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Like Whatever

Heather Jolley and Nicole Barr

Join Heather and Nicole as we discuss all things Gen-X with personal nostalgia, current events, and an advocacy for the rights of all humans. From music to movies to television and so much more, revisit the generational trauma we all experienced as we talk about it all. Take a break from today and travel back to the long hot summer days of the 80s and 90s. Come on slackers, fuck around and find out with us!

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84:37

The Parent Trap

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2026/05/15

Your phone rings and you instantly know something is wrong. A parent is in the hospital, nobody is giving straight answers, and you are suddenly managing medications, paperwork, and family emotions like it’s your second job. We’re Nicole and Heather, two Gen X friends trying to make sense of what it means to “raise our parents” while we’re still working, paying bills, and barely feeling like adults ourselves. We talk through the caregiving reality hitting baby boomers and their Gen X kids: l...

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83:12

In Da AARP Club We Gonna Party Like It's Your Birthday

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2026/05/01

The red AARP envelope is one of the strangest American milestones: it’s mailed like a harmless membership perk, but it lands like a quiet announcement that time is moving faster than you want to admit. We follow that feeling straight into the real story behind AARP, and it gets way bigger than hotel discounts and a magazine in your mailbox. We start where we always do, as Nicole and Heather catching up on the here and now, then we pivot hard into the main question: what is AARP, who bu...

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79:18

Flannel, Cigarettes, and Highway‑Volume Therapy

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2026/04/24

Your brain wants nostalgia and your body wants a grilled cheese, so we follow both threads until they collide with a wall of fuzzy guitars. We start with the very specific Gen X comfort-food universe: cheese toast, PB&J, bologna with mayo, and the elite move of stuffing salty chips into a sandwich. It’s funny, but it’s also a real look at how “fend for yourself” childhood dinners shaped our cravings, our independence, and the way we treat food as a shortcut to safety. Then we launch a ne...

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64:53

The Original Fake News

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2026/04/17

A Jeopardy champion explains his favorite number using an F-shaped stick from childhood, and somehow that tiny piece of logic becomes the perfect on-ramp to a much bigger question: why do people believe what they believe. We start light with Gen X catch-up energy, then roll through Masters weekend fandom, migraine misery, and the kind of sugar craving that turns a coconut cream egg into a full-contact sport. We also compare notes on insomnia fixes, including a true crime sleep podcast that’s ...

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79:11

From Apollo’s Light To Artemis’s Shadow

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2026/04/10

Forty-one minutes. No telemetry, no voices, no way to help. That’s what it feels like when a crewed spacecraft slips behind the Moon and the signal dies, even in 2026. We sit with that fear and awe, then pull the camera back to ask a bigger question: how did the Moon go from a goddess in a silver chariot to a world we’re actively planning to live on again? We start in myth, with Selene and Luna as the Moon embodied, tied to tides, time, love, and cycles. Then we jump to the giant impact hypo...

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92:59

Yes Virginia There Is A Boogeyman

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2026/04/03

Serial killers weren’t just “true crime” to us. They were a constant hum in the background of growing up: news anchors saying names like Bundy and Gacy, parents warning about strangers, and that sinking feeling that danger could look normal. We start with our usual Gen X catch-up (pollen season, the revived “The More You Know” vibe, and why April Fool’s pranks are a crime), then we jump into the big question: why did serial killing peak in America from the 1960s through the early 1990s? From...

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70:25

Nicole’s International House of Hijinks

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2026/03/27

Nobody warned us that menopause could look like this: 3 a.m. wakeups, brain fog that steals your words mid sentence, and a “frozen shoulder” that makes taking off a T shirt feel like a full contact sport. We start from that real place, laughing because we have to, and comparing notes in the way only two Gen X best friends can. Then we whip the conversation into culture and chaos: the temptation of Rocky Horror on Broadway, the dread and thrill of New York driving, and a frank talk about sepa...

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78:04

Talk Dirty To Me

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2026/03/20

Daytime talk shows didn’t just entertain us, they trained a whole generation to watch strangers confess, fight, reconcile, and melt down before dinner. We’re Nicole and Heather, and we dig into how talk shows evolved from Phil Donahue’s audience-driven, single-topic conversations into the tabloid talk TV era where shock value became the product. Think Oprah’s cultural power, Sally Jesse Raphael’s human-interest tone, Geraldo’s controversy, Jerry Springer’s chaos, Jenny Jones’ ambush-style rev...

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84:59

Raised By Resistance, Raising The Reckoning

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2026/03/13

Dinosaurs turning into birds shouldn’t make you think about feminism, but somehow it does when you’re a Gen X woman with a cranky “tiny T-Rex” bird, a Netflix queue, and zero patience for pretending history is settled. We start with real life: birthday week wins, weird weather, and the shows we’re binging. Then we pivot hard into Women’s History Month with a topic we’ve been turning over for a while, because the timeline is both empowering and infuriating. We walk through second-wave feminis...

