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What's the deal with Baby Boomers?

2017-01-10 | 🔗

Baby Boomers are probably the most talked about generation in American history. But who are these people and how did they help shape the country we know today? Find out all about the big boom in today's episode.

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welcome to stop. You should know from house to fork Stockholm hurry and welcome the Parker. Some Josh Clusters, Charles the reach of bright in theirs- guess producer no over there. So you should know dear no letter to sit in on this one and not just sit recorded, run screaming yeah. We were kind of surprise it we're those pencil once we had someone in here with its benefits. Those studio that time forgot New acquit the second our guts. Again, I gave a third upright, like my fingers in them. Straight my hair rhythm, sure so check. Yes, you are generally Did you know that answer you yeah? That was my next point. Targets are, I am too. Yeah. No, I think it's a millennium
no, you reborn. Three nausea millennial gap. God knows why Jerry is no idea, of her own time, so none of us are tearing, might be owner a baby boomers now Jerry. You know tourism sir I'm just tell you one thing that the Inspired me to do was to do at show on generations. Myriad I find it. Fascinating how people are grouped. And also a little frustrated when, once into the sub groups? It helped me sure, but when I get like this. Thirdly, the baby boom generation there such a clear difference in the witch. It too, the early in the later, a part of that right. There was the cycle Wyatt Why don't you just call them two different generation? Some people do that
people do but most for the most part they dont. For the most part, people say: the baby boomers are people who were born from nineteen. Forty six to nineteen sixty four as the general definition of em. Yes, it's weird like my mom, missed out on it just by a couple years, but then my sister just missed out on by couple years late, so Suddenly, like another the same generation, but this this lane close it shouldn't No, it's not an end again, like Sir Walter, or get into it a little bit more by some people say that is too wide a swamp and more point, which then this is the basis of generations the life experience of those of the people. I'm either end of that that twenty year so spectrum are so We're so wildly different that yeah they don't. They can't be in the same general and it just doesn't make sense, because the point of a generation is that it is a group of people around the same time who
our shared some sort of major life experience, a collective life experience here, whether its culture or ideologies, yeah, usually an event, though like the assassination to have Kayser go to for baby boomers gear. That- in the event was so enormous that its shape their world view for them. Their lives here earlier would be the where's. The beef commercials right exactly Well, we do share that, though the norm he's dead series. Are you not well? None of that identifying firms work for millennials, firstly, Alder millennials, it be like nine eleven sure would be here for hours the challenger, the challenges it is the one I always go to does, of course have to be a disaster. No, it's gonna be enormous events there enough people are aware of and impact by that it should
who they are. So it's almost like a group of people All about savings are being touched hints of roads. In the same way. At the same time, so that their worldview is changed forever by that event, so where's the beef we agree. So the reason there were a lot of well. The deal with a baby boomers is, as you'll see, is that there are a lot of them, and birth rates rose quite a bit in nineteen forty six and they that way for about twenty years, and sure thing, when you look at the reasons The most obvious thing you can point do is to say like ed. Came home after the war in our sex. Pretty much that is something to do with it. But this article points out some whenever considered, which was sort of a convert of that
and then not just want to have a lot of success for the war, but the promise of like prosperity to come after the war and, like things be grade, so it's like go away family, converging with tee an older generation, appearance posts, depression right, they may have waited to have kids forbear. Reasons and that kind of all happening. At the same time, the younger families having kids, not postponing the older generation that has postponed bright having the kids all at the same time, huge huge nation increases from nineteen Thank you. Fifty two in eighteen, eighty, the american population increase by fifty percent has nuts from nineteen forty six to ninety forty five The number of babies born ear over year increase by twenty percent. That's that's it! It's a lot! Yes! So in eighteen, forty six million about an average of forty four million,
