Every Generation Explained. Karen Morgan
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2023
- Every generation explained by Karen Morgan explores the generations of the world from the silent generation all the way down to Gen-z. In this clip from here second Dry Bar Comedy special Karen Morgan breaks down the generations and why they don't get along with each other. Whether you're someone who is a boomer, or you're someone who grew up in Gen-x this clip from Karen Morgan is sure to have you laughing from start to finish.
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"Are you bleeding?! Stay outside. I don't want you getting blood on the floor." - Gen X childhood
It's 10 pm Do you know where your children are??
Don’t forget to play with the chemistry set and the wood burning kit or maybe just play with the lawn darts!
3 pumps maxm
Must be a regional thing, 4 pumps where I grew up.
Also any scrape, cut or scratch, if brought to a parent's attention, would get the mercurichrome treatment, which hurt more than the original injury and for longer too.
With that telltale scarlet dye mark as a reminder of the ordeal.
Also forgotten, riding in the back of a pickup truck.
It was common.
Trucks could move 20 kids at a time from place to place!
And no genXer ever had to sit in a baby seat in a car, and could ride in the front seat at 5 years old!
And how could I forget, being smuggled into a drive-in theater in the trunk of a car.
Anybody who's Gen X knows she's telling the truth! 😆
Our station wagon didn’t have a back seat, and yet I still shared my space in the back of the station wagon with about five or six of my mother’s daycare kids.
Evidently Gen x is the best generation.
10-12 people in a station wagon at a time. If my grandma came with her little Honda, only 7 people in it. We had clown cars and lawn darts😂
We had a pick up we rode in the back of, with the dog. Good weather of course!
@@flamingpieherman9822 Got that right.
Yep, GenX here, and this is true. I never saw my parents, in fact I maybe saw my father once a month, and he lived with us. We all were outside from morning to night, went all over the place, and no one knew. We would hop on our bikes, and we'd go anywhere, and everywhere we could, and travel any distance as long as we knew we could make it back by dark. We were completely unsupervised, and our friends were our family. It was a life of complete freedom, and man do I miss it sometimes.
I still live that way
Great comment.
Kids do not realize how far we went on the bikes
@@Rsysas different counties...lol
"It was a life of complete freedom, and man do I miss it sometimes."
The abandonment and neglect was apparently okay for you. I lost two brothers to suicide; I would rather have them back, than have complete freedom.
For those who might be confused, there is a difference between Gen X and all those who came before that had similar growing up experiences. Gen X often had to discover things for themselves and learn from their peers more than the generations before. They really were, even for those with intact parents, mostly left alone unless very specific rules were broken. Secondly, Gen X were both the last manual and the first digital generation. They can easily put one foot in and the other foot out of the computer world.
Yes we can. As a matter of fact, my senior year of vocational school, in Industrial Electronics, was the first year that school taught digital electronics.
BB guns and plywood ramps. I still have the scars.
...but I'm still here.
🎯 I agree. Until I left automotive repair & had to learn to work from home, I'd never had an office job. But I think that has more to do with being "blue collar" than it does being of a particular generation
@@erics9869 The more falls you take, the harder headed you become 😊!
I saw a meme about this that hit me right where I live: "I'm Gen X. This means that I adapt to new technology like a millennial, but complain about it like a boomer."
She's not even telling jokes. She's just straight up spitting facts LOL I'm also a forgotten Gen Xer. We are the Tonka truck tough generation.
Tonka trucks, Big Jim, and GI Joe... who all got off on torturing Barbie & Ken and wrecking their playhouse.
@@avarielblackwing6613 you just described my childhood.
We had so much freedom.
We are going to be the only survivors in the upcoming holocaust!
@AvarielBlackwing I had 3 brothers... being the only girl, I didn't have Ken & Barbie so GI Joe's were my favorite ... next to my EZ bake & baby alive LOL.
OMG...lol. I am Gen X too and this was 100% accurate right down to the hot hose water and mom smoking in the car. Remember coming in for dinner and Mom asking..."Did you wash your hands?" of course not...trudge upstairs to wash them and come back down only to have Dad drop my hot dog on the ground while transferring from grill to bun...pick it up...blow on it (very important...and sanitary)...put it in the bun and say..."A little dirt never hurt anyone." The irony of the 5 second rule.
🤣🤣🤣 Sooo true! ❤
Accurate. I had asthma and remember my mom blowing her cigarette smoke (off to the side) saying: "I don't know why your so sick baby." Then she gave me a hug and sent me to bed but I'm still here. 😅
Five seconds?
*Puts on Topper Hat*
We didn't get five. It was the 3 second rule in my house. Five? You musta been rich... ;)
@@DaleOlsonisawesome>We had 5 seconds, and just for good measure we kissed it up to God.
😂😂😂😂
This is SO dead-on accurate. Stop your crying or I’ll give you something to cry about!!
Oh, you’re bored?! Well, there’s dishes to do, laundry, etc. Oh, not so much bored anymore, are ya?
We must have the same parents lol
@@syrenasketches6902 right?! Ah, memories….
Sounds familiar 😂
Mow the lawn.
My mom took me and my four older boomer siblings to a "no lifeguard" at your own risk pool. I almost drowned til my sister noticed my black hair floating. My mother was busy setting up on her chaise oblivious.
And our pop culture, movies, music, Saturday morning cartoons, it was a golden age.
The gen-x portion of the show brings back memories.🤓
Memories = trauma response
Gen X is the forgotten generation and we like it that way.
We don't care, actually I like it that way.
We’re the best
@@sevendegrees 👍🏻👍🏻
Right, just leave us alone…😂😂😂
Be glad you don't get blamed for all the problems like Baby Boomers are. We get accused of keeping money for ourselves that many of us have never had.
