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Well, we’re not back from our extended spring break just yet, have no fear, dear listeners. There will be new season five episodes very soon - we promise. For now, check out an encore of one of our favorite episodes: “You’ve got a friend: making BFFs at midlife “.  Seeya next weds with a brand new episode you won’t want to miss.

Original episode links

• Why It’s Harder to Make Friends After 40 (and How to Combat the Odds)
• The Scientific Reason It's So Hard to Make Friends as an Adult 
• Why Making Friends in Midlife Is So Hard
• 12 Ways to Make Friends in Mid-Life and Beyond
• Past podcast ep: Bad Boys & Mother Crushes
• Past podcast ep: Ride or Die - GenX Friendships
• Past podcast ep: 30th College reunion friends
• Bumble for Friends
• I Tried Bumble BFF for 30 Days—Here’s What Happened
• Can you die of lonliness?
• How to make friends on the internet
• GenX Stories FB group

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If you’ve tuned in expecting a brand new episode this week, surprise! The podcast crew is off on spring break right now but we’ll have some kick ass stuff for you when we get back. Topics like being resilient as a Gen Xer, and songs turning 40 in 2024. 

Meanwhile, why don’t you check out our website and catch up on past episodes you may have missed, like  the perks of being over 50,  favorite 80’s snacks, movies that defined our generation,  making friends at midlife and more.

See ya'll in April!

 Episode Links

• Our Website
• Past episode: The Perks of Being GenX
• Past episode: It’s a Snack Attack!
• Past episode: Sincerely yours: Movies that define GenX
• Past episode: You’ve got a friend: making BFF’s at midlife

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Is there a better time to get real about the darker side of Valentine's Day, especially for GenXers? Is it all hearts and flowers, or is there more to the story? Things have definitely changed for a few of us since our last romance episode in 2021, but you know that we still have tons of opinions. Gird your loins for some straight-up GenX talk about this Hallmark Holiday and the Vday expectations game. 

Episode links

• We did a romance topic last on Sept 8, 2021, season 3
• Dark Origins of Valentine’s Day
• You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine’s Day
• To be or not to be your valentine: Shakespearean expressions of love
• The Best Candy Heart Sayings from the Past 120 Years
• Jake Ryan article
• What Is a Sadie Hawkins Dance and Where Did It Come From?
• GenXers dont care about Valentine’s Day
• Galentine’s Day
• When is Galentine's Day? What to know about the 'Parks and Rec' holiday

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Ready for some real GenX scoop? Today, we're dishing about the perks of being over 50 (yep, they exist!). From health and work to society, pop culture, relationships, family, and the dreaded 'Misc' category (aka, WTF moments) you know we never hold back. Want more? Tune in for the wisdom of our kick-ass FB group and our personal top three GenX bennies. Buckle up, kiddies.

Episode links

• The 50 Best Things About Life Over 50 (gallery)
• 50 Reflections at 50
• Top 10 reasons being 50 rocks
• Reddit thread
• Golden age of happiness: Turning 50 is key to 'content and comfortable' life
• FB group member’s’ over 50 meme

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Yeah, we get the irony of discussing this here, but buckle up because today's episode is about Chris’s favorite topic -  social media (#not). What channels are GenXers on?  Are the people we follow doing our generation proud or making us cringe? Do we even belong there? And what the fuck is an influencer? Tune in for all the good, the bad, the ugly, and the “whatevers” about the socials. because GenX has entered the chat.

Episode links 

• Season 2’s Tech Episode: This is your brain on tech. Dammit
• Yeeting definition
• Eve’s accidental text to Lori
• GenX Social Media Stats
• Your Old MySpace Profile Is Still Taking Up Space on the Internet
• People Increasingly Turn To Social Media For News
• Everything you need to know about the internet's obsession with eating Tide pods
• The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings
• What is an influencer?
• Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says
• GenX Social Media Influencers
• 6 Awesome Gen X Creators to Follow on TikTok
• Would Emily in Paris’s Bot-like Instagram Actually Go Viral?

GenX social media peeps we dig

• Kevin Bacon Tik Tok
• Sesame Street GenXer on TikTok
• Kelly Manno on Instagram
• The Holderness Family
• GenX guy dancing in supermarket
• TueNight
• Corbette on TikTok
• Girls of a Certain Age on SubStack
• SmartLess
• GenX_Reference Desk
• You Wish You Were GenX 

Even more ironic - our social media

• GenX Stories on IG
• GenX Stories on Facebook
• Eve’s IG
• Eve’s TikTok
• Lori’s IG
• Lori’s Twitter

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Well, we survived 2023.  Wanna hear what the GenX Stories podcast crew is looking forward to next year? Of course you do. Listen in and you’ll even hear our words for 2024 (because you know how we feel about those stupid resolutions). Happy new year everyone! Seeya in January.

