The Revolution is YOU!

The Revolution is YOU my Punks! 
Have you ever felt trapped by the expectations of others and the world, yearning to break free and embrace your true authentic self?

Join me, your eccentric Auntie Robin, as I share my own journey of self-discovery and healing, offering you a roadmap to empowerment and self-love. Drawing from my experiences as a neurodivergent individual, I invite you to reconnect with your ancestors and spirit guides, as we unite to rebuild our communities in a world that often seeks to divide us.

In this episode, we explore the importance of understanding our emotions and liberating ourselves from the clutches of our own thoughts, and expectations from the world. We will be uncovering the generational traumas and triumphs that shaped the Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and Gen Alpha. From the Great Depression, WW1, WW2, to 9-11, these pivotal events left indelible marks on their identities and parenting styles. Looking at the Generations, and how they have echoed their disfunctions through time and molding a complex tapestry of cultural norms and beliefs that effect how we think and act.  Join us as we reflect on these generational histories and cultural trends, offering fresh insights into our shared legacy and the path forward. So we can reclaim ourselves.

KEEP IT PUNK, My Younglings!

Chapters

• 0:02 This is Where the Revolutions Begins
• 10:18 Generational Trauma in Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, and Baby Boomers. How it Connects to Now.
• 23:15 Generational Trauma in Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z. How it Connects to Now.
• 45:05 Generational Alpha and the Big Wrap Up

Transcript

Auntie Robin: 0:02

Welcome to the Kicked Can Generation Podcast. My younglings, my little punks, come join your weirder older Auntie Robin, along with her magical bag of holding. I'm the auntie that your family has warned you about. I'm one of those weird, free-thinking individual people who kind of walks to their own beat, the one in which all the cousins at the family reunion will hang out with, because she understands how much of an absolute shitshow dumpster fire this family really is and is a badass trauma survivor who has learned how to cultivate her own damn peace and who will protect all of those that she loves with absolute ferocity. Yeah, I'm that auntie. Now my babies.

Auntie Robin: 0:56

We just had a major election here in the US. Did it go the way your auntie was wanting? Abso-fucking-lutely not. It seems so ridiculous to me after two episodes, having to rebrand this, but what I originally wanted to do with this podcast is now irrelevant. So what does a wildly unashamed woman do with that kind of situation? She pivots, she redirects. She pivots, she redirects. And you want to know what I find worthwhile? You Helping you find your true, authentic self.

Auntie Robin: 1:33

Help you learn how to calm your mind, your thoughts, and have control over them again and help you stand in that power. Help you learn how to deal with your emotions in that power. Help you learn how to deal with your emotions, how to stop people pleasing or caring or giving a shit of what other people think of you. How to heal some of those truly traumatic events that have happened in our lives and also learn how to take our ancestral trauma and heal that as well. The biggest one of all how to fucking love yourself un-fucking-conditionally.

Auntie Robin: 2:10

This is not an easy journey. There will be times that you will want to give up. Joseph Campbell calls this the hero's journey, because you will be lost if you don't know who you are or what you stand for. So this is what this podcast is going to be about now. So, my little punks, are you ready to be the main character of your story? Are you ready to step up and reparent yourself as the one who would protected you as a kid? Are you ready to take on the dark nights of the soul and that is plural. There will be multiple trials and tribulations that you will have to endure on this journey. You may have to part with friends or family members as you outgrow them, but only through and I do literally mean through our pain and suffering will we be able to find true happiness and joy, but only through and I do literally mean through. You already know what pain and suffering feels like. Instead, let us heal ourselves, and that way we can get to know what happiness and joy feels like and possibly even connect back into our communities. Corporate America wants us to be divided because they know that if we come together, we'd put an end to a lot of this shit.

Auntie Robin: 3:36

I hear your questions, my little punks, but, auntie, why do we need to do this now? The world is falling apart and my autistic, ADHD menopausal ass is going to respond back to you in song. So please, my little punks, let's open up your Rage Against the Machine hymnals and turn it to Guerrilla Radio. "It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now? Oh hell can't stop us now. Oh hell can't stop us now. It really is the little things in life that amuse me Now.

