June 11, 2025 • 19 mins
How did Millennials and Gen Z childhood differ? Fred asks Bella questions about her childhood to see how different their upbringings were!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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a question and Bellamine is on here right now. I'm
wearing a shirt that says it's one of my favorite
shirts one if you guys gave it to me. I
think it was Calem. It says a Blockbuster on it.
And the question that you had for belahemine was belahmine.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Welcome get in here, friend.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Scared you have your phone? We can just text you
right yeah, anyway, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, you don't have to be sorry. What is this?
What did I do? What? No? I'm asking you what
my shirt?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What is that that's Blockbuster?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah? And how old are you?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And do you know what this is? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I know, Blockbuster, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You would you know what this is?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Have you been to one?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah? When?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, well, when's the last time you been to one?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So you know what this is? Because Baulina was very
worried that you didn't know what my shirt said, I
just yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So no, I know what that is. I just I
told Kat.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The other day, I didn't know the difference between Jared
what was that?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What was that guy's name? Jared Leto?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And Jared Leto and and j Leto?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And you don't know the difference between Jared Leto and
Jay Leno?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I was so confused me neither girl. I mean, okay, good,
It's not.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Just wildly different people though.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I also don't know the difference between Christina Aguilera
and what and uh oh god, what's that girl's name?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Ged Steffani? But come next to each other, I don't
know which ones which girl.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Now you ask me the Jared j line, will think, Okay,
I can see that because how similar.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
How wait, how could you see that the differenceween Jared Lett.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And j l if you put them together? In side
by side.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yes, but if like Kaylin, did an entertainment report and
brought it up, I might confuse at you the.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Right The names are just too similar. Yeah, but now
goen so Fani and Christinaguilar, Jared.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And Ja are not the same name at all. Jay
and j.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Anyways, So, probably didn't think that you knew what this
shirt meant, and I just I was curious. I was hoping,
I mean, at twenty seventh that you knew when Blockbuster was.
But there's probably some someone listening now, maybe some young
kid who has no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, we all know have been informed.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Have you ever been to one? You have? So you've
rented I assume a DVD.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well I never did, but because I'm too little.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But my mom, oh I see, so you you accompanied
somebody inside a Blockbuster.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's like a library.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It sort of was like a library, right, it was.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, you can check them out. That's that's kind
of good.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, you v vhs sate. Yeah, I had a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Okay, yeah, because my sister, oh, her sister's millennial. Yeah,
i'd like to speak with her three thirty two, I
don't remember, Okay, So and I always get these wrong,
but I'm I'm gen X slash millennial, but more I mean,
like on the cost of I guess most of you
are millennials and your gen Z.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, I'm ninety eight, so this is the list.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm twenty one. I know Blockbuster. Someone texted, well, that's good.
I'm twenty three. I used to go to Blockbuster. Okay, good,
thank god, Okay, we formed, Well, I do it. Paulina
was worried about it, whether that you knew, because one
is like the Netflix era start right, like, what age group? Well,
I would think it would be hers. Yeah, probably. I
think the DVDs in the mail were like late mid
(03:51):
to late two thousands, right.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I remember when Netflix only did DVDs and you would
get a mail to your house.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, but that was your version of Blockbuster. And I
was talking to someone the other day. Fifty million bucks,
I believe was the number that Netflix offered to sell
to Blockbuster for five zero fifty million dollars and now
they're worth like fifty billion. Wow, let me see it again.
I looked it up the other day. No, excuse me,
five hundred and sixteen billion dollars so Blockbuster could have
(04:24):
bought Netflix for five zero fifty million, and instead they said, ah, no,
why would we do that. We're Blockbuster. We'll need you
now Blockbuster's gone and they're worth five hundred and sixteen
billion dollars. Yeah, one Blockbuster left in vand Oregon. Yeah. Yeah,
there was a whole documentary about him. How they like,
(04:45):
I don't know how they do it. I don't know.
I don't know where they're getting all the DVDs from.
