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Get out the popcorn! This week the GenX Stories gang shares how we really feel about the “new takes” of tv shows and movies we grew up on. Between Ghostbusters, A Star is Born, The Facts of Life and others you didn’t even know are remakes (or reboots?), can they ever be as good as the originals? And why is it happening so much now? Trust us - just listen and do NOT cross the streams.

Episode links

• Is it a reboot, remake, prequel or sequel?
• 14 Remakes That Are Better Than the Original
• Why are there so many film and tv remakes right now?
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Remake
• How Cronenberg's The Fly Remake Improved On The Original Movie
• How James Bond Should Return Following No Time To Die
• How West Side Story Reset Itself
• How the new Wonder Years captured the spirit of the original — and why it's not a remake
• ABC's Facts of Life Live Begins With OG Cast Reunion

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As 2021 winds down, the GenX stories podcast gang waxes poetic about making genie wishes instead of resolutions, self-improvement holiday gifts never to give and all the rules we’re gonna break in the new year. Plus why the Babylonians can suck it. 

See ya all next year!

Episode links

• Nobody claim 2022 as your year meme
• 2019 Peloton ad campaign
• Where did resolutions come from? 
• Eve’s New Years’ Word vs. resolutions 
• Genie Rules
• Achievable New Years resolutions
• Wish Paper
• New Year’s resolution statistics
• 55 New Year's Resolution Ideas for 2022
• How to Make (and Keep) a New Year's Resolution

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On today’s episode, the gang nibbles on some tasty tidbits about our generation’s relationship to cooking. Grab a snack and hear about our favorite cookbooks, food TV shows and why we dabble in the kitchen (or don't).  Plus we take on the eternal PB&J debate  - love it or hate it. You’ll just have to listen to find out what we really think.

Episode links

• Mark Bittman cookbooks
• Rachel Ray
• Anthony Bourdain’s Meal With Obama Was a Proud American Moment
• Kitchen Confidential
• The Joy of Cooking
• Burnt movie review
• The food in Julie & Julia
• Stop shaming recipe bloggers for writing a lot

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Embracing holiday traditions, dealing with crazy family and filling up on appetizers - that’s what is on the holiday menu this week with Eve, Courtney, Chris and Lori. Prepare for your Thanksgiving by hearing our insane family stories (because weaponized sticky buns), finding out the right time to eat holiday dinner and getting advice for this hectic time of year, including the best way to handle a "drive-by bunning”. Hanging out at the kid's table was never this fun.

Episode links

• Family holidays memes
• Holiday “Incidents”
• What time should Thanksgiving dinner be?
• Home for the Holidays (movie)
• Dealing w /family during the holidays
• How to ask for vaccine status before holiday
• Tips for a peaceful family holiday gathering
• Recipe for sweet potato orange cups

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On today’s episode, the gang digs into what makes GenX the latest “sandwich” generation and how we’re handling it. Smushed between taking care of our parents and our kids, how did we go from being ignored to being needed by two different age groups? No matter what kind of generational sandwich you are - club, open faced, keto, whatever - hear about choosing support groups over ice floes. 

Oh, and that Swedish Death Cleaning isn’t a band name.

Episode links

• What is a sandwich generation?
• GenX women facing the caregiving crisis
• The Sandwich Generation: When Caregiver Seems to Be Your Only Role
• What Is a Mother-in-Law Suite, and Should I Consider Adding One?
• Swedish Death Cleaning
• I Care A Lot movie  
• Care Options for People with Dementia or Alzheimer's 
• 9 ways sandwich-generation caregivers can manage stress 
• Facing Senilicide: How do we treat our aging parents?

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Hey! Did you know that GenX Stories was named one of Top 15 Gen X Podcasts? We’re thankful and grateful to be included on this epic list. 

