May 29, 2025 • 7 mins
Join Jonesy & Amanda for an EXCLUSIVE (unaired) episode!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts, hear more gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists, and listen live on the Free iHeart.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Appy, everybody, It's time for Jonesy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Have amountain's cutting room for everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's time for Jonesy and a man that's cutting room for.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
On the cutting room floor today.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Do you remember the first time you had to pay
an electrical bill or any sort of services bill.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I moved in with a flatmate, my first flatmate, and
we were renting a television and I think an answering machine, right,
and I it was my job that month to send
the money off. And I sent cash in the mail
and a man knocks at the door and says, you
haven't paid, so I sent it off. I'd sent cash
in the mountains the post office.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Did you know how did you get to this age?
You decide?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
But I was. I was, you know, twenty one.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I would love to hear that voicemail on the answering.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Machine if someone came and knocked at the door.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, that's what they used to do. You hire purchase stuff,
remember those days. These days the kids just get TVs
because they're so cheap, But in the old days quite expensive.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I always remember those bills.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I remember my mum and dad paying bills and then
thinking how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
How do you even work it out?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But you know, when people talk about balancing a check book,
I still don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't know
what it means.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It means you've got enough to go out, Yeah, to
match up what comes in.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, of course. Are you so what you're supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
When you wrote your check on the stub, you wrote
what it was for, and then you'd balance what's in
your account. So I'd write what's in the stub, I'd
send the check out, and I just write another check,
and I wouldn't actually balance it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I just kept writing check. Yeah, of course, and all
of a sudden I'd be overdrawn. I wrote, I wrote it.
I wrote it down, wrote it. That's what I was
told to do.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I wrote it down.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you know, my maths, it's it's not really good.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There is now in the University of Canada Adulting one
oh one course for students looking to learn life's most
basic time.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
We should have that in schools. You know, my friend
Anita McGregor. She teaches at UNI and she has this
thing doesn't matter. She has staff that don't know how
to post letters, she has stuff they don't, don't have
skills to answer a telephone. And these are post grad students,
but these are things that matter to us.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Does it matter to them? Do you have?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like this is a debate you and I would have.
Does it matter that I don't know how to change
a tire?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I don't think about you so much not being able
to change a tire, but it's very handy in your life.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
To change a tire.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
These days of outsourcing, our skill sets are different, and
people of our generation think you have to know all
that practical stuff and we think you're missing out on
life skills if you don't. But with a changing world
where you can get other people to do these things
for you and you use your time elsewhere, do you
have to know this stuff? What are they teaching in
(03:06):
this class?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, you can learn how to change a tire, managing
your finances, grocery shopping, keeping your laundry whites white. Really yeah,
things like that, how to sew, how to cook, how
to not set yourself on fire.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's actually a class don't set yourself on fire.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What do you think.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh, look, you're a practical person and it matters to you.
You often say the young people don't know anything, so
you think it's important.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But I made myself. As I've said before, Generation X
is a very capable generation. So it's not here we go.
So the generation Baby Boomers had the war and they
had cheap housing and they could do whatever the hell
they wanted. They could be absent fathers. This is the
Baby Boomer men. The Generation X people, we came along.
We said, we don't want the harshness that our fathers
(03:58):
went through.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So we became very capable.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So at the same time, we could change tires, we
could wire up an extension cord, we could do all
that stuff, and we could be present.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
But how then do you feel because you're then the
courmudgeons who who don't like that the next generation down
I don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Only Generation X are Courmudgeons. Our generation just go okay, mate,
oldest fix it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But you're sneery. Your generation, by and large is sneery
at the capabilities of the next one down.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, because they have no capabilities.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But does it matter because they do have capabilities, Well,
they have different capabilities.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Unless you sound like someone's mother, it's true though, But yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Have They navigate the world.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
They navigate a world that you don't have to navigate,
and they have a different skill set.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Our generation runs rings around them as far as just
getting stuffed.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Done and then you need you son to fix the TV.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, well I fixed himself. He's got no idea. But
I've adapt to you to technology like amphibious man. That's
what Generation X do.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
And people that listen to this from Generation X know
exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You know, we didn't have phones.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
If you've got a flat tire, you had to change
the tire yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
No one, of course she did. You could. Now, of
course you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Did, and because weathers two, you need to today.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Because they got phones.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So really, if they didn't have connectivity that they have now,
they would probably be capable.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
But because sure, as like.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The weaving, loom and the meal, all those things made
things easier in our lives, a mobile phone makes life
ten times more easy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You remember when you were a kid, you go and
look for your mates. You couldn't find them anywhere.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You'd ride your pushbike, and it's the only way you
could tell if your mates around, if their pushbikes are
in front of another mate's house.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And then you look at the kids.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Now riding all those fat boy e bike things around,
Like I saw this big fat kid riding this big
fat bike and I'm on my normal pushbike that I
got off a junk pile.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Off your son.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's riding along, wheezing away on a big e bike
and I gave next to him, and he obviously goes
quicker than me because he's propelled by the technology.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But I'm thinking, what's he used to ride bikes without him.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
E bike in She is navigating a world you don't
have to. There's much more traffic now. He is facing
a future of having to marry an AI bot. They
will have a different environment and a different life to us,
and we can't see it through the prism of us,
or we will never accept them.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's a hard luck life, isn't it for those kids?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I love that you're so capable. You've irritated me. Now
let's end this.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'm as capable as anything.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Make me cup a teen.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You want something done, you get a generation exit to
do it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Matt's twenty five plus eight. So call your son. I'll
call your son.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well he won't answer, is phane. I need to to
prove some sort of point by you. You don't even
know what twenty five times out.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But I'm not banging on about how brilliant I am
and no one else is.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I never said the words I'm brilliant.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I just said Generation X is a very capable generation.