Auntie Robin: 4:24

I was, later in life, diagnosed with autism and ADHD, a neurodivergent individual, if you will. I often felt like Cassandra as a kid growing up from ancient Greece, a prolific seer, but absolutely no one believed me. I remember once I got asked what do you think of our new pastor and saying he's okay, but there's something off about him. I just don't know what it is, only to find out a few years later. He was actually diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few months before he interviewed with our church. And that is what I was picking up on and could sense. It's not something I can explain how. I just see things differently. I can pick up on things others don't, and it has always been that way for me. Yet as a kid, no one could explain to me why my senses were heightened or explain what I was seeing or feeling or sensing, because they didn't know that other people could experience the world in different ways and I was treated poorly for it.

Auntie Robin: 5:32

People who have autism, adhd, empaths and members also of the LBGTQ plus communities have gifts. They see the world in a different way. Many Native and Indigenous cultures often consider these people as healers, those who communicate with the ancestors. Their senses are heightened to so many different things. They honor what they call like two spirits. You may call them trans or drag queens, but they find that they possess two souls in the same body, one that is both feminine and masculine at the same time.

Auntie Robin: 6:09

For the longest time I felt like my ADHD and autism was a curse and left me nothing but trauma. But now in my 50s, I see them as gifts and during my healing process I have actually become even more sensitive to the ebb and flow of the universe and can communicate with my ancestors and spirit guides very easily. Now I cannot even begin to tell you how much alone that has healed me and made me feel less alone in the world. It's comforting to know that I have my own little personal cheer squad rooting for me. After having a hard time fitting in over the years, I found that I would just sit in the corner observing the chaos as it plays out before me. But now I see I was just picking up on repeated patterns. Now that I have connected the dots, I just can't sit here anymore watching. Now that I have connected the dots, I just can't sit here anymore watching. It's time for action.

Auntie Robin: 7:09

My punks and one of the most radical ideas that I have that came up into my brain is helping you find yourself to help foster and rebuild our local communities like we once had. I always thought the government would help or you had to be super rich in order to make big changes, always thought the government would help or you had to be super rich in order to make big changes, but now I see it's really the small ones that, over time, added with other small changes equal into bigger changes. No one is going to save us, no one is going to help us, so let's start with ourselves and then work outwards. This is where the revolution truly begins. My punks, now that being said, understand that that does not mean that we ignore what is going on around us. On the contrary, we need to keep our eyes, ears and spidey senses on full alert, and if anyone is going to attempt to hurt anyone, we need to stand the fuck up. So please recognize that, because this auntie does love to start some shit.

Auntie Robin: 8:14

First, I need to let you in on a couple of life's little secrets. Do you want to know what the main three purposes of life is? It is simply to have experiences, good and bad. What lessons did you learn from those experiences? And thirdly, to be your most authentic self. And oftentimes, when we're feeling stuck or hurting too much, it's often because there is something that doesn't align with our core beliefs of who we are. Sometimes it's our thoughts, it's a location, it's the people around us, or how we were raised or what belief system we were raised in. One of the reasons why we have such a huge disconnect right now is because each person on this planet was supposed to clear out and let go of their emotional baggage from the things that we have experienced, and we are talking generations worth of trauma just getting passed on down the line. Some of these events have been so huge it has changed us on a cellular level in our DNA.

Auntie Robin: 9:25

This podcast is called the Kick Can Generations because, let's face it, the previous generations have kicked the cans down to us. It's time to clear out the bullshit, kids. So let's start looking at the generations and some of their trials and tribulations, their differences, how they influenced future generations, what their core beliefs. Look at the generations through a lens of observation. If you will, I'm going to group them together, kind of three at a time right now, with a little bit of overlap, because there's going to be people who kind of ride the line in between the generation gaps, if you will.

Auntie Robin: 10:05

First up is the greatest generation, the silent generation and the baby boomers. Let's get started with the greatest generation born between 1901 and 1927. It is an estimated about 100,000 still living in the US, according to the census data. The historical events that happened when they were kids, between 1901 and 1927, included the assassination of President McKinley, which led to President Roosevelt taking over. We had World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1905. Plus, during the war women entered into the workforce more than what they did before. The radio was invented in 1901 and TV was invented in 1927. The jazz singer, the rise of comic books kind of happened during the Depression. The 1920s kind of became a golden age of American sports. Music was heavily influenced with swing, jazz, blues, folk, gospel music which was kind of all the rage at the time.

