Interview with Gina Scott Williams (@GenXGina66) | Wednesday 02.04.26

0:00 Want more Treehouse, check out our YouTube exclusive shows at YouTube dot com. Slash at Treehouse on air. It is time believe your worries outside and laugh with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with Trey Trendholm. Today coming up inside the Treehouse Show Today, we are going to explore gen x, pride and. Prejudice with our new friend jen x Gina. But first. We're going to start with something that a lot of men start with if we've been good, and that's lingerie.

0:47 Case you missed it, Sydney Sweeney has started her own lingerie line called Siren s y Are in and not since Bill Cosby pushed jail Low Pudding has a finer match been made. Of all things? Why are you comparing it to Bill Cosby? Bill Cosby in Pudding? Uh huh? Because that's how my parents would get me to take my medicine as a child. They would crush up my prescription pills and put it in my pudding so I would take my medicine. How ironic.

1:27 Yeah, that's what I thought. When he got arrested and I found out what for? It's like, man, my parents did that to me. My wife looked over very slowly, Like I'm like, I'm not just I'm like put the pills in the pudding. They didn't do anything. It was just, you know, that's just how because I was a very sick child. It's a very sick child. Had lots of prescription pills that I was on at various times, and I couldn't swallow pills very well. So my parents, like it was a capsule, you know, they would just just pop it open and just pour it into into some pudding and then I would eat it and therefore take my medicine.

2:09 You weren't a young Gypsy Rose. No, what's Gypsy Rose? I think she? I think that was her name, the girl that her mom fed her a bunch of drugs saying she had cancer, but she really didn't. She ended up killing her mom. God, I was thinking about the strip club in Austin. No, that's uh the Yellow Rose. My bad got my roses switched on her goes to show my priorities in life. Yellow Rose, I know that Gypsy Roath. I'm a little. Foggy, probably because of the medicine.

2:50 Anyway. Uh. Sidney Sweeney has started her very own lingerie line. This all started a couple of weeks ago when she was busted for hanginging bras on the Hollywood Sign and that got posted on social media, and I believe it was the La County Sheriff's Department said they would be investigating because that would be trespassing possible vandalism, to which I think we all thought, I don't think there's a whole lot to investigate here. He's on video, clearly Sidney Sweeney hanging her underwear from the Hollywood Sign. I think the investigation is going to be pretty shortfellas. But it turns out it wasn't just a silly social media stunt. It was part of a guerrilla marketing campaign to announce the launch of her Siren Syrn lingerie line. Now Bill Cosby putting aside, this really makes sense. And when you talk about a celebrity coming out with some type of a product these days, you don't really know what it's going to be, Like The Rock coming out with tequila, even though he's got polynesia heridage and okay, kind of the same thing with George Clooney and mister Cindy Crawford they had tequila as well. Ryan Reynolds doing a cell service like what and gen and gin and soccer. So you have all these celebrities that have these products, and a

4:21 lot of times they're surprising because they don't align with the things that you associate with that celebrity. This is one of those that makes perfect sense. Sidney Sweeney launder a line. I mean, if the if the high heel fits. I mean. Yeah, uh yeah, just bras alone, she can sell them. Yeah, absolutely, And they are selling, by the way, it's doing very very well. Sidney Sweeney's debut Seductress collection for Siren sold out in record time. Following a viral grilla marketing stunt involving the Hollywood Sign. She draped dozens of bras over the historic Los Angeles Landmark to announce the launch, blending the aesthetic of old Hollywood with a provocative modern edge.

5:13 In other words, thongs, it's really what we're talking about here. Following the massive success of the initial release, Siren is expected to restock and expand its range, solidifying Sweeney's position as a powerhouse in the celebrity led apparel space. No surprise there, She's already used to solidifying things, and she's also officially mastered the art of spectacle, so you know what good on her. I'm a big fan in diversifying if you can take your celebrity and leverage that into other things, whether it's like if you're an actor getting into directing and producing, or if you're a celebrity and you're an actor getting into something else, like a bunch of the other people we already mentioned to, you know, carrying on a different thing, Like the reason why I know what aviation gin is is because of Ryan Reynolds.

