The Geriatric Millennial

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00:00:03.360 | All right.

00:00:06.340 | We have a question here from Geriatric Millennial.

00:00:11.120 | How does that work out?

00:00:13.200 | Feel bad about that.

00:00:15.840 | I'm one of the oldest millennials.

00:00:18.680 | There is some variation in how you

00:00:21.480 | define the age range that actually captures

00:00:23.920 | the millennial generation.

00:00:25.520 | And typically, the beginning of it

00:00:28.840 | is usually put around somewhere between 1980 and 1984,

00:00:32.320 | with 1982 being about the average

00:00:34.240 | that demographers will use when saying,

00:00:35.880 | here's the beginning of the millennial generation.

00:00:37.920 | I'm born in 1982, so I'm one of the oldest millennials.

00:00:41.800 | By the way, another aside, millennial

00:00:44.840 | does not mean young person.

00:00:48.440 | This frustrates me sometimes when I hear it.

00:00:50.240 | Millennial is a very specific demographic population boom

00:00:56.400 | that is captured by certain years.

00:00:58.720 | Starting around my birth date, and then ending.

00:01:03.440 | And then there's another generational demographical

00:01:06.120 | labels that capture the group after it.

00:01:07.840 | So I think we got used to-- the baby boomers got

00:01:10.080 | used to referring to millennials as young people.

00:01:14.000 | And now we use it just generically

00:01:15.560 | to talk about 14-year-olds today who

00:01:17.520 | are very much not millennials.

00:01:19.960 | The youngest millennials are well out of college

00:01:22.920 | and in their 20s.

00:01:23.640 | So that's a little PSA.

00:01:25.760 | Millennial doesn't mean young person.

00:01:28.520 | It's a very specific demographic range.

00:01:30.280 | Anyways, if this millennial is geriatric,

00:01:32.760 | that means I'm geriatric, which I kind of am.

00:01:36.600 | Guys, two weeks ago--

00:01:39.760 | last week, last week, I threw out my back shoveling snow.

00:01:45.520 | It's the most dad thing you can do.

00:01:48.040 | I mean, I was out, couldn't walk around for a couple of days.

00:01:53.400 | Took me a week to really recover.

00:01:56.760 | I mean, I had to do pretty aggressive--

00:01:58.320 | I'm very aggressive in recovery on things.

00:02:00.240 | So as soon as I could move, I was moving.

00:02:01.720 | As soon as I could walk, I was walking.

00:02:03.320 | As soon as I could stretch, I was

00:02:04.640 | doing huge amounts of stretches.

00:02:06.680 | And then I started working in exercises

00:02:09.080 | that didn't strain the back.

00:02:10.240 | And then I finally have worked myself up to-- yesterday,

00:02:12.600 | I was able to do my full exercise routine.

00:02:14.360 | I mean, I got after it because I hate being immobile.

00:02:16.200 | But I mean, is there anything more--

00:02:17.680 | speaking of geriatric millennials-- anything more

00:02:20.440 | dad than throwing out your back shoveling snow?

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