My So Called Gen X Life.

Man, you're bringing back a lot of memories. Watching all these videos is making thirsty where's the garden hose 😊

Videos like this make my chest ache, but makes me smile at the same time! 😭❤

Kudos to you, and thank you for starting this channel. 🎶Those were the days, my friend 🎶

I discover you last night while stoned. watched the video about ten episodes that messed kids up. You were talking about me. 50?yr old. I’m impressed with your knowledge of the awaking we need to go through. You sound so “awake and informed”. Check out interview with Yuri Bezmenof. Ex KGB. Explains and answered your questions about the curriculum in school. Take over from within. Decades long starting in schools shaping future generations to enact the policies and rules to turn us in communist nation. Fascinating interview.

They really pounded us with television shows that glorified the police and alphabet agencies :D

We're about the same age. 80s and 90s what a time

Yep. I graduated in 97. The 80’s and 90’s were lit. I wondered how awesome things would be when I got older. Dude I am SO disappointed 😢 all the stuff in this video are big parts of my life

I’m a bona fide Millennial (born ‘88) and have always gravitated towards my Gen X colleagues for their work ethic and sharing their experiences living through what appeared to be one of coolest decades ever (The 80’s, although I like to think I experienced some of it in the 90’s because of all the 80’s media I took in).

I’ve been enjoying becoming a little more “seasoned” and sharing some of my 90’s/00’s experiences to Gen Z folks who are interested to listen. Likewise I am interested in learning about their childhood and teenage experiences in what I lived through in my teenage/adult years so I can benefit from listening to their perspectives.

Best of luck on your channel, Natalie! Generations unite! 🤗

This is me, at a crossroads, asking myself if I want to keep my childhood memories intact for the nostalgia they provided me? Or should I just take the red pill and join the scrutiny that you provide? (Sleeping with one eye open)

I've subscribed, so I'm going to go on the journey. And besides... I swear I was on a different timeline in the 1990's from the rest of my social circle, so this might offer me a chance to rediscover things I forgot (or, perhaps, willfully ignored)

I'm an Xer and just found this channel. Yes I have awakened to the same darkness of the media and the government. I question everything. Believe nothing. But as far as my childhood goes, life without cell phones was better. We had to make plans. We had to make choices. We couldn't change on a dime with a text. No one I grew up with wore a helmet on a bike, we all had lunchboxes and never put them in a fridge, we drank from hoses -- we didn't even think about these things. Social media and the collapse of event television -- every night was kinda an event when you only had 3 channels, has created a divided society. X'ers grew up with a shared culture. We all saw Ferris and Breakfast Club and E.T. and remember when we got cable and couldn't wait to switch on MTV. How many X'ers spent their Thursday nights watching Cosby, Family Ties, Cheers and Night Court? I mean we're talking 30 to 50 million people. There is nothing like that outside of sports now. And the music -- you need producers and engineers. Not home computers and auto-tune. Movies had Spielberg but also the art house. I just wrote a book and set it in 1994. Because if you were an American -- that was a great year. Friends premiered, Pulp Fiction, Grunge was still going and this called the Web was starting to hit a critical mass. I live in the past because I guess the present is depressing. I feel like we've hit a dark ages and we hit it fast and hard and it sucks....

I'm also Gen X 1977. I just wanted to point out we had the best music! In somewhat of an order: Disco, rock, rap (later named hip hop), pop, ballads, metal, country, alternative, ska, dance/trance, new age, nu metal, industrial and industrial metal. There are way too many influential bands to name but there are quite a few bands I listened to from all of these eras.

The 80's was the best time in my life, and I think the best time in America as well. Yes, our technology is far improved in modern day, but as a species, were going backwards into the 1800's way of thinking. If I had a time machine, I'd go back to the 80's, and never leave it, no matter how old I get. When nostalgia causes you to have tears in your eyes, you know the feelings are real.

I'm Gen X 1971 I feel you. This is what is happing to you, You are waking up in the Black community its called being 'WOKE' that is what it was called before being co- opted by media. Now some people call it being RED pilled. I have been woke for a long time. "Welcome to the party pal"

I just subscribed to you, love the concept of this channel, please keep the videos coming!

1974 American model. The absolute best time to grow up, tv, music, movies, styles. While we grew up around architecture and landmarks from generations before us, we had such a mix of so many truly great things to soak in, we really are a once in a long time generation. Love your channel!

Anyone born on or after 1981 is a Millennial. Xennial seems like a made up generation as a coping mechanism for people not wanting to be branded as a millennial.

We didnt question because we didnt know there were questions.

We just enjoyed because everything was rad.

1976 model gen x here. I'm looking forward to your content.

I was a toddler in the 70's, a kid in the 80's (turning 13 by 1989) a teen in the 90's & in my early twenties by 1999. Born on Nov.18th, 1976 graduating H.S. in 1994.
BICENTENNIAL BABY 🇺🇸

Great questions to ask ourselves. glad to know you understand manipulation and secret rulers of this planet. Its global gangs fighting other global gangs. great video.

You have to remember that Reagan’s administration dismantled the Fairness Doctrine in the late 80’s which gave rise to one sided news outlets to spew disinformation for decades since. It’s gotten to the point where I have to fact check a lot of what I see online.

