GenX Stories

GenX Stories

Eve Simon, Chris Goumas, Lori Luna & Courtney Spikes

Episodes 141
Avg. Duration 39m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (44)
Since Dec 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
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76%
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About This Podcast

GenX Stories is a podcast about how the so-called “Lost Generation” found itself at midlife. Join hosts Eve, Lori, Chris & Courtney every other Wednesday for a fun and frank discussion about what made us and what’s next. We all have a GenX story. What’s yours?

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S7E18 Hold my beer: The drunk episode

Jun 03, 2026 50m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!The crew is all here for a completely unscripted, barely coherent, deeply sincere Season 7 wrap-up. And yes, we're getting drunk. (Well, maybe…

S7E17 Don't call it a hobby: creativity in your 50s

May 20, 2026 56m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Creativity peaking in your 50s more than your 20s? Yup, that tracks. This episode digs into what that actually looks like and it's got nothing…

S7E16 From Roswell to Rocky: GenX's Alien Obsession

May 06, 2026 47m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Congratulations, you've found the one podcast episode that finally settles whether extraterrestrial life exists. Spoiler: we don't know…

S7E15 Ship Happens: all aboard the 80s Cruise

Apr 22, 2026 56m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Ever wondered what happens when an entire cruise ship full of Gen Xers decide to relive the greatest decade? Wonder no more. In this week's…

S7E14 Burying more than our feelings: the time capsule episode

Apr 08, 2026 40m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Before Google Drive, Gen X processed artifacts the way we handled most everything else: by burying it and hoping future people would care.…

S7E13 Cover Wars: Is what's old really new again?

Mar 25, 2026 40m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!From Lorde going full existential on Tears for Fears to Johnny Cash making Nine Inch Nails cry to Luke Combs taking us for a ride, it's time…

S7E12 The Middle-Aged Dorm Is Real (And We're Into It)

Mar 11, 2026 40m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Forget everything you thought you knew about "aging communties." The Gen X Stories crew is talking the next step in housing (and it's not your…

S7E11 The Sex Talk We Never Got (Gen X Edition)

Feb 25, 2026 41m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!The Gen X Stories podcast crew gets brutally honest about our sex ed through school classes, books & movies, the AIDS crisis, Dr Ruth and…

S7E10 Did GenX keep our stuff?

Feb 11, 2026 44m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Old toys. Concert shirts. Boxes we haven’t opened in decades. In this episode, the podcast crew riffs on the chaos of the keepsakes we have…

S7E9 The Gen X Love Affair With ‘Stranger Things’

Jan 28, 2026 45m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!In this episode of Gen X Stories, Eve and Courtney go full Stranger Things, unpacking the 80s DNA, the Stephen King–meets–E.T. references, and…

S7E9 The soundtrack of 1983

Dec 24, 2025 1h 13m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Let’s go back to 1983, the year albums made us who we are. Thanks to a tip from our Facebook group, each GenX Stories host picked a favorite…

S7E7 Joyriding Down Memory Lane

Dec 10, 2025 48m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Buckle up, kids (or don’t cuz we survived the ’80s without 'em). This week, the Gen X Stories crew cannonballs into a conversation sparked by…

S7E6 We’re Not Fixing This in Post

Nov 26, 2025 46m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!No plan. No outline. No research. Just three Gen X women armed with mystery topics, unfiltered hot takes, and a few moments we’ll probably…

S7E5 Back to ’85: The Year Movies Peaked?

Nov 12, 2025 48m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!The movies turning 40 in 2025 are aging like fine wine (or like us, depending on the lighting). Between the first Blockbuster store opening to…

S7E4 Trick or Trauma? GenX Childhood “fears”

Oct 29, 2025 58m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Instead of haunted houses, we had real-life fears - like Pop Rocks (with Coke), the Bermuda Triangle, and that one creepy white van parked…

S7E3 The One Where Gen X (sorta) raises Gen Z

Oct 15, 2025 1h 6m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Ever wonder what happens when a Gen X guardian tries to keep up with their Gen Z ward? Spoiler: it’s hilarious. This episode features co-host…

S7E2 Gen X Goes to College: Majoring in Sarcasm, Minoring in Whatever

Oct 01, 2025 53m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Remember applying to colleges without a single YouTube tutorial in sight, lofting your own dorm bed without approval, and taking "never doing…

S7E1 Kiss, Marry… Wait, What Are the Rules Again?

Sep 17, 2025 43m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!We’re baaaack! Season seven kicks off the only way we know how: with absolute chaos. And by chaos, we mean a hysterical round of Kiss, Marry,…

S6E14 6 Seasons In. Still Oversharing.

Jun 18, 2025 1h

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!Season 6 of the podcast is wrapping up—and in true Gen X fashion, we’re doing it our way: a little chaotic, a little nostalgic, and completely…

S6E13 “Follow the cat”:Becoming GenX digital nomads

Jun 04, 2025 48m

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message!In this episode, we are diving into the world of GenX digital nomads—that’s right: people our age who are living and working from foreign…

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GenX Stories has published 141 episodes since December 2019, covering topics in Documentary, Personal Journals.

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