I don't know, ry someone's basement. Yeah, I don't know
how it's all working about it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Don't sell DVDs, you guys. It's like target, Well okay,
but how do you play it?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I mean, like I just actually donated a bunch of
DVDs because well, I everyone, that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I don't have you don't know. I'm sure, yeah, I always.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He's a huge gamer, but he's more of a switch
to guy, now, you know, more of a switch to
switch one or three? No, certainly, not certainly not you. Yeah,
I mean I'm sorry I haven't sent you three already
because you know you're on the cutting edge as a
gaming influencer, right, well, yeah, the g Yeah, the game,
(05:28):
the game part for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You get that lock that down right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I know a podcast you're gaming with jam. Okay, so
your vibe on this eight five five five one three
five and you can contact the same number. But bell
stay here because so these are the things, but well
you you are your gen X. Why why why? I
(05:56):
don't know, I don't know, I don't know what all
these things are. And then you guys just keep saying
letter and now I'm really confused. Okay, So these are
things that basically that our parents would have most of
our parents would have allowed us to do. And I
just want to get your reaction to like how this
would have gone in your house. Then again, your parents
are a little while. Your parents are are a little
I mean I've talked to your mom. She's a little while.
(06:16):
Apparently your dad's trip believes that he needs airtime now
too to speak about his mayoral duties, which is not
happening because I can't. I can't provide equal time to
your whole family, nor can I provide equal time to
the entire you know political uh uh, you know the
landscape of California. There are actual election laws against this.
His competitor would have to get equal air time.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't know's it doesn't have a competitor.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, he wouldn't end. Yeah, so he ran unopposed. So
he did, He's gave it to him. Why and why
is he bragging about it?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He's just jealous that my mom is on air. He's
just jealous.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I'm sure your dad's a lovely man. But if he
ran unopposed, I mean that's what he volunteered, basically campaign dollars. Right,
if no one ran against him, he didn't really win
or lose, just sort of is okay? Anyway, here's my question.
I want to know from the people at home and
the people in the room, and then you, as the
youngest member, how this would have gone on in your house.
(07:12):
For example, Okay, were you allowed to just well you
kind of grew up in it. Did you always grow
up in kind of a smaller town. Yeah, maybe maybe
this doesn't apply as much to you. But were you
allowed to just roam the neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It depends, my It depends how old I was, if
I was in trouble, like you know, like grounded.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
When you were old enough and not in trouble, could
you roam? Yeah, for the most part, But like my
mom would want to know where.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, I'm not talking about the time where you were
grounded or sleeping fellow, I mean like, were you all
I'm wondering if you were allowed on a time when
you were conscious, ungrounded, not in jail, right when the
weather was nice, you know, when they were one of
the most parts and people weren't protesting. Were you able to.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Within the neighborhood? Yeah, okay, you could in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm in a different reality, Like that doesn't seem real.
I'm having you guys are having a conversation. I'm having
a conversation. She's having a conversation, but it's not the
same conversation. Okay. So because because like as kids, like
when I was young, it was and it was just
you know, ride your bike, go, just go, And there
was no way really for us to get you know,
(08:22):
there were no cell phones. Maybe a pager, but I
didn't have one really, I mean, there was really no
way to know where we were, what we were doing. I
mean they were payphones, but we didn't really use those.
And it was like, hey, go at you know, nine
am or whatever, and just come back before it gets dark,
which in Arizona in the summer is like ten o'clock
at night. And I'm not saying my parents didn't care,
but they did. There was nothing was happening. See.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That was that's where we differ. I had to have
a cell phone, so I wasn't allowed to roam. You
weren't really roaming, So I wasn't really roaming. I mean
like it felt like I was, but not really.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Okay, were you allowed to go to someone's house whose
parents your parents didn't know?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, so you could do that, yes, because I guess
that's the thing, and that's that didn't mean my wife
went to all kinds of people's houses and parties and stuff,
and my parents didn't ask where I was or or
who the people. They didn't interview the parents ahead of time.
They didn't call over there and see what was going on.
They weren't. They weren't logged into live stream, you know,
on YouTube or whatever to see. Okay, So you were
(09:22):
allowed to go to people's home so your parents didn't know.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
My parents were like, thank god, Okay, were you allowed
or Slasher?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
When you're given the opportunity to go hang out in
the mall all day? Was that even a thing you
could do. Yes, I hung at them all because that
was something when we were like before we could drive.