The Home Depot parenting stuff was so true. My parents were always at work. No one checked homework,. We really did raise ourselves. Gen X is the coolest most independent, no-BS generation.
I'm an older millennial, I remember the late '80s and early '90s well. So what she's describing was my experience too. The kids stayed out all day, but the community was tight and kept an eye on eachothers kids. We rode in the back of the pickup truck, a thrown out mattress was a trampoline, and bopping with your pals and a portable boom box was the life.
@@PWJC45 "Millennial, term used to describe a person born between 1981 and 1996, though different sources can vary by a year or two. It was first used in the book Generations (1991) by William Strauss and Neil Howe, who felt it was an appropriate name for the first generation to reach adulthood in the new millennium." -Britannica
"In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center decided a year ago to use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation". -Pew Research
I’m 1982, and I identify much more with Gen X, I’d say it’s largely because I have two older brothers.
@@joeyree22you are at the very tail end of Gen X 😊
Same. Born in 81. I was a year ahead in school so all my classmates were the last of the Gen Xers. I thought I was Gen X until the mid 90s lol.
@@themanifestorsmind I'm also '81 and honestly I consider myself Gen X. My year group was always called Gen X growing up, although not much then since there wasn't so much emphasis placed on generational names. Never even herd the term Millennial until I was a senior in high school and then they applied it to the freshman. Different graphs and charts show diff years, so I figure just go with your gut and what you grew up classified as.
Dad took us to a sandpit and filled up the back of the truck, so we could have a sandpile to play in. We rode home on the top of that pile of sand, with the family dog. These new generations have no idea what fun was.
100%
Nice!!!
That sounds like the most lamest/most boring thing to do for “fun”💀💀💀💀
@@juniorfuentes2584 Probably because there's not an app for it. Get off my lawn. 🙄
@@joeday4293 you’re so lame😂😂😂
As a Gen X kid we also had Jarts! Our play grounds had steel three story monkey bars with nothing but asphalt and broken glass under it! We also had three story tornado slides that would heat up to 250f and burn off 2 layers of skin as you slid down it. And best of all...we had our MTV! And not the crappy MTV either but when it was good and played music!
Remember those metal merry go rounds that you would push start with your legs until it went so fast he weaker kids would fly off? Our park swings were also really tall, so you could swing really high and then launch yourself as far as you could to beat the last persons jump. Man, that was so painful at times when you'd launch higher than expected and land wrong... or if your arm or shirt got caught in the metal swing chains.
Gee, I don't know. Sure I love the swings. But kids are soft, these days. A mom at school...her daughter stepped off a very low curb crossing the street...and completely blew out her knee. Needed surgery. She was a senior in HS at the time. 😮 must be the sedentary life style. And a school bus driver measured the new bus seat belts. They are 7 feet long, the new federal standard size. 😮
@kH-bv8ix I hate to say it, but I've noticed a "widening" of the population, too. It's hard not to notice. When I was a kid, it was rare to see an obese person. Even chubby kids were rare, and they normally grew out of it.
It's the garbage food... It's deadly!!
Metal slides on a hot day!
I still have a BB lodged against my left cheekbone. Shows up on dental xrays every few years. She described my childhood perfectly and made me laugh at the same time. Got to add her to my list of comedians to see when she comes to town.
Gen X here, best childhood ever...yes, we don't care and is amusing to see this new generations! Love your Special, thanks!
I broke my arm - compound fracture - at cheerleading practice in high school. My mom showed up to the hospital over 2 hours later, and they could finally give me pain meds and set my arm. My mom said she was finishing up some gardening. I am Gen X.
Respect! We were playing kill the carrier at school during recess and a bigger kid landed on me and drove my face into the ground. At dinner that night, my parents asked why my front teeth were black. Apparently, some of the asphalt had embedded itself.
Not a single tear shed, and after a trip to the dentist, everything was fine. Still live with the hairline crack in my front tooth.
LOL. Gen X too. I broke my arm too in elementary school trying to show off on the monkey bars and fell. All the school did was lay my arm on a piece of cardboard and sat me down till my mom could come get me. No pain meds, no nothing. I wore a cast for weeks.
@@aljirou29"kill the carrier" That's a lot easier to say than "kill the man with the ball"; like we did.
I broke my arm on a Sunday and my mom sent me to school the next day before she took me the doctor. We didn't even go to the hospital. lol.
I broke my ankle at school during lunch one day and the principal didn't believe me and sent me to class anyway. At the end of the day i was in so much pain I couldn't walk any, that is when they decided I might not be faking it.
Best description of my Gen X world ever. Brought back lots of memories and it let me know why I never believed in afternoon snacks in school. We had lunch and that's it.
That’s right! Nobody needs to eat all day! That’s why everyone’s fat!
And not a water bottle in sight! Anywhere!
Yeah, and we didn't grow up with dessert. Neither did my own kids because it's just not a habit I learned. If you wanted a snack, have an apple.
As a Gen X, if you forgot your lunch money (or your parents didn't leave any), you got a cheese sandwich and a half pint of milk. The cheese sandwich was simply a slice of processed American cheese on a hamburger bun. Nothing else. It was enough to get by but you were hungry the rest of the day. It sure taught us not to forget our lunch money.
@rachellefroman6402 Cheese sandwich but on white bread here! LOL and no milk. A reusable thermos of juice that slightly tasted like every other juice that had ever been contained in there LOL
Laughed so hard I cried! My Mother’s favorite was any variation of, “If you break your neck; don’t come running to me!” “If you’re gonna cry, I’ll give you something to cry about!”
And the always famous, why?? Because I SAID so, that’s why!
