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Remember applying to colleges without a single YouTube tutorial in sight, lofting your own dorm bed without approval, and taking "never doing this again" 8am classes? Yeah, we do too, and we’re not holding back. 

If you (barely) survived your own college years in the ‘80s and ‘90s, this one’s for you. Hear us flail through questionable life choices (and the lifelong friends who got us through them) and how we're prepping our Gen Z spawn for their own college daze.

Episode links

• This Is What Dorms Looked Like In The 80s And We Survived
• 23 Crazy Things Everyone Did In College In The ’80s
• 15 Things 1980s College Students Did That Would Baffle Kids Today

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We’re baaaack! Season seven kicks off the only way we know how: with absolute chaos. And by chaos, we mean a hysterical round of Kiss, Marry, [something].

What starts as harmless hypotheticals spirals into hot takes on Furries, a very sexy talking car, and a total meltdown over the rules (because do they even exist?).

Buckle up for an episode full of the unhinged logic you’ve come to expect from us because honestly, the rules never mattered anyway.

Episode links

• 80’s Hunks Reel
• Wikipedia
• Game rules
• Sample questions

Game targets

• Ed Meese
• Teddy Ruxpin
  • 80’s kids changing cassettes in Teddy
• The Early Days of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf
• K.I.T.T.
• Gordon Gecko
• Sade Retired to a Reclusive Life After a Legendary Music Career
• David Bowie
• Christian Slater's Road From '80s Movie Heartthrob To Television Legend
• Hollywood Flashback: Before the Podcast Era, ‘Pump Up the Volume’ Made Noise
• 20 Years Ago, Madonna’s Three-Way Kiss Caused a Stir. Would It Today?
• Prince
  • If You Thought You Knew Everything About Prince, Here Are Some Things That Will Shock You
• Eddie Murphy's furious ‘Delirious’ days
  • Ice Cream Man 
  • Throwing shoes
• Charlie Sheen’s Appearance in Ferris Bueller Would’ve Meant Much More in This Deleted Scene

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Grab your sugary cereal and get comfy—we’re throwing it back to the cartoons that defined our childhoods! From Saturday morning classics to the animated gems we still love today, we’re diving into what made these shows so special. Did we move on to “grown-up” animation, or are we still watching our old favorites? OH! And you know you want to know Courtney's Saturday morning parental theory and why Eve named her Roomba after a favorite cartoon chatacter. Tune in for a kickass & nostalgic ride!

Episode links

• The 50 Greatest Saturday Morning Cartoons
• The 40 Best Nostalgic Saturday Morning Cartoons That Fans Still Love
• Muttley
• Kids weren't always 'Free to Be... You and Me' — here's a look at its legacy, at 50
• Free to Be. . . You and Me: 50 Years of Stories and Song
• Schoolhouse Rock
• Knowledge Is Power: The History of Schoolhouse Rock!
• ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ premiered 50 years ago — and shaped a generation
• Schoolhouse Rock Rocks! Album
• 12 far-out things you never knew about 'The Jetsons'
• ‘We jumped the shark in the very first episode!’ Thirty-five years of The Simpsons
• Every Simpsons Episode Conan O’Brien Wrote
• How Pixar Started
• All 28 Pixar Movies, Ranked
• The Making of Fantasia: Disney’s Masterpiece
• When the Wind Blows
• Adult Swim
• Cartoon Network Website Shuts Down, Warner Bros. Discovery Kicks Visitors Over to Max
• Star Trek Lower Decks
• The Best Current Animated Series Airing Now

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One thing is for sure - 80’s fashion will always be in our blood (even if one of us was barred from wearing denim as a kid). With Chris away this week, Eve, Courtney and Lori talk about our look when we were growing up and how our style has evolved over the years. From Vanderbilt jeans and popped collars, to legwarmers and docs to Zoom fashion and going gray in style, you won’t want to miss this neon-colored chat.

Episode Links

• 80s fashion trends
• 5 Trends That Gen-X Got Totally Right (And 1 Trend They Got Wrong)
• Why we're not psyched for a return to GenX fashion 
• Lori’s 80’s fashion
• Eve’s 80’s fashion
• The History Behind Gloria Vanderbilt’s Iconic Denim Empire
• The Preppy Handbook
• The Preppy Handbook and Me
• Popped Collars
• Doc Martens guy on Instagram
• Britney & JT's Double Denim
• Working Girl: The Culture of Power Dressing
• Why Kamala Harris' Converse Are Much More Than Just Sneakers
• The Prairie look keeps coming back
• Fashion inspired by The Breakfast club
• Meet the Man Behind Jane Fonda and Sharon Osbourne’s Brand-New Silver Fox Styles
• Jack Martin, Colorist
• Torrid clothing brand
• Madonna's Lucky Star Video
• Gaga's Meat Dress

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Not sure what to expect this holiday season? According to our gang, pie is a must, kale belongs in the garbage and bathtub carp is a thing. Head down a tasty rabbit hole with us for this fun chat about the mashies vs stuffing debate, holiday tamales, matzo ball sinkers and the unexpected lure of Icelandic fish. 

It's time for a good old fashioned food fight. Happy Thanksgiving!

Episode Links & Recipes

• Best holiday pies
• Creamed beef on toast
• What to do with Kale
• Cranberry sauce memes
• Anthony Bourdain eating Icelandic fermented shark head
• Icelandic donuts
• Hangikjöt - Icelandic smoked lamb
• Snappy Dogs
• Holiday tamales
• The history of bathtub carp
• Matzo ball floaters vs sinkers
• Eve's stuffing recipe
• How to celebrate Thanksgivukkah in 2013
• Sweet potato latkes
• How to make latkes
• Reminder, take the giblets out of the turkey before putting it in the oven
• Norman Rockwell's Thanksgiving table
• Leftover Thanksgiving carb sandwich

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If you don’t think our generation uses MacGyver as a verb, the GenX Stories gang will prove you wrong. How? Because we (ironically) recorded this technology themed episode using Eve’s plan D, Mercury retrograde headphone mic.  No, we’re not kidding. 