6:12 So it makes sense to capitalize when when you're hot, you've got to take that opportunity and run with it. And that's exactly what Sidney is doing here. I mean, it's I hate to say it, it's the Kardashian model. Yeah, and it and and they weren't the first. I mean, Trump, I think did it even before the Kardashians did, with slapping his name and all sorts of products, with licensing deals, steaks, waters, other things like you couldn't get away from it. And and it's very very common in Hollywood to do it. It's just it doesn't always land as well as some of these have. And I don't know why some do so much better than the others.

6:56 I mean, but you know Sidney Sweeney and underwhere it's you know that seems obvious. I mean for me, the og of this category is Kiss. Oh yeah, absolutely. They slap their name on everything and anything. Horse, absolute Horse. It really is amazing to have a legendary rock group be considered bigger hores than the horse that they screwed when they were on tour. And it's really not even fair to those ladies. Are you here's a side just I'll totally Are you a fan of Kiss? Not really? I like, I like a couple of their songs, But to me, Kiss is such a weird, weird entity because it's they're not just a band. Gene Simmons like they they were a show. They are an entity. They are a product, right, they are a brand. They're not just out there singing songs. Because if you listen to the music and then you look at the band as they perform the music, they don't really match because they kind of look like death metal when you see him in concert, but then you hear their songs like Beth Detroit, rock City, rock and roll, all night, rock and roll all night, I mean one of my favorite songs as well. If

8:27 I keep them from Loving You song, the one that was in the Fall guydeal. They have some great songs, but the music doesn't match the look. The look looks like death metal. I let the songs the songs sound a little more like I don't know, don Hinley, I just. Don't think I I think they were to me just kind of mid And I mean, if you made me list top twenty rock bands, Kiss would not be would not be on that list. But if you did a top twenty rock brand, oh yeah, he's they got to be in the top just because they are so well known because of the branding. And you're right, I mean, Kiss slap their name on everything. If they could sell it, lunch boxes, the all time what's that coffins? Coffins is the all time? Buy a Kiss casket. Now I'm thinking Sidney Sweeney could go into that same thing. Would well that's better than my initial thought which was, well, just I mean, just you know, a casket with Sidney Sweeney on it, so that way you.

9:41 Get to take her with you to the grave. But also would yeah. Forever, would the Sydney Sweeney casket line anyway? Good on her for branching out, but at the same time staying well within her lane. It's like, here's what I'm known for, Here's what. I'm gonna do. Bamt Like Jessica Simpson out of nowhere. She had a shoe company and she's made more money on her shoe company than she ever has with her music. It's amazing.

10:23 Which one of them from Kiss just died? Not Jeane Ace Freely? Yes, it was Ace. It was Ace. Yeah. I wonder if he had a Kiss casket or he didn't want to pay the licensing fee. I think Jean's told him. He Jeane told me he'd have to pay for it, and he was like, nah, not even Kiss members get a Kiss casket for free. Gene will charge you full price. Or the trehouse business online air dot com.

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12:49 You're in the tree house, visit us online at Treehouse on air dot com. This segment of the Treehouse is brought to you by Cookdfwroofing and Restoration for your free roof inspection and property review called a three three Cook d FW. That's eight three three cook DFW or the website cook dfw dot com. Before we bring in our new friend jen x Gina, let's get a little taste of what she does here inside the treehouse. Whatever happened to gleeking? You know, and you just like like randomly open your mouth and it would sprace alava like a broken sprinkler head. You don't hear much about it anywhere. So many of these things from our youth, they're just gone. I'm just making some coffee and.

13:39 I gleaked, not to be confused with. Waking. That's when I sneeze or cough or laugh too hard. Those are accidental gleekings. Intentional gleekings are a whole another story. You know, the time where you're walking down the hall and the boy gleeks at you on purpose, and you wouldn't want to do that today, because. You wouldn't want to do that today. Anyway, let me know if you've ever been gleeked upon, And for those of you who still do it, congratulations for keeping the tradition alive.

14:19 I already don't. Trust my mouth time I open it something, but you know his mouth I always trust. With the Say hi to your mom for his tag. Brought to you by jen X Gina, and let's bring her on right now. Gina, welcome inside the treehouse. Thanks for hanging out. With us, Thanks for having me. This is a real treat for us. Trey, I don't know if you found her stuff before I did, but both being gen xers the algorithm and you found us so well. Yeah, so Trey, were you first? Do you think I'm going to say you were probably first on the gen X Gina.