And "When you die because you are stupid, you get a last butt whooping. "
I’m an elder millennial, grew up mostly with friends that were 3-8 years older than myself, so I got the full Gen X childhood experience. I remember my favorite toy was a bow & arrow I made myself from a rusty old knife I found in grandpa’s garage. My arrows were sticks with old nails taped to the ends. We spent most of our free time throwing rocks at hornet nests, wandering the railroad tracks raiding hobo camps, and jumping off huge rocks into swampy ponds so deep in the woods that it would have taken days for anyone to find us if something happened. Fond memories! ❤
She totally nails gen X. I can remember getting rolled down a hill in a dryer drum by older kids. Great stuff!! 😂
We rolled each other in a wooden thing used for electric cables.. 😂😂
@@kerryalbritton6532 yeah we would have races/bumper cars with those huge wooden spools also - make them roll by running on top of them like wheels then crash into each other or try to run over anyone who didnt have one!
Tire!❤❤❤😂
Hate to admit this be we once used a filthy 50 gallon drum trash can from the park to roll down the hill! And probably didn’t even wash our hands the rest of the day. And we’re still here…
I think you forget that the parents of GenZ is Gen X, the generation, who failed to teach us how to write and read in cursive, the generation that failed to teach us how to write a check, the generation that failed to teach us how to address an envelope, all things that I a Gen-zer know how to do, these very things that are no longer necessary because of the day and age we live in😂
Green pinecone war was actually a thing in my neighborhood. I got smart. I wore a red jacket with a white cross and told everyone I was the medic. I helped out the injured ones. Best decision I took that year.
I'm a young boomer (talk about an oxymoron, young & boomer together -- meaning I was born late in the boomer years actually) and I cannot even begin to count the number of rock fights we had as kids. Summertime it was a near daily happening. It is wild if I remember the stuff we used to do!
😂😂😂
Yo. The green pine cones had the best aerodynamics and weren't as spiky . 😅
Wow. Very smart.
@@ramtigerfalcon8387 Yes, and they hurt something fierce. One afternoon around supper time, I came home with a lot of blood on the "medic" jacket I had fashioned for myself. My dad asked me if it was my blood. I said no. All he said was don't get hit in the eyes, and stop taking the supplies out of the first aid kit. He gave me a bunch of clean garage rags to bandage the guys up. Talk about aiding abd abbeting.😂
We were the first ones to use computers in school. The big huge ones. But one memory that sticks with me is getting up early on Sat sitting in front of the tv on the floor eating cereal and watching the good cartoons, the ones you cant find now! And me and my brother lived in a small town and we were all over town on Sat and on Saturday night everyone had to take a bath because Sunday was church!
“I bet you won’t do that again” and “this is how we learn” we’re said to me (Gen X) by my boomer dad
Did you do it again?
@@studleyjb3172 lol usually
Brad Upton does a bit about why the younger generations do things like eat tide pods. When they were kids, we babyproofed the home, made sure they didn't hurt each other or themselves. Hand sanitizer and wet wipes were around. So those generations never had the Darwin effect. It wasn't survival of the fittest...all the dumb ones survived. I'm paraphrasing...lol...he is much funnier.
I remember doing some dumb bike trick, falling and getting all bruised up only to have my mother say, "that's what you get". Lol. No ice, no running to my aid. I got heckled lol
@@sniper161718 My dad was similar. His favorite thing to say, other do as I say not as I do, was Well, I told you not to do that didn't I? Bet you don't do that again.
Also, I'm a younger Boomer and we had a lot in common with Gen X. No seat belts, smoking in car and everywhere, told to stop crying or "I'll give you something to cry about. " I was raised by Greatest Gen parents.
same here. A lot of what she said about Gen x applied to my childhood, despite being near the tail end of the boomers.
Same here and I was born in 53. Things don’t change that fast, I guess.
Yeah, I was born in 1960, so I'm technically a Boomer, but I've always identified with Gen X's
That’s sad …
Born the same year. This is my childhood to a ‘T’
This was so funny. Also one of the generation who weren’t diagnosed with autism, OCD or ADHD. We just had to find that out later on in our 40s.
You missed out dyslexia and being left handed.
Diagnosed at 41 lol. Truth
Joined the Air Force late (25 in ‘99) and as an immigrant. Didn’t get Mental Health Care for Depression until nearly 30 (what with two wars going on). My cohorts in therapy were all millennials.
Developed Anxiety Disorder and OCDs in service which are now part of my VA Disabilities. American GenX childhoods must be harsh because my own age peers in the service seemed to be more resilient (or maybe their duties were easier, being closer to military retirement than I was).
Nobody had peanut allergies. Maybe the warm hose water and spaghettioos cured that?
Diagnosed at 43. Lol
Even as a baby genX, "we're never going out of business" is perfect and will be part of my lexicon in perpetuity.
Omg. You perfectly described my childhood with GenX. Home depot reference is killer.
Gen X baby!💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾" if your mom arm wasn't strong enough you deserve to go through that window"😂😂😂😂
Im GenX ...My first car seat was a laundry basket.
🤣
My wife still does that every time she has to brake hard.
My head cracked the front windshield, might explain a few things.
Mama didn't have "wipes" in her purse. She had a Kleenex, and spit.
🙋🏻♀️ Went through windshield. Well, not through. Into. Went into windshield but, luckily, my face stopped the rest of my body from advancing through the glass. No major damage and wasn’t taken to the hospital. I got the tweezer and mercurochrome treatment and was outside playing 3 hours later. True story.
riding a big wheel in a public street with no helmet, the life🤣
Yes about GenX. I was told by my mom that she doesn't have time to deal with bratty kids who happen to either kick me or push me or do other mean things and if that ever happens I am to kick or push them back so hard, that they would never ever think of doing any mean things to me. 😂
I'm a GenXer, and when I raised my kids, I said do everything right first. Try to resolve the issue in a civil manner. If that fails, fight back, and I won't punish you if the school calls.