Auntie Robin: 11:18

This generation is known for being very patriotic, known for their strong work ethic. They were very frugal, modest, had integrity and a lot of self-sacrifice. So the greatest generation gave birth to the silent generation. If they had kids when they were younger and if they had kids later in life they would kind of fall more into the baby boomer category. So this gives you an indication of kind of who raised who, what happened during that time period, to give you a fair idea of the traumas that have been passed down to the other generations, because all this connects together. So let's think like a shrink on this, look at the psychological aspects as well. Then you got to add on the other historical events from the other generations that will need to be taken into account as well, because these are just the events that happened during their childhood, which was 1901 to 1927. So let's add in the silent generation into the mix. They were born between 1928 and 1945, with an estimated about 19 million left in the US, according to the US census.

Auntie Robin: 12:33

So the greatest generation are now entering adulthood and the silent generation, as kids, saw the following historical events take place, saw the following historical events take place they had the Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to 1941. When World War II they also had the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor kind of kicked off around this time period. Plus, in 1926, ephedrine was approved for commercial use and was used as a stimulant during the war and also a diet drug later on, for both men and women, aka mommy's little helper. Yeah, mommy needed to get shit done is really what that amounted to. Now, during the war, more women were asked to fill positions in the workforce. So the greatest generation grew up with extreme poverty as they were coming of age and then were shipped off to war. So remember that we also had the atom bomb, the New Deal, which helped us get out of the Great Depression and also kind of created our current health insurance system, and also they had the Immigration Act of 1924.

Auntie Robin: 13:45

So these two generations grew up in a time of war, also a time of a lot of scarcity and lack. The silent generation gave birth to baby boomers for those who had kids when they were young and then the ones that had kids later on in life gave birth to Gen X. So these two generations alone had a lot of trauma. Today we would call it PTSD, but back then it was called shell shock. Due to the Great Depression, entire families lost everything and never fully recovered, plus the lack of food, shelter. It was an unstable time. So when things did start to balance out, they still felt that lack and it never went away and was passed down to the baby boomers and beyond.

Auntie Robin: 14:38

I remember hanging out with my grandparents as a kid and I always kind of laugh about it now because it's like every time I went over there I had to make sure I cleaned my plate. If you put the food on your plate you had to eat it. So you're really encouraged to only take what you could eat. Always go with less on this one, guys, because they were going to make you eat all of it. This is just one example of generational trauma.

Auntie Robin: 15:08

A huge one is the Holocaust in World War II. It changed generations at a DNA level. It was so huge. Plus, in 1937, it became legal for women to divorce in America with the Matrimonial Clause Act. Culturally wise, during this time period we're still in the golden age of Hollywood. Like in the 1930s, we had Gone with the Wind, the Wizard of Oz, steamboat Willie debuted in 1928. Jazz was gaining popularity with such acts as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller. Also, radio shows like Amos and Andy and the Lone Ranger were really popular at that time period. Television was just kind of getting started around here as well. So the Greatest Generation and the Silent Generation are Gen X's grandparents generation and the silent generation are Gen X's grandparents, everyone else's great-grandparents to great-great. So they still have influence over our beliefs today and how we do things Now. This does not include shitty racist, just hateful or misogynistic behavior, mind you. But you do need to understand the circumstances in which they were raised in, because it really does all connect to now.

Auntie Robin: 16:33

Next up is the Baby Boomers Born between 1946 and 1964, with about an estimate 76 million still alive, according to the US census data. Well, in 1949 was the peak of the baby boom, once the war ended. So the greatest generation started to become more grandparents, slash parents, depending on the age. The silent generation are just entering into adulthood. Entering into adulthood, the baby boomers as kids, during this period of 1946 through 1964 kind of saw these following historical events. So we had the Korean War in 1950 to 1953. We also had the start of the Vietnam War in 1961 to 1975. So some of the boomers have been in war to 1975. So some of the boomers have been in war. Okay, the Cold War with the Soviet Union kind of started around this time period. Nato was established. We also had the race to space. The Civil Rights Movement occurred between 1954 and 1968. As well as I found this one interesting the creation of Israel as a Jewish state was established during the time that they were born. Now, in 1948, the military ended segregation. The suburbs were being born during 1948 to 1951. President Kennedy was also assassinated during this time period. We also had the first parenting book come out by Benjamin Spock. That came out in 1946.