change. Babies started being born every year, yachting kept going and going until. I think nineteen fifty seven when it play toad instead high for a while, and then it dipped again. Certainly, nineteen sixty four sixty five year, which coincided with the widespread availability of the pill right. One reason I think the baby boom generation is so interesting. Endlessly talked about and studied is because it just there, the the ship, the ideological shift that they were. Presiding over is this was just massive. This article, ten of some nicely like they created the youth movement in the sixtys when they The twenties it was that culture, excess of the seventies and then in the eighties they became the yuppies and now their entering retirement or in retirement and running the world
running the world and then into the ground and then and then, as you'll see A lot of them are rebuffing the access of Let's make an spend tons of money and my concentrating on giving back with The original inspired by like the Kennedy administration volunteerism. Yet there s not what your country can do for you yeah thing that whole thing but it's interesting this one lady the first moment terms the first Boomer born after midnight, New Jersey, Catherine Casey, curling. Is widely regarded as the first baby boomers. Yes, is born January. First, nineteen, forty six yeah as you'll, see if you get her life. She really is like a symbol and of course you know that the problem generations as you loved them all, and as this and of course it varies from person to person whether
when criticism of even studying generator first place here, but she married for a time got divorced, has itself made. Pension that she accrued over the years like I'm gonna, take care of my own Nina retirement during appear. This is the world's curse at baby to where he missed out. If she didn't lesson the lady and then like had a career and successful careers. I think, like a corporate trainer than an early nineties, left corporate erika and became a high school teacher for like fifteen or twenty years she, yes, you basically read a book and how to be a typical baby boom. That's interesting, and now I splits time between men and in Florida and his concentrated on volunteerism in her retirement. That's really! Yes, like she's Canada, prototypical boomer of. If you want to buy into that thing, traditional into non traditional family structure, family life right, yeah, career,
care over her own retirement and then during retirement, shows not actually to retire, yes, but to stay active in engaged. Yeah debt. Is this typical bloomerism. Some. Where should we hit people over the head, was miss that yeah I mean they were pretty interesting, like I guess just because They came at a really interest. Time in american history, like the boomers started to be born the same time as the suburbs, yeah consumerism. American consumerism all release started the baby boom generation Yell They fell really good about spending money on themselves. They were there children targeted by advertisers member that advertising kids that started with the boomers. If everything changed around that time in in heart because the baby boomers so they're, probably the most study generation in american history, yeah,
So there are more California boomers than any other state. I think Utah has the fewest amount of boomers, but they still twenty three percent of their gnp, their population was baby boomers. The abbot only one, those under twenty five percent right right, What else twelve point? Six percent boomers never got married witches. Parents. Generationally three point: nine percent never got married sets a pretty big increase. Shunning nuptials! I wonder what it is now I couldn't find it as its increase. I'm sure what people getting out choosing not to get married him right. Came with them, and thirty percent expect their parents to move in with them and for some of those people that overlaps one of the various positions that some boomers find themselves in his That's all David! That's why I thought you love doing that from outer they fight. Well, There are two things that really stood out to me, though now they go hand in hand. Forty
then, a baby boomers expected their adult children, a move back in with them, and thirty percent expect their pair to move in with them and for some of people that overlaps, one of them various positions that some boomers find themselves in his caring for adult children and aged parents at the same time, under the same roof I've posted something a while ago on stuff. He should knows Facebook agenda, something about Kids moving back people ago, what a bunch of losers and then so many people from all over the world. You know America's like the only country that feels that way like that and what he should leave. Certain age and not come back and there like all over the world. People like you know, we think it's a great thing. Families huge and we welcome family to live with each other.
