On this very special episode, Cate and Lori tackle the weird, wishful-thinking anti-drug PSAs of the 1980s. From "your brain on drugs" to “I learned it from watching you,” the gals have a lot to say about the oversimplified "Just Say No" movement.

Cate and Lori focus on one very special and SUPER SERIOUS single from Guns N’ Roses’ third studio album, 1991’s Use Your Illusion I.  The gals get emotionally reinvested in GNR’s music video for “November Rain” that premiered in June of ‘92.

The gals chat all about their similar childhoods, radically different adulthoods, Lilith Fair, Ramones T-shirts, the suckfest of 1988, and how The Untitled GenX Podcast's sausage gets made.

Cate and Lori revisit the great Cabbage Patch Kids panic of Christmas 1983 (but not before providing a dramatic reading of "The Legend of the Cabbage Patch Kids" for your listening pleasure).

Cate and Lori honor British badass new wave duo, the Eurythmics and their sophomore triumph 1983’s Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) and recount the childhood trauma of this iconic music video while celebrating the sheer genius of the album itself. 

Cate and Lori are revisiting 1984’s Punky Brewster, season 1, episodes 1-3: "Punky Finds a Home" and catch up with the grown up, still punk Punky Brewster reboot that premiered just last month on the Peacock streaming network.

The gals take you back to Cate's very first music video, a-ha’s 1985 synth-pop tour-de-force single, "Take On Me" from their debut album Hunting High and Low. They draw deep into the progressive single, innovative music video, and long-time legacy of this beloved and often-covered ‘80s classic.

Grab your Big Gulps, kids. Cate and Lori are gettin’ really real with 1994’s Gen X classic, Reality Bites starring Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Ben Stiller.

Cate and Lori TOTALLY FREAK OUT over 1982’s endearing and oddly unsettling made-for-TV movie, The Electric Grandmother, starring Maureen Stapleton and Edward Herrmann.

Cate and Lori honor singer, songwriter, pianist, and survivor, Tori Amos and her debut solo triumph, 1992’s Little Earthquakes — a revolutionary album responsible for sending shock waves on to our airwaves and into our souls.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and if you’re looking for love, you’ve come to the right place as Cate and Lori spread the love with 1993’s romantic comedy blockbuster Sleepless in Seattle starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.

Happy Groundhog Day! If every. single. day. of the last 11 months has felt like the worst deja vu of your life, we've got you, babe. Join us as we get surprisingly deep on 1993’s blockbuster film Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott.

Join us as we bow down to an iconic album larger than the stratosphere itself: U2’s 1987 masterpiece, The Joshua Tree. We may not be even better than the real thing, but we might be kinda close as we fangirl over the album’s revolutionary singles, sexy AF frontman, and its very special place in our collective hearts.

Because this 1970 literary classic holds a special place in the heart of nearly every GenX woman, we’ll explore the book’s timeless themes involving friendship, puberty, and the hard questions we dare ask.

Hey guys, today we’re singing the praises of singer, songwriter, actress, feminist, activist, and all-around queen, Cyndi Lauper and her breakout 1983 debut album, She’s So Unusual. We dance deep into the album’s bops, ballads, and sometimes unusual music videos.

Pull up a bar stool as we drink up 1988’s blockbuster film, Cocktail. Sip and stay for the convo involving vacation romances, pretty criers, sex on the beach, rooting for the wrong person, surprise twins, and water as the ultimate cure-all. We'll drink to that!

Happy almost New Year! As y’all know, it hasn’t been our day, our week, our month, or even our year. And since we can’t ring in the New Year with friends IRL, we figured our TV friends, Monica, Chandler, Rachel, Ross, Joey and Phoebe were the next best thing. Join us as we revisit season 5, episode 11 of Friends, “The One with all the Resolutions”!

Welcome to the party, pals. Today we’re talking about the iconic Christmas (?) blockbuster, Die Hard. We invite you to “come out the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” as we dive deep into the elevator shaft of the film’s titillating trivia, it’s place in the great Christmas film debate, and its die hard fan base ... all while getting sloshed on spiked eggnog.

Join in the holiday spirit as we chat about being unsupervised kids in the '80s, the necessity (and danger) of super long telephone cords, the burden of carrying seven names, kids smoking cigars, and the beauty of offering grace.

Released along with “Everything She Wants” as a double A-side in December 1984, we’re diving deep into the dramatic music videos, heartbreaking lyrics, and too-good trivia that make both songs karaoke favorites to this day, ah-ha ah, ah-ha ah, doo doo doo, la, la, la, la, la.