That didn't work as well for me, when the bratty kids kicking me were my older, stronger brothers.
They're both dead now, both by suicide.
Turns out, abandonment and neglect have a mixed track record.
I'm a gen X too, and Karen nailed everything very well. Although, the parent circle during my early years this is what they told us: "Children should be SEEN and not HURT !!" The father's in our grouping were quite the domestically violent types. I had a key to the house before I got halfway thorough grade school. Ah, those were the days.
😂 She speaks the truth! If, "But did you die though?" was a generation, it would be Gen-X.
I have the shirt😂
Some of us did die though...
@@dbaargosy4062Survival of the fittest.
@dbaargosy4064
Boomer here.
Neighbor kid age 12 got killed with a gun because his cousin and he were hunting rabbits. Yeah, some of them did die.
Both my older brothers died. It's only funny until the answer is yes. Then it's still funny, but in a very grim way.
As a fellow GenXer, this is on point! I remember the days being in the 6th grade, that’s 10-11 years old, and riding my Diamond Back bike all over the neighborhood with my friend Blanca. We absolutely drank straight from the hose. And I remember getting hit right on the face with a dodge ball in the 5th grade. 😅😅 We are the best 😊
We were tough sobs!
Such good times! Right there with ya! BMX bikes, dodge ball in the face, forts, sleep overs, record players... great times! Blessings!
That sounds identical to what we millennials still experienced. Snowball fights with ice, kickball with fights, bike rides around town in heavt rain, blowing up old cars, sledding down hazardous hills, ect. Not all of us were able to afford video games so we still played reckless outside :). I miss that era
The best tasting water was always out of the hose. We’d usually let it run to get rid of the hot water in the hose so we could get the cooler water in the pipes. I also got hit right in the face with a red dodgeball in 5th grade. That hurt like a mother! The teacher let me sit out for the rest of the game but after a few mins I ran back in to keep playing.
I loved my Diamond back!!!
These comments are accurate and have me cracking up.😂😊 Some of y'all are reminding me of things we did that I had forgotten about. We were tough little people weren't we?
Ditto.... this brought back a lot of memories.
I remember riding on the handle bars of a friend's bike at 5 in the morning to help deliver papers.
I would be gone 8 to 10 hours a day riding my bike with friends from the neighborhood. Many times, we would end up 30 miles away.
Great times!!
Gen X here. During my childhood, I got two concussions, a cracked front tooth, a broken nose, and a cat bite that got infected so bad that I almost lost my hand. My mother always told me, “You’ll live.” She was right.
I played this for my kids(2teenage boys), I'm genX. Verbatim,word for word exactly what I've always told them, except we had a Buick, I rode on the back dash😂, and lit my mom's cigarettes and handed them to her for safety
Yes. Of course. Safety first.
I also had my best medical training from my mom during this time.
"If it's bleeding, put pressure on it and raise it above your head."
Lady saved my and my buddies lives😅
Love that last detail. 😆
As a GenXer, I used to help my dad roll his cigarettes after dinnertime. He had this little tubing machine and so I'd take some of the tobacco, fill up the roller, toss an empty cigarette on the end and push to squeeze it into the hollow cigarette tube . Two taps, roll the tip, next! He needed three packs ready for the next day. They really did master the art of smoking LOL
My mom had me (age 7) run into Hubba Bubba (stationary store) & buy her 3 packs of Winston 100 lites... and candy cigarettes for myself & My younger sister 😂
I rode my bike to the store to buy my dad's cigarettes when I was 10....
GenX we amused ourselves, now y’all are our amusement
I just had her on my podcast and she was fantastic! Such a nice and interesting person! It was very gracious of her to take the time to be on our tiny show! Thanks, Karen!
I would watch a lot of 80s commercials here on UA-cam and wonder " how come I've never seen these before?" Then i realized i was always outside...
As a Gen X kid I recall breaking a bone in my foot while playing dodgeball. It was on the asphalt playground at school. I remember limping back to class in an incredible pain. I was in the 5th grade and there was no way I was going to shed a tear. Spent 6 weeks in a cast signed by my classmates. Truly a badge of honor
We still have asphalt playgrounds and broken bones in the 00's+, genius. Like, what exactly about that do you think it is unique to Gen X 💀
There's always a whiner in the crowd...
B just announcing to everyone that he's Gen Z lol 😆
@@user-dw6xm4io1uwhy are you angry "genious?" Sheesh, calm down little buddy. After Gen X a lot of the old school asphalt was changed into the porous kind, and mulch like material. Don't be so sensitive about someone sharing their memories. Have a laugh. 😂
@@tdm3301yea cause they don’t want elementary schoolers to have growth palette problems and end up getting sued by the parents who are usually gen X or millennials
Yup. A summer Saturday morning, my friend would come over and we'd walk in one direction...east, on main streets, neighborhoods and woods. At 4pm, we'd figure out which bus (no maps) to take to bring us close enough and then be back in time for dinner. We were 11 years old.
"What? You don't know how to swim yet?" *Uncle Dave chucks me in the pool like a sack of potatoes...Gen x right here. I had the bike ramps.🤣
What is it up with Uncles doing that? I didn't learn to swim, I just got traumatized. lol
Hell yes! We made one with an old clothes dryer... It was all fun and games till the oldest brother forgot to tighten the nuts on his front axle.
"You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel!". Buried the forks all the way in the ground. He hit the handlebars, then flew an impressive distance!
We laughed our asses off, lol. When he could breathe again, he tore that ramp apart in a fit of anger. It STILL comes up, lol.
Thats how my dad taught me. Deep end as well
I’m 52. She’s so funny because it’s true. 😂
We played with bb guns, bows and arrows, no bike helmet and we would go out all day and the only instructions we got were, “come back before it’s dark” 😂. And everything else she said.
once the steet lights came on it was " get your asses home" time
Y'all think ur the main characters
She forgot to mention lawn darts. 🤣
When we cried, our parents said: "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about."
