In Defense Of The Millennial
The script is different but the wording is always roughly the same. Every few months some retiring journalist, former tech-mogul or aspiring Tomi Lahren-type goes viral because they've had it up to *here* with these gosh darn millennials. Between their clamoring for single-payer healthcare and their complaining about unpaid internships, it's like they hate America or something. Why can't they appreciate what they've got and be exactly what the generation before wants them to be?
We've heard it a million times and, frankly, it's all bullshit. You know how we know? Because every generation has been lodging the same 4 complaints about their successors since the beginning of the written language (and probably before that too). Grug and all the other teens don't care about hunting mammoths like their fathers, they just sit around playing with those newfangled *wheels* all day. As long as we keep having kids, this will happen until the end of time.
On this week's podcast, resident Gen-X'er-in-chief Jack O'Brien welcomes young upstarts Katie Goldin, Brett Rader and Josh Sargent onto the show to discuss why this never-ending argument is bullshit. They discuss some flaws in logic behind popular anti-millennial rants and call out some shady statistics that news outlets circulate to prop-up these arguments.
And make sure to get tickets to our next LIVE Cracked Podcast, coming up on Saturday, May 13th at 7pm at the UCB Sunset Theatre in Los Angeles. Jack O'Brien is joined by Cracked's Carmen Angelica, Alex Schmidt and Michael Swaim, and comedian Blake Wexler to combine the podcast's two favorite topics: great moments in history and binge drinking. They'll discuss the drafting of the US Constitution, the Russian Revolution and other famous moments in history where everyone was completely shitfaced. Tickets are only $7 and available HERE.
Throw on your headphones and click "Play" above, go here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or download it here.
Footnotes:
Article: Cracked: This Millennial Rant Deserves A Trophy For Being Most Wrong
Article: The Society Pages: Adventures in Garbage-Millennial Confirmation Bias
Article: Cracked: 5 Lies Millennials And Baby Boomers Believe About Each Other
Article: Cracked: 4 Terrible Parts of Pop Culture (With Weird Bright Sides)
Article: The New Yorker: The Big Uneasy
Article: The New Yorker: The "Founder" Generation's Creation Myth
