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Want our kids to be latch key kids. >> im waiting for the study that says, really, going out for drinks with the guys once a week is great for your marriage. but they dont do those study sgrs you could fund one. i bet you the natural beverage center will fund it. theyan get it. >> quality time, we have our time together and then at nighttime we can view books, bapth bed. in that order. >> we got into a huge fight this morning and now hes banned from using his scooter. >> you know who i feel bad ...

Nearby. last night i ate fast food. >> you are generation x. mill millennials are not going to mcdonalds. we will get an early start on your money next.

Change agendad had me wondering whose message is registering most with young folk. people like bob who say its a hoax or is the president the one who is mocking the deniers. who better to ask than generation x. this is one im very hip with my friend. audio technician, and kate rogers, do they call it 4-1-1. >> the 4-1-1, neil. >> i didnt know. >> so, lets get to bob murray and what he was saying, and would you begin with you. what did you think of that. >> certain things you can say are mythical...

Turns out theyre wrong, then we are risking nothing less than the future of the entire planet. >> no overstatements there. welcome to generation x. our hot new segment featuring people who are young and hip just like me. anyway, a couple of controversial commencement speeches had me thinking. beneficial or bs. we thought we would ask you. were getting interesting tweets. our gen-x crew is all over it. we have -- catherine, do the graduates really have a case about these speeches or should we jus...

What attorney general has had to doom with that kind of treatment. >> i think race has something to do with the fact they are not bringing up immigration bill. i heard them say if irish this would be easy. >> do you think your republican colleagues are racist. >> not all of them, no, of course not. to a significant extent the republican base does have elements that are animated by racism. >> you know, even -- >> cropping up everywhere. latest talking point. top democrats attacking republicans wi...

Prom innocence after his life in the rock band genesis. ♪ i wannabe your sledgehammer >> anyone from the mtv generation knows that song. "sledgehammer," peter gabriels biggest hit, won awards in 1987. and get this -- most played video in the history of mtv. >> concert last year, awesome. he still sounds great. finally, a new kid on the block relatively speaking, 1987, singer/guitarist kurt cobain and bassist krist novoselic and nirvana. ♪ >> nirvana established itself in seattle. its now con...

Down upon the younger generations or think the best years are behind america. theyre the only group versus boomers or generation x, like myself, who who are optimistic about the future. theyre the ones with the high unemployment rates and high student debt. i think theyre being optimistic because if for no other reason theyre looking at the internet gold mine and see their own generation becoming millionaires and billionaires but theyre not getting married and having kids and then starting faceb...

Used up all of the weird. >> we did. we did to that. we do do that. it is a shame for you younger kids. it is the duty of every generation to shock its elders. the roman empire was wearing their toe goes too short or whatever. when the people who came in, generation x and all of the generations that came after the baby boom, when it was their turn to shock their parents and be weird and be different, there wasnt anything different left to do. all of the weirdness had been used up. weird beards, ...

18 to 33, judging their political views, the way they identify themselves and what the poll found is they tend to identify themselves as independent. 50%, even the 50% that side with democrats, still to identify with democrats independent. second, they are not church goers and most of them are single which separates them from previous generations. >> what does that say, steve, about the electorate? >> in terms of their politics, i dont think the minutes are all mill lineals are all that differen...

Starting at 199. zales is the diamond store. . this day in 2011 when the service members crossed the border from iraq into kuwait closing the gates and ending the u.s. military presence in iraq after nearly nine years. to members of the millennial generation, it may seem like the war was going on for their entire life. one of the factors that makes this generation unique. on the heels of generation x, they have grown up in the shadow of 9/11 and had to cope with hardship.