That was what like three or four dudes in the
weekend we get dropped off of the mall and then
three or four girls had dropped off of the mall
and it was essentially a date, but it wasn't a date,
and we would we didn't have any money so we
(09:50):
could maybe eat, maybe we had money to eat, you know,
but like, yeah, we would just walk around in circles
in the mall, and you know, it was like a
little flirty walk.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I dabbled d thing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Okay, So you were able to do well here there
are people growing up right now who don't even probably
know there are towns where them there isn't a mall,
right or there's nothing there to do, so like you
wouldn't walk around them all, okay. Were And by the way,
this is a list that was made by a website.
It's eleven things that parents of gen X kids did
(10:21):
that would be considered a neglect today.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
My parents neglected me.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I guess. So were you expected to cook your own food?
Apparently now you don't have to cook your own food?
Dangerous or something.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I always cooked with my parents because my parents are chefs,
so I like they wanted me to learn how to cook.
That was a big thing.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
But like if you wanted to make something and you
were eight years old or ten and they weren't there,
maybe that wasn't even a thing either. But I mean,
were you allowed to, you know, turn on the stove
and cook an egg or something if you wanted.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
To, I would.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
The thing is I was really lucky because I grew
up with a house with a lot of food, so
I never really had that.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You never had to cook it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Okay, well I did, but like not like I know,
ever cooked eggs by myself or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Plus I'm the youngest, so my sister was always home.
I was never really alone.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You hit people serving on you, serving you? Okay, are
your nieces and nephews who are much younger, are they
allowed to do any of that stuff? Like can they
go roam the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
And they can go to the park, but there's cell
phones with locations on them, so that doesn't really count.
They're not allowed to cook. Everybody gets door dashed or
uber eats, now.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Okay, so that's okay, So don't turn the stove on
that because you might burn the house down or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I know, I I was crying up pork chops at teams.
You're making spaghetti, Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, noodles rice? Who had to make rice? And you
had to make eggs? Oh oh yeah? And you had
to make mac and cheese. Oh yeah, No, there was
no it was an order of peacha every time you're hungry. No,
oh no. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I didn't touch a stove till I was definitely in
my twenties.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We talked about this yesterday, making babies cry it out.
I guess that's not a thing that people do anymore.
It's just let the baby cry out, because you know,
Paulina was talking about how little baby Gigi, you know,
gets mad and stuff and like hits and whatever at
one year old, which is you know, and tells her
mom to f off and you know, leave and stuff
like that. That's crazy and one, it's a lot of
angst in that kid already. But you know, the thing
(12:10):
was you just let them have the outburst and just
let them do it. But I do think that like
in this day and age, you know, people would be
annoyed or they would actually think you were not doing
your job. If your kid freaks out in the store
and you just let them freak out and walk around
like that, right, yeah, I mean that's what you're supposed
to do. I thought as a parent, but I don't
know that people wouldn't call cps on you. Now, if
you were walking around the you know, the jewel or
(12:31):
the Walgreens or whatever, and your kid was just screaming
because you just weren't going to deal with the fact
that you were going to buy them the popsicles or
the toy or whatever, how did the cops show up
for that? Like abuse now or something. Letting kids figure
things out themselves. Ignoring school bullies now, this is a
more controversial topic because bullying has gotten far more sophisticated now.
(12:52):
I mean, it's the same spirit of idiots saying mean
things to other people because they're projecting that they're actually
the loser, which is the thing that you're paying parents
always tell you when you're growing up, Like when the
kid's making fun of you and saying mean things about you,
it's like, well, this person actually is very insecure about themselves,
and they make you know, it's a terrible quality that
someone people to make themselves feel better by putting you
(13:12):
down and so, and you're going to grow up to
be really successful and great, so don't worry about them,
you know. That's the advice I got about bullies. But
my parents weren't calling to school saying don't bully my kid.
My parents weren't calling the parents. But my parents were like,
this is part of life, and people are always going
to be a holes. And that's true to this day.
And I'm forty four years old, and there are still
people who get off on other people's failures and meaning.
(13:36):
So like, if you're not equipped for that, then I
don't know how well you're going to do in the
real world. But I and I will admit you know,
it's gotten far more dramatic, far more drastic. The accessibility
with technology and social media and the ways that people
are bullying are far vaster than they were. But as
it pertains to just kids being mean to kids, I
(13:56):
don't know how much of their that there is anymore.
How did your parents deal with you being bullied?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well, my dad's Italian, so.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
There's a big hole in your backyard, so he said,
put me on the ratios.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Outside.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I put you, and I let her speak freely. She
doesn't know my name.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I know Jeff.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
My dad my mom would give very opposite advice.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
My Dad's like, let me.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Know who they are, I want to talk to them.
