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Season unfortunately. >> because of the competition from sgron line and not the bricks and mortar? >> you hit it. youre seeing a lot more shopping online and its very tough to be in business. >> these studies are fascinating. they say baby boomers, they spend an average of $738 now during christmas. generation x, theyll spend the most, $847. baby boomers are older, im sorry, generation x is 30s to 40s. its amazing. $847 on average. i dont know where theyre getting the money from. i dont know whe...

Martin walsh. the reason i love this, being recovered, hes been recovering for a couple of decades. you have to maintain a certain way of life and maintaining honesty. a politician maintaining rigorous honesty? im interested. >> a lot of people have been in aa who are now coming out for him. >> a lot of recovering people now. >> martin walsh. >> my story is germany on friday is going to start its own generation x. germany on friday, parents of newborns can choose a third gender. if you dont want...

>> steve, the last word goes to the millenial. >> generation x. >> old steve, and young rowan. thank you beth veoth very much. >> thank you, sir. >> coming up. what do cory booker and rand paul have in common? they hate the war on drugs. thats in the "rewrite." first, texas republicans are pretending the state has the a voter fraud problem. and their solution is to make it harder for women to vote. thats next. the founder of mz once wrote something on a sheet of paper and placed it in his factor...

About. >> get a bottle for a dollar. check this out really quickly. >> take a look at the prototype, a jet pack, all kind of people are interested in. it can go 30 minute flight -- 30 minutes. 19 miles. pretty cool. >> oh. >> polka time is next. ♪ hey, man, bad karma got you down ♪ ♪ come on, lets polka ♪ music peace and love and sex yuppies generation x thats the woodstock polka ♪ ♪ traffic jams and camping greens automated bank machines thats the woodstock polka ♪ ♪ theres knic...

Things growing up not because thats what they wanted because parenting shifted. its actually not about me even though thats how ive been raised my whole life. they have to get practical and say every job is not going to be a dream job. it is going to be something where you like some of it and youre not going to like part of it. >> when they get into the workplace you made some great remarks in the book about how they ask too many questions and they need to just do it. what is your advice to mill...

>> generation x. >> complaining about gen x so everyones jaws dropped to the ground. theyre like no, brad that, describes millenials. we love complaining about people in their 20s. thats what we do in this country. >> i dont know who said it first but this is the first generation to get a trophy for just showing up for the season for soccer, not for actually winning the games. but lets look at the other side, middle aged comedians offering that perspective but clips from hbos "girls" offers the ...

>> you can smoke them inside. >> ew. thats readily gross. >> no ashes theres a battery inside. >> what does it do? deliver nicotine to me? >> nicotine. no tobacco that is the rub. no tobacco. >> thats just what camels are. generation x would not remember seeing cigarette commercials on tv. those ads were banned, effective in 1971. on tv today, its the ad men doing much of the puffing. >> everybody elses tobacco is poisonous. lucky strikes is toasted. >> reporter: but smoking ads are creeping b...

Maintenance at refineries in four states. members of generation x, remember that phrase, they seem to be the big losers when it comes to the recent recession. new study found that gen xers will retire worse off than generations before them. you ask am i in generation x? if youre 38 to 47, anywhere in there, thats you, and here is the sad number that between 2007 and 2010, gen xers saw their net worth almost cut in half from $75,000 to a little more than $41,000. police in omaha are trying to...

And 40s, known as the silent generation, only 31% favor same-sex marriage. but amongst baby boomers, the number rises to 38%. it gets still higher for the middle aged generation x at about 49%. now look at the millennials. those born in 1981 or later. 70% support gay marriage. some other polls put that number even higher rising to 80%. millennials are an important constituency, representing about a fifth of this countrys voting age generation. they will be around longer than anyone else, you wan...

But amongst baby boomers, the number rises to 38%. it gets still higher for the middle aged generation x at about 49%. now look at the millennials. those born in 1981 or later. 70% support gay marriage. some other polls put that number even higher rising to 80%. millennials are an important constituency, representing about a fifth of this countrys voting age generation. they will be around longer than anyone else, you want them on your side. their voting patterns are actually striking. if you br...