- When I think of music today
and when I try to listen to music today,
I hear a lot of words I don't want to hear.
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- [Producer] "Okay, boomer" offends me.
- Please clarify, what's an "Okay, boomer?"
- [Producer] This is a phrase that's popular
on the internet.
- Oh. - [Producer] "Okay, boomer."
- Oh, it's like a slight.
Okay.
- [Producer] Three, two, one, go!
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- Oh, it just kills me that, you know,
someone who's
19 or something,
I got calluses that are 19.
(group laughs)
You know, there's this assumption
that we don't know anything about anything.
And I'm the first to admit
I'm ignorant about plenty in this world,
but I know a couple of things about some other things
that I'm sure whoever said that doesn't know either.
Wait till you get to our age and you start looking back
on people who are that age, you'll find out.
- Yeah, I would be disrespected.
I somewhat agree because I'm new to the lingo, but yeah,
I mean, nobody wants to be disrespected.
- Yeah, I guess it seems like, you know,
as soon as they say, "Okay, boomer"
or in that kind of tone of voice, it's like it's dismissive.
- I'm not offended
because the people that I use that word with
are more or less in my generation.
I'm offended if they allude to "Okay, old person,"
"Okay, AARP card carrier"
(group laughs) or something like that
because, like, I have to remind my son who's 45
like, "You're five years away
from carrying the AARP card," you know?
- Okay, boomer.
- Okay, boomer (group laughs)
- [Producer] I feel comfortable
asking younger people for help.
Three, two,
one,
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- I don't feel comfortable asking anyone for help.
(group laughs)
I am not out the pasture yet.
- I feel very comfortable asking younger people for help.
Like especially on the day
when the knee's not working right
(group laughs)
and the carpal tunnel's acting up,
(group laughs) I say,
"Hey, can you help me with this," because, you know?
- Yeah, so, I'm a developer, so, you know,
programming languages and stuff like that.
But so, yeah, the younger guys, I mean, and gals,
they just pick up stuff so quick.
- I think Riza said,
"You gotta put the pride in the drawer and ask.
If that person is 18 or 80,
ask."
- [Producer] Younger generations are too entitled.
Three, two,
one,
go!
(footsteps)
- Oh, I so agree with that.
I mean,
I have
grandchildren who I love dearly,
but what they do is that they guilt you,
and what happens is
is that they feel like they're entitled to these things,
everything, they know you want them to be happy,
and they know you want them to fit in with everybody.
So, what you gonna do?
You're gonna go buy them that $1,200 cell phone
after you just bought that last cell phone six months ago
that cost you a thousand dollars
that you're still paying on now.
- I think the entitlement comes from their upbringing.
I think parenting has become more lax,
they've, we've forgotten that we're supposed to raise kids
to guide them along.
- You're entitled to tell me how you feel
and you're entitled to tell me what do you want to do,
and how could I help,
but just to hand money endlessly,
for our generation to do that,
shame on us.
- I mean, I agree with a lot of that.
I think some kids are, you know,
they get $500 cell phones and stuff like this,
and there's certain expectations,
but they're in for a world of trouble and a lot of stuff
that we're not gonna have to deal with
because we'll be dead.
What the climate's gonna look like,
you know, maybe it's not such a great thing
to be
that young.
- I'm excited!
- [Producer] Music was better when we were young.
Three, two,
one,
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- This is the oldest cliché.
I bet Mozart was telling his father, you know,
"Your music stunk!" (group laughs)
- But yeah, but still, I mean, I'm in this line because,
yeah, our music kicked (beep).
(group laughs)
- When I think of music today
and when I try to listen to music today,
I hear a lot of words I don't want to hear.
There are a lot of lyrics about violence.
- [Riza] You know, the words in today's music,
and even my kids agree,
is more direct and lewd at the same time.
I mean, I hear the F word and I think,
"Can't you not think of a better word?"
It speaks to a lack of creativity.
- [Producer] I'm glad I did not have a cell phone
growing up.
Three, two,
one,
go!
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- I'm in the technology field,
so when I grew up, it's no cell phone,
you go to a, you go to a payphone,
and you gotta have the, you know, the right coin and then,
so the convenience is amazing.
- Cell phones weren't necessary when I was growing up
because we got along just fine.
Mama found you when she wanted to find you,
daddy did too.
You know, we knew the times we had to be in the house,
we knew where we could go and where we couldn't go,
and when, like I said, when mama wanted you, she found you.
- There were long periods of time,
especially in the summer,
when nobody knew where we were,
my mother and my father had no idea where we were,
and there was no way to get in touch with us or them,
and that was just the way I liked it.
- That's horror for me.
- It's like you take a cell phone to school,
it's such a distraction for them.
So, I think there's a lot of challenges now with kids
and even young adults with cell phones,
and I'm glad we didn't have them when I was coming up.