I was like, he's like very confrontational, and my mom's
just like who cares, just like blow it off their losers.
And so I would never really listen to my dad
in that sense. I mean, like a couple of times
I did, and I probably shouldn't have, but I tried
to stick with what my mom said because it felt
(14:49):
a little more.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Rash when you egged the car. Oh, yeah, that is true.
Maybe I am like my dad.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I did. Okay, it sounds like your dad would actually
kill people with his bare hand, and you egged a car,
so you're not.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Like you're going to make a car.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I threw poop at people's cars.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Poop. Oh, I thought I thought you were going to
say your poop. I was worried about in this segment.
Is you're not the person to talk to you? Are
you the bully? No?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Somebody egged my house and I didn't even know who
they were, and.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So I retaliated with dog poops.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's what it's giving Okay, so your parents basically raised
you like you were one of us, So this is
not you're not the person to talk to.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And like the bullying thing, I know, i'd look like
and someone's gonna text up here and go, oh, the
you know, terrible example of this. Then, yes, of course
are extreme examples, and there are ways that people are
bullying now that they couldn't bully a stend. But I
do say that there's something too kids being mean to kids,
and you've got to teach your kids how to manage
that because it's not going to go away in adulthood.
(15:51):
And so like if you take your kid out of
school or if you I don't know a lot of
different things that I've heard of people do or homeschool
your kid simply because you don't want to expose them
to things that are mean. I understand that that sort
of desire, but like what happens then when it's time
for your kid to go out and get a job
and be in the real world and someone's mean to
them and they don't know what you had to cope
(16:11):
with that or what to do, because it's going to
happen because people are mean.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh yes, my dad taught me how to punch mine.
Is that bad?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No? But the rule in our house was don't hit
unless you have men hit. If you get hit, then
you can hit. That was my thing. Yes, and that's
different for.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
What I gotten his first on the butt with a stick. Yeah,
when we were in kindergarten. And so my dad taught
me how to throw a punch. Kindergarten, throw a punch.
And so the next day he said, there he is,
and I punched him.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I mean, if a boy, I guess if a man
hits a woman, and you Italian, you can do what
you gotta do a.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Man, it's a woman. He was a little boy.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He's probably fine, that's what I well, that's what I
just said.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Though I just said, hit a welt on my butt.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So she was little and it was she was a child.
But like, if if a man hits a woman, then
you know, a woman can retell you in whatever way
she pleases, except you know, not ring poop. You know
there's a limit there too. Heyse Jose, Okay, what why
do we call Jose? So? Like why do we call
the radio station and then we don't say anything? Maybe
(17:10):
put him on hold and then pick him backup one
more time, Jose, because I hear that there's like a
phone on. Okay, well that was fun, thanks, Ose. I
agree with you. That was I mean, what insightful one
insightful feedback there. And honestly, the middle, the middle part
of that call touched me the most. I think where
(17:31):
he really got into his childhood.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
And talked about it was like when he was talking,
time had no meaning.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He could have gone on forever.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It was for me, it was poetic, Like the guy
is a true orator. Like a lot of people say that,
like like uh, Barack Obama can speak, and Martin Luther King,
But when Jose talks to me, it's like I'm the
only person in the room. I'm a different person, you
know what I mean, Like a true speaker. Yeah, he
was great, a true orator, you know what I mean? Yeah,
I was. I was totally just locked in on everything
(18:00):
he had to say. I feel like, Jo, No, your
mic is very much on and you can speak. What
an incredible speech. Okay, Well, anyway, I was wondering if
any of this related to you, because because you do
represent that generation, but I think your parents made it
such that none of that represents no, it's okay, it's okay.
(18:24):
You can go now and Poliny can come back have
a nice day, because that's that's where we're at now,
is with this we have to switch people, physically switch
human beings so that we have enough people to do
the jobs. Rather and the doors tell her, no, we
don't really follow directions. Well you all right kicking?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yes, the live stream is going great this morning. I'm
having a great.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh you mean that or is it not true? I'm
so serious? Okay, yes, I really can't tell. I can't
tell if we're having a good time with the live
stream more if we're not. I also can't tell if
my lips are saying something. Maybe day's starting on the
lic straight. I have no idea
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a question and Bellamine is on here right now. I'm
wearing a shirt that says it's one of my favorite
shirts one if you guys gave it to me. I
think it was Calem. It says a Blockbuster on it.