Because we are. You can't even spell 'you're'. I'm certain you can't even read cursive. @@joerelish2789
Spot on with the GenX description! We're never going out of business! 🤣
I am a gen X.
We're not *all* still here, we lost some along the way, but I salute to their sacrifice!
We’re never going out of business should be the name of her Netflix special!!!!
PREACH!!! Im gen x and my parents were immigrants and we were poor in NYC. I remember waking up, 2nd grade, with no parents. They got home at six. Me and my sis raised ourselves. Gen X, you can't take us out.
Is it broken?
Is it GUSHING blood ?
Is it hanging off ?
No ,go away😂
And if it was gushing...
Hold this on it.
Raise it up.
It's not that close to the heart. You'll live!
@@MjDeen217 word !!! Im a Gen X er too .
Fire, flood or blood? None, go away
Born in 83, apparently the term "Xennial" exists for us. Basically, we went through high school without the internet, then got to college and were expected to know everything about it. I remember writing term papers at the library computer lab, and saving them to floppy disks. I had a laptop but carrying it around was like rucking.
Back when the first computer system, after the Trash80's, was Magic Windows, learned in DOS
the Oregon Trail generation
It's crazy how things changed so much in the turn of the century that it was necessary to designate a micro generation because people born 20 years prior would find themselves between two very different worlds.
I can relate...I actually consider myself a XENNIAL - born in 1982, by the way
I learned about the Internet in my later high school years (graduated in 2000), had dial-up via AOL & survived it, still used floppy disks - now I have a laptop with wi-fi on it, I just wish that the so-called "micro-generations" were talked about more often
We have digital knowledge of millenial with gen X's raring method parenting. A.ka latchkey and "walk it off" treatment😂
Gen X for the win 😎
Yeah!!! Fellow Gen X.
@@edithdlp8045 👍🏻
So true!! We would get on metal trash can lids & go flying down ice covered streets (hills!!) and all my Dad would say is "don't break nothing & watch out for trucks"
We used cardboard boxes. Those were the best sleds, you just had to cut out handles for your hands.. Buddies with expensive sleds would trade me their sleds for my cardboard box 😂
With full respect to Dry Bar and clean comedy..... This is absolutely the gosh darn truth, right here. 100%.
Remember on TV, they'd run those psa's, it's 10 O'Clock... do you know where your children are??? They literally had to remind our parents that they had children......
We are never going out of business..... heh heh heh!!!!
I was born in New Zealand in 1985 to an American father and a New Zealand mother. New Zealand was stuck in the 60’s and 70’s so My mother made my clothes. We still had milk from a dairy. Came to the house in glass bottles
We walked to school by ourselves every day. Mum locked the door and we came home when the street lights came on. When living in Alabama we lived next to 180,000 acres of Bankhead national forest. I remember finding a waterfall in the backyard, stepping over rattlesnakes and dodging copperheads. We scaled a cliff face often with no ropes and survived it all.
We had horses I was thrown off and broke my back at age 13. I rubbed dirt in it haha
I work hard for what I have, and expect others to do the same. I will still help whoever needs it as best I can. I resonate more with her generation, than the millennial one.
Yet here I am explaining myself, so maybe I am more millennial than I like to think 😂
The generation guides are fliud. I remember the box for the milk man deliveries (aka second base), of course the street light rule, cow patty fights, how many kids can you fit it the back of a truck to get ice cream.....
I'm Gen X too. She describe my childhood to a tee. LOL
We didn’t have a Home Depot and we didn’t go to the store much but yeah you were on your own and one thing she left out because you had chores and you didn’t whine or moan about it. You did your chores and you didn’t get paid for it I mean maybe some parents were nice enough to give you $1.25 allowance but you were expected to be a part of the family and that requires doing chores and no, our parents didn’t buy us a brand new car.
Hey, where do we go after GenZ start back today or are they going to add more letters of the alphabet?
She nailed my childhood!! Gen X... still here and never going out of business!! Lol.
I'm Millennial and what she described from her childhood was actually 90+% of my childhood. Thank you. This was hilarious. And I love that your name is "Karen" haha.
Oh my God did she nail my Gen X childhood😂. We would leave in the morning and be back at dinner or dark. Dad would complain in the summer that he couldn't secure the hose due to the balloon rubber left in the faucet threads. You could actually make money shoveling driveways or cutting grass without taking business from landscaping services.
I had babysitting jobs when I was 12. It was perfectly normal for people to leave their small baby.... with a 12 year old. Now, a 12-year-old isn't supposed to be home alone.
Or you could make money by picking up all of the Pepsi and Coca Cola bottles and turn them in for a nickel or a dime (depending on where you lived).
Preach
@revjaybird2 I was babysitting the neighbor's baby and 2 year old at 12. LOL They'd leave me a phone number and tell me to call if there was anything. I was also in charge of feeding them.
@@davidharris8444 That's how I afforded the public swimming pool!! 😂😂
That rusty lunchbox was how we got our iron intake 😂
Brilliant!!!
That, and our Flintstones chewables.
YEP! I carried a Partridge Family (cause I loved David Cassidy) metal lunchbox from August 1973 through May or June 1979 (when I loved Shaun Cassidy), and aaaalllll the edges were rusty by 1977, but did I get a new one, like Star Wars, or the Bionic Woman? NO! It was metal, it was still fine, and I carried it loooong past the Partridge Family's popularity!! Started junior high, and it went in the trash.
"Happy Days" lunchbox full of rust. lol
I remember my dad saying stuff like “it’s good for you. It’s iron!”