Auntie Robin: 18:10

Also during 1963, old Vicki Valium was introduced and prescribed to women who doctors felt were hysterical or anxious or basically just questioning why do I need to do this shit? So Valium and ephedrine both became mommy's little helpers. Yeah, women were basically drugged in order to have an immaculate and clean house. So seriously, don't ever beat yourself up because you can't keep up. Housewives used ephedrine to get things done and when they needed to relax or sleep they had old Vicki Valium to help the old girl out. Now, it was not widely known at this time period that the medications could affect fetus development, so you may need to remember that because that's going to come up again when we start talking about Gen X. Health insurance at the time could also kind of deny you completely altogether because of previous health issues and just flat out deny your treatment altogether.

Auntie Robin: 19:15

Culturally wise. We saw Barbie debut, the Beatles debuted on TV in 1964, the book the Feminine Mystique helped fuel the women's movement, cassette tapes were invented, fiddler on the Roof, funny Girl, mary Poppins, as well as musical acts like Bob Dylan, frank Sinatra, nat King Cole, joan Baez, led Zeppelin, beach Boys and Frank Zappa. And also in 1962, color TV started with shows like the Jetsons and the Flintstones, and also in 1959, motown Records started Ah, rock and roll. So this generation was raised as if a lack of something was about to happen at any given time and that they needed to prepare for that. They were shown how to repair things, for their parents fixed things before buying something new, but they were raised by damaged parents at this point, having been through war and a good decade of living in hard survival mode. So let's play. Connect the dots, my little punks. These kind of things made boomers a little resentful towards their parents.

Auntie Robin: 20:32

Plus, this is kind of an era where a lot of conspiracy theories started, especially with Kennedy being assassinated. So can you see how some of this connects to Trump and QAnon from back from the first election around, like 2015? You also see how they have openly embraced Nazi and fascist ideologies because their parents fought so fucking hard against them. Yes, you are literally watching a bunch of grown-ass adults fucking throwing a temper tantrum of their lives, and we all have to endure it because their parents didn't know how to deal with the after effects of war, which is one of the reasons why we need to heal this ourselves, because this shit is going to keep on building until we do. They grew up with segregation and saw it end as well, which is one of the reasons why I think they lost their damn mind when Obama got elected and I'm looking at Mitch McConnell yes, you, mitch Hurdle, the attack turtle. You did everything in your power to obstruct the government, and now we have a government that really doesn't work anymore, and I wonder if that isn't part of the reason why Kamala didn't win this election.

Auntie Robin: 22:00

Now, luckily, being prejudiced against a group of people is a learned behavior and we can unlearn that, but this is something I have never been able to understand in my entire life. How can you hate someone because of the color of their skin? It's not like they have control over it. It's not like it's something that they can change. Skin color is not a legit beef to have with someone. There needs to be actions or words to have a legit beef. I think my favorite thing to do when someone makes a racist, sexist or wholly inappropriate comment, I like to play dumb and say I don't get it. If I'm feeling especially saucy, I may ask them to explain it to me and see if they're actually going to explain their shit-ass comment. If anything, it's fun to watch them squirm. They know their comment was shitty. When people tell you who they are, I recommend that you believe them. But I digress. So we're going to move on and this is where we kind of start having some overlap.

Auntie Robin: 23:13

For the next group is baby boomers, gen X and millennials. So the baby boomers gave birth to Gen X and those who had kids later in life gave birth to millennials. Now, Gen X was born between 1965 and 1980. There's about 64 million of us still alive, according to the US Census. So we got great-great. As well as grandparents from the greatest generation, as well as grandparents from the greatest generation. We have grandparents, slash parents from the silent generation, with baby boomers just entering adulthood, slash parenting when Gen X were kids at this point.

Auntie Robin: 23:55

So Gen X kind of saw the historical events like the Civil Rights Movement still going on, the Vietnam War was just starting to end, the Cold War was just starting to begin, malcolm X was assassinated. Also, in the 70s, there was a huge energy and gas crisis. But we also saw a huge increase in counterculture movements. So like punks, hippies, goss, you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Which is why? If I'm being honest with you, I don't understand how any member of Gen X, or millennials for that matter, have an issue with trans or LBGTQ members.

