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It's the podcast gang's 1 year anniversary and we're celebrating! Between drivers ed, first cars, stick shifts, speed traps and sex in the back seat - you'll drive yourself nuts for missing this one.  Catch a ride with Eve, Chris & Courtney (Lori was traveling but sent notes!) as we remember when we had the wind in our hair, slid across bench seats and cruised around with our best friends, blasting 80s tunes out of the sunroof. There’s even a surprise appearance at the end of the show, plus a kick ass “the more you know” ride sharing find.

Episode links 

• Why your first car is so special
• The ugliest cars of the 80’s
• The coolest cars in the 80’s
• Prefrontal cortex is not developed until 25
• We think Lori found Mr Mudge, Chris’s drivers ed teacher
• Red Asphalt is the horror movie they showed in driver’s ed
• A nostalgic review of the 1985 Honda Prelude
• Moon roof vs. sun roof
• “Three on the tree.”
• Yugo: The worst car in history
• The K car
• Chilton Manuals
• Curryville MO speed trap
• Why American teens are driving less
• Uber WAV, wheelchair accessible vehicle

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The gang is back this week to talk all about our first concerts, missed musical opportunities and flat out not remembering the biggest show of our lifetime, LiveAid (Guess who that was?). We even have a surprise guest with the best concert story ever (and a magic microphone).

Lean hard into that contact high and listen to this crazy episode on repeat. We won’t tell.

Episode links 

• The 50 Greatest Concerts of the Last 50 Years
• Musical acts from the 80s who are still playing today
• Sting solo singing Roxanne acoustic
• Styx: Mr Roboto
• Belinda Carlisle dated Michael Huchence
• Live Aid
• Live Aid’s You Tube Channel
• The Hooters
• All Your Zombies Video
• Ani DiFranco on touring w/Dylan

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Remember playing sports as a kid, with terrible equipment, unexplainable injuries and fields littered with gopher holes? We definitely do!

Cheer us on from the sidelines as Eve, Chris, Courtney and Lori share both our athletic triumphs and defeats along with memorable sporting events and mishaps (Nancy Kerrigan anyone?). Plus thoughts on 2020/2021 Olympic brouhaha, obsolete sports we’d like to see again (can you say Skijoring?) and so much more. Grab one of those useless helmets and drive on in.

Episode links 

• About the Wide World of Sports “agony of defeat” guy
• Philadelphia Eagles fans climbing greased poles
• Totem Tennis (what smacked Courtney in the head)
• Water and orange slices
• 1984 Olympics
• Tour de France
• Mark Cavendish
• 1985 Chicago Bears 
• Michael Jordan: The Last Dance movie
• Cubs Win the World Series
• Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding: live footage
• I, Tonya (movie)
• Pete Rose Gets Booted from Baseball
• Rocky Statue Story in Philly
• Veterans Stadium
• Baseball is boring 
• ABC Wide World of Sports
• Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
• Stone Skipping
• Young Bull Riders
• IOC rules on weed
• IOC Rule 50 revised
• 2020 Olympics Mascot
• Golden Slam
• Skijoring Is Winter’s Wildest Sport. Here’s How to Do It

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You know the story - something happened to your best friend's 3rd cousin and OMG it’s sooo true. And yet.

On today’s episode, the GenX Stories gang starts season 3 digging into all our favorite urban myths. Where did they come from? How did we find out ? And why did we believe them?

From Mikey dying from mixing pop rocks and Coke, to gerbil adventures, to UFO’s & Nessie, and even the birth of fake news, we’re on it. But just in case, have that Ouija board handy, cuz you never know.

Episode links 

• What is an urban myth?
• 20 urban legends Americans can't stop talking about
• How the Explosive 'Pop Rocks and Coke' Legend Destroyed an Iconic Candy Brand
• Passing notes in the 80s
• Aesop's fables
• Brothers Grimm
• From the Beatles to Phil Collins, 13 Biggest Urban Legends Tied to Top Music Hits
• The Great Kidney-Snatch Myth
• Razors in the apple during Halloween never happened 
• How the Tylenol murders of 1982 changed the way we consume medication
• History of Gerbiling
• Calls coming from inside the house
• Bubble Yum and spider eggs
• Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal: Pizzagate
• 20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously 
• Media Bias Chart
• A Definitive Guide to the Bronx Zoo Cobra Meme 

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New episodes may be on mini-hiatus til season 3 drops on July 14, but today’s bonus episode is full of goodies that will make even the most sarcastic GenXer smirk.

Hear how GenX is taking over TikTok (oh hello @whiteyy18!) get a sneak peek of an upcoming episode and be a fly on the wall for some never before heard podcast outtakes. As if that weren't enough, you’re gonna love what our Facebook community had to say during a particularly wild zoom happy hour.

So, see you on the other side. Or whatever.

Episode links

• The rise of #cougartok and Whiteyy18
• How the Explosive 'Pop Rocks and Coke' Legend Destroyed an Iconic Candy Brand
• Man with sex doll wife
• Chris Columbus on why 'Gremlins' is a Christmas movie — and the dark Santa story the studio wanted to cut out
• GenX Stories FB group
• Write us a review. Get cool shit.

