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The Dr. Phil Podcast

Boomer Bashing: America's New Pastime | The REAL Story with Dr. Phil

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Message to millennials:  Instead of being bitter, show some appreciation.   In the next twenty years, my generation will pass down 53 TRILLION dollars.   That is the biggest transfer of wealth EVER!

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0:00.0

Who remembers the song by the Who called Talking About My Generation?

0:06.0

Well, now, instead of talking about our generation, the new trend is bashing other generations.

0:15.0

Case in point, boomer bashing.

0:18.0

Now, if I seem a little defensive about this, it may be because I'm a boomer.

0:24.5

It seems to be the new national pastime. Today's real story, pointing fingers won't pay your bills

0:31.8

or change your life. At some point, you got to stop whining about another generation and what they did and start

0:41.2

taking accountability for what you are going to do.

0:46.3

Let's look at some headlines.

0:48.4

Boomer hate has gone too far.

0:51.3

The toxic legacy of boomer blaming.

0:54.3

Even Whoopi Goldberg felt the need to jump in and defend her generation.

0:59.3

Here was the headline.

1:00.4

Whoopi Goldberg doesn't get why younger generations think boomers aren't cool.

1:05.8

Nobody talks to me like that.

1:07.1

You understand me?

1:08.2

Who are us boomers?

1:09.9

Well, boomers are post-war generation born

1:12.5

between 1946 and 1964. Now, as I said, that makes me a boomer, and I won't tell you

1:19.5

about all of my war stories that walk in two miles to school and the snow, uphill, both ways,

1:27.3

every day. But here's what you do need to know.

1:30.2

Things were different then. You'll be telling your kids and your grandkids about how tough it was.

1:36.2

You had to fight AI and the internet was sabotaging everything and et cetera, et cetera.

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