From the truth about old school TV clickers, to long telephone cord strategies, to why we absolutely refuse to use TikTok now (even though we love Steve Nicks), this funny chat about the innovations that made us will take you wayyyy back. 

Or at least make you turn your phone off and on again to fix it.   

Episode Links

• Is mercury retrograde?
• MacGyver as a verb
• Pew generations & tech trends
• The history of the remote control
• A Zenith clicker
• A brief history of the walkman 
• Why vinyl is making a comeback in 2020
• Phones (and cords) of the 80s
• Pagers were hip in 1985 
• Evolution of the cell phone
• Lori’s first cell phone
• Gordon Gecko's phone/brick in the 1987 movie, Wall Street
• Ellen asking younger people to use old tech
• Thomas Guides
• How does MapQuest work? 
• The Strand bookstore in NYC 
• Dreams Challenge  TikTok guy 
• Chris's Pug MRI that went viral by Andy Richter

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Boo!  It’s a Monster Mash of spooky subjects on this week’s special Halloween episode of GenX Stories. The gang dives right in with haunted houses, fuzzy blue dog costumes and of course, candy corn!  If that’s not creepy enough, check out the bite size versus full size candy debate, hear stories of shooting 8 lb pumpkins down 53rd street (and over to NJ), and get our grown-up take on 2020’s scary impact on Halloween.

Oh and for those wondering if passing out candy is still an option this year, Chris suggests a trebuchet or a t-shirt cannon to shoot candy from your doorstep. 

Either way, we say have fun, buy all the candies 50% off and don’t forget to ditch all your hidden wrappers

Episode Links

• Mike Pence pumpkin meme
• Mercedes Ruhl in Married to the Mob
• Halloween masks of the 70’s and 80’s
• Halloween family photo
• Etsy Halloween tube
• Cincinnati dad created a Halloween chute 
• Krispy Kreme and Lowes costume drive-by
• What IS a trebuchet?
• Who created the t-shirt cannon?
• OPI’s Stay off the Lawn nail color 
• Songs of the Humpback whale that chris says played at level 10 will solve your neighbors loud music issue

Other Halloween Links

• CDC Trick or treating guidelines
• GenX's favorite candies
• Halloween 2020 website

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We’ll go ahead and say it - this celebrity crushes episode may be the funniest we’ve ever produced. But prepare yourself: Courtney was ON FIRE. 

This week, we admit to our youthful celebrity obsessions (Jake - call me!), pre and post pubescent infatuations, and even name a few of our current hall passes.  Along the way, there are bad boys, adorkable girls, Mary Tyler Moore (wait, what?) historical hotties, and finding out how to actually pronounce Elwes.  There may even be a political passion or two, but we know that Rep Henry Waxman isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. OH! And we do a ton of callouts from our kick-ass FB group crew, who helped us pick this topic. (thanks guys!)

Make sure to listen until the end for some snort-your-coffee-out-of-your nose zingers. Seriously - it’s worth it.

Episode Links

• That last Jake Ryan scene in Sixteen Candles (like we NEED to remind you)
• Jake Ryan turned 60 this year
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song
• When MTM told a dirty joke on Letterman
• How to pronounce The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes
• The crushable Former CA Rep Henry Waxman

Other fun links

• Embarrassing 80’s celebrity crushes
• Weird genX celebrity crushes
• Rabbit hole worthy Pinterest board with GenX bad Boys & Hotties

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“What's wrong with you?” Who else heard that growing up? This week the gang discusses our hopes and dreams for who or what we would become, how our parents reacted to leaving stable jobs (or not entering into them at all), ways we navigated career expectations, and what really happened.

From dreams of writing for the NY Times and being the first woman president, to following your heart from the beginning, each of us shares the non traditional path we took to get to where we are today.

So what’s next? In true GenX fashion, most of us have decided to “buy the ticket and take the ride” and not worry tooooo much about the future (Cuz we can’t retire until 67 anyway!)

Our advice?  “Take the leap and the net will appear".

Episode Links

• Party Goats
• Retiring at age 67 
• 1978 song by The Who
• Hunter S.Thompson: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
• GenX: The forgotten middle child

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Today’s show was recorded on September 20th, just 2 days after the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The original plan was just add a few minutes to our previously recorded Rocking the Vote episode, but not with this gang.  

We had such a great chat about RBG that deserved its very own episode. Hear about what she meant to us as GenXers, her legacy moving forward, plus a few fun little stories. Want to know why RBG fell asleep during the state of the union or why she learned Swedish? Ya gotta listen to find out. 

While we usually drop episodes every 2 weeks, we are creating a few off-cycle, “bonus” episodes this season, both cuz things are moving really fast in our world, and we keep recording too much cool shit not to share. So stay tuned for more epic goodies to come this fall, when we all need it the most.

Episode Links

• RBG Obituary 
• First women to lie in state 
• What we can learn from Ginsburg’s friendship with Antonin Scalia 
• The Supreme Court case RBG won about a widower's death benefits 
• How Sweden influenced RBG 
• RBG not being 100% sober at the state of the union
• The senate’s change to the “Nuclear option” for supreme court confirmation 
• Senate confirms 200th Trump judicial nominee 
• 10 ways to honor RBG's legacy now

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