Episode links 

• Season 3 New Years Episode: Genie Wishes & Resolutions
• Pick a New Year’s nudge word instead of a resolution
• 6 Unusual Alternatives to Traditional New Year's Resolutions
• New Year's Day 2024: Why Does the Year Start on January 1?

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Today we're talking all about video games,  both what they were like when we were kids and what they've evolved into. From Pacman to Space Invaders, Donkey Kong to Pitfall, and even the OG Pong, we're spilling the tea on our top three all-time favorite games from back in the day. Oh and admit it - whether you were rocking arcade adventures and console classics in the basement with your crew or diving solo into a computer classic, we were all  as competitive as our Facebook group. So, toss in that quarter and get those joystick skills warmed up, because this one's gonna rock!

Episode links

• Best Video Games That Defined Generation X
• Back to the Classics: Video Games Then and Now
• Best 10 Atari 2600+ Games to Feed Your Nostalgia
• Pizza hut Pacman table
• Pong
• Tabletop Pacman game
• Hotter than Mothers Music Tee shirt
• Dave & Busters Arcade
• Intellivision
• ColecoVision
• Handheld Mattel football game
• The Legend of Zelda
• Myst game
• Purple Game Boy
• Nostalgic gaming: how playing the video games of your youth reconnects you to yourself
• Atari 50: the Anniversary Celebration
• Google Doodle Pacman
• Twitch
• Vibrating football game

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Today we're taking on something Courtney has been after us to talk about for years - ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response).  From chasing the elusive 'brain tingles' to pondering its potential as the ultimate sleep aid for a restless generation, we're exploring how (or if) GenX engages with ASMR. Between uses by AARP, Super Bowl ads and even sports teams, find out if there's a quiet(er) side to midlife or if ASMR just ain't for us.

Episode Links

• ASMR, explained: why millions of people are watching YouTube videos of someone whispering
• ASMR Is About to Have a Huge Super Bowl Moment. Here's What You Should Know
• What is ASMR? The calming benefits behind those brain tingles
• From Slinkies To Trapper Keepers, This Gen X ASMR Series Transports You To The Sounds Of The ’80s
• AARP TikTok: Gen X ASMR Series entry in the 15th Annual Shorty Awards
• KC Chiefs ASMR
• YouTube Massage ASMR channels
• Dog ASMR
• Food/Cooking ASMR

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Get ready for a crazy musical ride on our latest episode. The experiment: Each host picked an GenX album they love, made the rest of us listen to it, and then we talked about it. This is a totally new thing for us so it could have been amazeballs or a total disaster (hint, it wasn't  a disaster). From dissecting tracks to digging into behind the scenes trivia to just sharing personal  stories about why these albums meant so much to us,  we're dishing it all out. And trust us -  you will NOT want to miss it.

our album selections

• Chris: The Replacements, Tim (The new Ed Stansium mix)
• Lori: Yaz, Upstairs at Eric’s 
• Courtney:  Annie Lennox, Diva
• Eve:  The Go-Gos, Beauty and the Beat

episode links

• Replacements documentary about Ed Stasium's muscular new mix of 'Tim'
• The Go-So's Documentary
• Wham Documentary
• The Replacements Documentary (longer one)
• An Open Letter to the Pair of Gen-Z Men in the Northeast Regional Quiet Car Loudly Discussing Pitchfork’s 100 Best Albums of All Time

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In this episode, we dig into the movies that shaped who we are as a  generation. Whether you're looking to reminisce about your favorite coming-of-age movies (Breakfast Club anyone?) or are curious about the cultural touchstones that made us, step back in time with the GenX Stories crew.  We even reveal some of our Facebook group’s favorite flicks. Let’s  be demented and sad, but social together.

Past movie episodes

• Season 2: Epic Movie Soundtracks
• Season 3: Is it a reboot or a remake?
• Season 4:  What makes a movie a cult classic?

Episode links

• Quintessential Movies That Define Gen-X
• 15 Gen X Movies That Summarize An Entire Generation of Angst
• 25 Movies That Defined GenerationX
• The 22 Most Gen X Movie Characters Of All Time
• 25 Movies You Should Watch to Really Understand Gen Xers
• John Hughes, Who Captured the Lives of Teenagers in the 1980s, Dies at 59
• John Hughes: 10 essential films
• Simple Minds Make The Breakfast Club Unforgettable
• The Original Ending of ‘Pretty In Pink’ and Why It Was Axed
• This '80s Thriller Was Chilling Enough to Affect National Security Policy
• Molly Ringwald feels differently about ‘Sixteen Candles’ in the wake of #MeToo

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