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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 choices (and the lifelong friends who got us through them) and how we're prepping our Gen Z spawn for their own college daze.

Episode links

• This Is What Dorms Looked Like In The 80s And We Survived
• 23 Crazy Things Everyone Did In College In The ’80s
• 15 Things 1980s College Students Did That Would Baffle Kids Today

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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 full of the unhinged logic you’ve come to expect from us because honestly, the rules never mattered anyway.

Episode links

• 80’s Hunks Reel
• Wikipedia
• Game rules
• Sample questions

Game targets

• Ed Meese
• Teddy Ruxpin
  • 80’s kids changing cassettes in Teddy
• The Early Days of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf
• K.I.T.T.
• Gordon Gecko
• Sade Retired to a Reclusive Life After a Legendary Music Career
• David Bowie
• Christian Slater's Road From '80s Movie Heartthrob To Television Legend
• Hollywood Flashback: Before the Podcast Era, ‘Pump Up the Volume’ Made Noise
• 20 Years Ago, Madonna’s Three-Way Kiss Caused a Stir. Would It Today?
• Prince
  • If You Thought You Knew Everything About Prince, Here Are Some Things That Will Shock You
• Eddie Murphy's furious ‘Delirious’ days
  • Ice Cream Man
  • Throwing shoes
• Charlie Sheen’s Appearance in Ferris Bueller Would’ve Meant Much More in This Deleted Scene

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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 slightly unhinged Facebook group—sent in. From deep thoughts to weird rabbit holes, nothing’s off limits. It’s part AMA, part group therapy, and 100% real. You’re welcome. (or… maybe sorry?)

Episode links

• The episode about takimg a break post-election
• The episode about ‘86 albums
• The episodw about ‘87 albums
• The episode we faked
• The episode about my compter eating our recordings
• The episode about genealogy
• The episode about aging
• The episode about AI
• Walk this way Run DMC/Aerosmith video
• Glass brick 80’s trend
• Clan of the Cave Bear book
• Greed is Good Wall Street movie speech
• Strawberry pretzel tart
• History of the Jello Cake
• Gen Alpha slang words
• Hostess Pudding Pie
• Ford PInto

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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 without losing their minds (or all their chargers)?

We’ve got TWO guests with us today—yes, two—who just so happen to be married and currently living the digital nomad dream. (Bonus: Courtney and I have known them since college, so we’re legally allowed to ask inappropriate questions).

Tune in as we grill them about all things nomad-life, take notes for our own escape plan, and try not to sound too jealous.

Episode links

• The rise and rise of the Digital Nomad
• Digital Nomad Stats
• Report on Digtals Nomads
• The 10 best cities in America for digital nomads
• Best Countries For Digital Nomads In 2025
• CTO Lunches
• 'Rose-colored glasses': The stressful reality of being a digital nomad
• 5 Steps For Digital Nomads To Source And Attract Clients Worldwide

Info on our guests

• Jason Cole
  • Jason’s Website
  • Jason’s Instagram
  • Jason on Threads
  • Jason’s Linkedin
• Rachel Cole
  • Rachel’s Website
  • Choose Happiness Podcast:
  • Rachel’s Music on Spotify
  • Rachel’s Instagram

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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 how our generation sees the world? Burning topics you want us to cover in Season Seven (OMG, Season SEVEN!)?

Drop us your questions, hot takes, or wish list ideas. We’re all ears and are ready to spill the tea in the final episode of the season. It’s ALL up to YOU.

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• Fill out the form on our website
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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 the genealogy weeds too.

Listen in to a kick ass episode that’s part scavenger hunt, part identity crisis, and 100% curiosity (because after genealogy found the Golden State killer, what else can it uncover?)

Episode links

• How Genetic Genealogy Helped Catch The Golden State Killer
• A search for a biological father, and the surprise of a lifetime
• 23andMe Just Filed for Bankruptcy. You Should Delete Your Data Now.
• TV Show: Finding Your Roots
• Who Do You Think You Are? EP Lisa Kudrow Tells Why Show Is ‘Fascinating’
• No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
• Ancestry.com
• My Hertitage
• GED Match

Info on our guest, Aryn Youngless

• Geneology by Aryn
• Substack
• IG
• TikTok
• Bluesky
• Facebook
• Substck
• BOOK: My Mom, Her Story
• BOOK: My Dad, His Story
• BOOK: The Genealogy Journal
• COURSE: From Research to Novel

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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 better or worse.

Episode links

• Last technology episode we did in season 2
• The Digitally Savvy Generation: How Gen X Embraces Technology
• GenX, We Bridged the Technological Gap
• Descript app for podcast editing
• Fathom AI notetaker
• New York Times: GenX Career Meltdown
• AI was enemy No. 1 during Hollywood strikes. Now it's in Oscar-winning films

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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) overanalyzed them.

Expect deep tracks, random trivia no one asked for, and at least one “omg I totally forgot about that song!” moment. Oh, and as usual, we’ll be dragging our former teenage selves and probably uncovering something weird about each other along the way.

So press play, roll up those acid-wash jeans, and let’s get back to 1987—because clearly, we think it rocked.

Episode links

• Did this concept earlier this season
• Best albums of 1987
• How Sting made art from loss
• Sting’s November 1987 Nothing Like the Sun Spin Cover Story: Invisible Son
• 10 things you didn’t know about INXS’s Kick
• The Unlikely Story of How INXS Came to Rule the Late ’80s With ‘Kick’
• Rock And Walk: Husker Du's 'Warehouse'
• ‘Warehouse” marked the begnning of the end
• ‘Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me’ Fall Back In Love With A Classic Cure Album
• Just Like A Dream: The Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Revisited

OUR ALBUMS

• Lori: Kick, INXS
• Courtney: Nothing Like the Sun, Sting
• Chris: Warehouse: songs and stories, Husker Du
• Eve: Kiss me, kiss me, kiss Me: The Cure

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