Jul 3, 2026 · 39 min · 11 segments
Raised on hose water, Stretch Armstrong, Atari, and a healthy dose of independence, Gen X learned early how to figure things out alone. But what happens when that same self-reliance becomes one of…
Jay WhiteHost
that's that's technically our the lost the forgotten generation forgotten generation even though we invented everything i know right
exactly um so one of the things that we that i think comes up again and again is that we are the latchkey kids you know yeah this is the first generation that um had to really fend for themselves more on their own and um And I think that one of the reasons we look at that is like, I looked up, you know, I love a statistic.
And by the 80s, we had over 50% of families had had two people working outside the home.
Well, they'd have to get on the office phone and call the home phone and have you pick it up.
that's that's technically our the lost the forgotten generation forgotten generation even though we invented everything i know right
exactly um so one of the things that we that i think comes up again and again is that we are the latchkey kids you know yeah this is the first generation that um had to really fend for themselves more on their own and um And I think that one of the reasons we look at that is like, I looked up, you know, I love a statistic.
And by the 80s, we had over 50% of families had had two people working outside the home.
Well, they'd have to get on the office phone and call the home phone and have you pick it up.
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