And the question that you had for belahemine was belahmine.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Welcome get in here, friend.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Scared you have your phone? We can just text you
right yeah, anyway, Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
No, you don't have to be sorry. What is this?
What did I do? What? No? I'm asking you what
my shirt?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What is that that's Blockbuster?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah? And how old are you?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And do you know what this is? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I know, Blockbuster, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
You would you know what this is?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Have you been to one?
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah? When?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, well, when's the last time you been to one?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
So you know what this is? Because Baulina was very
worried that you didn't know what my shirt said, I
just yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So no, I know what that is. I just I
told Kat.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The other day, I didn't know the difference between Jared
what was that?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
What was that guy's name? Jared Leto?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And Jared Leto and and j Leto?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And you don't know the difference between Jared Leto and
Jay Leno?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, I was so confused me neither girl. I mean, okay, good,
It's not.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Just wildly different people though.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I also don't know the difference between Christina Aguilera
and what and uh oh god, what's that girl's name?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Ged Steffani? But come next to each other, I don't
know which ones which girl.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Now you ask me the Jared j line, will think, Okay,
I can see that because how similar.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
How wait, how could you see that the differenceween Jared Lett.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And j l if you put them together? In side
by side.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yes, but if like Kaylin, did an entertainment report and
brought it up, I might confuse at you the.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Right The names are just too similar. Yeah, but now
goen so Fani and Christinaguilar, Jared.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
And Ja are not the same name at all. Jay
and j.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
No, I get it.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Anyways, So, probably didn't think that you knew what this
shirt meant, and I just I was curious. I was hoping,
I mean, at twenty seventh that you knew when Blockbuster was.
But there's probably some someone listening now, maybe some young
kid who has no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, we all know have been informed.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Have you ever been to one? You have? So you've
rented I assume a DVD.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well I never did, but because I'm too little.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But my mom, oh I see, so you you accompanied
somebody inside a Blockbuster.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's like a library.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It sort of was like a library, right, it was.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, you can check them out. That's that's kind
of good.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, you v vhs sate. Yeah, I had a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Okay, yeah, because my sister, oh, her sister's millennial. Yeah,
i'd like to speak with her three thirty two, I
don't remember, Okay, So and I always get these wrong,
but I'm I'm gen X slash millennial, but more I mean,
like on the cost of I guess most of you
are millennials and your gen Z.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay, I'm ninety eight, so this is the list.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm twenty one. I know Blockbuster. Someone texted, well, that's good.
I'm twenty three. I used to go to Blockbuster. Okay, good,
thank god, Okay, we formed, Well, I do it. Paulina
was worried about it, whether that you knew, because one
is like the Netflix era start right, like, what age group? Well,
I would think it would be hers. Yeah, probably. I
think the DVDs in the mail were like late mid
(03:51):
to late two thousands, right.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I remember when Netflix only did DVDs and you would
get a mail to your house.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, but that was your version of Blockbuster. And I
was talking to someone the other day. Fifty million bucks,
I believe was the number that Netflix offered to sell
to Blockbuster for five zero fifty million dollars and now
they're worth like fifty billion. Wow, let me see it again.
I looked it up the other day. No, excuse me,
five hundred and sixteen billion dollars so Blockbuster could have
(04:24):
bought Netflix for five zero fifty million, and instead they said, ah, no,
why would we do that. We're Blockbuster. We'll need you
now Blockbuster's gone and they're worth five hundred and sixteen
billion dollars. Yeah, one Blockbuster left in vand Oregon. Yeah. Yeah,
there was a whole documentary about him. How they like,
(04:45):
I don't know how they do it. I don't know.
I don't know where they're getting all the DVDs from.