15:03 I think I found her account I'm gonna guess probably about a year ago, and. Found her stuff quite entertaining. And then I realized, uh, not so long ago, that she's local to the DFW area like us. Yes, yes, North Texans unite. That's right there, you go, all right, So Trade just said it. He found you about a year ago. How long have you been on the gen X GENA content machine. Well, I started about three and a half years ago on TikTok and just started making videos with my dogs because my best friend kept sending me videos from TikTok and I would just you know, heart them or whatever.

15:49 I wasn't opening them. I was like, I don't want another app. Well I finally opened it and it was like, oh, she is. I've always wanted to be a performer and this was like the peri opportunity for me to be one behind the camera where I'm safe and because I'm an introvert, so uh. And I just started. Making little lipset videos and stuff like that, and then they pushed me into the gen X niche. I had one video that was a stitch video go viral and that I. Was determined to be nicheless right and just do fun stuff what I wanted to do. That doesn't work on social media. You have to have a niche. So they shoved me into that one. To be honest with you, I didn't know. I didn't know I.

16:32 Was gen X. I didn't know the generations. I had no idea like it was. I was like, what's gen x, you know, and then I had one. I would post on Facebook periodically and I had one go viral on Facebook and it just from there. So that's been my main platform since then. I mean, I post on Instagram, but you know, they don't they don't pay you, so. Focus you know where they go. Yeah, it's definitely a different world when you go in, you know, when you go from doing something for fun and then switching over to, oh, I can get paid, especially if you hit a certain level like you did, and you realize, okay, am I just doing this as a fun little hobby or once once the money bag starts popping up, you're like, well, I believe I'm going to follow that because you can still do the same stuff, but might as well follow the yellow brick road, right mm hmm.

17:24 Yeah. And I have a lot of fun doing it because I'm extremely sarcastic and extremely I don't know, I don't know the word for it. But you can't always bring that into your real life, you know. And it was away from it was like the devil on one side of the angel on the other. I got to be that sarcastic. I get to be that sarcastic kind of borderline mean part that everyone has in them but doesn't necessarily get to express. And so it's been it's been, to be honest with you, it's been pretty therapeutic for me, getting to, you know, be kind of sassy and. Myself, but sassier than my normal self.

18:07 I guess, well, and you're basically letting Yeah, you're you're basically letting your gen X flag fly. And for those of us that are gen X, like you said, you didn't really know what gen X or certain generational things were. Is it that you were completely undaware or you just didn't realize how hardcore gen X you were until someone pointed it out. That that's probably more truth roout there, Dan is that I did a few videos where I was extremely sarcastic and sassy, and sometimes you get there's a fine line. That you have to walk, especially on Facebook because there's.

18:47 Lots of rules, but there's a fine line where you don't want to turn people off to your sarcasm, but you want to push it to that limit. And then I realized everyone in gen X was like that. Everybody was like, oh, I do the same thing, I'm the same way, And I thought, Okay, this is a pretty cool niche because I really don't have to watch what I say too much, except for cursing and stuff like that on some platforms. But I got to I got a little taste of what our generation is, and we are sarcastic, and that kind of is our love language, and that's how we poke at each other, and that's how we communicate a lot. And then I had a couple of reels where I did the whole year mom thing, and now people expect it at the end of every video, and if it doesn't come organically, I won't do it because I don't script anything.

19:37 I just turn on the camera and start talking. So there's a lot of disappointment when that tagline is in there. So we understand that, and we relate to a lot of the stuff you put out because it is gen X and we are gen X, so obviously we relate to a great deal of it, not the least of which is a huge agreement that I also believe sarcasm is gen X's secon at language, and it may actually be first, and then English came second. Yeah, but you have that relatability that comes in and I don't know any other generation that has that thing as much as I feel like we do when it comes to the level of sarcasm and the expectation that you just said.