You know into their twenties authorities if they want to take priority, help each other rely on each other. That weird I mean I guess the world is in no way you in America, when you turn eighteen, they ever see you party, where you leave and you're not allowed to come back into the house. Tell you what I tell your parents are dead, what we called it a hit the bricks party oh yeah yeah, that's his family. The trade never make it suffered. Deasey was take a break yeah. What sir, with Israel,
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slash, learn more e trade Securities LLC member S, eye pc, I took so the baby boomers, where so very very recently the biggest generation population wise to ever ever hit America and they hit America by the hideous like brick by brick, yeah but millennials they're- taking over now right, yeah millennials just surpassed the rumours in number from what I understand yes millennials, as of two thousand fifteen, of course, a numbers grown now five point, four million
edging out. Seventy four point: nine million baby boomers, but here's the thing millennials are still being born. Boomers, your dying yeah, the boomers Lee here's here is something else that is. That was amazingly interesting, the, murmurs peaked fairly certainly as far as their numbers go repeated to ninety nine seven, point eight million, while right, Our generation is gonna pick next year. Do so the signs in symptoms there. You personally are dying that tying earn enough here, generations now die here, we're going decline after next year. Yeah, I think more and more about that. But our generation peeking into doesn't eighteen know about me dying. I know it. I never thought I would be that guy that you know that this sort of, like. The whole Woody Allen obsessed with your own death there, you obsessed no, but it's healthy, to think
The fact that you're gonna die probably sell some some people believe including me that accepted. Genuinely accepting your own death is, Keaton living fully yeah. I agree, I think, that's the struggle yeah yeah, I'm even further. T shirt, but now I know sometimes only I wonder if, if its hasn't full some Kenya and Wendy down the road or I'm gonna die. I think come more and more for me in the past five years, so I'll check that came with your five year dedicated if I'm alive, it might be better Have you really sad here? Just let it be said for at least people that I know that you're one of em thanks me, so in earlier about the boomers. That age range is too big and he's we split up in turns out. It has
generally. If you look at nineteen forty six to fifty four people refer to that, leading edge of the burden and fifty five and sixty four shadow boomers or generation Jones. Yet, as you can do that yeah I mean, did the name. It was the first thing, as I already that come from and apparently there's a few different things either like There were johnsing for prosperity of days to come So then the the leading edge year they had just as high expectations. If higher than the first to the first batch, but fewer. Sources available to him. Yeah so weird name, so they they apparently were considered to be more cynical, more bitter yeah. Then the first batch of baby boomers, yet then also their life experiences, and like we're talking about early, are so different that
that there is such a different generation airbases being stubborn month, baby boomers, the twenty year generation, rather than ten, whatever you Talking about the life events or whatever the binding life events, these two writers Howard, Schuman and Jacqueline Scott in the mid eighties, did a little bit of research on what they feel like it. What people feel like is their defining. Thing from your generation right, and it is We divided when you have a leading edge. You ve got. Obviously J Kay Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King lot of assassinations, the moon walk Vietnam, war, civil rights movement and then the more cynical shadow boomers or or joneses. Talking Nixon in Watergate, cold war. The oil embargo. It it sort of makes sense, is definitely too like the two priests starkly different said,
of events. They told the yeah. They are it's like almost a different world that happen that two places along that change along that divide, the Erika switch. Is in large part area. The greed less earlier fell always has to be a disaster there I mean all of these basically are pretty glow, now in gloomy. I think disaster unites. It's probably big thing that, but also, I think it leads to a loss of innocence, which happens on a personal level. Is why right in that when you grow up, as we realise- oh, my god, everything is it totally table and my parents can solve every problem in the world. Then there's like real life and hardship and injustice, and in an bleakness and when you realise that suddenly say something like this president, you idolize being assassinated it can it can have a real solidifying effect on your your life, your outlook,
yeah. First, you mention the challenge for us. And I'm in no way like downgrading that, but personally and it might has been the way I received. The news, even it wasn't like. I don't feel like it like- was the big defining thing because obviously big deal, but did you see it happen now think I saw happen, live which probably is the big picture factor but like Reagan being assassinated is rings more. Head at least is a memory Marcin. It affected me as much personally but like when I think back like what big thing in the child had happened on the international stage like like remember where I was on. Reagan was shot and alone the challenges, much, which is we work as it was later. I was only like when Reagan aside, I dont have any memory of it whatsoever right here
I didn't know, it was like a gal. I didn't know it was an ideal than care. I guess not. You play with Eugenia Jos S right, but as there, Points out one thing that united all boomers was tv, yet okay, so If we're talking about how an omission which give credence, sir props, I guess the guy who came up with the cause of the generations. It was sociology Carl Mannheim, and he wrote the problem of generations, beckoned ninety twenty three hours and basically said this. Is the thing now, I'm Carl my Mannheim Goodnight and in it he says I think, therefore, that the generation is is together by the shared experience that they all go through together and up, kill television, radio yet newspaper Guy on horseback running round from town shouting news or whatever, but went with them ten of television, I know you
really powerful way for people to share, same thing at the same time, yet because they were getting the news in exactly the same way yeah through tell where our generation really could be solidified and defined into an actual group that had in common. Because of this event we not just news, but just culturally, like the generation that sat around and watched tv show the area together. Like and music, we're like the two biggest things. Culturally. You can obviously can talk about the Frisbie, in hoops and barbie dolls and stuff like that, but on tv and music, like birth of rock and Roll Maya, with the television or like the two? You do things for sure, yeah, Elvis the Beatles Buzz, were very much in the Wheel house of the boomers yeah. So you ve got those things you get it. They were like you're saying you get the fact that
can be shared equally by a number of far flung people all over the country of the same age. There you get yourself a generation, yeah and then that the final little peace there is the scepticism of that generation. It was a really big, uniting factor like boomers where the people who said don't trust anyone ever thirty and the whole Nixon Watergate the Vietnam WAR being played out every night on tv. It was like that two, but like call revolution in this country. I think because of that scepticism yeah, but it's interesting rather than saying like their journey, visions of of parents before them. Well, this is just the way things are. You can't do much about that right. This generation was among the first to say: no, we re reject this way. Looking at things and we seek to rebuilding petitions in a way that more reflect how we think the world of work.
