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PODCAST

GenX Stories

Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes

GenX Stories is a podcast about how the so-called “Lost Generation” found itself at midlife. Join hosts Eve, Lori, Chris & Courtney every other Wednesday for a fun and frank discussion about what made us and what’s next. We all have a GenX story. What’s yours?

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40:27

Burying more than our feelings: the time capsule episode

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2026/04/08

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 we definitely forgot about, to NASA flinging a gold record into deep space like 'here, aliens,

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40:11

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

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2026/03/25

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 ALREADY covers?Be a fly on the wall as the podcast gang debates what makes a cover work (or

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40:00

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

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2026/03/11

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 room in a “facility”.Lori, Courtney, Eve (and a guest she'worked with 30 years

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41:10

The Sex Talk We Never Got (Gen X Edition)

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2026/02/25

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 into being open about it all with our own kids now. It’s awkward. It’s cathartic. It might make you

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44:58

Did GenX keep our stuff?

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2026/02/11

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 links8 Rare Vintage Tech Products Worth Thousands That Might Be Hiding In Your AtticFor

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45:54

The Gen X Love Affair With ‘Stranger Things’

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2026/01/28

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 spoilers ahead, so consider yourself warned.Episode links'Stranger Things' holds a mirror to

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73:40

The soundtrack of 1983

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2025/12/24

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 play and learn tidbits you never knew about the epic music that basically raised us.Episode links Best

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48:33

Joyriding Down Memory Lane

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2025/12/10

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 montage and of course, the perfect soundtrack.Episode linksTopic from Season 6 , ep 12 - Ask us

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46:03

We’re Not Fixing This in Post

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2025/11/26

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 the line a couple of times. (but in a good way).Episode linksTaylor Swift’s ‘Wood’ Lyrics Are a

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48:13

Back to ’85: The Year Movies Peaked?

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2025/11/12

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 is revisiting the classic 80's films we loved (and duh, still do). Some may call it a cinematic

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58:08

Trick or Trauma? GenX Childhood “fears”

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2025/10/29

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 hear what freaked out our FB community growing up so trust us - you don’t wanna miss this one. 🎃👻Episode

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66:16

The One Where Gen X (sorta) raises Gen Z

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2025/10/15

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 relationship proves Gen X and Gen Z might have more in common than we’d ever admit. Bonus points if you can count

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53:52

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

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2025/10/01

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 choices (and the lifelong friends who got us through them) and how we're prepping our Gen

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43:32

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

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2025/09/17

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

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60:31

6 Seasons In. Still Oversharing.

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2025/06/18

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 slightly unhinged Facebook group—sent in. From deep thoughts to weird rabbit holes, nothing’s off limits. It’s

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48:07

“Follow the cat”:Becoming GenX digital nomads

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2025/06/04

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 without losing their minds (or all their chargers)?We’ve got TWO guests with us today—yes, two—who just so

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1:42

Beyond the Mic: Ask Us Anything

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2025/05/21

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

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51:47

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

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2025/05/07

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 the genealogy weeds too.Listen in to a kick ass episode that’s part scavenger hunt, part identity

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50:37

GenX vs AI: will tech help or hurt us?

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2025/04/23

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 better or worse. Episode linksLast technology episode we did in season 2The Digitally Savvy

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58:14

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

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2025/04/09

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) overanalyzed them.Expect deep tracks, random trivia no one asked for, and at least one “omg I totally forgot

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