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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Episode 106: Blame the Boomers

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Is everything the Boomers’ fault? Are Millennials actually the victims? Is Gen X the best generation? Jonah brings Wall Street Journal editorial board member and author of Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future Joe Sternberg onto The Remnant to answer these and other questions. Show Notes: Untuckit.com, use … Continue reading Episode 106: Blame the Boomers→

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0:00.0

Greetings dear listeners this is Jonah Goldberg this is another episode of the remnant

0:29.3

podcast we are going to skip over all the game of thrones thumb suckery and get

0:35.7

right to it but if you're interested in Game of Thrones thumb suckery there was

0:40.8

a special episode of the glock podcast where we went into great detail on

0:44.6

all of it and this week's episode is brought to you by Untucket and by

0:49.5

sleep number more about that later we have in the studio Joe Sternberg of the

0:55.0

editorial page of the Wall Street Journal currently residing in London though

0:59.8

in Washington for his new for his book tour on to talk about his new book theft of

1:07.6

a decade how the millennials have the baby boomers screwed over the millennials or

1:12.1

words to that yeah basically okay so welcome and why don't you make your case

1:21.6

okay well thanks for having me in you know it's really exciting when you've

1:25.8

been working on a book for eight months in the library talking to yourself

1:29.5

about it finally be able to talk about the rest of the world you know talk to

1:34.1

the rest of the world about this issue and you know I started out actually

1:38.4

asking myself a question which is who's right you know we have this weird

1:43.0

dynamic going on right now politically where I think that baby boomers and

1:47.4

millennials are really talking past each other so that you have millennials

1:50.5

saying we have a lot of economic problems times have not been good for us

1:55.4

particularly or for the past decade and then you and we have all of these

2:00.6

problems with student debt with a job market that isn't quite working for us

2:04.2

for struggling to get on to the housing ladder and then you encounter a lot of

2:08.0

boomers who talk right past that and say you kids have never had it so good you

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