Oct 76. Ahhh memories

Great channel here. Alot of retrogamers today grew up during the 80s, so I sub to alot of them. The algorithm must’ve said check out your channel. So glad! It is funny how companies today re-release stuff we grew up with, toys/games especially. They know nostalgia pays. Transformers, TMNT, the list goes on and on, and my God how expensive some of these could be. Lego alone, ugh! They know what they doing. 😅

Just discovered your channel;myself-born in '70 & the late seventies thru the mid ninties were a "elevated" time frame. Good times,but Gen X was definitely a group that reveled in our era but with a little age;had questions. Innocence always dies hard🫤 NEVER to return....despite that: Popular culture then (was & is) more geared toward one on one connections- without most of the destractions of tech & the growth of PC culture. Keep the videos coming👍

Hey fellow gen x. I've come to realize the same things about our media, foreign policy, and seemingly happy sheltered cultural upbringing myself and how fake everything is as well. Operation mockingbird is all this time now. Everything on TV is now manipulation and disinformation. That's why they want to censor people and journalists now because nobody believes them anymore Julian Assange, etc..

Remember "Satanic Panic"? Gen-X remembers!

Born in 81. Id go back in a heartbeat. By far my fondest memories. Right now in 1998 we’d be planning where the party was tonight. Skipping lunch to go get a double cheeseburger at McDonald’s and maybe have a smoke of grass that we stole from our dad’s stash. I’m not ashamed to say it, I wouldn’t change any of it for the world. I’m now what most would consider very successful and I lived my youth to the fullest. The worry free innocence and we were all in the same boat. Even the rich girls we’d find out omg your parents smoke pot too 😮 it was an amazing time to be a teenager in the 90s. Adolescence in the 80s, all the plastic toys, Atari, eventually Nintendo. Forget about it.

78- I miss it so much sometimes I almost come to tears. The older I get the more and more I obsess about it. It maddening. Hurts my heart

1976 here! 🙋‍♀️

i was born on veterans day in 1977. It's good to meat another 77'er im not so alone in my Xennial World.

I am A Xennial And Millennial To, Born In 1982

Regarding your ending thoughts about a deep-state, there was definitely some big brother manipulation going on in 20th century America, from the government pushing single-family homes on people to advocating marriages through tax-breaks. However, due to the vast amount of turnover constantly happening in the government and the impossibility of micromanaging people's lives (which were largely lived off the grid, with few cameras or other technologies to keep track of people's day to day activities) there was, for the most part, no singular vision or specific agenda ruling peoples' lives. What changed in the 21st century was the ability for people with an agenda to instantly find sympathetic followers and create niche radicalized tribes that could speak with one voice and create movements much more quickly than in the past. Meanwhile, whereas the media had to cast a wide net in the 20th century and cater to many views to maintain high ratings, it's different now, with media recognizing that catering to a loyal niche audience works better in today's age where people have many more choices. Thus people now pick the news content they want to see (or have it chosen for them by algorithms, as you mention) with that content specifically reinforcing a person's own viewpoint as its central narrative.

AWESOME! this vid just got you a new sub! i can't wait to see what you do :) fellow 1977 genx here

‘77 here. I found the channel I didn’t know I was looking for.

Pokemon!? You are to old to watch Pokemon!!

Cool channel. I use the 1975-1985 timeline for Xennials as with talking online to other people our age (1977 baby here) there was a bit of a lag when you got outside of big cities ans suburbs. I grew up a Military brat so what I saw first hand was what was cool in one place wasn't necessarily cool elsewhere. Some places were big cities and some medium cities and I even got to live outside the US.

I also helped to raise two younger siblings bornin 88 and 91 and they are definitely Millennials and had a very different childhood and outlook than we did. Its also worth mentioning that Millennials that had okder siblings had a glimpse into our world (because they wanted to or got to tag along) so past 1985, yeah thats a different childhood.😉👍✨

Born in 77 like you. Had a middle class upbringing and experienced a lot of the same. We definitely were lied to and things were much more hidden.
Before the internet and social media it was much harder to get alternative views and the "real" unfiltered news by people there and not bought by any special interests.
We were ignorant and happy. I'm not saying that being ignorant and happy was better, but it sure felt better.
Nowadays there is such a thick layer of melancholy and fear hanging over everything.
We are more informed than ever, but are we happier? Better off? I don't know, maybe we are.
All I know is I really miss those (perceived) innocent times.

I don't mind pulling the curtain back. I had my time in, had what fun I could, and got it all done before 2 Colorado dipshits in trenchcoats heralded the end of any and all good things. Taking a critical eye to what was going on behind that curtain is necessary and overdue if we're to avoid repeat mistakes. But man oh man do I miss the lack of dread and abundance of free time that used to frame the world back then (yes, I know, the last 10 years of the Cold War were no picnic but at least there was hope in there somewhere).

gen x is the best!!!

79 model here. The propaganda machine has absolutely been around longer than most realize. Glad to see you took the red pill. (not a political reference) Looking forward to these videos!

1981, yet everyone says we are millenials. Only we know the difference 😎

I don't wanna backdate myself, but we are [maybe, allegedly] peers. 🤣🤣

Lol caught three buses home since 6th grade lol during the crack epidemic lol

Born in 77 as well and damn, those are my sentiments exactly! I am so glad to be GenX!!!!!

Has another Xennial who is going to start working on a new creative project you’re an inspiration. I look forward to seeing your videos.

I grew up in New Jersey in a upper middle class town and graduated in 1999, my husband grew up in Ohio we definitely learned different things in school. My history classes covered more than his. My health classes were also more “ liberal”. I’m still shocked at the things he wasn’t taught.

Me too! I was born in 1982. I'm so damn glad too

'78 Gen-X Latchkey kid here.