20:23 People enjoy something and they love repetition. They don't like change, yes, and we've dealt with that on our side. So in your videos, your people want to see that your mom thing at the end. And for our listeners, they wig out if we don't play our proper intro music. If they don't hear William Orbit and they don't hear it for a certain amount of time, they give us hell. They're like, you didn't play it long enough. Start over. It's weird. Yes, it is weird because, like I said, sometimes organically I can't think of anything to do to your mom. And sometimes at the end of video I'll be like, well I can't think of anything, so and they even appreciate that because I'm. Still acknowledging it in a way. So you learn, you.

21:04 Learn what your followers want, like you said, And if I do something different, like I love cosplay stuff, I like to address up as characters and perform as different characters and kind of put that little thing on. But that those videos don't get pushed and so what I'm gonna start doing is doing that for subscribers. So subscribers are going to have to see a lot of variation in this coming year from me because I have to do things that I really enjoy to be able to do this at all. Otherwise you just get burned out doing the same thing over and over. As you probably understand. That, have you had any just side question, have you had any problems with I know a lot of people are complaining that TikTok's algorithm has changed and their videos aren't getting put out like they were.

21:51 Have you had that problem. Too, I'm not posting there anymore. Oh, okay, No, there's too much going on there that's not good. And I don't make I don't make any money to speak of on TikTok. They don't push my videos. There's there's a couple of bis you'll probably know, a couple of or three really large creators for gen x content, and they got in like twenty twenty during lockdown and were able to build their brand before I even came on the picture and so my videos I had a couple go viral in the last month or so, But the pay is. So ridiculously just it's awful that I just. Decided, with all the stuff going on over there, that I'm not gonna I'm not gonna post over there.

22:35 But I do get my six videos from there, so I have to stay on there because I have to get those. Oh sure, yeah, that's yeah, that's that's inspiration. And that makes total sense to me, not just from a business standpoint, but also just from a personal standpoint, because I've I've started treating TikTok and really any social media platform if it goes through any sort of major change. Yeah, I look at it the same way. When it comes time to buy a new cell phone, we're waiting in line for day one of the new phone because the first phone out of the shop is not going to be the good one. You want to wait a few months for all the bugs to work out. Kind of the same thing with TikTok or any other platform you go through a massive change like they are right now. I'll wait a little bit, let me see how things shake out, and maybe, and I'm not.

23:19 Saying I'll never. Post on there again, but right now, with what I'm hearing, it's just not it's not worth my time to even post over there. Anymore. So I'd also. Stealthly tell my followers to follow me on other platforms. You know, to understood the I will say this, Uh, if you ever feel lost and you want just a sounding board to try to come up with how to how to squeeze in your mom thing, we got you covered. We can have I'm not saying you need it or anything like that. I'm just saying if you you feel stuck and you want to pop off a text to the Treehouse, we'll come up with if you use them, if you want, don't whatever. But trust me, this room knows how to slam moms.

24:11 Well you already. Some of these are intentional. Drop that down. I mean my mind, I'm a scorpio anyway, so my mind always goes to the dirty side of things when someone says that. But as soon as you said squeeze off your mom, I was like, I need to write that down. Where's my pen? We'll have more with gen x Gina coming up right here inside the treehouse. You're in the treehouse. Listen is online a treehouse on air dot com.

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25:38 Speaking of subscribing, we were talking to jen x Gina, one of our new favorites here inside the Treehouse. Been enjoying her content over the last year, and we thought, you know what, let's see if she wants to hang out with us for a few minutes. And here she is. I realized this is I realized this is probably an interview to join the podcast. So I'm trying to be on my best behavior. So oh it doesn't matter there there is no way to be on worse behavior than any of us. Oh good, okay, So I'm sure try Trey knows about my emotional support lip bomb. You'll probably both do, right that I always have my lip bomb. I'm going to pretend that I don't, so so. Please Okay, Well, this is my emotional support lit bomb.

26:20 There's different ones. I have bird speeds and that have lip smackers. But when I'm really like nervous or that, I have to upgrade to my other emotional support lip bombs this one. So I'm gonna thing now I'm less, I'm less nervous. Now awesome, all right, So I'm going to put you on the spot here, so hold on to your butt. Okay, So I have a feeling I already know the answer, or at least one portion of your answer, but I want to know what the rest of it is going to be. So gen X, Gina, I'm going to assume that you feel gen X is the best generation. But if I was to ask you to rank all the generations, I mean, not of all time, but you know, just rank the generations as we know them. Is gen X the top one? Is that the best one? And then what comes after gen X?