I don't know, ry someone's basement. Yeah, I don't know
how it's all working about it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Don't sell DVDs, you guys. It's like target, Well okay,
but how do you play it?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I mean, like I just actually donated a bunch of
DVDs because well, I everyone, that's true.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I don't have you don't know. I'm sure, yeah, I always.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He's a huge gamer, but he's more of a switch
to guy, now, you know, more of a switch to
switch one or three? No, certainly, not certainly not you. Yeah,
I mean I'm sorry I haven't sent you three already
because you know you're on the cutting edge as a
gaming influencer, right, well, yeah, the g Yeah, the game,
(05:28):
the game part for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You get that lock that down right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I know a podcast you're gaming with jam. Okay, so
your vibe on this eight five five five one three
five and you can contact the same number. But bell
stay here because so these are the things, but well
you you are your gen X. Why why why? I
(05:56):
don't know, I don't know, I don't know what all
these things are. And then you guys just keep saying
letter and now I'm really confused. Okay, So these are
things that basically that our parents would have most of
our parents would have allowed us to do. And I
just want to get your reaction to like how this
would have gone in your house. Then again, your parents
are a little while. Your parents are are a little
I mean I've talked to your mom. She's a little while.
(06:16):
Apparently your dad's trip believes that he needs airtime now
too to speak about his mayoral duties, which is not
happening because I can't. I can't provide equal time to
your whole family, nor can I provide equal time to
the entire you know political uh uh, you know the
landscape of California. There are actual election laws against this.
His competitor would have to get equal air time.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't know's it doesn't have a competitor.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, he wouldn't end. Yeah, so he ran unopposed. So
he did, He's gave it to him. Why and why
is he bragging about it?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He's just jealous that my mom is on air. He's
just jealous.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I'm sure your dad's a lovely man. But if he
ran unopposed, I mean that's what he volunteered, basically campaign dollars. Right,
if no one ran against him, he didn't really win
or lose, just sort of is okay? Anyway, here's my question.
I want to know from the people at home and
the people in the room, and then you, as the
youngest member, how this would have gone on in your house.
(07:12):
For example, Okay, were you allowed to just well you
kind of grew up in it. Did you always grow
up in kind of a smaller town. Yeah, maybe maybe
this doesn't apply as much to you. But were you
allowed to just roam the neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It depends, my It depends how old I was, if
I was in trouble, like you know, like grounded.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
When you were old enough and not in trouble, could
you roam? Yeah, for the most part, But like my
mom would want to know where.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, I'm not talking about the time where you were
grounded or sleeping fellow, I mean like, were you all
I'm wondering if you were allowed on a time when
you were conscious, ungrounded, not in jail, right when the
weather was nice, you know, when they were one of
the most parts and people weren't protesting. Were you able to.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Within the neighborhood? Yeah, okay, you could in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I'm in a different reality, Like that doesn't seem real.
I'm having you guys are having a conversation. I'm having
a conversation. She's having a conversation, but it's not the
same conversation. Okay. So because because like as kids, like
when I was young, it was and it was just
you know, ride your bike, go, just go, And there
was no way really for us to get you know,
(08:22):
there were no cell phones. Maybe a pager, but I
didn't have one really, I mean, there was really no
way to know where we were, what we were doing. I
mean they were payphones, but we didn't really use those.
And it was like, hey, go at you know, nine
am or whatever, and just come back before it gets dark,
which in Arizona in the summer is like ten o'clock
at night. And I'm not saying my parents didn't care,
but they did. There was nothing was happening. See.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
That was that's where we differ. I had to have
a cell phone, so I wasn't allowed to roam. You
weren't really roaming, So I wasn't really roaming. I mean
like it felt like I was, but not really.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Okay, were you allowed to go to someone's house whose
parents your parents didn't know?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Okay, so you could do that, yes, because I guess
that's the thing, and that's that didn't mean my wife
went to all kinds of people's houses and parties and stuff,
and my parents didn't ask where I was or or
who the people. They didn't interview the parents ahead of time.
They didn't call over there and see what was going on.
They weren't. They weren't logged into live stream, you know,
on YouTube or whatever to see. Okay, So you were
(09:22):
allowed to go to people's home so your parents didn't know.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
My parents were like, thank god, Okay, were you allowed
or Slasher?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
When you're given the opportunity to go hang out in
the mall all day? Was that even a thing you
could do. Yes, I hung at them all because that
was something when we were like before we could drive.
That was what like three or four dudes in the
weekend we get dropped off of the mall and then
three or four girls had dropped off of the mall
and it was essentially a date, but it wasn't a date,
and we would we didn't have any money so we
(09:50):
could maybe eat, maybe we had money to eat, you know,
but like, yeah, we would just walk around in circles
in the mall, and you know, it was like a
little flirty walk.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I dabbled d thing.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Okay, So you were able to do well here there
are people growing up right now who don't even probably
know there are towns where them there isn't a mall,
right or there's nothing there to do, so like you
wouldn't walk around them all, okay. Were And by the way,
this is a list that was made by a website.
