. . . There are 28 years between the two candidates (Biden’s gonna be 70, Ryan’s 42). So Biden, the Baby Boomer, is more than a generation older than his "Young Gun" -- he co-wrote a book in 2010 called ”Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders” -- opponent. That means that when Biden was 16 (a good high school age), in 1958, "The Purple People Eater” (Sheb Wooley on MGM Records) was Number 1.