GenX Stories

Trick or Trauma? GenX Childhood “fears”

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 58 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Instead of haunted houses, we had real-life fears - like Pop Rocks (with Coke), the Bermuda Triangle, and that one creepy white van parked down the street. This Halloween on the podcast, we’re unwrapping all the “tricks” that scared the hell out of us as Gen X kids, and realizing that while some fears fade, ours just got funnier. Plus we hea

The Gen X Love Affair With ‘Stranger Things’

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 · 45 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!In this episode of Gen X Stories, Eve and Courtney go full Stranger Things, unpacking the 80s DNA, the Stephen King–meets–E.T. references, and why this show hit Gen X right in the childhood. From killer needle drops to character arcs that grew up with us, they explore how the Duffer Brothers built a cross-generational phenomenon. BUT major s

We’re Not Fixing This in Post

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500 · 46 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!No plan. No outline. No research. Just three Gen X women armed with mystery topics, unfiltered hot takes, and a few moments we’ll probably deny later. With zero adult supervision (or, even Chris), we wandered straight into NSFW territory and didn’t bother turning back.Seriously, be prepared for a little too much honesty that might’ve crossed

Surprise! We Have No Idea What We’re Doing

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 48 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!We totally planned this episode… by not planning at all. Instead, we each showed up with a handful of random topics, hit record, and hoped for the best. So if you've ever wondered what Gen X ad jingles, annoying earworms, pet psychics, and a questionable amount of DayQuil have in common—same.  Does it all make sense? Probably not. Will it be

Breakfast of Champions: GenX & Saturday Morning Cartoons

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0500 · 49 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Grab your sugary cereal and get comfy—we’re throwing it back to the cartoons that defined our childhoods! From Saturday morning classics to the animated gems we still love today, we’re diving into what made these shows so special. Did we move on to “grown-up” animation, or are we still watching our old favorites? OH! And you know you want to

Cover Wars: Is what's old really new again?

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 40 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!From Lorde going full existential on Tears for Fears to Johnny Cash making Nine Inch Nails cry to Luke Combs taking us for a ride, it's time for some real GenX talk about cover songs. This week we're going deep on interpretations of the music we grew up on. and duuude. We have opinions. Beacause what do you mean the songs we love were ALREAD

The Sex Talk We Never Got (Gen X Edition)

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500 · 41 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!The Gen X Stories podcast crew gets brutally honest about our sex ed through school classes, books & movies, the AIDS crisis, Dr Ruth and parents who never had “The Talk” with us. You may recognize the funny (and often uncomfortable) experiences that followed, including feeling like needing a federal clearance to buy condoms. PLUS we get int

The soundtrack of 1983

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 · 73 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Let’s go back to 1983, the year albums made us who we are. Thanks to a tip from our Facebook group, each GenX Stories host picked a favorite record from this legendary year and dove headfirst into its greatness. Nostalgia? Check. Hot takes? Double check. Accidental sing-alongs? We’ll neither confirm nor deny. The only thing left to do: press

Is This Thing Still On? Season Eight Kickoff

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 39 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Since we last saw you, a lot has happened: AARP published us in their magazine. Everyone listened to our drunk episode (ouch). Court and Chris's kids went off to college. Lori mastered the lazy river. And Eve broke some plates (creatively, of course). Oh - we also have a brand new merch store you’re gonna go nuts over (yes, seriously).So wha

GenX vs AI: will tech help or hurt us?

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 50 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!While technology has changed a ton since we last did an episode about it in 2020 (OMG), we couldn't have anticipated then what it would become today. Is it possible to keep a Walkman mindset in an AI world? What's the impact on our humanity? Listen in for a brutally honest GenX take on how technology is shifting everything in our lives, for

Ship Happens: all aboard the 80s Cruise

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 56 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Ever wondered what happens when an entire cruise ship full of Gen Xers decide to relive the greatest decade? Wonder no more. In this week's episode, we're taking you aboard the 80s Cruise - where the fanny packs are unironic, the hair is big, and the hits just keep on coming. We're talking live concerts, old-school heartthrobs, neon everythi

Scream if you're GenX: the horror movie episode

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 60 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!It's spooky season, and the Gen X Stories podcast crew is digging into horror movies and every creepy sub-genre. The ones we grew up with. The ones we're watching now. And, honestly, WHY DO WE DO THIS to ourselves?Oh, and our guest is the producer of the Final Destination movies (and married to one of us). You'll have to listen to find out h

Beyond the Mic: Ask Us Anything

Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 1 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!We're wrapping up Season SIX (can you believe it?!), and we want to hear from YOU — yes, YOU!For the last episode of this season, we’re flipping the script. Instead of an “Ask Me Anything,” it’s an Ask US Anything — and we mean anything (well, anything show-related… don’t go nutty, kids 😄).Got questions about the four of us? Curious about ho

Don't call it a hobby: creativity in your 50s

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 56 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Creativity peaking in your 50s more than your 20s? Yup, that tracks. This episode digs into what that actually looks like and it's got nothing to do with taking a pottery class or learning how to square dance. (again.). You know that we rarely do guests on the show BUT when a fellow Gen Xer (Laura LeBleu) channels her creativity into a gorge

6 Seasons In. Still Oversharing.

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 60 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Season 6 of the podcast is wrapping up—and in true Gen X fashion, we’re doing it our way: a little chaotic, a little nostalgic, and completely unfiltered. For this special season finale, all four of us (yes, miracles happen!) are finally able to record at the same tme, answering the questions you—our gloriously curious, sarcastic, and slight

Kiss, Marry… Wait, What Are the Rules Again?

