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GenXGrownUp Podcast

Generation X. If you grew up in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, you know just how cool it was to be a kid back then. We had the greatest music, movies, games, technology, and pop culture of any gen... Read more

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Movie Rental Stores

Movie Rental Stores

Remember walking down aisles of seemingly endless choices of movies? How about renting a movie based only on its cover a... Read more

9 Aug 2018

45mins

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Back to School

Back to School

In honor of back-to-school time, we take a look back on things we remember from going back to school after summer vacati... Read more

23 Aug 2018

45mins

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GenX TV Theme Songs

GenX TV Theme Songs

“Here’s the story, of a lovely lady….” If you can finish the rest of that song then you want to listen to this week’s Ba... Read more

8 Aug 2019

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GenXGrownUp’s Top Ten Weird Al Parodies

GenXGrownUp’s Top Ten Weird Al Parodies

They say you haven’t really made it in the music industry until Weird Al Yankovic makes a parody of one of your songs. W... Read more

28 Nov 2019

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Pizza Arcades

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Video arcades did not suddenly spring up overnight. They started small, with a machine or two scattered here and there i... Read more

21 Mar 2019

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Long Car Rides

Long Car Rides

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How many times have we spoken those words to our parents on those long car trips? Ho... Read more

25 Jan 2018

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GenX Sitcoms

GenX Sitcoms

Sitcoms of the 70's and 80's ran the gamut of different types. Some were focused on the family, some on the workplace an... Read more

8 Mar 2018

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Y2K

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Y2K really turned out to be a whole lot of nothing when 2000 came around, but that doesn’t stop us from talking about it... Read more

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Breakfast Cereal

Breakfast Cereal

The crinkle of the cellophane, the tinkling of spoon in a bowl, the crackle of ice-cold milk poured over the top -- it's... Read more

16 Nov 2017

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GenX Pop Culture Catchphrases

GenX Pop Culture Catchphrases

The catchphrases you know probably do more to identify when you grew up than anything else. If someone were to say, “I’v... Read more

20 Feb 2020

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Disney+, Netgear Orbi Mesh, & Jojo Rabbit

Disney+, Netgear Orbi Mesh, & Jojo Rabbit

This week, George talks about a really old game, Jon talks about a fairly old technology, and Mo talks about something t... Read more

21 Nov 2019

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Vintage Board Games

Vintage Board Games

We've already spent a whole show on Monopoly but that is only one of many, many games we played as kids. Who remembers p... Read more

11 Jan 2018

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Retired Advertising Icons

Retired Advertising Icons

Back in the 70s & 80s, nothing sold a product better than a great mascot or spokesperson. Everyone knew Mr. Whipple,... Read more

21 Feb 2019

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Dead Brands

Dead Brands

Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s there were brand names that seemed like they would go on forever: Pan Am, Woolworth, A &... Read more

3 Oct 2019

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After-School TV

After-School TV

So back in a GenXer's younger days, we knew the value of a good education. The first thing we did when we got home was s... Read more

22 Feb 2018

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Old Computer Games

Old Computer Games

There was a time where you had to actually read in order to play computer games! Before computer gaming was mainstream a... Read more

30 Nov 2017

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Dawn of Music Videos

Dawn of Music Videos

"Ladies and gentlemen... rock and roll." Those are the opening words spoken on August 1, 1981 that launched MTV and the ... Read more

28 Jun 2018

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Gemini Man, John Wick Hex, & Logitech Artemis Headphones

Gemini Man, John Wick Hex, & Logitech Artemis Headphones

This week, some headphones that Mo and George don’t think are as cool as Jon does, Mo talks about a TV show that wasn’t ... Read more

24 Oct 2019

53mins

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Tiger King, Missile Command: Recharged, & Ace of Aces

Tiger King, Missile Command: Recharged, & Ace of Aces

This week Mo geeks out over something he used to have in the ’80s, Jon finds a cool retro-themed power bank, and George ... Read more

9 Apr 2020

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One-Hit Wonders of the '80s

One-Hit Wonders of the '80s

WARNING: Listening to this episode could result in incessant humming, loud singing in your car, or in some extreme cases... Read more

16 May 2019

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