The Untitled GenX Podcast – Details, episodes &amp; analysis

Sugar Calling: Cheryl Strayed interview with Judy Blume

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A Heads Up! + ON REPEAT: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (1970)

Season 4 · Episode 8

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 • Duration 59:56

We don't have a new episode this week for one very good reason! Cate and I are hitting the road for an epic road trip adventure to the home of all things GenX. Yep, I’m talking about Seattle, WA!

We’re going to try to podcast on the road (so stay tuned for that), but in the meantime, in honor of the theatrical release of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret., we'd like to offer a very special encore presentation of our Season 1 episode where Cate and I cover this Judy Bloom classic, while sharing our own coming to terms with coming of age. It’s all bras and periods and hormones, so take special care while listening!

Because this 1970 literary classic holds a special place in the heart of nearly every GenX woman, they’ll explore the book’s timeless themes involving friendship, puberty, and the hard questions we dare ask while taking those brave first steps toward self-discovery.

And yes, the besties spill their secret sisterhood stories involving their first "menstroo-ation", first kisses, and first bras, along with their earliest sex ed memories and the wild wondering of what it all means.

The Secret Sisters - "Late Bloomer" [Official Video]

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Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (Official HD Video)

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ON REPEAT: Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual (1983)

Season 3 · Episode 48

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 • Duration 50:36

Cate and Lori are back ON REPEAT singing the praises of singer, songwriter, actress, feminist, activist, and all-around queen, Cyndi Lauper and her breakout 1983 debut album, She’s So Unusual. The gals dance deep into the album’s bops, ballads, and sometimes unusual music videos.

In true Cyndi form, things get a little colorful as the ladies talk about their suburban childhood, middle school cafeteria lunches, phone rules, crazy nights past 8 PM, and that very real single teardrop pain of running away from love.

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Official Video)

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Official Video)

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Sugar Calling: Cheryl Strayed interview with Judy Blume

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (1970)

Season 1 · Episode 12

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 • Duration 59:07

Join Cate and Lori as they pay homage to Judy Blume’s beloved, and yes, controversial young adult novel, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Because this 1970 literary classic holds a special place in the heart of nearly every GenX woman, they’ll explore the book’s timeless themes involving friendship, puberty, and the hard questions we dare ask while taking those brave first steps toward self-discovery.

The Secret Sisters - "Late Bloomer" [Official Video]

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Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (Official HD Video)

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Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual (1983)

Season 1 · Episode 11

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 • Duration 50:36

Hey guys, today Cate and Lori are singing the praises of singer, songwriter, actress, feminist, activist, and all-around queen, Cyndi Lauper and her breakout 1983 debut album, She’s So Unusual. The gals dance deep into the album’s bops, ballads, and sometimes unusual music videos.

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Official Video)

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Official Video)

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Cocktail (1988)

Season 1 · Episode 10

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 • Duration 01:03:05

Baby, it's cold outside, and since we won’t be escaping to a tropical paradise anytime soon, Cate and Lori thought a round of cocktails and dreams might help warm our collective spirits. Pull up a bar stool as the ladies drink up 1988’s blockbuster film, Cocktail starring Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Shue, Bryan Brown, and Kelly Lynch.

Sip and stay for the convo involving vacation romances, pretty criers, sex on the beach, rooting for the wrong person, surprise twins, and water as the ultimate cure-all.

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FRIENDS - ”The One with All the Resolutions” (1999)

Season 1 · Episode 9

Monday, December 28, 2020 • Duration 57:02

Happy almost New Year! As y’all know, it hasn’t been our day, our week, our month, or even our year. And since we can’t ring in the New Year with friends IRL, we figured our TV friends, Monica, Chandler, Rachel, Ross, Joey and Phoebe were the next best thing. Join Cate and Lori as they revisit season 5, episode 11 of Friends, "The One with All the Resolutions"!

And because besties tell each other everything, they gossip about sex at midnight, swamp ass, leather while pregnant, farting on a first date, and offer their heartfelt message of love to you in the new year. Cheers!

The Fart that Almost Altered My Destiny by Anna Lind Thomas

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(Drunk) Die Hard (1988)

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, December 21, 2020 • Duration 57:56

Welcome to the party, pals. Today Cate and Lori tackle the iconic Christmas (?) blockbuster, Die Hard. They invite you to “come out the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” as they dive deep into the elevator shaft of the film’s titillating trivia, it’s place in the great Christmas film debate, and its die hard fan base ... all while getting sloshed on spiked eggnog.

And oh yeah, they chat maiden names, crippling telephone shyness, wild Christmas parties, and "Huey Lewis's" surprise cameo in the film. Yippee ki yay, melon farmers.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983) - TV Movie

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, December 14, 2020 • Duration 40:18

Today we're bringing you Cate's ALL-TIME FAVORITE Christmas movie from her childhood, 1983’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!

Full disclosure: Lori had never seen — or even heard about — this ABC made-for-TV movie starring Loretta Swit and Fairuza Balk, but at only 48 minutes long and available to stream for free, she was up for some wholesome and heartwarming holiday family viewing.

Join in the holiday spirit as the girls chat about being unsupervised kids in the '80s, the necessity (and danger) of super long telephone cords, the burden of carrying seven names, kids smoking cigars, and the beauty of offering grace.

Full movie: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983)

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Last Christmas (Official Music Video)

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Wham! - Last Christmas (1984)

Season 1 · Episode 6

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 • Duration 44:52

This Christmas, Cate and Lori are giving their hearts to someone special (psst! YOU) as they revisit Wham’s chart-topping, toe-tapping hits “Last Christmas” and “Everything She Wants”.

Released as a double A-side in December 1984, the gals dive deep into the dramatic music videos, heartbreaking lyrics, and too-good trivia that make both songs karaoke favorites to this day. They also chat about the awkwardness of hanging out with an ex, the risk of breaking hip while sledding, and the pure cinematic value of strategically placed bed sheets, ah-ha ah, ah-ha ah, doo doo doo, la, la, la, la, la.

Everything She Wants (Official Music Video)

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