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 43 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!We’re baaaack! Season seven kicks off the only way we know how: with absolute chaos. And by chaos, we mean a hysterical round of Kiss, Marry, [something].What starts as harmless hypotheticals spirals into hot takes on Furries, a very sexy talking car, and a total meltdown over the rules (because do they even exist?).Buckle up for an episode

The One Where Gen X (sorta) raises Gen Z

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 66 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Ever wonder what happens when a Gen X guardian tries to keep up with their Gen Z ward? Spoiler: it’s hilarious. This episode features co-host Chris’s teenager  - who, against all odds, gives us actual hope for her generation. Between vintage sarcasm, justifying lateness, and a shared love of ‘80s music (and epic eye-rolls), their relationshi

Back to ’85: The Year Movies Peaked?

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500 · 48 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!The movies turning 40 in 2025 are aging like fine wine (or like us, depending on the lighting). Between the first Blockbuster store opening to the massive number of films appearing in theatres that year, let’s face it - 1985 ruined us for anything else. From The Breakfast Club to Back to the Future to Brazil to Cocoon the whole podcast crew

Aging: The good, the bad & the WTF

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 51 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Look, we weren’t gonna talk about aging, but here we are—because apparently, it’s happening whether we like it or not. People say GenX is aging differently, but tell that to our knees, eyesight, and ability to function after 9 PM. From shifting looks to mystery aches to questioning if we can still pull off certain outfits, we’re covering it

The Middle-Aged Dorm Is Real (And We're Into It)

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 40 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Forget everything you thought you knew about "aging communties." The Gen X Stories crew is talking the next step in housing (and it's not your parents' retirement home.) From rethought 55+ communities with actual cocktail bars, co-housing, walkable villages, and yes, converted malls, it turns out our options are way more interesting than a r

Did GenX keep our stuff?

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0500 · 44 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Old toys. Concert shirts. Boxes we haven’t opened in decades. In this episode, the podcast crew riffs on the chaos of the keepsakes we have (or wish we still did !) while trying to figure out what the topic is. It's funny. It's messy. And it's completely Gen X. If you've ever wanted your Walkman back, you gotta listen to this one.Episode lin

Joyriding Down Memory Lane

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0500 · 48 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Buckle up, kids (or don’t cuz we survived the ’80s without 'em). This week, the Gen X Stories crew cannonballs into a conversation sparked by a Facebook community member’s mysterious question (which we’re absolutely not telling you until you hit play, because marketing). Expect kick-ass personal stories ripped straight out of an ’80s movie m

‘87 Forever: Four Albums That Shaped Our GenX-ness

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 58 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Remember the episode earlier this season  where each co-host picked a 1986 GenX album and we got way too into it? Yeah… we’re doing that again. This time, it’s 1987—and no, we’re not out of opinions yet (not even close). Each of us picked an album from that iconic year, we all (mostly) gave ‘em a listen, and then lovingly (and loudly) overan

Burying more than our feelings: the time capsule episode

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 40 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Before Google Drive, Gen X processed artifacts the way we handled most everything else: by burying it and hoping future people would care. Yup, you guessed it - this episode is all about time capsules — a concept so ironically Gen X it practically comes with a side of Twinkie and the sense of impending doom. From bicentennial school projects

Don’t call us ‘Queenagers’. Seriously.

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 40 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Apparently GenX Women are "Queenagers" now. Oh HELL, no. This week on the podcast we take a crowbar to the label and everything behind it: corporate age discrimination, tokenism vs diversity, Hollywood's woman issue & how they are dealing with it, and the media's habit of "discovering" women over 50 who've been here the whole time. Plus meet

Who Do We Think We Are? Gen X Gets a DNA Test

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 51 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!So why ARE Gen Xers suddenly obsessed with their roots? Just in time for Mother’s Day, we’re falling headfirst into the rabbit hole of family history (because apparently we're finally old enough to care.) We’re talking dusty records, surprise relatives, and the occasional “Wait… what?” moment, joined by a GenX guest who’s wayyyyy deep into t

From Roswell to Rocky: GenX's Alien Obsession

Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 47 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Congratulations, you've found the one podcast episode that finally settles whether extraterrestrial life exists. Spoiler: we don't know either. Thanks to Lori, we're talking aliens this week -  the pop culture kind, the Cold War paranoia kind, and the-cops-told-Eve's-mom-in '58-it-was-a-weather-balloon-but-it-was-definitely-not kind. From Cl

“Follow the cat”:Becoming GenX digital nomads

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 48 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!In this episode, we are diving into the world of GenX digital nomads—that’s right: people our age who are living and working from foreign countries, cool cities, or just wherever the Wi-Fi’s decent and the coffee’s strong.So how do they decide where to go? How do they find a place to stay? And most importantly, how do they do all this withou

Hold my beer: The drunk episode

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400 · 50 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!The crew is all here for a completely unscripted, barely coherent, deeply sincere Season 7 wrap-up. And yes, we're getting drunk. (Well, maybe not all of us.)  Expect the usual but even better: meandering tangents, unsolicited hot takes, deeply felt assertions on stuffed animals and confessions about drunk scooting. Oh, and potential  equipm

Gen X Goes to College: Majoring in Sarcasm, Minoring in Whatever

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0400 · 53 min

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Remember applying to colleges without a single YouTube tutorial in sight, lofting your own dorm bed without approval, and taking "never doing this again" 8am classes? Yeah, we do too, and we’re not holding back. If you (barely) survived your own college years in the ‘80s and ‘90s, this one’s for you. Hear us flail through questionable life c