GenX Stories

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

It’s almost summer and the GenX Stories gang has a ton of kick-ass memories from ours. As kids, we were all about hanging at the mall, riding bikes all day, finding that one friend with a/c and a pool, blowing stuff up at camp, snacking on fla-vor-ice and coming home when the street lights came on. Sneak into a cool movie theater with us and hear all about those footloose and fancy free summers.

Episode links

• Favorite GenX Summer memories
• Your Guide to the Ultimate ’80s Summer
• SunIn in the 80s
• The real story about summer reading
• A Return To The '80s Mall Of Our Youth
• Ice Cream Man
• Bike ramp jumps in the 70’s
• Letterman Pumpkin (not watermelon) Cannon Fail (That Chris  art directed)
• Boy scout camp
• This may have been Eve’s Computer camp
• Coding on TSR-80s (from computer camp)

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

Because we rarely have guests on our show, this one deserved it’s own little bonus episode. Bobbi Rebell is a fellow GenXer, certified financial planner and host of the critically acclaimed Money Tips for Financial Grownups podcast. If you still don’t think of yourself as an adult (cuz we don’t!) you’re gonna totally dig our little chat about GenX finances and Bobbi’s new book "Launching Financial Grownups”. Even if this topic freaks you out, listen in. Bobbi has GOODIES you’re gonna wanna snag so don’t miss this little gem of an episode.

Episode links

• Bobbi’s Website
• Bobbi’s book: Launching Financial Grownups
• Money Tips for Financial Grownups podcast.
• Follow Bobbi on Twitter
• Grownup Gear
• Listen to our financial episode,  “I Want My Two Dollars”

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

This week the crew dishes on one of the sexiest topics around: money. Ok, maybe not THAT sexy but we can make anything fun. Between paper route Ponzi schemes, having a monthly “nut”, wondering if we can ever retire, and how much we still owe Columbia House, you’ll never think of Gen X finances the same. Crack open that piggy bank and tune in today.

Episode links

• The Flying Lizards "Money" song
• Look up social security and see your working history
• 5 Interesting financial Facts About Generation X
• “I want my two dollars” from Better Off Dead
• What’s your monthly nut?
• Ewan McGregor Expedia ad about stuff
• Generation X: All Eyes on Retirement
• Best money tips for people in their 40s and 50s
• Gen Xers are the forgotten financial superheroes
• Why Gen Xers Are Way More Worried About Money Than Boomers

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

We know it’s after April fools day, but we still have some stories to share. On this little bonus episode, hear all the funnies from our Facebook community, and why Gen X doesn’t trust anyone, especially not on April 1.

Episode links 

• Nikita’s pun-o-matic
• Gmail launched on April 1
• 60 great April Fools jokes 

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

Does our generation have any heroes? The Gen X Stories gang isn’t really sure. Between family members we respect, public figures we admire & others who inspire us, hear why we think our generation struggles to use the word “hero” at all. Plus we hear from our Facebook community about their thoughts on the matter. You may be surprised where we end up as much as we were.

Episode links

• Songs about heroes
• Urban Dictionary definition of a hero
• When Everyday People Become Unexpected Heroes
• A Hero in A Hat: Abraham Lincoln's Heroism
• Miracle on the Hudson & Sully Sullenberger
• An Unlikely Hero: Volodymyr Zelensky’s rise
• Lin Manual Miranda and the backlash about the In the Heights Movie
• Habitat for Humanity: A glimpse at what inspires President Carter 
• The Sustained Charitable Giving Model Of Newman’s Own 
• Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable
• 35 years after Challenger disaster, former students of Christa McAuliffe honor her legacy
• Jaime Escalante from “Stand and Deliver”
• Jon Bon Jovi’s Soul Kitchen
• Lighting designer Dennis Parichy
• 5 moments from 9/11 that shouldn’t be forgotten
• New Yorkers celebrating first responders every night
• Chris’s Emmy nominations & wins
• 12 acts of everyday heroism that will instantly put a smile on your face

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

Arrrrroooooooooooooo! On today’s episode, the GenX Stories gang is talking all about our furry friends. The ones we had growing up, the ones we maybe shouldn't have had and why we love TikTok dogs so much now. Between Chris’s pug's viral MRI, Lori’s wish for an illegal hedgehog and Eve’s Monty Python parakeet issues, you won’t believe the role pets have always had in our lives. 