Auntie Robin: 24:38

Look at the music we listened to when we grew up and the people that we watched. Come on, you know you listened to Culture Club and Boy George. And the people that we watched Come on, you know you listened to Culture Club and Boy George and you fucking loved it. If you listen to groups like Poison, Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, those were some of the most feminine looking men on the planet, acting like the first time you saw Bret Michaels and didn't think he was the most gorgeous woman you had ever seen. Or is that when the problem started for you Because we also had Annie Lennox, who swung it in the other direction and oh, what a voice? But if that is the case, then why do you still listen to the music but hate the people who feel more comfortable dressing that way for themselves?

Auntie Robin: 25:25

And can I ask a question to the politicians out there? This is something I've really wanted to know. With all these trans bills, I got a serious question that I really genuinely do want to know the answer to. Here it is why are you so obsessed with what is in somebody's pants? Do you know how absolutely fucking creepy it is? I know you think that Drag Queen Story Hour is the villain in your pedophilic story scenario, but oddly, when I'm going through the news, I've only found religious leaders and, oddly enough, republican members who are getting charged for child pornography or being the true pedophile story in the news.

Auntie Robin: 26:11

Temporary ADHD side quest mission. There you put a coin in. You gotta go for the whole ride. Also, don't forget, around this time period, we had the Stonewall Riots in 1969 with the LBGTQ community. We had Watergate. The Berlin Wall was built at this time. We also had the LA riots and women finally had financial freedom, being able to get credit cards without another person being attached to it. And then in 1978, the government started creating 401ks. Now you remember Mommy's Little Helpers, ephedrine, which is a stimulant that they stopped using in 2004, and Valium, which is a depressant.

Auntie Robin: 26:53

Now we're going to look at Gen X kids. They called us hyperactive. Mostly it was with boys. Only now that the girls are going through perimenopause and menopause are we realizing that they were affected as well. This is now called ADHD or ADD, because my boomer parents do have slight ADHD and autism, but it is so much stronger in this generation than the previous ones in this generation than the previous ones, and when Gen X and millennials had kids, the ADHD and autism progressed further in our kids than they did in us. It's like it's genetically getting stronger. I wonder if it isn't a combination of these drugs a few generations ago that they have made more of an issue today, changing our DNA before we were born. Now, I'm not a scientist or a doctor of any kind, but I would like to read a study on that. I would be interested to see if there is a connection between these kind of drugs, the stimulants and also the depressants, because, let's face it, gen X is severely depressed, as well as overly excited and bouncing off the fucking walls.

Auntie Robin: 28:13

Now, culturally wise, we kind of had the start of video games and it was also the rise of pop culture. Music-wise, we went from like the Carpenters, the Osmonds, cher to 80s New Wave, to hair metal and everything in between. Now, gen Xers gave birth to Millennials and those who had kids later in life. They gave birth to Gen Z, and remember that events get added to other generations as we go further through it. Events get added to other generations as we go further through it. So Gen X is very independent and also called latchkey kids and kind of raised themselves. We're often left to our own devices and always told to be home before it was dark or for supper, which led to a lot of mother and father wounds that need to be healed in our generation. But if we're being really honest, it started with the baby boomer parents and I'm pretty sure that this trend keeps continuing if we kept going further back. Maybe this is something that we can finally put an end to by reparenting ourselves.

Auntie Robin: 29:24

Divorces during this time also became more increasingly significant. Just to give you an example of how weird this time period was our parents and how much our parents cared at 10 pm the TV played a public service announcement saying it's 10 o'clock, do you know where your kids are? Yeah, they had to be reminded that they had kids. There was also like a lot of teenage pregnancy with Gen Xers. So the Gen Xers, who had kids young, or got married or either didn't finish college so they could get married and have kids, are a little bit closer to the baby boomers mentality. Remember, we're here for experiences, which is why parenting changed more to helicopter parents and the creation of overly safe spaces in regards to raising children. Because, let's face it, gen X played hard and most of our safety and warning labels are basically because of us, and for that I am truly sorry and, yes, my younger generations, I may be the only old folk who might apologize for old folks' behavior. So take the win when you get it.

