost any member of Gen Y can do even when "my mom has a Facebook account and that's bad" was still "true".) Exactly how are you using MapQuest that you manage to print "47 pages" instead of 2-3? And if it takes an entire page or more to get to the closet 40-mph road, then why you are you including those pages in your print job? You literally can't even exclude the unnecessary pages from a print job or print without images (and even if you include the images, how the hell do you possibly get enough pages to expand the joke to 47 EVEN THEN?), yet you think you're tech support instead of Generation Y? I mean yeah sure you might just have the stupidest relatives on Earth, but when your criteria is generations that's not about your relatives. And by the way, millennials are MORE likely then Generation X to know tech shit as long as it's on a computer. Because they actually you know USED the computer (not at work, and not with some weird internal OS) before like 2018. They were themeing their Tumblr blogs and shit. A non-nerd and non-job-related Gen X'er probably doesn't know any HTML at all. Sure the number of non-geek Gen Y who knows HTML for text is only 20% higher probably, but at least almost every member of Gen Y can actually print shit, or whatever else the non-computer-using Gen X was typically doing "colloquially Boonerish" before a very very late year! If you were a normie but were online randomly for an hour, you maybe even used AOL chatrooms!
I did that, plus reset my trip meter at every turn so I knew when 32.4 miles (or whatever) to exit was coming up. lol
@@adm6785 That's a great idea!
GenX who raised 2 GenZ, and I'm disappointed about my work as a parent. Two anxious teens that don't want to leave the house. I'm still trying to find out where I failed.
Same, I've got no idea either. I even restricted screen time to less than my Nintendo playing brother ever had & arranged my life so I was way more available than my parents were, but not a helicopter. Maybe it's just too much knowing w/o knowing enough...& that can change, so there's hope.
You had kids. That was the failure.
Technology
That means that you weren't a teenage parent. Hi-five! 😅
Maybe sharing some of your own story or just reflecting on it whatever’s comfortable , you can protect them from the world but still show it to them.. idk, anyway, thanks for sharing that, I wish everyone would just lay it down like that, and be respected for it, and work it out, but not everyone does give respect, helps when picking friends i guess , anyways haha, muuuaaaahhh❤ ☮️
"Gen X is a generation nobody messes with for a reason. Their rock stars committed suicide, loved heroine, and dressed like lumberjacks. Their rappers murdered each other. Their parents raised them by just opening the front door Friday night and vaguely making sure they returned home for school by Monday. Unlike the millennials, nobody cared about their trauma, and unlike Baby Boomers, their economy has sucked enough that they've had plenty of it. They know how to survive in a world before internet, cell phones, and people caring about offensive words, but they're young enough that they had to learn all the above to stay employed. They don't give a damn about generational identity because they saw their Boomer parents do that in the 60's as a shallow self-congratulatory exercise that solved nothing. Then they've seen Millennials distracted with narcissistic self-worship and self-involvement that's no better. Gen X is left alone because they don't care about the spotlight enough to be noticed. But it's unwise to mess with people who don't care about the spotlight, because that means they don't care about responding to your sh*t in a popular way. Gen X is perfectly fine with you giving their response to you a 1-star rating and an unsubscribe."- Henry Rollins
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I would give this quote a standing ovation, but I'm also Gen-X so... yeah, it's fuckin cool.
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LOL, Henry tooting his insufferable BS. Projecting. Don't forget, gen x also destroyed good rock and gave Canada (with Castro's help) Trudeau.
If he wasn't so egocentric, he'd have realized that the generations before had lived through his time, AND theirs. DA
It was a fight to the death and every gas station attendant had the extra responsibility of giving directions to a destination 10 miles away
Thank you this made me laugh because when I was an attendant anyone who drove past the signs on the highway for the zoo and were lost. I'd send them in the wrong direction for not being observant. Keep in mind there was about ten signs the size of an SUV saying the exit to get off at back in the day.
1969 Gen X metalhead D&D nerd here. We learned not to trust the government. We saw the TV lie about the Dungeons and Dragons we played and the Judas Priest and Ozzy we listened to.
We had racism on the ropes. We laughed at racist jokes about others and ourselves but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. The person making the hard-core racist jokes usually got the hint nobody was laughing with him and occasionally he got knocked out. Anthrax and Public Enemy onstage together was a good example of the vibe.