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54:59

Public Ally Not All Heroes Wear Clocks

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2026/03/06

What if the loudest hype man of an era was also one of its most surprising humanitarians? We pull back the curtain on Flavor Flav’s wild, complicated arc—self-taught musical prodigy, Public Enemy’s essential counterweight, chaotic reality TV architect—and land on a twist that made us cheer: a devoted advocate for women’s sports who quietly funds training, travel, and real recognition. This isn’t a rebrand story; it’s a blueprint for using fame as a tool. We start with awe. Will Smith’s Pole ...

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78:46

We Tried to Beat It… We Did Not

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2026/02/27

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63:28

A Miracle In The Midst Of Madness

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2026/02/20

A cold rink, a loud crowd, and a country craving something to believe in. We take you back to Lake Placid for a cinematic, breath-by-breath retelling of the Miracle on Ice—how a roster of college kids, shaped by Herb Brooks’ ruthless vision and welded together from rival programs, toppled the most feared hockey machine on earth. Along the way, we rewind to the mood of late-70s America—stagflation, hostages, the long shadow of the Cold War—and explain why one winter night in 1980 felt like the...

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68:30

The Real Mandela Effect

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2026/02/13

A rumor sparks the mic and the conversation swerves—first through a tabloid-scented headline and a fresh round of Cobain speculation, then straight into sunlit confessionals from an all-inclusive in Punta Cana. We trade strawberry mojitos for social x-rays: the charm of perfect hospitality, the quiet grind of the staff who make it look easy, and the odd theater of “rich people problems” that bubble up around buffets and pool chairs. Even beachside, the world intrudes—politics at parties, trac...

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64:32

Media Circus On Ice: Olympic Class War

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2026/02/06

A single cry in a Detroit hallway became one of the most replayed clips of the 90s—but the loudest part of the Kerrigan–Harding saga wasn’t the baton. It was the story that followed. We open with a candid nod to Catherine O’Hara and a late love affair with Schitt’s Creek, drift through Mid‑Atlantic weather chaos and Gen X ad breaks, then lock in on the cultural earthquake that reshaped figure skating, tabloid TV, and public sympathy. We trace Tonya Harding’s climb from public rinks and home‑...

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59:50

Goldblumageddon Unbuttoned

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2026/01/30

What do you do when the world ices over and the roads turn to glass? You make tea, invite a snoring pug to the mic, and chase joy straight into Jeff Goldblum’s gloriously weird filmography. We start with a blizzard check-in—mail routes on chains, accidental hibernation, missed football bets—and then crack open a comfort topic that refuses to be boring. We trace Goldblum’s path from Pittsburgh to Meisner training in New York, through small 70s roles into the transformative blast radius of The...

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68:21

It Takes A Little E$ To Make A Big Difference

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2026/01/23

Remember when one adult’s kind word changed your whole week? We lean into that feeling and unpack why mentoring still works, how Big Brothers Big Sisters makes it safe and effective, and where Gen X can plug in without flipping their life upside down. Starting from MLK Day’s call to serve, we trace BBBS back to its 1904 origins, break down the matching process, and talk through the guardrails that protect kids and volunteers. No halo polishing—just real talk about consistency, trust, and the ...

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74:08

Tale As Old As Your Mom

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2026/01/16

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66:23

Death Trap For Cuties

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2026/01/09

A shy compliment in a grocery store. A late-night laugh spiral with Anderson and Andy. A winter week where the calendar melts and we can’t tell Friday from Tuesday. From those small, human beats, we leap headfirst into the wildest museum of Gen X childhood: the toys that taught us physics the hard way and turned backyards into low-budget action sets. We break down the legend of lawn darts, the steel-tipped “family fun” that sent too many kids to the ER before the 1988 ban. We slide through t...

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65:00

It's 12 O'clock Somewhere

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2026/01/02

New Year’s isn’t just a countdown; it’s a mood swing. We open with a candid look at post-holiday life—quiet solo days, family brunches, and that familiar Gen X blend of relief and melancholy once the decorations come down. From there, we veer into the cultural stuff that sticks: the comfort of practical gifts (hello, towel warmer), the retail whiplash of returns, and the strange velocity of time when December turns everything foggy. Then we get to the good part: building a New Year’s Eve pla...

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66:41

Sleigh Bells Or Hells Bells

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2025/12/24

What happens when one of us is pure Christmas sparkle and the other wants to lock the door, draw the shades, and marathon movies on December 25? The sparks actually make the season make sense. We trace how a postcard-perfect Gen X holiday can coexist with a childhood shaped by hostile relatives, passive-aggressive gifts, and the relief of escape. That honesty opens the door to an unvarnished tour of our favorite winter myths, foods, and rituals—where joy and discomfort sit side by side. We u...

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