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A year goes by fast when you build a ritual around friendship. We clink mimosas, raid the bagel plate, and trace the thread that brought us here: a weekly hour that forces life to slow down long enough to talk, laugh, and actually catch up. From a pink Hello Kitty diary found in a move to the choice to delete hundreds of photos, we explore what memory means to Gen X now—what we keep, what we toss, and why patience felt different when film took two weeks to develop.
Then we turn up the volume. One hit wonders are our birthday cake, and we slice into the songs that still light us up: Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy (with that stealth Taylor Swift writing credit), Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend and a hard detour into artist health care, Carl Douglas’s Kung Fu Fighting and its B-side origin, Dexys Midnight Runners dethroning Billie Jean with Come On Eileen, Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters and the Huey Lewis lawsuit, EMF’s Unbelievable with its Andrew Dice Clay sample, Boys Don’t Cry’s I Wanna Be A Cowboy, Buckner & Garcia’s Pac-Man Fever, and Len’s Steal My Sunshine riding a disco loop into summer. It’s trivia, chart stories, lawsuits, rave field notes, and the strange alchemy of a chorus that outlives a career.
We chew on tech, too. One of us uses AI to spitball titles and scripts; the other side-eye squints at synthetic charm. We share a hiring heads-up about AI-written resumes getting flagged and talk about where tools help creativity and where they flatten voice. In true Gen X fashion, we make room for both skepticism and utility, then pivot to MTV’s shrinking music footprint, the club nights that shifted from goth to industrial to rave, and why some hooks never get old.
Thanks for riding with us for fifty-two straight weeks. If you smiled, sang, or argued with your speakers, hit follow, share the show with a friend, and drop us a note with your favorite one hit wonder or favorite episode. Your picks might soundtrack year two.
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Chapters
1. Anniversary Toasts And Why We Podcast (00:00:00)
2. Friendship, Time, And Making Space At 52 (00:02:45)
3. Diaries, Decluttering, And Photos We Keep (00:03:31)
4. Year One Reflections And No Clip Show (00:06:33)
5. AI: Help, Hype, And Hiring Truths (00:09:05)
6. Ad Read: Garden State Distillery (00:13:55)
7. One Hit Wonders: Setup And Rules (00:14:52)
8. I’m Too Sexy: Origins And Swift Tie-In (00:15:55)
9. Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend And Resilience (00:18:30)
10. Health Care Rant And Artist Reality (00:22:08)
11. Kung Fu Fighting: B-Side To Global Hit (00:24:12)
12. Come On Eileen: Band Drama And Legacy (00:28:16)
13. Rave Memories, MTV, And Club Culture (00:33:36)
14. Ghostbusters Theme: Lawsuit And Impact (00:36:18)
15. Hey Mickey: Pop Joy And Video Power (00:41:22)
16. EMF’s Unbelievable: Samples And Summer (00:44:15)
17. I Wanna Be A Cowboy: Nostalgia Reboot (00:49:20)
18. Ad Read: Old Glory (00:52:09)
19. Pac-Man Fever And Arcade Craze (00:53:30)
20. Steal My Sunshine: Sampled Summer Bliss (00:58:24)
21. Gratitude, Consistency, And How To Support (01:01:15)
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