This year, there was a huge hallmark of the baby boom regeneration. Yes, we're, though, when you look at other stuff, like that the most selfless and waterways, but also the most selfish generation and went away so yet at the same time, the whole eighties yuppie thing the enemy generation. Sure in the consumerism, like hand in hand with the birth feminism, maybe not birth, but at least Bertha Feminism and the civil Rights Movement it's really interesting, that all those things like we're rapid, This one generation will similarly, though, to they were also very poor, go and then a political depending on the decade. You know They were members of organs, student groups in the late sixties here and then by you know a decade later there are like coke in turning their backs on politics. While they were they like this go dancing in Algiers. I pay money has executed cool. If you have it right here I was like it was. They ve gone through huge ships in sociologists of run out
studying on the whole time yet politically. Sort of hard to lump the baby, Burma generation politically, because- and I think this could probably said of most generations but there really hard to pin down. So this is an old survey, but in two thousand for a repeated one that found out baby. Boomers supported abortion rights and gun control, stem cell research, but they also supported the death see and being more conservative, fiscally and. Like sort of all over it, like all over the map, politically, with with funny, as I thought they there's this actual sentence in this article, three difficult pimp, most down as being either liberal or conservative, and tighten the Google found immediately to doesn't. Fourteen Gallup poll said no forty, forty four percent conservative twenty one percent level. Really there
of a baby boomer here, interest itself reported on Nepal. So that's what he's only fourteen percent total yet said. The other don't learn the other rather like. If you, if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there and the posters like Sir. I didn't ask him out of sixty. That's funny: Can we talk a little bit about consumerism, but that was also really big. Uniting factor was this was first generation. That really we're all end on San. It's ok Ben money on yourself. You don't feel bad about it you know those previous generations were of that depression era right. You know, you don't do things like that, don't throw their safety pin away, you can fix their broken any saved his opinion earned, whereas the rumours or like a penny saved as one he'll be spending on certain cool. What's eating
is that it gets come back again like that level. Venus wherein there were in the midst of right. Now, you think didn't live through the depression. True, yes, but I compared to even ten fifteen years ago, prove pre recession, mentality what were in rhinos definitely thriftier, interesting and same thing. The great depression, great recession has a tendency to bring out thrifty, innocent we're Toma politics, though, to so the first baby the president was bill, Clinton, asked Billy and enjoy W was the second baby boomers president and then it to generating Jones with Obama. Right, yeah, here's, the first Jones or but Baby homer. You have a really generation Jones. Ok,
really so Billy and George were in an hour at the leading edge other both point: nineteen, forty, six, second Obama's. Jones and then the next guy is. He was born in nineteen forty six as well going back to baby boom after Obama. Interesting in this Well, on alone, you never know it can have an twenty twenty, but you would think that I even just the presidency, but in an all politics that they will see there will be phased out with time, but I wonder if there will be enough. President from a generation, although Joe Biden, just Don't tell him out for twenty twenty in his he'll be eighty than real. He's got a lot of them and vigour that he does that boy. Eighty I mean not tonight
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So one of the things about a baby boom is that there is significant sudden influx of a lot of being born. At the same time,. And the reason is significance because previous and then usually after that, there's fewer kids being born certain bowl junior population right. So that means that there, delicious, eventually going to grow old they grow old, they are gone, to need more social service. That you have reserved for the elderly for the Asian and your play tonight,
I mean not only that the other side, as is the healthcare sector, period, whether or not it we're Talkin like Medicare and so skirting self button, just healthier period and the private sectors like looking there chops Oh yeah, that's gonna, be money to be made and is being made. It's going to be a big here, the health care sector, and it has been for all. These are for several other sectors along the way as they ve ads. Matured and they now they're. Looking the health care more more, it's it's Can it be just like her sickness, bonanza, further healthcare industry because the one of the hallmarks of the baby boomers generated as they were one of the first like really take care of themselves? Yet much healthier, like I remember when we were younger, like a sea the five year, always like an old person like they might be oxygen, India, they were, they were not in good shape by their mid sixties. He'll. Eight now, every day like to do more