Too much togetherness isn't good for those at the top sticking it to us so Division became the game again. Politicians been playing that game since forever but Telecommunications Act in 96 made it much easier to control the info and keep the division going. They are doing the ae thing now with the Restrict Act.
Don't let the TV, tablet, phone or Teacher make you hate your neighbor. Keep talking and keep thinking, People.
Chris Forever Young
I remember the racist jokes and also thinking out right racists were idiots. Taught older people to not say colored and then these dips brought it back In 2016. Bizarre.
@@daveshore8671 I'm pretty sure the “dips” who brought it back, aren't who YOU think. Or even who is actually offended by the words. I'd bet you teach older people SHIT. And are probably part of the crowd behind (ignorantly) the periodic name switching.
Fellow 1969 Gen Xer D&D , Metal, and sci Fi nerd. Proud of all of it.
Racism was on life support, the left and especially Obama recisutated it for political purposes and to weaken the people, everything the op said is spot on.
Shit I was born in 65 and me and my black friends would tear each other apart with racist jokes, we would just laugh and no one was bothered by it.
One friend asked me and my brother to get off his cough when his son came in, we were like damn nigga whatcha gotta be racist for 😂
He was pulling a sawed off out from under the couch to sell to his son 😂😂😂
“Our bologna had a first name!” Yea, it did! 🥳
That goes way back into the Boomer era.
@@jasonrhodes9726 the commercial first aired in 1973 along with its accompanying jingle. Our boy on the dock with bologna on his line. The 1965 commercial was “Oh, I wish I was an Oscar Mayer wiener…”. That was a cartoon.
@RTPMinxwhat ever.
I’m an original genX born in 65.
@@jasonrhodes9726LOL... Someone does the homework for you and it's "whatever" when proven you are just a Dillard? How sad.
Gen X ghosting was
Letting the answering machine take your phone calls 😂while you screened.
Plus we were better with numbers because we had to remember every damn phone number of every person we ever knew 😂
I STILL remember all the numbers of all my friends from middle school but NO numbers from after I got a pocket monitor. It's great for when I have to change passwords every 90 days. The name of someone I haven't spoken to in 35 years + a 10 digit number that has long since been assigned to some random.
Back in high school, I'd get off the bus and start calling girls lol I could remember dozens of phone numbers easily, now I can barely remember my own, technology ruined the entire culture of this country, and now we're circling the drain
Love that! My friends used to call me the walking phone book and I could still bring it four beers in. Good times, good times.
This is a great comedy routine that could be a TED Talk. He nails the dynamics between the generations. Also he forgot Michael J. Fox in his list of Michaels.
Agghh. You’re right!
If you ever see live, MJ Fox will be in the bit
And Michael Bolton
@@notahater3365 How could we not live without him?
Michael Myers, Lost Boys Michael, so many Michaels...I swear it must've been one of the most popular names at the time with how many there were.
Oh my.
Just want to clarify GenX starts at 1965. I was born in 68. Right after the assassinations of MLK Jr & RFK, & Vietnam was still happening, although I was to young to recall that. I was listening to the Jackson Five & little Michael when I was 4-5 yrs old.
Yeah, all of the comedians who talk about Gen X seem to be from the latter half of our generation, growing up in the 1980s. Those of us born in 1965 had quite a different life from those who were born when we had reached high school in 1979. Some of us were indeed alive during the Vietnam War and watched the moon landing in real time at an age old enough to remember afterwards. As for Michael Jackson, “Off the Wall” came out at the perfect time for me to appreciate it, and the “Thriller” album was in those last two years of high school.
All my friends growing up had brothers or cousins who had been to Vietnam and came home flucked for life....and when I was in the school we were told to hide under our wooden desks to save our lives in the event of a direct nuclear strike.....and had drills doing it. I remember Old alzheimer ridden reagen telling the russians "bring it"....and wondering if I would live another week/month/year. yeah gen x...I guess
By far the best 12 minutes I’ve spent on RUclips in a very long time. I enjoyed that so much.
Jason is hilarious and hit the nail on the head. I'm a 52-year-old Gen X and everything he said, I connected with. The only thing he didn't bring up was Boomers lived in the time of free love, but Gen X lived in the time of sex equals death (AIDS), because there were no good treatments until the mid 90s.
born in 69
Pussy literally fell from the sky on my D in the entire 80s decade. It was insane. I was a dead ringer for Sean Cassidy + Scott Baio love child so that helped.
Pretty crazy time for me.
