This is Spectator Radio and you're listening to Life and Arts with Dominic Green for Spectator USA.

Hello, I'm Dominic Green. I'm Life and Arts editor of Spectator USA and I'd like to welcome you to our weekly Life and

Arts podcast. This week, I'm casting the pod with Matthew Hennessy. He's an associate editorial

features editor at the Wall Street Journal. He's also the author of Zero Hour for Gen X,

how the last adult generation can save America from millennials.

Matthew Hennessy, welcome to Spectator USA.

It's my pleasure, Dominic.

So first off, the terminology at what is Generation X?

Okay, Generation X is a cohort of Americans born roughly between about 1965 and 1981. And I will stop right there to say

that there's not a whole lot of consensus about these dates and that you will frequently get

people disputing them. I borrowed that span of years from Pew Research. It works very well for me. I happen to fall right

smack in the middle of it since I was born in 1973. So Generation X at the moment is roughly

between about 40 years old and 55. Let's just put it that way. Before them, you have the boomers who were born after the Second World War,

and then after Gen X, you have, am I right, the Millennials?

Or do we also have Gen Y?

Yeah.

So I think at the beginning, and by the beginning, I mean the first time I ever heard of

the millennials mentioned as a discrete group, I'm pretty sure they were calling

them Gen Y. So, you know, in the late 90s, just because there's a lag sometimes in the naming

of these generations. So Generation X didn't pick up its name until the early 90s, up until, you know,

in the 60s, in the early 70s, they were referred to as the

baby bust just to distinguish them from what came before. And so Generation Y, I think,

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