Well, it happened - we couldn’t get our schedules lined up to record this week. BUT the good news is that we have an encore episode for you we think is pretty special -  our first ever together on the podcast! Learn how Lori, Courtney, Christopher and I started doing this wacky thing in season 2 (since season one was a totally different format.) 

In this episode, we dig into what being GenX means to each of us knowing how pivotal the 80’s were for music, fashion, crisis and more. We'll also discuss our generation’s creativity & innovation and why Chris thinks that sequins and the SpaceX Dragon capsule don’t mix.

So as spring is starting around the country, why not find out a bit more of our origin story? (Which also happens to be a really fun episode.)

Fun Episode links

• Meet our new hosts
• Check out Tremor, the SpaceX sequined zero-g dinosaur
• See Chris’ pug’s MRI on Twitter

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Today on the podcast we're talking all about jobs. The ones we had as kids, our first “real” ones, and even the ones that taught us a thing or two about life and ourselves. In a world where “quiet quitting”,“quiet firing” and the “great resignation” are now just part of work life, what do 50+ year olds expect in a job now? (Other that retire - well, maybe). We also share some of our beloved Facebook community’s first jobs, and pick one to send some awesome show swag to. Seriously, make it your job (see what we did there?) to listen.

Episode links 

• How to Highlight The Unique Attributes of a Gen X Jobseeker
• Brief History of AOL
• The short but destructive history of mass layoffs
• GenXers in the workforce
• Job searching for GenXers
• GenX and the Great Resignation
• Early 1990’s Recession
• The Year in Quiet Quitting
• "Follow your bliss”
• How to balance your passion project with full time job
• For GenX, retirement bites
• Eve’s strange job path (plus video)

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Did you want your MTV? We certainly did! Today’s episode is all about being the “MTV generation”, the iconic music video cable channel launched the summer of 1981. What was the first day like? Who were these “VeeJays”? And why does MTV still feels like a cultural rite of passage for GenX. We are also joined by music video historian and the brains behind website & magazine Music Video Time Machine, Stephen Pitalo. Hear all the behind the scene stories of your favorite videos from Madonna to Duran Duran to Bon Jovi and even Michael Jackson's Thriller in 3D. Trust us - you’re gonna be surprised.

Episode links 

• Music video Time Machine
• Michael Jackson's Thriller 3D
• MTV Launch day
• First videos aired on MTV
• MTV’s impact on GenX
• Music Videos by David Mallet
• 10 Favorite Videos by Steve Barron
• I want my MTV campaign
• Videos Directed by Wayne Isham
• Original MTV VeeJays
• David Bowie Rips Into MTV for Not Spotlighting Black Artists
• Peter Kagan Videos

Videos

• Video Killed the Radio Star
• Infatuation
• Take on Me
• Money for Nothing
• Girls Just Want to have Fun 
• Living on a Prayer
• Tell her About it
• Tim Jones' Kiss
• Thriller
• Lucky Star
• Higher Love
• Rock the Casbah
• Every Breath you take

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Subscribe to GenX Stories in your favorite podcast app
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