This is a HeadGum podcast.

Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Connover, thank you so much for joining me

once again as I talk to an incredible expert about all the amazing things that they know

that I don't know and that you might not know both of our minds are going to get blown together

and we're going to have so much fun doing it this week we're talking about generations.

Now I'm on record as being somewhat of a skeptic about the entire concept of generations.

After all one of the first YouTube videos I ever made that went viral was called Millennials

Don't Exist and my skepticism is well founded it comes from who I was and where I was when the

concept was popularized a decade ago people started talking about Millennials as if we were a

new kind of human recently hatched in a lab to wreak havoc across America we were blamed for

being entitled social media obsessed and for not being able to afford homes because we were all

too busy eating too much avocado toast and you know it struck me as an actual human being who

has literally never eaten avocado toast that this way of talking about people was reductive

and flattening and just plain stupid classifying people into generations minimizes the massive

diversity of actual people you know in the popular imagination every boomer had sex at Woodstock

and hitchhikes to San Francisco for the summer of love before being drafted to go to Vietnam you know

they'll basically just reenacted the plot of forest gump and guess what it's just not fucking true

we're talking about a cohort of tens of millions of people sure some of them were drafted

but some of them dodged the draft and many just stayed home and quietly supported the war many

boomers maintained conservative attitudes about sex their entire lives and a lot of them thought

that that hippie music sucked ass and you know what I'm with them country Joe and the fish is not a

bad name it's the name of an overpriced crab shack by the beach and that's not even getting into

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