Auntie Robin: 30:45

Babies, now baby boomers, did get involved in the Vietnam War, so we are talking some PTSD as well as some domestic violence that has, you know, kind of increased for some families around this time period, but most either kind of became hippies or yuppies and focused either on peace, love and understanding or the polar opposite of greed, wealth and once again going against their parents who survived poverty and war. Also, sadly, many of our Congress people who are still in office are from this time period, like Chuck Grassley from Iowa, who is now 91 and is still in office from his first election in 1981. That's 43 years in office. This is not supposed to be a lifelong career. This is just to be of service temporarily to our country, which has led us to our current government issues that we have, because he's not the only one, Mitch McConnell.

Auntie Robin: 32:09

So my little punks, my Gen Xers, we need to work on some shit here. Are you starting to see some of the problems now? So one we need to back the fuck off of younger generations, because the boomers started all this shit and it has gotten significantly worse over the years, which is why we need to focus on us, the individual, right now, so we can get back to we united, stand against all this shit together, because they aren't expecting that. Trust me, if we fix ourselves and come back together as a group, we will be so much stronger than they will ever know. Also, back off if they don't want to have kids. It is their decision, their free will to choose what is right for them, and you know how hell of expensive this shit is to raise a kid. So don't go acting entitled and shit and forcing things on them when they clearly are not ready for it, because ask yourself, were you ready for it? They have to make it work for them. You don't get a say so work on your own personal growth and development, my loves. Okay, let's be better than our previous generations. There are more things like this, but first we need to discuss millennials.

Auntie Robin: 33:31

Millennials are born between 1981 to 1996. There's about an estimate 72 million I think, according to US census data. So, as Gen Xers are entering adulthood, slash parenting, you have the baby boomers, who are now more career focused being grandparents. Slash parents. You have the silent generation which is still working but kind of reaching retirement soon and also being great grandparents. And then you've got the greatest generation in retirement at this point, enjoying being great great grandparents at that time if they're still alive and kicking it. Now.

Auntie Robin: 34:10

The historical experiences as kids growing up they had the rise and fall of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall fell down in 1989. We had the Tiananmen Square protests. We had the Gulf War, the AIDS crisis. Our first recession was in 1981. President Clinton signed several gun laws permanently banning over like 50 types of semi-automatic assault weapons. This is also the rise of the moral majority, or the Christian evangelical movement started. The Christian evangelical movement started. Remember Frank Zappa from the Boomers music In 1986, he did an interview on Crossfire.

Auntie Robin: 34:56

It was very fascinating because he was talking about how the choices that they were making back then, when Ronald Reagan was in office, was running us towards a fascist theocracy. And here we are with Project 2025 being put into office right now. We also had a fun little satanic panic thanks to Dungeons and Dragons back in the day during this time period, and also heavy music and basically rock and roll, corrupting today's youth. You know, I also loved how our parents kept telling us that the music, the movies, the games that we were playing are going to rot our brains. But in actuality it only took Fox News to destroy an entire generation's mental health. So congratulations, fox News.

Auntie Robin: 35:43

I knew you could do it. You proved those boomers right. Tv can rot your brain. You got your wish boomers. It just happened to you and not us. Odd side note here. But really the only thing that can truly rot your brain is when you stop learning, growing and developing as a human being. But I digress. Charles and Diana first televised royal wedding. The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. I'm still kind of secretly mad about this because I loved learning geography and I just felt really gypped because all of a sudden there were new countries that came into being and I just finished that class. Maybe sometime I'll get around to learning those.

Auntie Robin: 36:32

But we also had the rise of the personal computers, traveling electronics, the creation of the internet. When you had to get online at first it sounded like you had to murder like a thousand robots just to access information. But you had the creation of CDs, vhs tapes, laser discs, mtv launched in 1981. Also another point in which we were going to have our brain rotted out. Music-wise, we had the 80s New Wave, hair metal, guns N' Roses, motley Crue, grunge, electronica. There was also a weird couple years in which swing music was really huge for a hot minute.