and push up the street and stuff like that? That was the result of a baby boomers doing things like taking jogging here, like eating vegetarian latest jet generally taking care themselves. Having an emphasis on yeah, so they're not going to just all start getting sick on mass yeah like the boomers urgent, I presume the Burma there, like what kind of stake d want than I hit think what cut of beef I won. Stick stuff with state management. Since you are a mark me, episode with David spade any song about Farley, and he said that Chris Farley would put a new full pat of butter on every bite of stake. Thirty eight hours doesn't sound very tasty. What butter on strike us delicious, that much better on each by that's too much here, as you might even say that success,
in Spain would get on and be elected. You can't do that and he said Farley Look Amoco he's like, but each one needs its own hat. He's like you couldn't help it laughed as used to so doorway, yet at a loss to so sad they eat but it was really interesting near the tick out now I love those two yeah very sad everything down, but you did but we're talking about them aging and in and being healthy rear, their aging in a much healthier manner than previous generations, but it will need health care and social services are available, specifically like Mary care for health care. And so security for retired, pensions. Yes, so what's the scared that they're like now now I started to her, but I got depressed and but then
I saw that like no, we saw this coming so they have taken measures. Yeah, I saw in a couple places it's the most predictable train wreck in american history good and bad. So here's thing when you're working year contributing to such security caviar, your paycheck right that goes into a poorly managed fund that loses money quickly right. So It was in grave danger of really running out in the not too distant future daily, not ass. It passed and in nineteen eighty four death there the payroll tax increase they created a reserve fund and nineteen. Eighty four it was Ronald Reagan. Tax increase were so this reserve. Find it still arise. Things like two point: six trillion dollars in it. Well, we are depleting it each year and its it makes up the shortfall that that's security is is blacking right, so as we depleted more more while we have
and less money to provide for people down the road they think by twenty thirty, four will just be back to just social security. The the The fund will be depleted and will be able to offer something like seventy to eighty percent of the benefits that coming to each person that's a big shortfall in others hey what you thought you were: gonna get you're gonna, be short, twenty to thirty percent. Yes right, exactly ok, so people are equal do right turns out there's a lot of very, not paying less bitter. Not painful at all measures that you pick from em together, I saw the gray Forbes article on they had Lincoln Infographic, so really drove at home. Here bears like pick pick three of these pick two of these pictures. These pick ten of these and like they were just. Singly, smaller and smaller less noticeable measures that you could take and make a hundred a hundred and twenty two hundred and thirty percent of the shore
social security. Just by moving money around yeah yeah, they orb just slightly increasing these taxes on lightly slashing benefits slightly making the age of retirement a little longer than a little older yeah that that altogether, the average person wouldn't even notice really right. So I, I'm sure that we're gonna be able to figure it out and away. That's not gonna just ruin everything, that's good! That's the thing that keeping from really going downhill, though, is that the baby boomers seem too said. I can retire right. Sir, in two thousand eight that great recession that happened there was a massive transfer wealth out of the real estate holdings and the stock portfolios of Americans here. A lot of them were baby boomers, sure poised to retire. They lost a lot of money and went elsewhere here right and as a result, the baby boomers said well, I have to go back to work or well
and retire. But I'm gonna have to keep working for five more years here and there Mentality seems to be keeping so security from being further strained they're, just not there night there working longer than they they normally would be expected to under so security. Yes, the congressional Budget Office, so that twenty five then a firmer households don't have enough savings, put away to return, their standard of living upon retirement. So there's that Also,. A large set, a boomers that want to stay active and keep working like, I think you said something like seventeen percent. Only three percent are expected to fall retire and be done working and not. Them or because they need the money it sorted depend. Some I mean it's kind of sad, some people then forced out of their jobs and alive.