Episode links

• Generational shifts/differences in pet ownership
• The Most Popular and Famous Dog Breeds in the 1980s
• How Often Did Lassie Have to Rescue Timmy from a Well?
• Purple Parakeets
• Monty Python bird sketch
• Cane Corso
• What’s a Schnoodle?
• 11 Things You Will Want to Know About Sheepadoodles
• Scrumpy the pug’s MRI
• Andy Richter’s tweet of Scrumpy the pug’s MRI
• Puppy Conan
• Puppy Lingerie Bowl
• Puppy Big Bang Theory
• Noodles the Pug on TikTok
• Noodle, an Internet-famous pug, sets the vibe for the day. Here’s why we love him
• Maxine the Corgi - MadMax and her branded backpack
• Brodie the Dood - Titok Dog
• Veronica and Baby Boo - TikTok cats
• Best Friends Animal Society - No-kill animal adoption
• Pandemic pets
• Research on the pet-human bond has boomed in the pandemic
• Pet trends

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

Between learning square dancing, playing the recorder, studying geometry and even taking typing class, the GenX Stories gang explores the importance of what we were taught (or not!) when we were younger & if that changed when we grew up. Get ready to dig into lifelong learning, even if it’s not how you expected it to be. And seriously, what really happened to Pluto?

Episode links

• Kermit Recorder Meme
• 11 Absolutely Useless Things You Were Taught In School
• Americans Use Just 37 Percent Of Information Learned In School, Survey Finds
• 25 Facts You Learned in School That Are No Longer True
• 24 life skills every functioning adult should master
• 10 Shocking Reasons Why Geometry is Important in your Life
• 11 Examples of Geometry In Everyday Life
• Should Pluto be a planet again? The debate rages on
• 6 Simple Life Lessons With Schoolhouse Rock
• Remember when you could call the time?
• 5 Math Lessons You Don't Really Need in the Real World
• Chisanbop
• ROYGBIV Rainbow colors
• Are There Really Right-Brained and Left-Brained People?
• How to Keep Learning At Every Stage of Your Life

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

Religion, faith or Flying Spaghetti monster - do you believe in any of it? This week the GenX Stories gang explores our generation’s unique relationship to a higher power, whatever that may be. Between our own personal experiences, how they may have changed as we’ve aged and our take on the 15, er, 10.. 10 commandments, the universe ain’t ready for what we’ve got to say. Plus don’t miss wisdom from our FB community from an especially deep Zoom happy hour. So grab some of those good communion crackers and listen in!

Episode links

• Religion and GenX (Pew)
• Generations and their belief in god (chart)
• Hebrew Alphabet song
• Campus Life religious club
• What is a Bris?
• One spot in Jerusalem with three religions
• The 10 Commandments
• Moses & the 10 Commandments from History of The World Part 1
• The Flying Spaghetti Monster
• Pasta strainers and pirates: how the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was born
• Yahrzeit: Remembering on the Anniversary of a Death
• Seven Deadly Sins
• Hineni: ‘Here I am’ and ‘I am here’ are different
• Eve’s Huffington Post article about Hineni
  
  

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

Admit it - we never thought we’d turn into our parents, but it’s happening. The podcast gang explores what that actually looks like for a sarcastic, non-conforming group like GenXers. We'd like to say you'll be surprised by our stories, but it's pretty likely that you’ll recognize yourself. It’s ok - we won’t tell.

Episode links

• Dr Rick & Parentimorphosis Progessive ads
• Breakfast club: When you grow up, your heart dies.
• The Most Important Message of the The Breakfast Club Is a Lie
• Afraid of becoming your parents? Dr. Rick smartly satirizes a generational divide
• People share their “turning into their parents” moments
• 10 signs you’re turning into your parents

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!

On today’s kick-ass bonus episode, we have a real treat - Eve’s cousin Jenny talks all about turning the loss of her father to HIV into a very personal YA novel. Set in 1991 during the AIDS crisis, and revealed through sketches, journal entries & the music we grew up on, hear how sharing her story became an authentic statement about GenX for a younger generation.

Episode links 

• The Recollectors
• Adult Children of AIDS Victims Take Their Memories Out of the Shadows
• 'The Recollectors' Gives Voice To Children Who Lost Parents To AIDS
• JennyLaden.com
• Jenny Laden Art FB page 
• Jenny Laden on Twitter
• Jenny Laden on Instagram
• Positive Space book Spotify playlist
• About Jenny: Journey to Becoming a Solo Mom by Choice

Connect with us
Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
Buy some kickass merch
Write us a review
Visit our site
Join our Facebook Group
Follow our 80’s inspired Instagram
Send us an email