Auntie Robin: 37:16

It's during this time period that the boomers started really coming into their power, started really coming into their power. This is also when they started to close a lot of the accessibility to certain things that got them ahead. Health insurance could still completely deny you for previous health issues and just flat out deny you for treatment altogether. All of a sudden, you kind of needed to have two jobs in order to pay your bills and now I think we're up to about three, almost four. As a Gen Xer, I can tell you honestly I am sick of the grind, baby. I am sick of you. Gotta work hard to make it bullshit that, my little punks, is a lie to keep you working and stuck by corporate America. This is also really the time in which corporate America was rising to the surface. 401ks started to increase at this time, which means that retirement for corporations got to pay less and give themselves more profits. But by this time, gen X is fully entering the workforce and, quite honestly, pensions were non-existent. So no wonder why, in 1994, we burned down Woodstock 2 Electric Boogaloo. We burned that motherfucker to the ground. We realized that we had been lied to. And this is just the start of some really epic bullshit.

Auntie Robin: 38:50

Now millennials gave birth to Gen Z and those who had kids later in life to Gen Alpha. Now Gen Z has about 70 million, according to the US Census. According to the US Census. And Gen Z was also born between like 1997 to about 2010. Now we've got millennials entering adulthood, workforce slash, parenting. Gen X is now entering the parent and grandparent stage. Baby boomers still working and now entering the grandparent stage of life. A silent generation is retiring and beginning to be great-great-grandparents, and the greatest generation is the great-great-great-grandparents, if they're still kicking it.

Auntie Robin: 39:37

Now, The historical events that took place for these kids one of the biggest would be 9-11 in 2001, which also led to the Iraq war. The Tea Party movement also started in like 2009, which I would say is kind of the start of the current Republican Party because, trust me, the 1980s Republican is way different than the 2024 model, different than the 2024 model 2008,. We had the huge financial crisis that fucked up a lot of shit. You also had, oddly enough, the Heaven's Gate cult suicide. Princess Diana also passed away the first Harry Potter book published, which leads me to a little side note on cancel culture. To a little side note on cancel culture. I'm not defending her statements because it's bullshit, but you need to learn, my friends, how to separate the art from the artist. You can still appreciate the work and what they created and ignore the person who created it. You're allowed to do that. Just let them slide into obscurity.

Auntie Robin: 40:48

Now, at this time also, the euro became the currency of Europe, the International Space Station was banned. We had the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal at this time. Clinton's assault weapons ban was allowed to expire in 2004, and our first school shooting was Columbine in 1999, and I think we need to agree it has been a shitshow since. Another very bizarre thing that happened during this time period was the Y2K bug Very amusing. Y2k bug Very amusing. The first iPod, the first iPhone. Culturally wise, we had Ocean's Eleven Monsters Inc. Shrek Kelly Clarkson was the first American Idol in 2002. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, which was amazing. Hurricane Katrina happened at this time, xbox 360 was released, prince Charles marries Camilla, the internet meme kind of started and also the start of Rickrolling, which that never gets old. Michael Jackson also passed away around this time period and then we also had a rise of kind of post-modernist and organic design that started to emerge at this time and because of the internet, which kind of led the rise to graffiti, artists like Banksy, shepard, fairey, the grunge music and aesthetic was taking off.

Auntie Robin: 42:20

At this time kind of gives you the basics of what's happening. Time kind of gives you the basics of what's happening. This is when boomers, as well as some Gen Xers, get greedy as fuck. This started when the campaign finance laws changed in 2002, which leads to corporate America buying the politicians that are supposed to represent. You know, we the collective people, not we the corporations, but instead corporations, through financial donations to politicians, have made more policies that have hurt the people of this country than it has helped them. Look at our food. Have you noticed that around this time the food now lasts longer but has no real taste anymore? Aka, more preservatives that are harmful to our bodies, but now we have more digestive cancers in young people. Once again, not a scientist or a doctor here, but if someone were to do a study, I would be curious if there's a correlation to this. Also, in 2006 is when companies started to phase out pensions for 401ks instead so they could increase their profits. Gun lobbies pushed Congress to sunset Clinton's gun ban. Gunn lobbies pushed Congress to sunset Clinton's gun ban.