I'm a Gen Xer 1965 and man what fun we had!! We were feral! NO other generation like us (Well maybe late boomers) lot's of memories! Don't forget about having to climb up on the roof to fix the TV antenna and jumping off the garage roof onto a mattress. Lol And building Go-Karts using shoping basket wheels and milk crates. We would go miles away from home without our parents even knowing where we were. My uncle Dave took us to the beach and threw us in the water and that's how I learned to swim!! We learned on the fly those days. I miss those days. These kids would never know how much fun Gen Xers had.
"Gen Z can't write a check, address and envelope or read cursive"
And who's job was it to teach us those things again?
We learned in school - where should you have learned - lol?!
@@ronsmith745 Millennial/boomer teachers stopped teaching cursive in early 2000's. Not once did they teach anything about writing an address or envelope.
Thanks for proving my point.
Y'all aren't interested. I work with your elders. They suck.
-Gen X
I’m 68. I learned cursive in school, where everyone else did. My own children cannot write in cursive (they can barely read it). I think they were in 6th or 7th grade by the time I realized it. All their school papers were done on the computer and printed out, so we never noticed. When I did finally notice and ask, I discovered the schools had decided cursive was irrelevant to a modern education. And I suppose they’re right, but I’m sorry to see it vanish. As far as writing checks . . . she’s correct. My kids (now in their 30s) have never written a check. They do everything electronically. And now, so do I. It’s so much easier. Everything changes. Just the way of life.
@@ochervelvet9687 sure, I agree. But then this "comedian" shits on our generation for not knowing how to do these things despite them becoming irrelevant and therefore not taught to us by HER generation. It's ridiculous.
Why is it that we GenX are raising the complete opposite children from the kids we were 😅
Riiight???😊
Speak for yourself. I raised free-range kids.
They played outside, they rode bikes, they walked to school. They learned how to cook when they were tall enough to work the stove.
The spoiled over-protective stuff didn't reach our town until sometime in the 2000's.
Maybe b/c we had our kids too late? Also, my kid wouldn't go outside if you paid her.
Not me, when my kids were babies I would pretend to not notice if they fell and only react if the started to CRY…usually start with ooppsies to see if that was enough.
@@tay13666 Exactly the same with mine born 2001-2009-2015…all cook, bake, clean, play outside etc. Allthough youngest 7yrs gets supervised in the kitchen but he is being taught to cook and bake. The other day his big brother was teaching him how to use the airfryer by himself.
Boomer here - was a single dad from 1980 until 1991. Somehow, my two tough resilient Gen-X kids, with the help of my steady, relentless Greatest Generation parents, survived and thrived. I’m still a bit hazy on how that all turned out well.
That ain't easy, Dad. Hats off. I had a dear friend years ago who was left a single dad to two little girls under 5 years old when their deadbeat mom skipped out. He had to navigate everything from nail polish to French braids to training bras to "sanitary products" by himself. There should be public honors for this sort of thing, kind of like the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Yet, single mums navigate wet dreams, p0rn and shaving without such honours...@@joeday4293
I think you forget that the parents of GenZ is Gen X, the generation, who failed to teach us how to write and read in cursive, the generation that failed to teach us how to write a check, the generation that failed to teach us how to address an envelope, all things that I a Gen-zer know how to do, these very things that are no longer necessary because of the day and age we live in😂
Gen X doesn’t know how to use Zelle, or cash app, they don’t know how to search up basic things on the Internet, they don’t know how to take accountability, how does it feel to know that you guys lock the basic skills necessary for living in this day and age
Typical gen z blame others haaaa Silents taught Gen X nothin we leading corporate America. Go work Z and speak less.
True! Young people of ANY generation can't be expected to know a skill (or understand why it's important) if their elders don't play some role in teaching them. Love, a millennial.
P.S. Don't be afraid to ask for help (even in person!) most of us millennials are nice, despite the stereotype 😅
@@djtchamp5076 Sorry, but who's shirking responsibility here and blaming others? If younger generations don't learn skills from their elders that older generations learned from their own elders, who's to blame? Kudos to the Gen Zers who turn to UA-cam and Tiktok channels to learn the skills that their own parents were too busy running corporate America to teach them.
She is exceedingly talented and has great insights and perfect timing. Many thanks for this fabulous 11 minutes.
I ran my banana seat bike over a plywood Evel Knievel ramp without a helmet and played with the original lawn darts with the pointed metal tips and I'm still here!
I wondered how far I would have to scroll thru the comments to find banana seat biking jumping. We had an alley behind our house that was perfect for our regular bike jumping contests. When we landed hard and our foot fell off the pedal we definitely wanted the bike to have that banana seat to land on!
I ran my HONDA EXPRESS moped over a ramp and caught serious air. Scared the bejeezus out of me!
@@JB-ti7bl ouchy for the bike
Heh. I rode my 10-speed Raleigh over ramps - had the racing handlebars so I could duck low
Born in 1970 it is so true everything she said. It was a beautiful time
Yes! 1968 here...and, she's spot on! We are by FAR the best modern- times generation. Although a stretch...I think we could hold our own with the Founding Fathers. Of course, they were the benchmark model, but... the creative thinking, the drive, the discipline, the moxie... they had it... we have it. Best to you, fellow X-er! :)
Yes very late to this but just found it. Born in 1969. Drank from the garden hose, played with lawn darts, ran wild around the neighbourhood until my Dad with his carrying High School teacher voice yelled “Bedtime!”.
