Topic A with James Urbaniak - Ep. 3: "Millennials"

[@XanltheCSG]

Mr. Urbaniak, why aren't you making more of these? Why aren't you confronting your talent, LIKE YOU DID IN THE PUNK MOVEMENT?

[@Luschan]

As a Millennial, I can say that 12 years after this interview, I am officially going through the same existential crisis James was experiencing here. We're approaching/entering middle age, and it's so wrong that someone born in the year 2000 is a fully grown adult. To me, that's still a baby. There are people my age who have kids in high school. It feels so weird to no longer be "the youth", and to have generational fashion/behavioral traits that are now signifiers of being old. Our version of bell bottoms or the Member's Only jacket are things like skinny jeans, asymmetric bangs/hair parting, ankle socks, etc. It's messed up, man! I embrace aging as part of the ride, but it's still kinda unsettling to experience your generation to no longer being the center of attention culturally.

[@heathermason7875]

same reason I just came back to this video, it's crazy to be culturally relevant and then just completely...not in 10 years time

[@nuno145]

Oh my god! I just randomly clicked this video, almoust by mistake, and what do you know? Awesome fu***ng video. I was just laughing non stop. Loved it.

[@smokeybehr]

I can just imagine Dr. Thaddeus Venture doing this interview.

[@JoeCavanaugh]

" Jesus Fuckin' Christ "

[@justwatching1980]

@borogomsho This is an excellent summary. I try to explain this to people and most don't get it. Millenials don't understand and fellow Gen Xers look at me like I'm a dork for using computers when I was 14.

[@RykComerford]

Alison is really good in this,she should do more acting.

[@borogomsho]

@JnAStudios. The low end of GenX is a very clear cultural cut-off point: Did using computers and email in high school make you a dork? If your answer is "we didn't have personal computers" you are too old for GenX and born before 1966. If your answer is "yes", then you are GenX. If your answer is "no, everybody used those" then you are millenial - and born after 1978.

[@davidhadler1]

I can't help but agree with most of Mr. Urbaniak's positions in this video - except the contention that he is of Generation X. I'm 47 and I was born in the last year of the baby boom. So there.

[@OpenComments]

Scientology not only tolerates lying but actually presents formal training in the subject: "Purpose: To train the student to give a false statement with good TR-1. To train the student to outflow false data effectively. … The student should be coached on a gradient until he/she can lie facilely." -L. Ron Hubbard, Intelligence Specialist Training Routine-Lying (TR-L)

[@sparkkle2]

Mind blown.

[@JnAStudios]

@borogomsho interesting way to look at it, I was born in 1976, my answer would be "No, we didn't have access to personal computers." Thanks for the advice

[@davidhadler1]

@TheTwillerZone Common misconception. The last year of the baby boom is considered to be 1964. (something I've known for years, but also see the Wikipedia entry) Although, as my dad was actually in the RAF, it did take him a while to get to the US, meet my mother, and have a child. Also, since we're nitpicking, that should be "your", not "you're". HTH, HAND. :-)

[@RykComerford]

I'm Urbaniak's approximate age,while you were being born,I was in the theater watching Army of Darkness.

[@tontocorazon]

Really fucking funny

[@jcalabr]

The song "The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News should have been played over the closing credits.

[@patchesdf]

You know what I do when I want to feel old? Realize Wil Wheaton, the kid who played Wesley Crusher is 40 this year. He has a grown kid of his own who's going to college this September. Fuck me.

[@RTFer007]

Hahahaha! Way to represent for us "Millennials" Alison! Specifically born 1985...the greatest year ever! For the record, Back to the Future is one of my FAVORITE movies. I look forward to the day I get to "generalize"...I mean "breathe" on some "adult person" who was born the year I turned 25!

[@JnAStudios]

@dynamicmaxwell120 Hmm, definitely gonna have to put some thought into it then. Thanks for the input.

[@DavidAvalloneFreelance]

The composer is Jonathan Dinerstein. I don't know who the individual players are.

[@Trueshtari]

Anyone know the song?

[@JnAStudios]

Wait, so if you're 47 and Generation X, Alison is in her twenties and Generation Y then what am I, being 35?! :/

[@tmrezzek5728]

It's as if Basil Fawlty was stripped of his panic-button insanity--leaving only his acidic snarkiness--and transplanted into a Generation X persona. A hilarious 3.5 minutes (and, no, I'm not being sarcastic!)

[@dynamicmaxwell120]

@JnAStudios Most demographers would consider Gen X, however there are a few who would categorize you as Millennial. Because you are on the cusp of both you can sort of pick and choose, but the truth is generations is a very big picture thing and makes generalizations. Like a center of gravity thing, as a whole a generation acts a certain way, but not everyone in that generation acts the same way.

[@DavidAvalloneFreelance]

I bet the single guy who clicked "dislike" has never even SEEN Back to the Future.

[@TheTwillerZone]

@davidhadler1 I thought baby boom was 1946-1949, returning soldiers from WW 2 having babies.. maybe it took you're dad a while to get back ?

[@krmarlo]

@Halo4Lyf At the rate things are going, we'll all have to have a hand in taking down our own right on this soil.

[@sparkkle2]

60's was the tail end of baby boomers. Also, for another minor (HAH) mindfuck.... I was born the day Army of Darkness was released in theaters.

[@TheTwillerZone]

@davidhadler1 or maybe you're a time traveller watching you tube in the early 1990's - you can probably change of the course of history if you patent this site first or some shit.

[@NikeHM69]

Andy Levy!!

[@RykComerford]

'85s Back To The Future was ok,but '83s Risky Business was awesome.I thought people born early 60s were called babie boomers.

[@Christopher8008]

Funny

[@rockomundo]

Being born in the 80's doesn't make you a millennial anymore. Being born in the 90's does.