27:14 Like, well, I mean right now, I do believe we are the best one. We still have work ethic, we have still there's just things we have that I don't think a lot of generations are grasping right now. So I'm going to say gen X, Gen Alpha because I hear they're a little a little they're a little unhinged. I don't know that for sure, but that's what I keep hearing is that Gen Alpha is kind of like gen X. So I'll say gen X, Gen Alpha millennials and Gen Z and then boomers. In the basement. Yeah, And I hate to say that because I have three sisters and are boomers and a brother that's a boomer. And just because you know, just because there's a stereotype doesn't mean everyone fits it.

27:55 You know. So sure, but that's my That's how I would rank them probably, but we're the best, obviously, Trey. It's such a it's it's a that that bottom slot. It's a fight between gen Z and the boomers, because I know at least Boomers aren't gonna actually get shell shocked if you say something uh adverse to them, where gen Z is like likely to just absolutely fall apart and GENUS. So you know, my background is in the bar business for years, so especially over the last ten years have really dealt with gen Z and and there they are a sensitive bunch to say the least.

28:37 To say the least, yes, no, uh. The only I think I actually, Trey, would you agree with Gina's ranking or is it it's like maybe you would switch Boomers in gen Z, like you put gen Z in the bottom. Like I said, that's a that's a that's a like four A and four B type. Deal plus close call, close call. Yeah, they're holding hands down there. Yeah. I mean millennials got off easy because we forget how you know, twenty years ago we loved just slapping them around and then they they got in it with the boomers and we were just sitting back watching and then gen Z came along and we're like, we forgot all about millennials because millennials are the bunch that I still don't really understand because they claim they are so troubled and we're so like tormented by the same events we lived through exactly.

29:27 To me, millennials are the transition generation between gen X and gen Z. So there's a little of both, there's. Yeah, yeah, whereas with gen X, I feel like there's not a whole lot of blending. I mean, I mean, I've heard the term zenial. You know, it's like and I'm like, I don't really buy into Like, to me, if you're gen X, you're kind of hardcore gen X. Like if I was to rank the generations, I would probably if we were to include the greatest generation like our like my grandfather's uh trays as well and GENA. I'm not sure about yours, but you know, like fighting in World War two and all that. To me, they get the top slot. Gen X is right there on their heels. The boomer thing is is fascinating.

30:16 There's there's. I'm basically I agree with your ranking. I think the only difference is I might put Gen Alpha right behind millennials. I'm not sure yet. I need I guess I. Need to do more investigating on it, but I do agree with you that I think gen Z is quietly the young gen X or sorry, jen Alpha is sort of quietly the the up and coming gen X style generation because some reason, like even even some of their new terms, I'm kind of on board with. Like the other day we were on the show talking about choppol gangers. I'm like, that's hysterical. It's your twin, but the shitty version of it, right, And so they make up a new word. And usually we're making fun of these new words, but the Gen Alpha new words are kind of funny. It's the gen Z ones that annoy the ship out of us.

31:05 But yeah, here's the problem. I think. I don't think we have any room to talk about words. When you look back to eighties slang, you. Know, yeah, there's we we we had a lot of bad you know, Valley Girl and other things. But here's the problem. With a lot of thinking out loudest Gen X created gen Z. Yeah, and I and I have a theory on it. Please. My theory is this is that so say you parent like you were parented. We were parented. We were the last key kids where you know, it's like basically it was fuck around and find out. You know, oh yep, you know you're going to figure out that that outlet will hurt you, and you know the hot band, don't touch it and everything else. And I think that same I think that same attitude was was taken towards gen Z, the X factor being internet and social media, and because it was that hands off you'll figure it out. Well, the problem is they figured out, but you could if you want to be a cat, we would have to have tried to look in like the World Book Encyclopedia or go to the Dewey decimal system and figure out a book on how.

