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Welcome to Season 4 of GenX Stories! While we we originally intended to launch this episode at the end of summer, I lost my father in September which sadly impacted everything. But we finally got the gang together, and thought we'd kick off our new season talking about how everything old is new again. Music, movies, fashion, everything is back (even stuff we wish wasn’t). With the GenZ'ers  trying to own on our nostalgia now, is GenX down with that or does it annoy the fuck out of us? Listen and find out, because you know we have opinions.

Episode links

• We won a Best in Show W3 award - hear about it all
• Urban Dictionary definition: Pseudo Nostalgia
• It’s not nostalgia. Stranger Things is fuelling a pseudo-nostalgia of the 1980s
• Rick Astley’s Insurance commercial
• They weren’t even born, so why is Gen Z nostalgic for the ’80s?
• The clever ways brands are tapping into Gen Z’s obsession with nostalgia
• Gen X, Millennials and Boomers are Battling Over Who Owned the Super Bowl
• Dad's TikTok for son showing what his 80s childhood was like is total Gen X nostalgia
• "Stranger Things" and the frustrations of Gen X's '80s nostalgia habit
• 'Top Gun: Maverick' is apparently a total Gen X win and frankly, we deserve this
• Why ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Almost Had a Different Opening Sequence
• I Rediscovered the ’90s Caboodles Case in Lockdown—Here’s Why It’s the Greatest Makeup Organizer Ever
• Sesame Street’s first TikTok
• AARP on TikTok
• Gen Z isn’t mourning the past – we’re trying to redeem it

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Season four of GenX Stories is finally going to drop Wednesday, November 9th! 

Get ready for more of the awesome banter and kick ass GenX-ness you’ve come to expect from us as we chat about everything from nostalgia trends to books to Late ADHD diagnoses to muppets to travel to therapy to family dysfunction and even to ASMR (whatever that means). 

Meanwhile, check out some of our AWARD WINNING  episodes from season 2 and 3 and brace yourself for our new season. We promise you - it will NOT disappoint.

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Given the recent loss of my father, it’s a crazy time to share good news, but I wanna think dad would have been so proud. 

Born from my 25th Penn reunion, the GenX Stories podcast just won a Best in Show W3 Award in the podcast category. For a teeny show run by four 50+ friends (and first time podcasters) not a podcast network, this is a huge honor. 

I am SO thankful for our supporters & listeners and my beloved co-hosts who somehow agreed to go along with this crazy thing. Lori, Courtney, Chris and I can’t wait to share more GenX topics with you all in Season 4 later this month so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, check out some of our favorite now AWARD WINNING (hah!) episodes.

Episode links 

• W3 Award Best in Show Winners

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While we had hoped to start season four in September, sadly my beloved father passed away on September 11 due to a rapidly growing aggressive brain cancer. I am still reeling because it happened so fast and my mother and I are navigating the next few weeks, but season four of the podcast is obviously delayed.

On the bright side, Courtney, Chris, Lori and I did record the first two episodes at the end of August. And they’re great  We are planning to launch the new season sometime in October so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, I have linked both my father’s obituary and the eulogy I gave for him here so you can get to know this incredible man a little bit.

I’ll miss you forever, daddy.

Episode links 

• Obituary: Dr William H. Simon
• Daddy's Girl: A eulogy for my father

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While we are on hiatus this summer (ahead of season four’s fall release), we are re-publishing some of our most popular episodes with brand new intros and trust us, this one is worth the wait. 

Get out the popcorn! The GenX Stories gang goes all out & shares how we really feel about the “new takes” of tv shows and movies we grew up on. While this was originally released WAY ahead of Top Gun: Maverick, thanks to GenX nostalgia it’s soared to $1.895 billion worldwide already. Cuz it was THAT good.

So without further ado, break out  those snacks and check out the replay of one of our favorite season 3 episodes, appropriately entitled "Is it a reboot or a remake?”

Episode links 

• ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Topping ‘Avengers’ Sequel As 12th Biggest Film In History
• 'Top Gun: Maverick' is apparently a total Gen X win and frankly, we deserve this
• Quentin Tarantino Calls ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ a ‘Spectacle’ He Never Thought He’d See Again: ‘I F—ing Love It’
• 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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While we are still on hiatus this summer (ahead of season four), we are re-releasing some of our most popular episodes with brand new intros and trust us, this one rocks (literally).

In a summer filled with kick ass concerts - including many of our generations favorites - do you remember YOUR first? What about your favorite? And what bands are you planning to see this summer. We also asked what shows our facebook group are excited about and were surprised with their answers.

So without further ado, lean hard into that contact high and check out the replay of one of our favorite season 3 episodes, appropriately entitled "We Will Rock You: Our Fave Concerts”.

Episode links

• Stadium Tour setlist
• Summer 2022 Concerts
• 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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While we are on hiatus this summer (ahead of season four), the GenX Stories crew is re-releasing some of our most popular episodes and today’s is sadly pretty appropriate for our world right now.

After the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe Vs Wade on Jun 24, 2022, many of us have been very upset. Most of our listeners (and our show hosts!) have-not known a time when abortion wasn’t legal and safe, so we all worry what this means for our country now both in terms of bodily autonomy and overall human rights.

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. 

Check out the replay in it’s entirety of "What it’s like for a (GenX) girl” with an updated intro that includes post-Roe resources to help you all take action right now. If you (or a beloved woman in your life) have also been dealing with a changing world, this ep is for you. 

Episode links 

• WIRED: Post Roe Resources
• DEMOCRATIC WOMEN: Post Roe Resources
• Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe
• What to Know If You're Planning on Protesting the End of Roe v. Wade
• Post-Roe polls: Midterm support for Democrats soars after Supreme Court strikes down abortion access
• 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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TBD

Episode links

• Aging Life Care Association
• Health Care proxy in NY State - note each state will have different laws about this so look yours up. People with estranged family should also know that a family member will be able to make decisions for them and that typically the proxy can’t just unplug you
• 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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As we wrap up season 3 of the podcast (OMG - really?) and look ahead to season 4, this episode is a love letter to our kick-ass and hysterical hosts. Check out some of the funny clips that were either bloopers or new stuff you’ve never heard before.

While new episodes of GenX Stories are on hiatus until season 4 drops late summer/early fall, don’t think you’ll get a total break from us! We’re gonna either re-release some of our personal favorites or share clips that will make you laugh your ass off and remember what it really means to be GenX.

Meanwhile, get comfy in that beach chair, enjoy a cool beverage and rock out with your favorite 50-somethings who are never at a loss for words.

Links to some of our most popular Season 3 episodes

• Is it a reboot or a remake?
• Becoming our parents
• We Will Rock You: Our Fave Concerts
• Stuck in the middle with you: GenX as a sandwich generation
• Wait, What? Misheard song lyrics
• Holding out for a hero?
• We are GenX

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On today’s episode we're digging into what being GenX really means to the podcast crew, from a personal, cultural and even societal point of view. In addition, we have clips from real GenXers - classmates from Courtney and Eve’s recent 30th college reunion. Want to know what makes us, us? Listen now!

Episode links

• It Took a Global Pandemic, But Generation X is Finally Getting Love
• About Generation X

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