Life Audio Hey, welcome to the Happy Ramp Podcast. I am Ted Cluck. joined as always in studio.

By my good friends, my partners in radio, Barnabas Piper, Ronald J Martin.

Boys, we've been in the midst of a series.

I think it's because you guys are men of the cloth, you know, we're in that, not a sermon series, a different kind of series.

We've been talking about generations.

And this morning boys, we get to talk about what some have called the greatest generation and it's Generation X.

So we'll get to do some kind of backward looking remembrances of Generation X and all their achievements and all the great things about this

amazing generation.

But first, in true Gen X fashion, we got to make some money, we got to pay some bills. We'll be right back.

All right boys, we're back. Talked about millennials last time, talked about Gen Z a couple of weeks before that

This week we're talking about Gen X and I want to kind of frame it in a similar way as we framed the other ones in first asking what are the most sort of iconic

Gen X movies and what makes them Gen X so when you think about like movies that

define our generation Big R what what comes to mind

Man that's a great question

You know I mean there's gonna be a lot of them right I think of some of the more teen oriented ones like

breakfast club oh yeah you know things that just sort of things that just sort of

introduced what it was that kids were facing based on the way that they'd

been raised and then how culture like you know music movies all of those things kind of inform their life, you know, in that in that time frame.

And so yeah, I think of something like the Breakfast Club where you got like like you get this balance of like

characters that weren't that different than what you experienced you know at

school in that in that era you know yeah and again there was there's so many unrealistic things about it. Of course, it's just a movie, but this sense of like, the thing, the commonality they all had was this sense of isolation. They had overworked boomer parents that didn't give

them a lot of attention, just sort of let them be on their own and figure it out.

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