Auntie Robin: 43:45

This is also when student loans stopped becoming about helping people afford an education and becoming more indebted until the day they die. Even though they had programs to release people of this debt through public service or income-driven repayment plans, only a few of these applications got approved because there were no clear guidelines put out by the loan companies or the federal government, and I do mean very few got approved, and it wasn't until the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau discovered that, and Joe Biden, the Department of Education, has been trying to fix these issues. It would have been a disastrous consequence to Gen X and also anyone who ever wanted to retire. I would also like to note that the incoming Trump administration wants to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects everyday people from shady-ass banking practices. So keep your eyes on that one.

Auntie Robin: 44:51

My little younglings. Mostly, they denied the person's application because there was no clear guidelines put out, so they kept making them pay, especially especially with that compound interest Can you say predatory loan. Now, gen Alpha was born in 2010 to 2024. There's an estimated 2 billion right now. They are still kids at this point and the earliest of them are only just going to be graduating high school this year, but I can honestly tell you that after the COVID pandemic, these kids need to have some therapy, right alongside the adults here, and I'm pretty sure that their education during this time period has epically sucked balls. I think that's a fair assessment. But besides that, the other historical events that they had was the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. In 2011, we had the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster because of the tsunami and the earthquake. We also had Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, black Lives Matter, Haiti's earthquake, which I think has also kind of led to some of their issues right now. We had Brexit, the Boston Marathon bombing, massive amounts of just shootings all over the country, legalized gay marriage, the Me Too movement. Cubs won the World Series after 108 years. That was it. Damn you Cubbies. Yeah, no, I doubt if it was the Cubs winning the World Series. That caused all this shit, but I digress, anyway. Netflix also launched their streaming services, marvel started its movies, Hamilton was on Broadway and Stan Lee passes away.

Auntie Robin: 46:44

I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about Gen Alpha because, quite frankly, they're only just now getting to know who they are, and your older generations. Well, we're here to help you if you need it and want it, and if you want to learn about who you are, then I recommend taking a listen and learn from your elders by looking at the generations and what they have been through. Do you see where we are today? I say let the boomers have their four-year pity party. Oh, we're about to die. We need to think of our legacy. We need to know what we're leaving behind, which is ironic because they have never once thought about the impact on the future generations. This is rich coming from them, which is why, from a psychological standpoint, if you stand back and look at the whole picture, it's kind of fucked up, because the boomers, as well as some of Gen X as well, are back in their teenage years, rebelling against their parents, who have lived a long time in survival mode, poor or just getting by with only a few of them to find wealth again.

Auntie Robin: 47:56

Who fought Nazis. Who wanted to eliminate entire groups of people just because of their religion, color of their skin and who they loved. But these people fell victim to Fox News brainwashing methods. Who wanted no one to benefit from the programs that were made available to them and also decided that everything had to be an investment to make money, which is why real estate in this country is obscene. Europe and other countries do not consider housing a money-making investment, which is why their prices have remained fairly on par with today's incomes, unlike here in America, and ours are overpriced pieces of shit. Plus, they also have affordable housing that's based largely on the income you make. It also seems that boomers have a lot of problem with women as well. Not sure what their resentment because their mom had to work outside the home more. Instead of looking inward towards themselves to fixing these resentments they have, we decided to project it outwards. I'm pretty sure if they could take away any advantage that we have fought for along the way, they would, which is why we need to be on alert, ready for anything to happen within the next four years. I also found it interesting with the creation of Israel as a Jewish nation, but especially with what's currently happening there. It saddens me that those in power in Israel did not learn from their past and they feel that they need to do a racial cleansing.

Auntie Robin: 49:37

For what Beachfront property? Once again, we land somewhere between colonizer behavior or it was done to us, so we must do it to them, or we need to think of our legacy. This is what we're up against, my punks, so let's focus on us, shall we? I'm going to give you a little homework assignment over the christmas holidays. Why not learn about your family's history, see, see what they've gone through, see what your ancestral issues are that you have to face. It's a little safer than politics. My loves Next podcast, we're going to be looking at our belief system, so be ready for a lot of questions that only you can answer. We will see what beliefs you were raised on, and we will also be looking to see if they still work for you today, because you want to know something they may not or never did. And if that's the case, did you know you can change those beliefs? Well, you can. So your weird auntie has talked enough today, so I will see you next time. My little punks. Keep it real, keep it safe, keep it punk. Good night.