of baby boomer. i m a casper on the cost. and so their argument and i thought it was really an interesting perspective they ve had as they were trying to launch their lives in terms of becoming, you know, independent people. they ve had pandemic. they ve had recession. they ve had this, you know, interested in what they had? i don t know. crazy job market and all sorts of jobs going away and social media coming to the fore. so what are your thoughts? my thoughts are that the definition of the american dream has changed. in reality, but but but not in people s minds. and so expectations are the way they used to be in a world that has changed, and there are a lot of reasons why that has happened, um, the me generation and i consider myself part of the it s them generation the me generation. um uh, had its moment absorbed a lot of resources. um is that the baby
and the percentage of the super wealthy start growing, and it s that gap that causes a lot of the people s anxiety. millennial written a book on this topic first as the token millennial. i do want to, you know, there s 2 11. i think we should give you a pardon tim for your role as a quasi baby boomer. thank you. thanks but i think you have to look at what better now look at what has happened to millennials. the oldest millennials are my age roughly, i m 40 and they roughly 41 42. they ve laid having families they ve delayed getting married the delayed buying homes because they can t afford it. millennials would be living at home with their parents longer than prior generations, and also the average millennial has $30,000 worth of debt, which is one of the highest we ve ever seen in any generation, and we ve experienced the great recession that was like a punch in the gut when i was first coming out of college and really trying to get my career started, i couldn t move anywhere and peop
you know, and in the past, there have been times where you could go many years without having a major hurricane. so it does feel like you know, this is anecdotal evidence. i m not out there taking measurements and going through data but as a gut instinct, and this is one of the things that the storm chaser they only get close to a tornado. i like this requires a lot of knowledge of the atmosphere of storms and gut instinct. my gut instinct says that we are seeing these stronger storms more often. well, erin j. jack be careful. we appreciate the video. we appreciate your story. but be careful when you re doing this. yeah, i will. thank you. awesome. thanks so much for being here. okay now to this millennials are stressed about their economic situation and their future and they tell us who they blame for that the pulse of the people is next.
mike pence to basically either push it back to the states delay the electoral college. vote and somehow helped donald trump. hang on. he knows everything and he s gonna testify. truthfully i m totally convinced, too, that he is going to do the right thing, and he makes the case against donald trump. i assume that means pence s cooked politically if he helps. pence was already cooked politically because the gop base wanted mike pence to go along with donald trump s plan to overturn the 2016 election or 2020 election and mike pence. he s trying to portray himself as yes, i m still loyal to donald trump kind of reluctantly going towards testifying and i did fight it, but now pretty much have run out of all options, except one or two just to delay it, and i don t think the gop base cares. he s done. he has to recognize that at this point, he s doing legacy. and i understand that he wants to be president. lot of
and so we just got left out and the rules changed on us and a lot of times, millennials say we are. people say millennials were whiners complainers where resilient. we re the generation that elected the first black president of the united states of america. we have seen the worst terrorist attack on our country, and yet we still continue to go to school. continue to say i m not giving up on this country. we re just saying, like, can you meet us halfway? it s not that, you know, to your point. i m unmarried. i don t have children. i don t own a home. i am the case. study for millennials. the question, though i think you know as a political person and someone who works on campaigns and really thrives on talking to people on the ground is who is talking to me? are democrats developing policies for me are republicans and quite honestly? no and so we have this growing population of people, and i talked to my friends and i do these focus groups and we re like, what is the public policy that