Agree - to me, AIDS was the defining issue of our generation.
Our parents were lucky and we were not -Aids was the worst along with the threat of Nuclear war
and yet actually aids was a scam, it didn't affect heteros at all. (oh, and who was in charge of that: Fauci)
I think it was the fall of the Berlin wall and communisme but I am from Europe
For a topic that can easily be overdone, this guy kills it. So much funny stuff! Glad to have found Jason
- gen X here ❤
As generation x, we ghosted all the time , it was easy . No cell phones , 🤷♀️ We didn’t answer the phone , and it was easy to forget a number just rip it up ,
You are closer to Boomers than you realize
do you ever think about how many numbers you knew then compared to now?most people dont know even one besides their own
That didn't work for most of us, because they'd find us outside in the world. Always that one annoying fk you couldn't shake, & if you did then another annoying fk would take their place...
@@Notwoke7 Just as we do with Millennials, X stands for crossover generation. We bridge the gap, structurally unsound, yet still holding up...
Back then, I couldn’t forget a number if I tried. Today, I remember three phones numbers, and two of them are mine🤷🏾♀️
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You know you are Gen-X when you LOL at a Highlander joke. ✨🗺✨
I know! I was waiting for the audience to catch up.
I don’t like most Highlander jokes.
I know that in the end there can be only one.
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@@Wants2knowitallme too 😅
Hey! I'm a Gen X born 1966. I do remember the Vietnam War. As a 7 year old I thought the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkheit was about Vietnam. A Gen X 70s memory.
I remember also. I was born in 1967.
I member and I am first yr Gen X, 1965.
Same. My uncles were there.
Same here, 1966. Spot on.
Born in 1971. Kids in my class had webbed toes due to agent orange their Dad's experienced in Vietnam
"You're both right. Chill out." LOLOLOLOL Yes.
Taking my hard EARNED allowance to the hood 7/11 for the newly Ordained "Super Big Gulp" on the way to what my mom assumed was the pool in the Summer....It was actually a railroad bridge spanning the Spokane River near downtown perfect for jumping off of. I was 11, and that was 85'. W3 learned how to be Self Sufficient, instead of self indulgent. Self important.Self Centered! I wholeheartedly approve of this response!
A big bird, a crime dog and smokey the bear. Pretty sure that sums up the 80's. 😂
Nuclear war aftermath movies. Can't forget those.
@@m_d1905 I'm sorry. Also I forgot the Van Dam movies. My bad
My god man, did Woodsy Owl mean nothing to you ;)
@@christopherjames423 my bad! How many lickkkkkks as I chomp on the tootsie pop ? 1.. 2.. 3 almost accurate.
And a crying Native American. Because the pollution was just that bad. And that creepy PSA, it's 10 o'clock do you know where your kids are?
I'm GenX and went K - 5 at a school that was later closed down for asbestos removal and the playground was demolished for having 40 times the limit of lead paint on the equipment.
Unleaded takes on a whole new meaning for us....
and also lead gas fumes think 1976 Los Angles🥴🥴😵😵🥴🥴🤪🤪
1965 GenX here. I've got enough material for you to fill up a 3 hour HBO special. Damn, i just defined GenX!
The part about printing multiple pages was hilarious. This guy spits clever bits.
I think we should take Gen Z, drop them off in the 80’s and they have to live like we did. No phones, locked out until dinner.
They would last a week, and that’s giving them 6 days.
If you know, you know.
its to late now.they would have to not know
I’m gen z and I agree
I think they’d finally be able to hear themselves think, make real social connections and all their anxiety and existential dread would disappear
They’d be happier and healthier.
I raised my kid as I was. He would dominate.
GenX OG here. My dad fought in Vietnam. I grew up with that and the aftermath of him checking out of our lives, forever. He was not dead, just could not make connections with other people. Actually, this is true of my Boomer mom, as well. It was more important for them to appear as the smartest one in the room, than to be right. My friends fought in the First Gulf weekend with, yes, the OG Bush, the good one.
Mapquest was hilarious. Then trying to track progress on the 28 pages, not printed to any scale with the first 17 pages to get on the interstate. Locally, I kept a map and a phone book in my car to find things.
Damn, we have similar parents, cept my dad was Silent Generation & my mom was boomer. You could actually tell the difference looking back.
Not ALL BOOMERS WERE LIKE THAT JUST SOME. MOST OF US WERE STICKLERS FOR TRUTH AND FACTS
Still have a phone book
😂😂 being a 55-year-old Gen xer this is hysterical!