Why you get a better out of shape, you're part
of that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't like this generational talk because I think it
means the older generation and the younger generation, because they
look at you and think you're an old fart, and
you look at them and think they're idiots.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And somewhere in the midst of that the reality life.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
We were raised with corporal punishment, lead paint, asbestos, no
helmets for pushbikes. Pushbikes I didn't have motors in them.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Were raised it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
All use boring trope in the world, and kids today
are in a very different world that is very hard
to navigate. Go and lick your paint, Brendan, when you
get home and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Let's have an appelathon for them. Actually that probably is okay.
Kids that's it for today. Come back tomorrow for Marve
Jonesy and Amanda's cutting room flow.
My Heart podcasts, hear more gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists, and listen live on the Free iHeart.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Appy, everybody, It's time for Jonesy.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Have amountain's cutting room for everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
It's time for Jonesy and a man that's cutting room for.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
On the cutting room floor today.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Do you remember the first time you had to pay
an electrical bill or any sort of services bill.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I moved in with a flatmate, my first flatmate, and
we were renting a television and I think an answering machine, right,
and I it was my job that month to send
the money off. And I sent cash in the mail
and a man knocks at the door and says, you
haven't paid, so I sent it off. I'd sent cash
in the mountains the post office.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Nick.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Did you know how did you get to this age?
You decide?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
But I was. I was, you know, twenty one.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I would love to hear that voicemail on the answering.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Machine if someone came and knocked at the door.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, that's what they used to do. You hire purchase stuff,
remember those days. These days the kids just get TVs
because they're so cheap, But in the old days quite expensive.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I always remember those bills.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I remember my mum and dad paying bills and then
thinking how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
How do you even work it out?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
But you know, when people talk about balancing a check book,
I still don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I don't know
what it means.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It means you've got enough to go out, Yeah, to
match up what comes in.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, of course. Are you so what you're supposed to do?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
When you wrote your check on the stub, you wrote
what it was for, and then you'd balance what's in
your account. So I'd write what's in the stub, I'd
send the check out, and I just write another check,
and I wouldn't actually balance it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I just kept writing check. Yeah, of course, and all
of a sudden I'd be overdrawn. I wrote, I wrote it.
I wrote it down, wrote it. That's what I was
told to do.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I wrote it down.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
And you know, my maths, it's it's not really good.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There is now in the University of Canada Adulting one
oh one course for students looking to learn life's most
basic time.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
We should have that in schools. You know, my friend
Anita McGregor. She teaches at UNI and she has this
thing doesn't matter. She has staff that don't know how
to post letters, she has stuff they don't, don't have
skills to answer a telephone. And these are post grad students,
but these are things that matter to us.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Does it matter to them? Do you have?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like this is a debate you and I would have.
Does it matter that I don't know how to change
a tire?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I don't think about you so much not being able
to change a tire, but it's very handy in your life.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
To change a tire.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
These days of outsourcing, our skill sets are different, and
people of our generation think you have to know all
that practical stuff and we think you're missing out on
life skills if you don't. But with a changing world
where you can get other people to do these things
for you and you use your time elsewhere, do you
have to know this stuff? What are they teaching in
(03:06):
this class?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, you can learn how to change a tire, managing
your finances, grocery shopping, keeping your laundry whites white. Really yeah,
things like that, how to sew, how to cook, how
to not set yourself on fire.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It's actually a class don't set yourself on fire.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What do you think.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh, look, you're a practical person and it matters to you.