32:12 To be a cat. They just were like, oh, hey, I want to be a cat, and they found other people online and so they want to be a cat too. You now have cat people in the worst way. Well, I hear a lot of a lot, like a lot of my Stitch videos are done with gen Z because they're the ones talking and crap about us. And I get a lot of people in the comment section saying, well, we raised them, so how can you complaining? Okay, this is what I don't get. Yes, we raise them. What we can do as parents, society finishes raising your children. You don't finish raising your children. Society does. And that's what I can't seem to get through people's heads is Yes, I'm sure I've made a lot of parenting mistakes. I'm paying for some of them now. But like you said, we parented similar to the way we parented, or we were parented because we didn't know better, We didn't learn.

33:09 My mother never communicated anything with me, I never learned about starting my period. For goodness sakes, we just didn't talk, you know, So I don't know. It's just there's so many unhealthy trends too. Among gen Z. I'm not going to get into those just for personal reasons, but going along with the mainstream whatever's cool, then that's not necessarily healthy, that. Kind of thing. Yeah, I think what's interesting is looking at some of what younger gen Z and Jen Alpha is doing is so much of what we did, almost literally, like they're wearing the clothing we did. Like the other day, my wife and I are out and there's kids wearing you know, Jinko style geens.

33:54 She's like, are they really wearing them? Like, oh, yeah, they're not doing it ironically, they're doing it because that is act in style now. Uh. But they're still doing it with their own twist, like with the mushroom perms on the guys, which make no sense to me, like the closest. I don't think we had sort of an it hair style back in the day. I mean, you had like the nine to two one oho sideburns that I had. I mean you had I had a butt cut at one point. That's the closest thing. I guess I could, but not everyone had that. I feel like there was a little more individualistic style with gen X, whereas you know, a lot of gen Z. Like you said, Gena's very much just we're trying to look like everybody else, so that way we don't stay with there.

34:36 And just do everything that everyone else is doing or fall into trends that on their own, not having been influenced by others, probably wouldn't. Have chosen to participated. So I'm fascinated. Yes, So I'm always fascinating, and I know Trey is, We're fascinated about the generational warfare that is ongoing now, and I'm certain that a large reason for that is social media. Absolutely, And so gen X for the most part, I feel is we're reactionary, which is we'll hang out.

35:18 We're just we're chilling, right, don't come at us, little bro. Yeah, that's exactly what. Do not poke the gen X bear because it's kind of like a weakening the sleeping giant kind of thing. And that's where I feel like some people have done, and that's where you have jumped in. You're like, okay, it's time for you know, gen X GENA to put you in your tiny baby spot mm hmm. And and you know, some people give me a lot of crap about it, about being mean or whatever. There you you have to understand that you understand this. There's it's performance art, right and a lot of it is a lot of it is satirical.

35:58 And I don't mean everything I say. If you I mean, that's just ridiculous. To think that I honestly believe everything that I say in all my videos. Regarding other generations, that's an unrealistic expectation. I have two millennials and a gen Z and I feel like people think I'm bad mouthing my children and I'm not. It's a whole generations. You're bad mouth everyone else's kids. Yes it's not mine, but if they don't kids that yeah, kids that behave a certain way. Your young adults that behave a certain way. You know, you get tossed in to the to that barrel, just like we get tossed into the boomer barrel a lot.

36:43 Yeah, that ain't cool. I don't appreciate that. I will reject that wholeheartedly with every ounce of my being. Do not put gen X anywhere near the boomer Barrel and I have. A pretty large boomer fan base, so I have to be careful. You said something interesting about how we really didn't talk to our parents, because I am it's I go through this now not trying to bring it down dealing with my mother in hospice, and I sit with her, but we have nothing to talk about, like I struggle it and I have had these moments of introspection going, am I the problem?

37:24 Am I odd? That I really I realized how and I don't have a really good relationship with my mother to begin with, but how superficial it was, and that we really had never had any a lot of in depth conversations or anything else. There were times I tried and and it's never got anywhere. And so now it's this very awkward silence. We were parented, but we weren't. We didn't have necessarily have relationships with our kids. I mean, with our parents. Does that make sense? No, it's It's absolutely. True and one of the things. And I think this will probably be our last little bit on this to kind of it all up, and I feel like it does so very very well. And Jena, I'm curious to see if you agree.