- [Producer] I support the LGBTQ community.
Three, two,
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- I do not agree
that just because you disagree with this person,
you suddenly have a right to go beat on him.
And that's what I've seen
because that community suffers more violence
than any other community out there.
That needs to stop.
- This is something that's gotten way better
during our lifetimes.
They, the cops used to bust gay bars,
they used to arrest these guys, they got,
people got beaten up, they're still getting beaten up,
but we've come a long way.
Are we there yet?
No, but how could you not like this progress?
- I mean, we live in America, right?
So, live and let live, you know, no problem just, you know.
live any way you like kind of thing
just don't infringe in other people's rights kind of thing.
Don't try to force rights,
your rights over other people's rights.
- You know, adding to that is, you know,
in particular the women and men's bathroom.
I, you know, I think about my kids,
and
these gender-neutral bathrooms
just bother me.
I'm glad my kids are all grown up, but it's not safe.
- [Producer] I believe in therapy.
Three, two,
one,
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- From my growing up,
you didn't go outside the community for help.
I mean, you sucked it up, and you did it, you know,
you didn't like it, so what?
I somewhat agree with it now
because I'm seeing all of this homelessness,
I'm seeing all of the people out on the street
with all of the problems,
and I'm thinking to myself,
"Yeah, there has to be something better,"
you know, than suck it up and figure it out.
- I grew up in what is now South LA,
there was domestic violence,
there was a lot going on then.
But you did, you kind of sucked it up, and in sucking it up,
you kind of passed it on to your generation,
the next generation because no one ever dealt with it,
and a lot of like, for example, domestic violence,
that was like the norm.
I think our generation with the culture,
it's like we don't want people to think
that there's something wrong with us,
so we're not gonna go and try to get it fixed.
- [Producer] Baby boomers hold too much power today.
Three,
two,
one,
go!
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- I thought this is just an age thing.
I mean, people of a certain amount of experience in age
have always run the world.
Kids don't know enough about the world,
super old people don't have the energy to run the world,
so this is who runs the world.
- At no time in the history of our country
have we had the quantity of people under 35 years of age
who are CEOs,
millionaires,
and billionaires.
People who came from literally no silver spoon,
and then now a couple years later
they could buy $50 billion homes at multiple locations
and pay cash.
To me, I think that's awesome.
- Mike, you're just mad
because you can't sell them mortgages.
- Yeah, there you go. (group laughs)
They may pay cash!
(Mike laughs)
- The people quote on quote in power,
which is the government, are mostly baby boomers.
You know, look at the democratic field,
look at the, who's president right now,
and they're all pretty old.
But like Mike said, the guys with the money
is the younger guys and it's always the money
that drives politics too,
you know, that's the support.
So, yeah, so, there is the behind the scene power that,
you know, some people may know.
- [Producer] This is the last prompt.
- The boomers are getting tired.
(group laughs)
- [Producer] My generation has made the world
a better place.
Three, two,
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- Oh, I believe that we've made the world a better place,
and I look towards civil rights
as being my mark.
I remember not being able
to go to certain
cafés,
I remember the bus situations.
So, we fought very, very hard for civil rights.
So, all the rights that people are getting nowadays,
they're getting those rights because we fought for them.
- We marched, we boycotted, we fought, we went to jail,
we had our churches bombed.
We did all of this, so when someone asks us,
"Well, what do you think about LGBTQ rights?"
We could say,
"Yeah, I think they're entitled to their rights."
You know, that was part of the Civil Rights Movement
where we didn't only fight for rights for black people,
African Americans, we fought for rights for everyone.
- [Beverly] That's right. - So, I think that,
yeah,
we've left our mark.
- When we leave the earth,
I think one thing that hopefully
we're gonna be remembered for,
Lady Thatcher, Pope John Paul, and Ronald Reagan
freed over a hundred million people from communism.
- I agree with most of that, not what Mike said,
I agree with none of that.
(group laughs)
We made some great strides with,
(group laughs)
We made some great strides with civil rights
and absolutely I don't disagree with any of that.
But at the same time,
this generation has turned a blind eye
to some serious environmental issues.
We've killed huge swathes of the ocean,
the polar caps are melting.
There used to be a middle class when we were young,
there was a middle class in the 60s,
it's moving its way out to the edges now,
there's a lot of poor people
and there's a lot of really rich people,
and our generation has to bear some responsibility
for some of that stuff.
- [Producer] All right, that's a wrap, guys!
(group applauds)
(inaudible chatter)
- How about a hug? - Oh, great!
(group laughs)
(inaudible chatter)
- My wife goes for her citizenship interview Friday.
- [Riza] Oh, where is she?
- Yeah, yeah.
Oh, she's from Peru.
- [Riza] Oh, congratulations!
(group laughs)
- Come on, where are you?
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