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In honor of Halloween, the GenX Stories podcast gang is freaking out over horror movies. Why they work, how has their impact on us changed over time, and what scares the crap out of us now. Plus we are joined by a kick-ass producer of blockbuster scary movies, who just happens to be married to one of our hosts. Don’t answer the phone, go to bed or run into the woods - just listen now! 🎃👻

Episode links

• The best halloween movies & TV shows
• Final Destination
• Craig Perry 
• David Cronenberg movies
• The Fly Is Still David Cronenberg’s Masterpiece
• The Silence of the Lambs at 30: An unsettling horror that's still utterly terrifying
• The Lingering Horror of ‘Night of the Living Dead’
• Night Gallery TV Show 
• Twilight Zone original TV Show
• Sweeney Todd: fact or fiction? 
•  Jamie Lee Curtis doesn’t even like horror films
•  Best order to watch all the Halloween movies?
• The Exorcist: 10 Ways It Still Holds Up Today 
• 10 Gnarliest Practical Effects in Horror Films
• Shaun of the Dead  
•  'Hocus Pocus 2' 
• Human Centipede
• Human Centipede menorah
• The Conjuring
• The Real 'Amityville Horror'
• Get Out
• Dawn of the Dead
• Midnight Mass on Netflix

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We have something embarrassing to admit - we got our publish dates a little off.  While we have a kick ass Halloween episode ready to go,  we're actually going to publish it next week (because, ya know, Halloween) which left today's scheduled episode sorta up in the air. 

But have no fear because now you get to be a fly on the wall for this special BONUS ep - a little glimpse into our planning session for the rest of season three! We're keeping this short and sweet both because we want to keep you guessing and because we're still figuring it all out. As GenXers do. 

Also Courtney is on the east coast right now, and we got to spend some in person time this past weekend, so hear about the trouble we got into together. 

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Is this episode a PJ party or just good old fashioned girl talk?  What’s for sure is that the ladies of the podcast (Chris was traveling) chat openly and honestly about feminism & what it’s like to be a GenX woman. Between growing up with Gloria Steinam's influence on our mothers, watching Katie in The Way We Were, "Leaning In" w/Sheryl Sandberg at work and stressing out with Ada Calhoun at midlife, we share our expectations,  experiences and how we're feeling about everything right now.  If you (or a beloved woman in your life) have also been thinking about evolving through it all, this ep is for you. Pinky promise.

Episode Links

• The Way We Were
• The Way We Were movie clips
• 3rd Wave Feminism
• Gloria Steinem
• Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In
• About Sheryl Sandberg
• Strong women quotes
• How a Voice of Female Gen X Anxiety Spends Her Sundays
• The new midlife crisis
• What to expect when you’re expecting to be a GenX girl

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Singing your favorite song at the top of your lungs is awesome, but did you always get the lyrics right? (Especially before you could look them up online). In this episode, the GenX Stories podcast gang finds out what a Mondegeen is, what a Raspberry Beret is not and which songs we embarrassingly just learned the right lyrics to.

Plus laugh your ass off at the best misheard lyrics our Facebook group members shared at a recent happy hour.

Episode links 

• Facebook group for misheard song lyrics
• Misheard song lyric memes
• What’s a Mondegreen?
• The New Yorker: Excuse me while I kiss this guy
• This is why you mishear popular song lyrics
• 40 Song Lyrics That We've Been Messing up This Whole Time
• Bobby Brooks
• It’s gonna be Maaaaaayyy meme
• Kiss This Guy misheard song lyrics website
• A to z lyrics website

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"Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today”. Thanks to the Princess Bride, we all had a vision of "tru wuv” when we were growing up, but was it the fairy tale in reality? This week the gang gets way personal (with the help of our outspoken Facebook happy hour crew) and digs deep into the truth about  love, marriage, divorce, long distance relationships and SO much more.  Get ready to face what's next in the second half of life with us, the snarky bridesmaids/man you never knew you needed.

Episode links 

• The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low
• 10 Essentials About Midlife Love Relationships
• Getting your MRS degree
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Swedenborgianism
• Princess Bride wedding scene
• “Mawidge”
• Being married means mostly shouting "What?" from other rooms
• Divorce at Midlife
• Divorce stats
• Get ordained online
• Dating at midlife

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