Born in '66. Gen X. I got the first two Michael's and the Vietnam War. My parents are Silent Generation. And we don't care cuz no one else does.
Another thing about GenX: We have a sense of humour.
Well done, Jason. Very funny. Could almost be a lecture series or a TEDTalk.
Thanks
"I did grow up Generation-X with the gender fluid music...so I might not understand what you're saying but I'm still gonna listen because I'm not gonna miss the next Purple Rain..."
You know, there's a tremendous amount of respect in that one line. We don't have to understand others to appreciate what they have to offer. As it's always been, the real humor is just in seeing the truth of the times we live in.
Boomers and Gen X were both expone to lots of gender fluid musicians: David Bowie and Boy George come to mind
@@erichamilton3373 Those are two dudes that everyone knew were dudes. They weren't pretending to be something else.
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That's the point: being gender fluid in style didn't mean anything beyond just that.
We had Freddie Mercury. He may not have been 50 weight gender fluid, but he was gay as hell and even more awesome for his presence.
@@erichamilton3373 Boy George had "boy" in his name. You don't get more committed to a gender than that.
I think they handed out Xanax to the crowd before the show. That's solid material.
Adults: you kids and your participation trophies...
Kids: YOU MADE THE TROPHIES!
I never bought into any of the grownups bullshit praise OR condemnation. It's a personality flaw that those kids want to believe they're the best thing in the world.
We were getting participation trophies in 1980, my first season a little league baseball. Not sure where this myth that not everyone got a trophy back then comes from. I lived in small town Texas growing up, the same kind of place where people brag that not everyone gets a trophy... yet we all got trophies in every sport I played back then.
Dukes of hazard, fall guy, magnum PI, smokey and the bandit, ren and stempi....
Hey remember kids falling down wells 😂?
Or was that the 80's?
This guy has the best Gen X jokes hands down.
Awesome job. The fact you could find soo many funny things about one subject is great. Not that you care.😂
First time seeing this guy!!😂 High school was every 80's movie for real. Best music ever!❤ As kids, we played hide and go seek until after dark with our neighborhood friends. Feel very lucky #Genxr
I just remembered how at a dinner party, as adults used to call having dinner at another adult’s place, us kids would wander around the very dark neighbourhood with one torch leading the way. The parents just happily waved us off - no time required for return.
Yep😂😂❤
Our parents literally kicked us outside you weren't allowed in the house😂playing outside till tje street lamps came on. 😊
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🤣🤣”don’t slam the screen door, and stop letting my cold air out…”🤣🤣
top 40 was cosidered the worst in human history. the punk and heavy metal scene was top notch though. im a skater so im predjudice to that side
"W'ere gunna use the thing that can see traffic from the sky. That's how this journey's goin." LOLOL BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Okay. This guy is reaaaaalllly goood xD
We grew up with MTV when it actually played music. We saw the end of disco, the Punk movement, heavy metal, atari, nintendo, grunge music, Carl Lewis broke the 100m sprint record, the start of the internet, new wave music, Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, the start of the PC, Hong Kong belonged to the UK, our dads and uncles were Vietnam vets, NASA's space shuttle was the next frontier in our quest for space. A great time to be young. 😊😊😊😊
Yes, we were lucky!! So much novelty
You forgot to say we saw one of those space shuttles blow-up and we still went to school the next day. 😢😐
Unlike this new generation where your candidate doesn't win so you hold onto a teddy bear and color in a coloring book.
And that was the college kids. 😳 Oh boy...
Edit: I forgot to mention I was in elementary school when that happened. So having people that were twice my age behaving like that was... Disappointing. 😔
Oh yeah. Forgot abour that
Not everyone is American
I'm split on Gen X not having a war... We had the Cold War, and the constant threat of being 18 minutes away from dying.
Yeah but we were too busy riding bikes, and being at the arcade, to not care. They told us to be seen and not heard, and that's what we did. The cold war wasn't that big of a deal, because both sides were too scared to do anything.
My mom named our dog Khrushchev.
I agree!!!! I worried a lot about nuclear war. Do you remember “The Day After” scared the crap out of me!!!!!!
@@kikivon3501that movie traumatized my husband so bad. We are in our early 50’s and he still mentions it.
US was funding war on Russia in Afghanistan all through 80s.