38:05 Trey and I have both said four years that part of what makes gen X so great is the technological advances that we have lived through and learned. I mean, we're the analog to digital generation. We learned things the hard way, which makes us appreciate all the conveniences that we now have. And there is one very specific special way that sets us apart from every generation, including the ones that went to World War Two. Trey take it away. We had to teach our parents the Internet and the VCR, the VCR, all. Of it, the microwave.

38:49 Yeah, I mean, yeah, we were. We were the instructors of the technology for our parents and or grandparents, depending on the age. Because I'm I'm I was born in the seventy nine, so I'm right at the ass end of gen X. But I'm in it because I'm the one that had to show my grandmother and my mom how to record one channel while you're watching another and the Internet. Like Trey is saying, I mean all this stuff mean, it's like we had to learn it and then we had to teach it, which is something that no other generations had to go through. You know, show me a boomer with an AOL address, I'll show you a gen xer that gave up. That's right.

39:29 You're gonna get this one AOL address and that's all you get for the rest of the time. Because anyone who knows this, this is God's honest truth. Once you got your parents on an AOL address, you can never get them off. They are stuck to it, even though AOL has turned went from a mighty giant to some it's like in some closet in the UK, they can never leave that. And what is it MSM address? M s M. Wasn't that? Yeah? Yeah, my ex husband still has his email dress from from that email I just cracked and Yahoo and you know all those.

40:11 But like you said, once they're in it, you're not getting them out of it. Now. See, I'm on the other I'm on the other end of the spectrum there, Dan, I'm an older gen xer. In two more two more years, I would have been a boomer. But so when when these gen z's come at us for not knowing anything about technology, I'm just on that stitch. But yeah, as you should. We lived. We lived through everything, even stuff like you know eight tracks two to vinyl two, cassettes to CDs. Two, I mean and if and if you're like me and Trey, you had a portion of your childhood where you lived in the country and you knew an experience not only a party line, but a four digit phone number.

40:59 Oh see I did. I didn't experience that. Yeah. Well that's that's like the that's the rural side of gen X. Yeah. Yeah, but it's like Trey and I are hybrids because we had a little bit of rural and a little bit of city living, so we have that additional layer there. But yeah, I mean when you start out, when you pick up the phone and you hear your neighbor two miles away on with you know, God knows who you're like. Okay, I'll wait five more minutes. A lot of my followers, a lot of followers mentioned party lines in my videos, and. Yeah, boomers, city boomers will definitely know and then earl rural gen X will know that a little bit, right, Uh, Gina, do us a solid tell tell us where we can find you on all your preferred platforms.

41:46 Facebook, I am Gina Scott Williams, Instagram, YouTube, I am gen X GENA. Sixty six, and you have tell us about the coming up. Okay, So I started a group on Facebook for DFW locals that are gen X and we have an event coming up on March thirteenth at will Hoyts in Grapevine. So I'm super excited about that because I'll get to meet a lot of my followers and there's people coming in from out of town, and we're gonna get like a block of hotel. Rooms and I haven't told them yet, but I'm not staying in the hotel. I'm going home.

42:26 I've got dogs. I'll stay and have fun. But at the end of the night, I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna go home. But we're gonna do that. And a band, a friend of mine's band, Mission five, is going to be playing that night at will Hoyts. So we're gonna go hang out. Here's some good music, and you guys come out. It's gonna be It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm a little nervous about it because I am, like I say, I'm an introvert, so being in front of that many people, but I you know it, I ease in pretty pretty quickly. But it's gonna be fun. I'm excited about it, super excited about it. So if you are on Facebook. Go join if you live in the DFW area. It's gen X gen X DFW Locals I think is the name of the group.

43:09 There you go. We find her on social media Gina Scott Williams on Facebook gen X GENA sixty six. Just type in gen X Gena. She's gonna pop up and she will make your day much like your day is made here inside the Treehouse. I feel like this is a good match here, and we really enjoyed having you, Gena, and I hope we can have you much and have fun at that party, and we will. We will get into some more shenanigans. In the future. Okay, I appreciate it, guys. Thanks Gina. We'll see you later for all things Treehouse. Go to Treehouse on air dot com and we will see you next time right here inside the tree House.