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Ep. 89: FIGHT BACK! w/ author Raquel Gutierrez Jun 06, 2022

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CW: discussions of violence, self-harm, domestic abuse, mass shooting–in other words, of our everyday lives in the U.S.A.

Wynter and Karen welcome special guest Raquel Gutierrez, author of the new book Brown Neon (out June 7). The three revive a conversation they started over drinks during the Gen X festival about vengeance movies centering women, and fantasies of fighting back in a bleak timeline moving increasingly from the genre of horror to realism.

Karen talks about why she undertook a double-feature of the new Downton Abbey film with Alex Garland's latest, Men starring Jessie Buckley. Wynter anoints The Kids in the Hall honorary Gen X-ers, while telling us why she comfort-binged their latest revival three times.

Plus, nuo-lingo is back from retrolingo, and two VERY different songs of the week for your enjoyment.

Ep. 88: W2X Live @ REDCAT w/ Kevin Smith & Sandra Bernhard May 09, 2022

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This is an edited version of the live show - Patreon members get the full unedited video!

The Gen X festival's Humanities co-curators (Wynter & Karen!!!!) take the stage for a live podcast recording along with special guests Sandra Bernhard and Kevin Smith!

Ep. 87: The Music of 1992 and 2002 Apr 11, 2022

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Wynter and Karen reflect back on the music of 1992 and 2002, from Pitchfork favorites to the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to selecting their MVP songs and albums from each year, they each get into what they were wearing and gift an NFT idea to Ja Rule in the process.

Wynter continues delving into the saga of millennial overreachers by entering the world of WeCrashed, while Karen sobs to the epic, multigenerational saga that is Apple TV+'s Pachinko, while revisiting the thrills and jiggles of the Lakers' showtime era of the 80s reimagined in Adam McKay's Winning Time.

Plus, nuo-lingo and songs of the week from 1992 and 2012 (in an extension of our episode's timeline).

Ep. 86: 80s Erotique with Karina Longworth Mar 28, 2022

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This week Karina Longworth, the creator, producer and host of You Must Remember This joins us for a preview of the pod's latest season on the "Erotic 80s."

Before the three regale you with tales of peering at their parents' Playboy magazines (and whatever played late at night on cable), Wynter and Karen tell us what's up this week by diving into the first Adrian Lyne offering in 20 years, Deep Water starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.

Plus, The Gilded Age finale, Life After Beth, a nuo-lingo phrase about phones, a Selena classic, and a sexy queer song about "Pisces Eyes."

Ep. 85 - A Most Excellent Vintage: Our Favorite OSCARS Years Mar 14, 2022

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Wynter and Karen look back on their favorite Oscars years and winners in recent, i.e. prime GenX decades, as we round the corner to the 94th Annual Academy Awards.

Before they take a 1985 and 1992-heavy trip down memory lane, the two get into the latest TV exegesis on millennial hustlers, The Dropout and Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, before launching into an unexpected Guy Fieri lovefest, especially for his Food Network Tournament of Champions.

Plus, more retrolingo as nuo-lingo and two songs that will move your feet in some pretty different ways.

Ep. 84: THE FUTURE OF MUSIC IS…RAISING THE DEAD? Feb 28, 2022

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We're thrilled to welcome back Ann Powers of NPR Music, and author of Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music to talk to us about the future of music. We explore other critics' predictions about the future, including Ted Gioia's speculation that we may have more dead musicians performing for us in the form of holograms, deep fake vocals, and more. From A.I. K-Pop artists, to Kanye's STEM player, and what Karen calls "micro-dosing mega mixes," all three peer into the future together, while also listening to our past.

Wynter tells us what's up on Love is Blind season 2, while Karen gives us the final word on her wife Sarah's viral tweet about "cat butter." Plus, the two get into Netflix's Inventing Anna, which they each binged in a single sitting. Nuo-lingo explores the "vibe shift" and a resurrected SOTW accompanies a brand new one to close out the show.

Kurt Cobain and Nirvana learning how much money they make per show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdb271UMb50&feature=youtu.be

Ep. 83: THE FUTURE IS NOW Feb 21, 2022

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Karen returns from her bout w/ the Omarion variant to catch up with Wynter about Super Bowl Sunday, including all the ads, and the "GenX has arrived" halftime show featuring Dr. Dre, Snoop, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and 50 Cent.

Their main segment focuses on how uncannily films and TV from the past have predicted elements of our present (or their future), from 1973's Soylent Green set in 2022, to Robocop, Her, Idiocracy, and many more, including detours into present day "pandemic" shows like Station Eleven and Y: The Last Man.

Nuo-lingo continues as retro-lingo with an education in denim cuts, and our songs of the week anticipate next week's episode about the future of music.

Ep. 82: And Just Like That…It's 1996 Jan 31, 2022

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Hot on the heels of our last episode on Yellowjackets, Wynter and Karen are inspired to revisit the year 1996 and what it gave to us in fashion, fragrances, music, TV, movies and more.

Before they get into all that, and what they were each up to at the time, they finally sit down for a much needed & extended processing session about And Just Like That… the SATC reboot on HBO which has made the non-binary character, Che Diaz (played by Sara Ramirez) into a cultural lightning rod. Is the show irredeemable? Or does ALJT teach us something else about GenX white women, privilege and a changing world?

Plus more retrolingo as nuo-lingo (it's new to you!), and two songs of the week that spoke to us from 1996.

Ep. 81: Yellowjackets! Buzz, Buzz, Buzz Jan 17, 2022

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Wynter & Karen welcome you to Season 5 with a bushel full of SPOILER ALERTS for both Search Party and the topic of their main segment, everybody's latest obsession Yellowjackets (not that other "Yellow" TV show). Which Yellowjacket do each of them identify with vs. who they ended up with on their Buzzfeed quiz? In their eagerness to catch up at the start of the new year, Karen & Wynter get into a deep convo about the state of TV narratives as they've worked their way in, around or through Covid in its endemic phase. KT thinks Station Eleven is the most gorgeous show on TV, and Wynter tells us a little bit about why Search Party's surprising turn in season 5 makes perfect sense given the state of the world. Plus Nuo-lingo goes retrolingo, and two songs-of-the-week from the Yellowjackets soundtrack that are already making our year.

Ep. 80: Holiday Holigay Special w/ Alonso Duralde and Dave White Dec 13, 2021

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The whole gang gets frisky with a very special feline-themed holiday episode. Our favorite holigays Alonso Duralde and Dave White join Wynter and Karen to discuss Hallmark's The Nine Lives of Christmas (2014) and its brand new sequel, The Nine Kittens of Christmas (2021)--all in celebration of Alonso's new co-authored book, I'll Be Home for Christmas Movies: The Deck the Hallmark Podcast's Guide to Your Holiday TV Obsession.

Karen & Wynter also break down the latest Live in Front of a Studio Audience featuring a star-studded cast re-enacting classic episodes of The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes. Plus, nuo-lingo about holiday adjacent relationships, and songs from Kelly Clarkson's new Christmas special, as well as Peter Jackson's Beatles epic, Get Back.

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