How did the IPA become THE most popular type of beer proliferating across the ever-growing craft brewing craze? For years (decades?), it has seemed like all the cool kids drank IPAs. This wasn't always the case; in fact, beer-drinking Boomers like David hardly touched an IPA on their way to passing out in their college dorm rooms. For that matter, what even IS an IPA? it's not like all of these craft breweries are located in India.

Grace cracks the code on the IPA and takes us on a tour through the history of its popularity. Along the way, she provides a little bit of insight into why you might not accept the latest variation from your corner brewery and also how capitalism (of course) gets folded into the cauldron. 

Grace Todd and David Timberline are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

The Boomers might have created her but boy, howdy, what has happened to her since! In Part 2 of our conversation on The Final Girl trope in slasher movies, we interrogate many of the ways more recent filmmakers have taken the fundamental trope and transformed, expanded and extrapolated it in wildly entertaining ways.

If you haven't watched Jennifer's Body, The Final Girls, Ready or Not, or The Menu -- or if you haven't watched all of them -- you're missing out on imaginative takes on The Final Girl. Find out why as our conversation continues. And if you haven't done so yet, listen to Part 1 because we love it when our download numbers grow!

Grace Todd and David Timberline are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

Just in time for the Halloween season, Grace and David take their intergenerational conversation to the next level with a deep dive on The Final Girl, the movie trope that was initiated by Boomers but that has expanded, morphed and grown more fascinating as explored by Millennial filmmakers.

In Part 1, we discuss the origins of the trope and use three classic Final Girl slasher films as the basis for our investigation. We hope you'll take our lead and look beyond the obvious choices for your Halloween entertainment this year and perhaps explore a couple lesser known options for fright night fun.

And be sure and come back in two weeks for Part 2 as we go deeper in discussion of imaginative directions The Final Girl has gone, where stereotypes from previous decades have been used to flip expectations and provide fun twists in newer movies.

Grace Todd and David Timberline are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

The Intergenerational Movie Club continues with the Boomer classic, "Animal House." Lots of folks think they know this movie, but do they really? Or are they just remembering the clips and highlights? We dig into the connective tissue between the iconic scenes, do a semi-deep dive on the female characters, and perhaps unavoidably, revel in the Belushi of it all.

Along the way, we consider a number of intriguing questions: how much credit does "Animal House" get for what came after it? How do we consider a movie without a lot of actual jokes during an era when joke density is paramount? Just how problematic are the inevitable problematic parts of something 45 years old? And what exactly was so definitional about this movie for Boomers?

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Welcome to the first edition of the Intergenerational Movie Club, brought to you by Convince Me I Care!

Whether you're a millennial or a boomer, sometimes you just want to Netflix and chill. So Grace and David have given their research staffs a little break and will spend at least the next couple episodes talking about movies that made a profound generational impact.

First up is "10 Things I Hate About You," the joke-a-minute high school movie that captured the millennial zeitgeist, or at least that's what Grace argues. Listen as she enlightens David about Letters to Cleo, Heath Ledger and the entirely justifiable rage and frustration of senior high school girls.

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Like most industrious millennials, Grace has more than one iron in the fire. With this episode, David fades into the obscurity all Boomers are bound for and hands over the reins to Grace at the helm of her new podcast, Didn't Read It: a podcast about books. For this conversation, the old white guy in the room has been dead for centuries, leaving a lot more room for Grace and her co-host Leigh to dig into literary canon without worrying about someone mansplaining.

Didn't Read It drops new episodes every Sunday and the one pulled into our feed is a great one - Dr. Faustus! Learn more about the inaugural instance of someone selling their soul to the devil, but with great dollops of irreverence to go along with the literary criticism. Listen and subscribe to Didn't Read It on Spotify or any podcatcher of your choice!

Among the action stars of the 1990s, Steven Seagal's rise to fame and subsequent descent into infamy has been the most baffling. How was this man able to have a career in the first place? Who thought that giving a pathological liar money, power and a platform was a good idea (spoiler: Michael Ovitz did)? The inexplicability of it all prompts Grace to wonder: were we all just dumber in the 1990s?

Enjoy this spirited conversation about the innate power of being tall and white, prompted by the most god-awful wine commercial of all time.

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Artificial intelligence has been fascinating and scaring people for decades. Years before the current freak-out about ChatGPT and other SkyNet wannabes, there was something even creepier that parents were actually welcoming into their homes: Furbys! These totally-not-a-Gremlin rip-offs provide a great jumping off point for topics like what did cutting edge AI look like in the late 90s, how parents will always find something to go ballistic over,  and how the descent into kids wanting to destroy Furbys with a brick was pretty much inevitable.

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Are you, like Grace, befuddled by the idea of seeing the same band over and over again? Did you party down at Bonnaroo and are already looking ahead to Lollapalooza? Whatever you think or think you know the Grateful Dead, Phish, or any other Jam Band, you'll learn something from this spicy conversation about this genre that's not really a genre. Hardcore jam band fans are sure to be annoyed by David's "holy trinity" so listen in just so you know what to say in your angry email. 

Grace Todd and David Timberline are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

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Team Edward? Team Jacob? Team Confused-Old-Guy? For better or worse (many would argue better), there is a generation of folks who missed the "Twilight" craze. But actors like Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattison stubbornly insist on having  ongoing careers, often making admirable artistic choices. Their persistence prompts curiosity about their origins as Bella and Edward, principles in a world replete with vampires who don't kill and shockingly obvious Mormon theological foundations. Grace and David explore, ruminate, and try not to castigate...too severely.

Grace Todd and David Timberline are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

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