Join four friends — Becca, Jenny, Katie, and Kelly — who are bringing sanity-saving laughs from our group chat to you. This week, we’re talking about what our Gen X membership cards mean to us. We start by remembering our questionable college fashion choices and the messages we got as young people that our futures were ours to claim. But reality intrudes in the middle of this episode as the town emergency weather sirens interrupt our recording session. Listening to the civil defense horns leads us to memories the darker side of growing up the 80s: the threat of nuclear war and “The Day After.” Has the nihilism and cynicism of our generation equipped us to live peacefully in a place with a chemical weapons storage facility? Listeners can judge from our attitudes toward the emergency kits we all received from the county for Christmas. Finally, we answer the pressing question: Is Becca a VSCO girl?  

Recorded at Front Porch Studios, Berea, KY | Produced by Troy Price | Production support by Jeff Richey | Music composed and performed by Elly Green | Artwork by Jessica Holly