So several people have asked me who exactly are gen X, because it's one of those weird we we all these terms of boomers, greatest generation, slid generation gen X, gen used to be gen Y, but now it's millennial, gen Z, gen ALF, all these things. So these are some people, and it's also the Zenials and Zeniols and the young boomers and all this stuff. So I'm fifty plus. This is fifty plus, so we're all talking about anything over fifty, So that would be nineteen seventy four and
before. So let's let's just get into it a little bit. So gen X, by most accounts, I said nineteen seventy four backwards is the fifty plus crowd. So fifty plus or anybody born nineteen seventy four back that's part of it. Gen X is nineteen sixty five to nineteen eighty. We follow baby boomers and we receive millennials. So from nineteen sixty five nineteen seventy four, you are gen X, and that's my time here. I was born in sixty nine, so you're a part of so we're part of that.
So that's fifty to sixty six. No, sik, Yeah, sixty six this year fifteen to sixty six. You guys, we are no no fit, no wit fifty Yeah, because I'm fifty five, fifty five, fifty to sixty one sorry, or sixty or sixty fifty nine like that. So that's you, guys. Gen X is known as the first generation to be raised by working mothers, where the frust ration to come up within the age of Internet. We're also called the forgotten generation, and we were called the
slacker generation. We were called the MTV generation. We were first generation experience music videos of course, and all that. We had the Great Recession, we had to stop crash at twenty eighteen, We had the Cold War. We had disco for many of us had disco, and afterwards New Wave, we had MySpace, you know all that stuff. I mean, it was
it's very much from sixty five to nineteen eighty. Now, I say sometimes the Federal Reserve Board or Social Security says nineteen sixty four, in nineteen seventy nine, so it's only it's a year off, but it's like it's just a year off, right. There are books Thomas Copland did, Douglas Copeland did gen X. That was a book that he did. I read that years ago about us, and they said this about sixty two, you know us running around, So there you go. But the generations are there's the
Lost generation, the Greatest generation, the silent generation. Then are most of our parents and older siblings are baby boomers, that's forty six to sixty four. Then there's us. Many of our younger siblings or children are millennials at the least, be called Gen Y, and then Duration Z the zoomers. There must My grandkids are ninety seven to twenty twelve. Then of course I have my other grandkids, our Generation Alpha. It's twenty tens now to mid
twenties. So I don't know the next one be called, but it's A. But that's that's where the thing is done. Douglas Copa and Copeland is now which about in nineteen eighty one. I have it. It's called the Tales for Accelerated Culture. Interesting read. So that's that's that's that's the question. Short answer. You're looking up and see what else that means. But it's nineteen sixty five, sixty fourty five to nineteen eighty that's who Gen X. We sorry, that's we are. We have a lot of it.
We have a lot. We had a lot going on. We remember three channels, most of us, uh, you know, we remember before cable, remember the emergence of cable. There's a lot of things we remember that I talk about on the show, that I talk about regularly on the show, and we'll continue to highlight them. And we're living longer, many of us are living a lot longer, and we're here. But so what we are in the same you know, fifty plus is us and the boomers and
the Greatest generation and the sun a generetion. We're all we're all kind of there's some ful of flots, all hundred whatever, and so we're all. We're that. But always say, mostly I talked to you, I know my groups. It's gen X and boomers. That's mostly who we are in this in this thing. So that that's sure. That is your cute story. So that's your answer. I'm James I Junior, and I'll talk to you next time.