“You’re both right”. As a Gen Xer I approve. 😂
What a lousy audience- this guy has some great material- DEFINITELY deserved a better response.
They don't know how to relate, because humor is & was regulated. Just like they tried to do to us GenXers(talking to you'z, moral majority & PMRC), cept we told em to fk off.
If the crowd was full of GenXers then of course they weren't going to react.
Everyone wishes they are Gen X! We rule! 😅
And if they don’t agree--we don’t care!!
Oh shit. I just fumbled onto this set and now I need more. I was laughing loudly. Thank you 😂😂
Unfortunately the comic is 20x smarter than his audience . The "Existential stability" line elicited nothing but clueless silence .
Well he thought trump was responsible for race riots and not liberal media, or the rioters, so he’s not infallible 😅
@@T25deTrump was responsible for race riots like Obama was responsible for increased racism. They were both saddled with the hatred of their opposition.
I see a guy that's a millennial, pretending he is a Gen X , gay liberal white dude.... The very evil he pretends he is against.
@@T25de Gender is a spectrum...
Existential stability 😂😂😂😂
You can always tell a gen xer from a millennial while driving. Gen xers never ever ever turn around. Ever. I'm never lost. I'm always going forward.
Holy crap!! I do that! 😂😂
As a GenXer I will turn around… What I never do is ask for help… Only the weak ask for help, we are not weak!
Lol, ya, or for me too.
I call BS. My 3-point-turns are a work of art.
If you wanna talk about generational turns, we can discuss the making-a-left-turn-while-in-the-left-lane as opposed to the what’s-a-lane-that’s-my-turn.
A GenZ was talking about how she couldn’t stand driving without her phone. “You use GPS like ALL the time?” “Well yeah, when I’m using Netflix.” … I thought for a minute and asked, “Wait. You just use GPS as a notification overlay to let you know your turn is coming up while you’re focused on watching Netflix?!” …she just goes quiet and looks down with a maybe-i-shouldn’t-have-mentioned-that face.
HAHAHA oh God, flashbacks, "I'm never lost, I just change where I'm going"
Oh my god so true! I went through a road trip in France with my dad fully arguing with the GPS and then having a shouting match at the map!! 😂😂😂
I said “no tolls” I don’t care that it’s faster, of course it’s faster, because it costs money! NO! TOLLS!!!
I end up screaming at Siri like David Lister screaming at Toasty the toaster on Red Dwarf. “We don’t WANT any toast around here!! NO TOAST!!”
Quicksand!!! Tarzan movies had me terrified of quicksand. 😂
Killer bees
@@dolphinbear661 omg the killer bees 😱😱😱😱😱 lmao
Nearly lost a 400 dollar hand cart
My high school class motto was "It just doesn't matter." He's spot on about us Gen-X'ers not caring.
IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER
-Meatballs
@@jawarholol4651those campers, the kids, were Gen X
GenX has a chip on our shoulder. We don't care what you call us, just leave us alone.
This was so much fun! Nice for Gen X to get some recognition!
Other generations,"spanking is abuse" gen x "thanks for spanking me dad"
Daaaamn...nice. we are damn sure thinking it now aren't we?
Or how most generations have a avoidance of a good whipping. GenX is like dude it will hurt. But we will definitely have a celebration after moms done whipping you. Followed by it is ok I like it, then followed by did I get air?!?
To this day I tell my 76 year old dad that spanking a grandkid or sending them to bed without dinner works and never hurt anybody. It taught us consequences for our actions instead of incentives for bad behavior.
I’m Gen x & disagree! Gen x decided not to spank their kids & most of our kids are way better behaved than we were.
@@delanaveirs3411I totally disagree with you... Kid's these days have absolutely NO RESPECT for Elder's and people in Authority 🤬🤬🤬 and they also are extremely lazy and don't have good work ethic... I've experienced it many times in work environment's and at different businesses... although there are always exceptions (and maybe your kid's are an exception...and that would mean you've been an awesome parent ;) p.s. I don't mean my response in a rude way towards you... I just don't agree with your statement.
“documentary Michael Jackson”…hilarious!😂
Shoutout to the Gen X soldiers who did serve in the Afghan, Iraq and Gulf wars. I appreciate your service, and I know a lot are dealing with it. I love comedy, but def don’t agree with trivializing the service you guys did.
Gen X grew up long before those wars began. We participated in them, but they did not define our childhood. You misunderstood what he said.