Drinking from the garden hose and lawn darts. Just marry me now lol... Yeah it was a different time a better time. :)
I love that you referenced drinking from the hose and lawn darts.... I literally made a reference to lawn darts somebody three weeks ago and they had no idea what I was talking about and I had to look down sadly
Not a professional comedian like yourself but I am a musician and I've been on stage and I've had to say funny things and entertain... I was so proud of my lawn dart statement the other day and the person had no idea what I was talking about... Such a wasted opportunity. :)
Totally can relate. You left off riding three kids on banana bikes and sliding down icy hills with cardboard boxes😂 and screen doors with no screens 😮
Absolutely true, Glad to be a Gen-Xer! Everyone played outside on our bikes, rollerblades, baseball, football, Mother May I, Hide & Seek, Acorn fights... parents only called us in when it got dark. Luckily, the houses on the block petitioned the city to install a streetlight because all the other cul-de-sacs had one. When the new streetlight was installed, all us kids on the block were able to play outside even later. cinder block wooden ramp, yup tried to jump my bike off of it and crashed but it was all good.
Dude no lie my father in law is just like this. He electrified the vegetable garden and trees that surround it. We drink an watch him shock squirrels.
We raised ourselves in my house. We grew up with 9 kids in the house so both of my parents worked and we basically lived the hunger games. 😂
Your father in law would love mine! :)
Gen X'er here! That was a really hilarious way to reminisce growing up and realize how different things are now in the present compared to before. 😅
Yup. I tell my step kids that we had the best childhood. We got an analog childhood but when we reached adulthood, the digital world started so we learned how to use computers but we got a normal childhood.
@@martinsmith5520 What's a "normal" childhood? Also, I'm glad digital started in my childhood because otherwise it would've been boring AF.
What an impressive set… First time watching her perform… Keep up the great work!
Gen X here and you are so right, I don't care and when you said that about raising ourselves, I was thinking how did you know. The parent part so accurate and if you looked from the outside it looked totally different than it actually was. The water hose water was the greatest! Hilarious!
I saw that CNBC graph that didn't mention us... and Twitter exploded with "this is the most GenX thing ever...." I was crying laughing at the Tweets. She really nailed this humor down to my Gen Z kids who literally can't write in cursive or can't address an envelope.... it's so hard to not judge them which then makes teaching them hard when we're dripping in contempt and they get mad. lol
You forgot can't read the time on a clock that's not digital!
You realize it's you who should have taught your kids those things, right? Just pointing out the irony😂
hahaha forget the envelope, try teaching them to dial in an analog phone! Oh and to zen the frustration to do it again and again if the line goes busy...🤣
@@nikan7704 We thought school was teaching them those things, like they did us! As a Gen Xer, I learned it in school. My parentswere too busy out making a living. By the time I found out my Gen Z kids couldn't do those things, it was too late! They just gave me the side eye and said it wasn't important and they didn't need to know it because it was all on their phones anyway.
@@boomerbristol3774they teach that in 1st grade and there are no analog clocks in school they only have real clocks
“You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit” ~ my GenX life ❤
Don't like it, don't look.
As a card carrying member of The Awesome Generation (aka Gen X); born 1968 to Silent Generation parents, I like to think that if the Zoomers mess with us, we will have no problem with putting them in facial recognition databases, and letting them drown in student debt.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Adults always told us when we were inside during a family gathering, "You are to be seen and not heard.", and "If you don't stop crying, I will give you something to cry about.". Even the school teachers locked us outside during lunch and before the morning bell had rung unless it was raining. And when it did rain during lunch time, the teacher would leave us alone in the classroom while she went and had her lunch and smoked in the teachers lounge with the other teachers, lol. AND THIS WAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!🤣
A wonderful addition to my Mother's Day ❤️ As a gen X with a boomer mom and millennial, Gen z kids I so relate 😃
You just described myself. Thanks
*Thanks so much for all of your great comments!! Much appreciated! 😍I was born the first year of Gen X, so a lot of these apply to Boomers & Gen Jones.* Thanks to Dry Bar Comedy & all y'all who survived the 70s with me
Thanks for mentioning GenJones! I was born in 1959 and found myself relating more to your GenX stories. I was the kid riding in the way back of the station wagon without seatbelts and it was my parents' contemporaries who smoked everywhere, including the waiting room of the doctor's office.
You described my entire childhood. Vintage ‘67 baby!
I think we are the best of all gens.. we are independent, hard working & know tough love.. after our gen.. ppl seem to have let the children start ruling everything.. 🤷🏻♀️ love your sense of humor.. great laughs!
Loved your previous stand up about the T shirts at Target!
Gen Xer from Indiana and you had every bit of that correct even down to trying to kill each other. In the summer we used to throw knives and hackets at the tree in the front yard, make wooden spears and throw em at each other, bottle rocket and Roman candle fights, throw rocks at everything and everyone throw mud balls at everything and everyone now in Indiana even we had crab apple wars teams of 3 to 5 and played hide n seek tag - if you found someone they weren't safe until they got back to base ans out if you were hit by a crab apple, no intentional crab apples to the face, beebee guns went everywhere with you in the summer and I remember walking up across the creek from another set of kids who we didn't know and we had a shoot out as kids one kid on each side got hit and crying so we went our separate ways, we all lived to tell the tale. Sneaking up into yards for boiling hot lava water hose water was a thing. I match your enthusiasm with alot of things today in that I really don't care either. I raised myself from 4rth grade on latch key kid, single mom got home anywhere from 6 to 9pm every night. I think that's why we are different than other generations who are more inclusive and want to be around a group of people whereas I prefer one on one or family and friends time. One of the most brilliant sets on this channel and on YT, should have millions of views 👏 You should come to Louisville KY sometime and plot your way on JRE, again congratulations. I'd like to use this video for a team builder on how to understand people of a different generation at the workplace.
Well I’m a boomer, and grew up in 60s - early 70s, the Gen X pretty much described my childhood too! I think the late 60s- 70s kids mostly experienced all that she said!
GenX - I remember Summers leaving the house on our bikes (no helmets) and not returning till evening.
No food, parents no idea what we were up to or if we were alive.
Good times.
