Generation Artax

Merry Cringemas everybody! And to live up to that name, we've got a show teeming with awkward first kisses, OfficeMax Santa gifts, and a poem Terri wrote to her boyfriend in 1993. Plus: 90s gifts that wouldn't exist today (hi, answering machines!) and our (least) favorite Christmas movie. We wish you a safe and happy holiday season, and thank you for your support of Generation Artax! More at generationartax.com.

In this episode:

• Kim credits Christmas for her executive functioning skills

• Why we loved getting office supplies from Santa

• The gift that changed our actual lives

• #answeringmachinelife

• Terri's first branding project happened while playing "hotel," which isn't as creepy as it sounds

• Lori's play-by-play of her first kiss, which reads like a screenplay of teenage seduction chicken, and makes us all feel creepy and Lori is mortified

• 20-yr-old Terri gets a watch from her boyfriend

• Kim defends It's a Wonderful Life,

• Why Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas is the best of all time

• Why Polar Express is uncanny valley creepy AF and also just sad

• Kim introduces a new term–holiday edging–and grosses us all out

• The truth about Santa and how Lori ruined Christmas for the kids at school

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In March of 1988, when Kim was in the sixth grade, she watched as the boys goaded her friend Amy to walk out over the surface of an icy pond — at which point the ice started to crack, and then broke beneath her. And everyone…laughed. Hysterically. It was a very shallow pond, and no one was hurt. But the peer pressure of it all haunts Kim to this day. Also in this ep: an homage to Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, who was done dirty. K-Pop. Jury Duty. Cat fishing. Plus: Terri doesn't waste lipstick, and Kim slut shames Terri. Welcome to Generation Artax.

In this episode of Generation Artax:

• Pee Wee Herman was done dirty and we should all be ashamed

• Kim is haunted by a peer pressure moment in sixth grade

• K-Pop Demon Hunters and battling shame-based boy bands

• Terri really wants to do jury duty and is denied

• Terri wants more action on family vacation

• Terri loves dating, never wastes lip gloss, and gets catfished

• 10-yo Kim has a long-term relationship, loves everything, and thinks she could cry more tears than there are stars in the sky

• Grown-up Kim slut shames Terri

• Unrelated: How much money is enough, and why Kim wants more than all of us, though she has no idea what to do with it

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In this episode of Generation Artax, we take a trip back to the early 90s when Terri left for college and Kim was inconsolable. And Lori went off to college and became a huge star. Also: REM sleep, room temps, and a bad case of lice. Buckle up and enjoy.

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In this episode of Generation Artax, 13 yo Lori hopes her future self isn't a huge slut, and then doubles down on catholicism. Kim fails to make the basketball team. We all take Tae Kwon Do. Plus: movies that make us cry and one 80s movie we should not have been watching. Strap in and let's begin.

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We kick off this episode of Generation Artax in 1987, where we find Terri in the eighth grade, struggling with the moral complexities of virginity pacts, and if saying you may have sex someday before marriage is as bad as actually doing it. Also, whether Jon Bon Jovi is to blame for at least part of it.

Plus, hear what very different shenanigans Kim gets up to in high school, including negotiating with the authorities and hand jobs, which, when you really think about it, aren't a big deal.

Bear witness to personal discoveries, including what it means to be nipple averse, and what happened when Terri emerged from the closet with a whole new wardrobe.

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In this episode, why it's worth revisiting your diaries, how religion warped our brains, and why Lori grew up under the impression that Jesus was a big bummer. Plus: Let's get into the quantum physics of it all: Kim manifests the fuck out of a pair of glasses, Terri can channel dead pets, and why Lori thinks believing is seeing.

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We will not kick off our FIRST episode of Generation Artax by introducing ourselves, because that puts Lori and Kim in a cold sweat. Instead, we take turns introducing the other sisters to you, to give you a lay of the land of what you're wandering into. Plus: How Terri wanted to get out of every relationship with boys (#gay); Lori was always told she was "too much"; and Kim was so happy it was annoying.

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