Baby boom

And I mean, why wouldn't they? After all, times were tough for Tom.

Yeah, time was tough, and they're fucking happy to be alive, so they want to settle down and have kids.

you know like baby boomer generation it's fully understandable why people were just fucking like crazy having kids dude you know like they're they're it was also after the war an easier time to raise kids i feel like now it's what like a quarter million to bring a kid to high school like it's not cheap to have a kid how many kids do you want two any max three brother max three motherfuckers being like i want to have six kids

You're insane.

Russian in history and being drafted to serve his country in the Second World War, Tom craves some normalcy in his life.

Jeez.

And, uh, the last but not on this grouping I am going to do is Kids of the Baby Boom.

Are you a ch- are you a child of the baby booms? Uh, if you have, well, uh, Charlie Daniels and, um, Bobby Bare with The Bellamy Brothers wanna know all about it.

Uh, Kids of the Baby Boom.

So without further ado, we will keep on the music on Indigo FM Radio.

Our daddies won the war and came home to our moms.

Then we all bought BMWs and brand-new pickup trucks.

Then we watched John Kennedy die one afternoon.

Now, for the sake of me and everybody else who might wonder, "Well, what are those generations again? What are the years?" I have a handy cheat sheet here.

So Baby Boomers are those who were born between 1946 and 1964.

Then Gen X is anyone born from 1965 to 1980.

Millennials are those who are born between 1981 and 1996.

I think the new designation for that group is called the Alphas, and I don't know that for sure.

I don't even know who came up with these cohort names.

They're easy to remember, I guess, Gen X, Gen Z, et cetera, Millennials, Baby Boomers.

But, of course, they don't call us Baby Boomers anymore.

And actually, Gary and I have had some back and forth about this.

I think what's tough is Gary is often grouped with other prominent Baby Boom cartoonists, like Art Spiegelman, just about the exact same age, who did Mouse.

and Robert Crumb.

And Robert Crumb has just been the subject of a terrific biography by Dan Nadel.

He then went on to become the poet laureate of our generation.

He gave us character types we all knew, such as Mike Doonesbury or Uncle Duke.

And he helped to give baby boomers their identity.

Thank you.