Stage in life or later stage of life have to go back to like these hourly jobs and others where choosing to you there I can our own in their work A wine shop, like you, know, twelve bucks an hour it in I come the first baby Boomer chose to go to high school. As a second career yeah and is now full and on volunteers, and rightly so, the other arm, others it it there's. Definitely both going on again. You can't pay that generation with just one brought. Shame yeah! Sorry, I'm so sorry for using that that metaphor I got no if any, with a brush. While you later another one guy, but there plenty of people who just simply cannot afford to. Let me just really really sad, especially if the reason is that there are therefore one cases lost value or their houses and worth what they Planning on in that nasty tat is really said to me. It is.
I wouldn't give advice much, but I think millennials of our better about trying to think about their long term financial feed then our generation, because I did think about itself, though just far too late Adam taken very seriously now, but my advice, the younger people as dislike. Start early. And do debts with with small You shouldn't even someone who knows what they're doing bike and who knows what's gonna happen like don't spend on security. Like to carry yourself area with safe investments, and you know- maybe I like it did I gotta covered. You know my brother's gonna stay open up the mob. Some pay lots I'm going out on his parking lots my work out, but try to try some nice, safe investments, long term stuff will diversify yeah don't don't follow you raise in one basket, or
pay lot right, exactly which now just occurred to me. That was the Fargo as we want to impose an outward who was here, he wanted to buy some parking lots here. Real rich deal stand. Give movie. So I have in your office stats these days, but I have some that I feel are worth sharing. Can, I guess, outside again his firm, the Molly for their depressing, so fifty nine percent of baby boom expect to rely heavily on social security. Fifty nine that's up from forty three percent in two thousand fourteen said more or counting on it. Now I thought that would go down. No things are not going well right. Now, forty five percent no retirement savings, not anymore. They may have had a before then I'll. Have it now they never saved whatever that's up from twenty percent that into those fourteen, while so Sir tanking for debate, Rumours right now: twenty six percent expected
until seventy to retire. Thirty percent stop tearing their retirement assets into doesn't sixteen year, sixteen percent heads had taken premature withdrawals Forty four percent were in death where the median debt of twenty four thousand five hundred dollars, man yeah this is not how we should care for aging population. Now you know it's not an anti give couple fact with, like that's great you're gonna, expect to rely heavily on so security you're gonna be disappointed, but due to go ahead, What that any guy who s you with the pole, yeah the other Their bigger misconception is that the boom, work harder than the millennials origin exercise, the other protestant work ethic that he asked for any found. This cool thing, the sky at Wayne, State Keith, They bow, he examined
seventy seven studies comprising a hundred five distinct measurements work ethic and he basically said that's all just a bunch of junk that european salon. It is like, if you look at the numbers in the stats. There is no prince and work ethic between the generations, which is in feels right. You know, like this feels like something that some editor wants to write about in the signs it like. That's. A hot topic will apparently, that the big, like human resource thing to figure out how to structure operation to school. The most out of each of the generations of working there in this case I don't even bother they're all they are worth the same did say them that baby boomers, and to thrive more in subscribed to organizational structure more
so hierarchies, whereas like millennials in generation, acts are more like. What's this more work from home yeah? How that or have a big huge. Cavernous office with no walls right raw. Same can we get some butter? First stick around about a standing desk. You know, I guess sitting is for jobs An exercise remember their whole period, but he mean here. Oh yeah, oh yes, people still do that, though your dunes yeah, but I have also seen more stools, and here the Nairobi Hostile sitting stalls icy what else fairly the rumours are really the first egg generation to run Basel II vote for a cremation upon death and not this morose open casket, traditional said,
funeral and be more like. I want to die. As I lived with verve vigour in lieutenant a party man scatter. My ashes on the White House LAW, and how much is it the higher Gallagher. I wonder these days is how, but he still tourists to our shoulders. I bet he's a bet. He's gotta someplace in Branton He's rule to hit for Branson right between often uncovered comforting there anything else, I don't think so. Oh well, I do think it was interesting, the young, the big urban boom. The with the millennials armed with fear. I keep saying that. I wonder why, like skipping all together well.
