GenX Stories

Don’t call us ‘Queenagers’. Seriously.

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 labe

Is This Thing Still On? Season Eight Kickoff

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

Hold my beer: The drunk episode

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

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

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

From Roswell to Rocky: GenX's Alien Obsession

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 e

Ship Happens: all aboard the 80s Cruise

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? Wo

Burying more than our feelings: the time capsule episode

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 hopin

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

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 ta

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

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 ste

The Sex Talk We Never Got (Gen X Edition)

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, th

Did GenX keep our stuff?

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 ch

The Gen X Love Affair With ‘Stranger Things’

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

The soundtrack of 1983

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 S

Joyriding Down Memory Lane

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 cannonb

We’re Not Fixing This in Post

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

Back to ’85: The Year Movies Peaked?

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 fir

Trick or Trauma? GenX Childhood “fears”

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

The One Where Gen X (sorta) raises Gen Z

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.

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

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 app

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

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 hy