I'm millennial and I died where she mentioned we invented avocado toast cuz I was eating one as I watched the video 😂
Oh my, thanks for being a good sport. I have some very fun friends who are millennials :)
@@KarenMorganComedy o my gosh what a pleasure in getting a response from you! You're great 👍 please don't stop making comedy ❤️
I love avocado toast, and I'm a Boomer -- thanks for this!
She forgot to mention that us millennials invented the internet too! 😂
@@gdawgpaveng15 Well, no, that was a Boomer. We certainly were the first generation to pioneer it for the use it has today, though!
Born in '71, I grew up on a struggling farm in Missouri. As such, we had to learn at an early age to work hard and to fix things. We have a few pictures of us kids on tractors, swathers, combines, and other equipment and I think to myself that my parents must have been insane to let a kid that young on such a powerful and expensive (at least to us) piece of equipment. But, both parents also worked off the farm so we all had to pitch in. I have one memory that they have verified, of me STANDING on the seat of our truck driving through the field in a 2 ton 50's era truck with a bale elevator while my dad was in the back stacking hay. I've always been a tall kid so I don't know how old that would have made me, 4-5 maybe?
Those troubleshooting skills learned on the farm have been very valuable during my life off the farm (sold it in '88). I am in I.T. now which seems like a far cry from farming, the steps to evaluate a problem, isolate the cause, and figure out a solution is largely the same. My father passed away this past December (thanks to improper cleaning of hospital surgical equipment). But, before he died, we had some good long talks about the farm. He always joked that if he won the lottery, he'd "buy a farm and farm until the money was all gone". LOL
As a gen x-er, I want to say thank you for this video! I laughed so hard!
Can't speak for any other gen, but Gen X was 💯 spot on! I can't believe how "exactly like my life" this was.
I'm a millenial who values gen-x because they're the older siblings I never had❤
Gen x is so accurate!😂 We're never going out of business!
you did when you crashed the stock market lmfao
I definitely got a concussion from riding in the back seat. Looking out the back window while kneeling and my father hitting the car in front of us and then the car in back of us nailing us too. Good times.
I'm epitome of millennial, however her genx experience was my complete childhood. My parents didn't care and I was lucky if I got a lunchbox.
I'm a boomer and we did all the things that she puts in Gen X. Maybe we were just advanced for our age.
Absolutely! As a boomer I just want to say "walk it off cupcake". We had jungle gyms and monkey bars on asphalt, not rubber mats. We played tackle red rover (it had another name in those days) on concrete.
I'm a millennial and I did many of the things she mentioned for a Gen X. I think many things cross generations.
My husband's a boomer and he grew up in a much tougher environment than I did (Gen X) but the difference is how much his parents actually cared and fussed over him, indulged him, raised him proper. For me there was much less of that and more freedom, which people today would call outright negligence.
Then you became helicopter parents who awarded participation trophies. You obviously didn't preach what your practiced and now we have millenials.
@@andyg806 No ya didn't. You had soccer games where no one kept score and everyone received a trophy. Stop the stolen valor attempt. You're not fooling anyone.
She needs a Netflix special!
Thanks Susan! That would be awesome!
I'd vote for that
I second that second second of the initial comment!
@@coastalcaitlin ❤️
Her wonderful descriptions of Generation X was exactly my experience as a leading-edge Boomer in the 1959s and 1960s. My child is Generation X and their experience wasn't much like that because I vowed to not raise my child like I was raised. Of course, I grew up in the south which has always been backwards and behind the times so that probably explains it.
God bless you. Speaking on behalf of all Gen X-ers, we need to leverage your brilliance to redefine the meaning of being a Karen. You are truly a Karen that makes us proud.
Wow.., you 100% nailed Gen X.., I laughed so much. I was born in 1969, and everything you said was way to accurate!!!
… You were so fun to listen too.., and it also really made me proud to be from the Gen X crew! We had a GREAT CHILDHOOD!!! Looking back at it…, we were built for survival.., we were independent spirits from a very early age .., we developed all kinds of real life skills and had no idea of how well rounded human beings we were becoming through experience. I swear, I was as mature and responsible like an adult by 10 years old!!!! Just GREAT MEMORIES!!!!
You know it!!! '68 here. Great times indeed!
This woman is very wise, and HILARIOUS!!
Not really , she is gloating about how terrible her parenting skills are. Any generation after yours is a reflection of the one before it. She’s not wise but she is smart because people actually can’t comprehend the truth of the matter
@@noompsieOG Bingo
Love her!! Her first comedy routine that went viral helped me get through the pandemic.
Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that!
Born 1958. I too was a "go outside and play" kid. Street lights on- get home. Riding bikes and NOT using handle bars, or helmets. Paper grocery bags to cover textbooks. In high school, we thought elecyric typewriters were the most amazing things!
Our mom would let us back in for lunch, and then kick us back out. And we had to be close enough that we could hear her if she started yelling for us around dinner time. She could yell pretty loud, so that was about 2 or 3 blocks. BTW, the hose water got cool if we let it run for a while, also didn't taste as rubbery.
And always be back inside before the street lights came on at sundown.
bike on the lawn,still there in the morning........back by dark,@@radolfkalis4041
As a millenial raised by boomer generation parents (who both happened to be hippies) I came out with a weird mix of gen x type values and experiences and millenial ones 😂 love it ❤️🥰🤘🏻
Okay, so call me crazy, but as a millennial everything she described being a gen x childhood was my childhood exactly.
Same. Millennial raised by boomers. I definitely related to the childhood experiences! BUT I’m definitely a millennial
We are "Xennials" - with a foot in both worlds.
The Xennials - I just learned about this today!
Truth!!!
I am Gen X and I approve this message! So spot on. WE ARE NEVER GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!!!
Gen X is never going out of business! 💯