You often say the young people don't know anything, so
you think it's important.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But I made myself. As I've said before, Generation X
is a very capable generation. So it's not here we go.
So the generation Baby Boomers had the war and they
had cheap housing and they could do whatever the hell
they wanted. They could be absent fathers. This is the
Baby Boomer men. The Generation X people, we came along.
We said, we don't want the harshness that our fathers
(03:58):
went through.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
So we became very capable.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So at the same time, we could change tires, we
could wire up an extension cord, we could do all
that stuff, and we could be present.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
But how then do you feel because you're then the
courmudgeons who who don't like that the next generation down
I don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Only Generation X are Courmudgeons. Our generation just go okay, mate,
oldest fix it.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
But you're sneery. Your generation, by and large is sneery
at the capabilities of the next one down.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, because they have no capabilities.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
But does it matter because they do have capabilities, Well,
they have different capabilities.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Unless you sound like someone's mother, it's true though, But yeah, they.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Have They navigate the world.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
They navigate a world that you don't have to navigate,
and they have a different skill set.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Our generation runs rings around them as far as just
getting stuffed.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Done and then you need you son to fix the TV.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
No, well I fixed himself. He's got no idea. But
I've adapt to you to technology like amphibious man. That's
what Generation X do.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
And people that listen to this from Generation X know
exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You know, we didn't have phones.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
If you've got a flat tire, you had to change
the tire yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
No one, of course she did. You could. Now, of
course you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Did, and because weathers two, you need to today.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Because they got phones.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
So really, if they didn't have connectivity that they have now,
they would probably be capable.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
But because sure, as like.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The weaving, loom and the meal, all those things made
things easier in our lives, a mobile phone makes life
ten times more easy.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
You remember when you were a kid, you go and
look for your mates. You couldn't find them anywhere.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You'd ride your pushbike, and it's the only way you
could tell if your mates around, if their pushbikes are
in front of another mate's house.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And then you look at the kids.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Now riding all those fat boy e bike things around,
Like I saw this big fat kid riding this big
fat bike and I'm on my normal pushbike that I
got off a junk pile.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Off your son.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He's riding along, wheezing away on a big e bike
and I gave next to him, and he obviously goes
quicker than me because he's propelled by the technology.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
But I'm thinking, what's he used to ride bikes without him.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
E bike in She is navigating a world you don't
have to. There's much more traffic now. He is facing
a future of having to marry an AI bot. They
will have a different environment and a different life to us,
and we can't see it through the prism of us,
or we will never accept them.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's a hard luck life, isn't it for those kids?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
I love that you're so capable. You've irritated me. Now
let's end this.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'm as capable as anything.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Make me cup a teen.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You want something done, you get a generation exit to
do it.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Matt's twenty five plus eight. So call your son. I'll
call your son.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Well he won't answer, is phane. I need to to
prove some sort of point by you. You don't even
know what twenty five times out.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But I'm not banging on about how brilliant I am
and no one else is.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I never said the words I'm brilliant.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I just said Generation X is a very capable generation.
Why you get a better out of shape, you're part
of that.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I don't like this generational talk because I think it
means the older generation and the younger generation, because they
look at you and think you're an old fart, and
you look at them and think they're idiots.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And somewhere in the midst of that the reality life.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
We were raised with corporal punishment, lead paint, asbestos, no
helmets for pushbikes. Pushbikes I didn't have motors in them.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Were raised it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
All use boring trope in the world, and kids today
are in a very different world that is very hard
to navigate. Go and lick your paint, Brendan, when you
get home and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Let's have an appelathon for them. Actually that probably is okay.
Kids that's it for today. Come back tomorrow for Marve
Jonesy and Amanda's cutting room flow.
Popular Podcasts
True Crime Tonight
If you eat, sleep, and breathe true crime, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT is serving up your nightly fix. Five nights a week, KT STUDIOS & iHEART RADIO invite listeners to pull up a seat for an unfiltered look at the biggest cases making headlines, celebrity scandals, and the trials everyone is watching. With a mix of expert analysis, hot takes, and listener call-ins, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT goes beyond the headlines to uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions that keep us all obsessed—because, at TRUE CRIME TONIGHT, there’s a seat for everyone. Whether breaking down crime scene forensics, scrutinizing serial killers, or debating the most binge-worthy true crime docs, True Crime Tonight is the fresh, fast-paced, and slightly addictive home for true crime lovers.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.