Mind the Generation Gap

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kurt talks to the author Daniel Torday about his new book, “Boomer1,” a dark satire about the tension between millennials and baby boomers coming to a head. Then a segment about something boomers couldn’t stand about the generation that preceded them: its love for Lawrence Welk’s unapologetically wholesome variety show. For our Guilty Pleasures feature, listener Paul Fotsch explains how he couldn’t stand Lawrence Welk as a kid but grew to love the show. And finally, Argentine experimental musician Juana Molina performs songs from her album, “Halo.”

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.0	I'm Kurt Annes.
0:10.8	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.1	This first level of garden.
0:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.9	Very well done.
0:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.7	Studio 360. It's good. Anderson.
0:33.9	If you were in your teens or early 20s in the late 1960s and 70s, a lot of your motivation to grow your hair long or drop acid or whatever was about rejecting the lifestyle choices or values of your greatest generation parents.
0:51.6	So I guess it's karma that today, as those baby boomers children are in their
0:57.8	20s and 30s, there is a new generation gap. Members of both generations feeling some
1:04.2	mutual resentment and disapproval. Here are some actual recent clickbaby news headlines.
1:14.5	Baby boomers are the worst generation.
1:17.3	Millennials, the me, me, me generation.
1:19.6	Baby boomers are what's wrong with America's economy.
1:22.3	How millennials are ruining the workforce.
1:25.1	Are baby boomers a generation of sociopath?
1:27.6	Millennials are entitled, narcissistic, and lazy.
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