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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | So after decades of cultural and political dominance, |
0:03.3 | the baby boomer generation of which I am the tail end, |
0:07.3 | I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, |
0:10.1 | but I am, it's shrinking. |
0:12.5 | And you know, time catches up with everyone, right? |
0:17.0 | But for the first time, |
0:18.0 | ever folks, this massive group of Americans |
0:21.9 | is outnumbered and the power that they had |
0:26.9 | and still wheeled to some degree, |
0:30.7 | to some degree, has, is beginning to change hands. |
0:35.9 | That power that they've taken for granted is ebbing. |
0:39.8 | So what does the end of the baby boom mean for American politics? |
0:43.6 | Mean for our economy and mean for our power structure. |
0:48.9 | Well joining me today is Philip Bump, |
0:51.2 | National Connist for the Washington Post, |
0:53.5 | and one of the papers, most red writers, |
0:56.0 | Philip is the author of the new book, |
0:58.0 | The Aftermath, The Last Days of the Baby Boom, |
1:01.3 | and the future of power in America, |
1:03.2 | we're going to get into what's going to happen to folks like me. |
1:07.2 | And who's going to replace us? |
1:10.5 | That's for all my Republican, |
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