@@patrickwrx Not all, but why would it even matter… Some of us have lost friends in the Middle East… So, please respect the comment…
@@patrickwrxGen X dealt with our parents going to Vietnam...we dealt with the boomers that spit at us just because our parents were in the military. This guy sounds like a very ignorant millennial,gay, liberal. Please.
@@patrickwrxmy husband was in the war the comedian trivialized . It wasn't nothing. For the families watching the missiles go off it was pretty damn scary we had no idea how bad it would get and if your family member would come home.
@@patrickwrxactually gen x graduates went straight to Iraq.
As a Gen X 1980. I am starting to dislike all this attention about us. Ugh..leave us alone. Lol
Agreed
Born in 73...let them figure it out...
Same.😅
Pre internet times were so golden, I do miss them.
Are we full genXers though Jonny? We're kinda in that little space where we're not full X and not millennial. We were little kids in the 80's and did our teen years in the 90's. I had a bf who was born in 67 (so gen x) but we had completely different growing up experiences and references he knew I wouldn't always get. I got everything in this comedy act tho and it was really funny
Gen X used the Thomas Guide a decade before Mapquest.
GenX.
Oh well
Whatever
Never mind
And all of us humming that while reading…
Meh
Gender was a T/F question and its an essay now 😂 i am so bored of people arguing about that topic so this was the best joke ive heard in ages 👍
He's wrong about Boomers giving us civil rights. The previous generation did that. The very oldest boomers, born right on 46, were 19 when the civil rights act was passed. So a very tiny fraction of them would have participated in the movment. Most of the work was done by the older brothers/sisters of boomers from the Silent Generation and the youngest members of the WW2 Gen. Boomers just took all the credit for stuff they were barely there for because it sounded cool. Nobody called them out on it, so they kept doing it.
True that.
A lot of Boomers are narcissistic and self-involved. They were the hippies that became yuppies in the 80s that became those retirees that bought up all the starter homes as investments after the crash in 2008…
I was thinking the same thing. Boomers have gotten a lot of credit for things the Silent generation actually did.
Don’t forget the great gen. They shielded them booms better than parents from almost any in history. To point many still can’t tie their own shoes.
This. Many forget, Baby Boomers, stemming from the baby boom after WW2's end. Less population, a fresh new start, ergo, had a boom (surge) in having babies.
I’m a millennial raised by gen x, I’ll never forget my mom telling me to use map quest and just print maps 😂 I was like uh mom I have my phone 😂
I can’t recall the last time I laughed this hard! More please!
Excellent analogy of generations. Lots of memories for this Gen Xer!
In 1996, I was driving south with printed MapQuest directions on Ocean Blvd along the Atlantic coast. The directions said to turn left. 😑
Growing up I thought that Y2k and Quicksand would be a MUCH larger problem than they were.
This gets funnier every time I listen to it! 😂😂😂
the best, smartest Gen X take I've ever heard. but I don't care.
As a GenX from New Zealand, I can only agree. Foot in both worlds, spending the whole day outdoors until street lights are on. Music united folks, community spirit was an all time high. We are blessed!
Tall dwarves were cool also the Gordan's
Thanks!
I am sorry but when do you think GenX started? GenX began in '65. I was born in '67, I experience Vietnam in my lifetime, I was introduced to Baby Michael, and got to enjoy the Jackson 5 in their heyday. I got to watch the Three Stooges cartoons in their first run, and the Brady Bunch. We had Star Trek TOS, and that's ALL we had and watched religiously every Sunday. I was born in the 60s, my entire childhood was the 70s, grew up in the 80s, matured in the 90s, and watch the world loose it's collective mind in the new millennia. If you were born at at time between The Monkees & MTV, that makes you GenX.
As a Gen X, we aren't really all that. Traumatized by narcissistic, neglectful parents who parentified us i.e. we had to act like THEIR parents. Living under constant threat of nuclear war and being taught in school how to brace in case of nuclear attack (ha!). Then when we become teenagers there's AIDS and sex becomes something dangerous and dirty and it felt like everyone you grew up watching on TV was dying of it. We get out of college and into the real world where you can only get McJobs, meaning the degree you worked for might as well be used as toilet paper for all the clout and relevance it has. Let's not forget it's in the 90s that Gen X are named by the book Generation X, talking precisely about the over-educated generation having only jobs way below their skill level available to them. Boomers hanging on for dear life to their overpaid jobs and bonuses and refusing to retire, so it's only in our 50s that we're beginning to get some financial stability. Is it any wonder we don't give af anymore? We don't trust anyone.