Curse of our generation digs suburban boom with the vote where's lay in the nineteen fifteen out. All these it became too basically to move outside the city in in the tiny apartment and like buying home of the backyard and that's when the snow really burned and apparently had a had quite a deleterious effect, on women, the women who move to the suburbs it was there sort of in a weird way taught like go back to that thing. Where you you don't wanna work. You wanted just be a moment in the suburbs and raise your kids yeah. That's the thing to do evolutionary road, I you're talkin about depressing movie alma, But apparently generated that dissatisfaction is what led to the women's rights movement like that but the turned it into feminism of the sixty three right
I mean there were plenty of women's rights movements before like www suffrage in well with suffrage yeah, this revived it big time just living in the suburbs? Did it have had such a crushing effect on women living in the suburbs isolated from the city here from us people from social networks and living in this place where they were expected, is basically raised. Kids and keep the house clean the average. Neither how things like produce like opposite equal in opposite reactions in a year this lady freedom, the nineteen sixty three and about the feminine mystique said that the sub forbearing women alive, and it's very harsh way to put it but certainly drives home. Oh yeah yeah, fine. It interesting? We need to do a feminism one sometime
I do have one more on baby boomers, smokin grass, purely they like it it was one of the three things you could give me a ride. Yeah gas one other that still to me, the autumn great, both his it's just so good. This man, Benjamin Heine he's a doktor jack. Yeah attrition and health service research in the center for drug use. You what a study called the demographic trends among older cannabis use, in the United States, two thousand six: it doesn't. Thirteen can worry but I'm he evaluated close to fifty thousand adults, fifty in older and found Seventy one percent increase and marijuana use among adults, age. Fifty, an older between twenty five, two thousand six in two thousand thirteen, which makes sense these hippies get
older right then, and it says here that they didn't start like they just kept smoking grass they just aged into another age. Gather not new users by that fell off a lot after sixty five significant lower prevalence of use, but still too times higher or that it your period so arm. Yes, pretty interesting there I seen it. The thing with Stds is well there's higher rates of Stds among older population than before and again it. Is the baby boomers are into these new age bracket, yeah bring in all their vices with them. The M, random, what's any names but have a friend and his wife has her foot we in South Carolina has an island just one, these all coastal. You know you itself, in Ireland like you think it is an island, but that's a big huge thing too small
area of land on the waterways they get it. I'm outer banks got two year, but you gotta see the play ceiling. Its land but its surrounded by war and all, but when you think, like someone owns an island, you think of this big thing with like houses everywhere and like piles was about. Banks is, like tons of little. I had I will they own one of impact and they have a little retreat there, which is basically a I've with like eight bunk beds, and then this huge just picnic area like a covered picnic area, and they have this retreat every year, a couple of times ear and I've been on it and all these old South Carolina hippies are all these kids parents and they put us too. Am I really I'll get naked? They like getting. The age group they'd. It was to call to get naked, but they are there We were in bed before they were. They were again. The next morning before we were- and I remember
like literally waking up, hung over like walking the fire and those like seven. Sixty year olds, with like he joints being passed around between them. No, my car at you, no nine in the morning did you I and everybody else was asleep, and I was just like what world have I stepped into here? These are the boomers easily was like these cool hippies near my mom. Still fighting the power. You know an important model is interesting, their marathon group. To find the power here on a private island in South Carolina pretty much. What we always the urine talks, MAC about baby boomers verve a year more than eleven, the other great, but we're going to stop breaker. Ok, oh if you want to know more about- the most well stuff baby boomers, negotiate store and ask him about what it's like to be. Baby boomers, its decisive as simply listener make
the english sayings of sorts, hey guys are the show enjoy the way of Go at pronouncing things. You seem to be enjoy being corrected on these two hold on tight us into the pot. Yes and police circuses, and you mentioned mention, hurt Jar England couple pointers, Hertfordshire is pronounced. Hartford Where are we aware? I admit it isn't spelled a charity, but then it's just the english language, for you, the legendary. Ah As many sounds like tough cough, though, through the royal pain in the bud for everyone, learning English, but there must be a nightmare to learn English later age, oh yeah, my free for you. If you ever, to discuss a place called law. Borrow. Still share Lester Gyre, its pronounced luff burrow,
then Lester Sheer. Cambridge is not on Hertford Shire. It's in Cambridge Shire. It's a bit like seeing Boston, New Hampshire, close, but no cigar. So I guess we must up to now now, like I got it wrong, I was saying it spelled like Hertfordshire, so I'm sure it's pronounced Cambridge, who he was you can get the catching sector. Here's the little American anyway goes up the by gas and per currently going through your back catalogue, which he spelled gee you eat and it wiles away the boring drive towards each day across Cambridge sure I do. These are so vast here. How will we all ever get along
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