It's eleven things that parents of gen X kids did
(10:21):
that would be considered a neglect today.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
My parents neglected me.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I guess. So were you expected to cook your own food?
Apparently now you don't have to cook your own food?
Dangerous or something.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I always cooked with my parents because my parents are chefs,
so I like they wanted me to learn how to cook.
That was a big thing.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
But like if you wanted to make something and you
were eight years old or ten and they weren't there,
maybe that wasn't even a thing either. But I mean,
were you allowed to, you know, turn on the stove
and cook an egg or something if you wanted.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
To, I would.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
The thing is I was really lucky because I grew
up with a house with a lot of food, so
I never really had that.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
You never had to cook it.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Okay, well I did, but like not like I know,
ever cooked eggs by myself or anything.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Plus I'm the youngest, so my sister was always home.
I was never really alone.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
You hit people serving on you, serving you? Okay, are
your nieces and nephews who are much younger, are they
allowed to do any of that stuff? Like can they
go roam the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
And they can go to the park, but there's cell
phones with locations on them, so that doesn't really count.
They're not allowed to cook. Everybody gets door dashed or
uber eats, now.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Okay, so that's okay, So don't turn the stove on
that because you might burn the house down or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
I know, I I was crying up pork chops at teams.
You're making spaghetti, Oh.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah, noodles rice? Who had to make rice? And you
had to make eggs? Oh oh yeah? And you had
to make mac and cheese. Oh yeah, No, there was
no it was an order of peacha every time you're hungry. No,
oh no. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I didn't touch a stove till I was definitely in
my twenties.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We talked about this yesterday, making babies cry it out.
I guess that's not a thing that people do anymore.
It's just let the baby cry out, because you know,
Paulina was talking about how little baby Gigi, you know,
gets mad and stuff and like hits and whatever at
one year old, which is you know, and tells her
mom to f off and you know, leave and stuff
like that. That's crazy and one, it's a lot of
angst in that kid already. But you know, the thing
(12:10):
was you just let them have the outburst and just
let them do it. But I do think that like
in this day and age, you know, people would be
annoyed or they would actually think you were not doing
your job. If your kid freaks out in the store
and you just let them freak out and walk around
like that, right, yeah, I mean that's what you're supposed
to do. I thought as a parent, but I don't
know that people wouldn't call cps on you. Now, if
you were walking around the you know, the jewel or
(12:31):
the Walgreens or whatever, and your kid was just screaming
because you just weren't going to deal with the fact
that you were going to buy them the popsicles or
the toy or whatever, how did the cops show up
for that? Like abuse now or something. Letting kids figure
things out themselves. Ignoring school bullies now, this is a
more controversial topic because bullying has gotten far more sophisticated now.
(12:52):
I mean, it's the same spirit of idiots saying mean
things to other people because they're projecting that they're actually
the loser, which is the thing that you're paying parents
always tell you when you're growing up, Like when the
kid's making fun of you and saying mean things about you,
it's like, well, this person actually is very insecure about themselves,
and they make you know, it's a terrible quality that
someone people to make themselves feel better by putting you
(13:12):
down and so, and you're going to grow up to
be really successful and great, so don't worry about them,
you know. That's the advice I got about bullies. But
my parents weren't calling to school saying don't bully my kid.
My parents weren't calling the parents. But my parents were like,
this is part of life, and people are always going
to be a holes. And that's true to this day.
And I'm forty four years old, and there are still
people who get off on other people's failures and meaning.
(13:36):
So like, if you're not equipped for that, then I
don't know how well you're going to do in the
real world. But I and I will admit you know,
it's gotten far more dramatic, far more drastic. The accessibility
with technology and social media and the ways that people
are bullying are far vaster than they were. But as
it pertains to just kids being mean to kids, I
(13:56):
don't know how much of their that there is anymore.
How did your parents deal with you being bullied?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well, my dad's Italian, so.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
There's a big hole in your backyard, so he said,
put me on the ratios.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Outside.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I put you, and I let her speak freely. She
doesn't know my name.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
I know Jeff.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
My dad my mom would give very opposite advice.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
My Dad's like, let me.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Know who they are, I want to talk to them.