But the worst of it is ... we never rebelled. We accepted all of it. We shrugged it off as if it had nothing to do with us, and we know that's a lie. At least Millennials care about something. I wonder sometimes if we Gen Xers only care about ourselves. We've become kind of spineless and nostalgic, as if the world has nothing to do with us. But we effing created this world, by our actions as much as our lack of action, just as much as the other generations did. At least let's own that.
Smartest gen xer I've met
I am from the first batch of Gen x’ers and I used paper maps most of my life. When Map quest came out…man - I thought it couldn’t get any better than map quest lol. . Gps didn’t become popular until like mid or late 2000’s i think. I didn’t start using it until a few years ago. Now I wonder how all those years ago I was able to drive all around the country without it 😊.
same. i used to know where all the highways and routes connected. in my state. i actually used to be really proud of that. now i just mindlessly reach my destination. most of the time i don’t even know what im on. im just getting there.
me too but moving to philadelphia and on different job sites weekly ,getting around on public trans would have killed me with stress.i dont think i would have made it.the gps tells you when to get off and get on this and that.maps are easy compared to this
last year i bought a sat nav - still in the box
Yes, I always appreciate GPS
**CLEARS THROAT IN COLD WAR**
Yeah I concur.
And the Berlin Wall falling.
And we saw Challenger blow up. Live.
LOL, I told my kids that there weren't any GPS growing up, and I had to find my way around everywhere.
Generation X was and is the best Generation! Growing up in the 1980's totally awesome!✌👍👏❤⚘🍷
This is the second video that confirms that my fear of quicksand wasn't just with me.
Don’t forget Michael Bolton! 🤣
I had that same thought! Hahahaha
Gen X fought most of the GWOT not Millennials. The youngest GenXers are 43 so they were 20 or 21 when the war started.
Average age of enlisted personal like 90% is 18 to 21 years of age so yes the oldest millennials went into the war in 03 so your probably wrong about that
@@tyler-y4s Yeah tell that to all the people I know who were there. The youngest Gen X were 21 in 2001. The NCOs etc were all GenX and Boombers remember the youngest Boomers turn 60 in 2024.
Ah the 80's when it was safe to ride your bike after it got dark. When kids didn't know the stuff their parents worried about. When you were raised to respect people until they gave you a real reason not to. When we bought little pink houses and vacationed down in the Gulf of Mexico.
This is so funny.I care so little i didn't even realize i was a gen x
This was seriously Awesome.
Hahaha!
But seriously, great points!
Gen X'er here
As a Canadian Boomer with a Gen X partner of 13 years and a Millennial co-worker colleague, this comic nails it.
It’s an essay now is hilarious!
I almost spit up 😅
I was born in 1965. All my memories as a child were between 1970 when I turned 5 and 1980 when I turned 15. His stand up is pure gold.
Gen X here
😂😂😂
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That reassignment surgery analogy was fucking genius. I'm using that one.
I am a millenial. My dad is a boomer. And I have had that GPS conversation in the car so many times 😂😂😂. I got so frustrated once I almost pulled the car over 😂😂😂
"Hey, you're both right." Love it!
Gen Xers 65 66 will be the last people on earth to remember watchin the moon landings and Vietnam war on tv.
Good stuff!!! Kudos for asking questions instead of jumping to conclusions
My mom also got mad at me for using GPS 😅 she refused to speak to me. Had a whole attitude 😭
My mom bought everyone a Tomtom or whatever it’s called. I don’t care.
Oh and she uses it over the iPhone which I find hysterical
@@Pumkinseeds. 🤣😂🤣 bless her heart
Omg, LMFAO, I work in a care home and that last bit is perfectly hilarious.
Coming from A “Millennial”(Generation Y) with parents who came from the “Baby Boomer” Generation .. I can say this whole stand up .. IS THE COMPLETE TRUTH! Lol 😂💯💯
5:51 omgggg talking about the trips with boomers and the maps and the angry spouse as their gps brought me wayyy back to when I was 14 and my grandparents brought me and my 14 year old cousin on a road trip half way across canada to see family 😂😂😂 oh man… lol before that, I always thought my grandparents didn’t even have angry voices abd still loved each other.. I learned SO quick! Lmao 😂
GPS vs map, so true! 🤣 Saves my marriage 👍🏻