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Wanna go behind the scenes with the GenX Stories gang? As we wrap up season 2, we share what surprised us about this crazy podcast process, things we’re excited about in Season 3 and what members of our Facebook community really think about it all. 

And Tom Hanks - call us?

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Remember the summer vacations of your youth? Have no fear - we do! This week the GenX Stories gang reminisces about our first experiences traveling with family, to the adventures we had as young adults up until our recent and upcoming travel plans.

If you've always wanted to know what it's like to party on a private yacht, travel while living abroad, see Pink Floyd’s The Wall concert at the Berlin wall, or even why the Four Corners monument is in the wrong place, you won’t be disappointed.

Oh, and are those pillows? We’ll never tell.

Episode links 

• Wood paneled station wagons
• First class air travel then and now
• What family vacations looked like in the 80s
• The Donner party
• Mt. Rushmore 
• The National Monument That's in the Wrong Place
• Pink Floyd's “The Wall” (full concert in Berlin)
• Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' in Berlin: 30 years ago
• AAA Trip Tik’s
• Maine weather stick
• Traveler’s Checks When Traveling Abroad — Useful or Outdated?
• Pre paid phone cards
• The private yacht Lori vacationed on
• How Summer vacations have changed over the years
• Gen X Travelers to Lead 2021 Pandemic Recovery

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As 2021’s high school class approaches their end of year events, you know the GenX Stories gang had to relive our own. But here’s the big question: who loved these rites of passage from the 80’s and who was all “whatever” about them?

We neither confirm or deny that these last days of senior year were filled with epic pranks, ditching class, bad silver tux rentals and graduation controversies. You’ll just have to get out that puffy shouldered prom dress out and hear what really happened.

Episode links 

• The prom, GenX Style
• Remembering Gunne Sax/Jessica McClintock prom dresses
• The good the bad and the 80s - prom movies
• Best graduation songs for the last 20 years
• Craziest senior pranks
• Hickman High school Kewpies (weird mascot)
• Eve’s senior project “book”
• Eve’s graduation photo

Our 80’s prom songs

• Mony Mony
• OMD:  If you leave
• Moody Blues: Knights in White Satin
• Lionel Richie: Truly
• Billy Joel: This is the time 
• Lady in Red

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Between Legos, Superballs, Lite Brite, Spirograph, video games, Lori's Barbies, and David Mamet’s Tetris high score on Eve’s computer, it’s pretty clear that the gang had no shortage of fun things to occupy our time as kids. Unless you’re Chris, who would turn all of his toys into something new (i.e break them) when he got bored.

Get ready to solve your Rubik's Cube like Courtney while you hear all about the games & toys we loved back then, which ones are still around today, and how we are managing the new bells and whistles that the latest generation seems to need. (Hint: Remove the batteries)

Oh! As an FYI, this episode has more personal sound effects than we’ve ever made in public before, and we’re here for it all.

Episode links

• 34 Toys You’ll Totally Remember If You Were A Kid In The ’80s
• Toys that defined the 80s
• Toys from the 80s and 90’s you can still buy
• Barbie Townhouse
• Large Barbie doll head
• Lite Brite
• Simon
• Whales Tales
• Pong
• Frogger
• Atari 2600
• Tetris
• Clackers
• 2XL robot
• Spirograph
• Travel Spirograph
• Teddy Ruxpin
• Conan’s Wiki Bear

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This week the gang waxes nostalgic about the movie soundtracks that scored our youth. And our midlife. And everything in-between.

Tune in to hear why we think soundtracks can make (or break) a movie, the unvarnished truth about overplayed songs (hint: Titanic), what it takes to get picked for a Bond film intro, and how movies are our “gateway drug” for discovering great music. Oh, and CHOMPERS. (Wait, what?).

Are you ready to drop the needle?

Episode links

• 10 best 80’s soundtracks
• Best Songs from 80’s movies
• Top Gun volleyball scene
• What is a music supervisor?
• Lost in Translation soundtrack
• Yello's “Oh yeah" from Ferris Buellers Day off 
• Ferris Bueller end credits - The English Beat 
• Maniac in Flash Dance
• Risky Business Tangerine Dream train song
• Say Anything boom box scene
• Don’t you forget about me - The Breakfast Club
• Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack
• Use of music in Grosse Pointe Blank:
• Reality Bites My Sharona scene
• Pretty in Pink: OMD - If You Leave 
• Pretty in pink - original song
• Pretty Woman Montage
• Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
• Everybody Wants to Rule the World Hunger Games cover
• Tears for fears & movies their songs were in
• Xanadu
• LaLa Land intro 
• This is Me from The Greatest Showman
• Kesha’s version of This is me
• Every opening Bond song
• What makes a Bond song?
• Star Trek Beyond: Beastie Boys Sabotage
• Peter Gabriel’s The Veil from Snowden

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