I was like, he's like very confrontational, and my mom's
just like who cares, just like blow it off their losers.
And so I would never really listen to my dad
in that sense. I mean, like a couple of times
I did, and I probably shouldn't have, but I tried
to stick with what my mom said because it felt
(14:49):
a little more.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Rash when you egged the car. Oh, yeah, that is true.
Maybe I am like my dad.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
I did. Okay, it sounds like your dad would actually
kill people with his bare hand, and you egged a car,
so you're not.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Like you're going to make a car.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I threw poop at people's cars.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Poop. Oh, I thought I thought you were going to
say your poop. I was worried about in this segment.
Is you're not the person to talk to you? Are
you the bully? No?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Somebody egged my house and I didn't even know who
they were, and.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So I retaliated with dog poops.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's what it's giving Okay, so your parents basically raised
you like you were one of us, So this is
not you're not the person to talk to.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And like the bullying thing, I know, i'd look like
and someone's gonna text up here and go, oh, the
you know, terrible example of this. Then, yes, of course
are extreme examples, and there are ways that people are
bullying now that they couldn't bully a stend. But I
do say that there's something too kids being mean to kids,
and you've got to teach your kids how to manage
that because it's not going to go away in adulthood.
(15:51):
And so like if you take your kid out of
school or if you I don't know a lot of
different things that I've heard of people do or homeschool
your kid simply because you don't want to expose them
to things that are mean. I understand that that sort
of desire, but like what happens then when it's time
for your kid to go out and get a job
and be in the real world and someone's mean to
them and they don't know what you had to cope
(16:11):
with that or what to do, because it's going to
happen because people are mean.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Oh yes, my dad taught me how to punch mine.
Is that bad?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
No? But the rule in our house was don't hit
unless you have men hit. If you get hit, then
you can hit. That was my thing. Yes, and that's
different for.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
What I gotten his first on the butt with a stick. Yeah,
when we were in kindergarten. And so my dad taught
me how to throw a punch. Kindergarten, throw a punch.
And so the next day he said, there he is,
and I punched him.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I mean, if a boy, I guess if a man
hits a woman, and you Italian, you can do what
you gotta do a.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Man, it's a woman. He was a little boy.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
He's probably fine, that's what I well, that's what I
just said.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Though I just said, hit a welt on my butt.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
So she was little and it was she was a child.
But like, if if a man hits a woman, then
you know, a woman can retell you in whatever way
she pleases, except you know, not ring poop. You know
there's a limit there too. Heyse Jose, Okay, what why
do we call Jose? So? Like why do we call
the radio station and then we don't say anything? Maybe
(17:10):
put him on hold and then pick him backup one
more time, Jose, because I hear that there's like a
phone on. Okay, well that was fun, thanks, Ose. I
agree with you. That was I mean, what insightful one
insightful feedback there. And honestly, the middle, the middle part
of that call touched me the most. I think where
(17:31):
he really got into his childhood.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
And talked about it was like when he was talking,
time had no meaning.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He could have gone on forever.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
It was for me, it was poetic, Like the guy
is a true orator. Like a lot of people say that,
like like uh, Barack Obama can speak, and Martin Luther King,
But when Jose talks to me, it's like I'm the
only person in the room. I'm a different person, you
know what I mean, Like a true speaker. Yeah, he
was great, a true orator, you know what I mean? Yeah,
I was. I was totally just locked in on everything
(18:00):
he had to say. I feel like, Jo, No, your
mic is very much on and you can speak. What
an incredible speech. Okay, Well, anyway, I was wondering if
any of this related to you, because because you do
represent that generation, but I think your parents made it
such that none of that represents no, it's okay, it's okay.
(18:24):
You can go now and Poliny can come back have
a nice day, because that's that's where we're at now,
is with this we have to switch people, physically switch
human beings so that we have enough people to do
the jobs. Rather and the doors tell her, no, we
don't really follow directions. Well you all right kicking?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yes, the live stream is going great this morning. I'm
having a great.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Oh you mean that or is it not true? I'm
so serious? Okay, yes, I really can't tell. I can't
tell if we're having a good time with the live
stream more if we're not. I also can't tell if
my lips are saying something. Maybe day's starting on the
lic straight. I have no idea
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