A podcast dedicated to the Gen X pop culture that raised us. Lori and friends revisit the TV, films, music, and music videos every latchkey kid of the MTV Generation knows and loves ... and sometimes loves to hate.
Episodes
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Join Cate and Lori as they pay homage to Judy Blume’s beloved, and yes, controversial young adult novel, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Because this 1970 literary classic holds a special place in the heart of nearly every GenX woman, they’ll explore the book’s timeless themes involving friendship, puberty, and the hard questions we dare ask while taking those brave first steps toward self-discovery.
And yes, the besties spill their secret sisterhood stories involving their first "menstroo-ation", first kisses, and first bras, along with their earliest sex ed memories and the wild wondering of what it all means.
Sugar Calling: Cheryl Strayed interview with Judy Blume
The Secret Sisters - "Late Bloomer" [Official Video]
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Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Hey guys, today Cate and Lori are 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. The gals dance deep into the album’s bops, ballads, and sometimes unusual music videos.
In true Cyndi form, things get a little colorful as the ladies talk about their suburban childhood, middle school cafeteria lunches, phone rules, crazy nights past 8 PM, and that very real single teardrop pain of running away from love.
Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (Official HD Video)
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Official Video)
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (Official Video)
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Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Baby, it's cold outside, and since we won’t be escaping to a tropical paradise anytime soon, Cate and Lori thought a round of cocktails and dreams might help warm our collective spirits. Pull up a bar stool as the ladies drink up 1988’s blockbuster film, Cocktail starring Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Shue, Bryan Brown, and Kelly Lynch.
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.
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Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
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 Cate and Lori as they revisit season 5, episode 11 of Friends, "The One with All the Resolutions"!
And because besties tell each other everything, they gossip about sex at midnight, swamp ass, leather while pregnant, farting on a first date, and offer their heartfelt message of love to you in the new year. Cheers!
The Fart that Almost Altered My Destiny by Anna Lind Thomas
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Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Welcome to the party, pals. Today Cate and Lori tackle the iconic Christmas (?) blockbuster, Die Hard. They invite you to “come out the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs…” as they 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.
And oh yeah, they chat maiden names, crippling telephone shyness, wild Christmas parties, and "Huey Lewis's" surprise cameo in the film. Yippee ki yay, melon farmers.
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Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Today we're bringing you Cate's ALL-TIME FAVORITE Christmas movie from her childhood, 1983’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!
Full disclosure: Lori had never seen — or even heard about — this ABC made-for-TV movie starring Loretta Swit and Fairuza Balk, but at only 48 minutes long and available to stream for free, she was up for some wholesome and heartwarming holiday family viewing.
Join in the holiday spirit as the girls 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.
Full movie: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983)
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Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
This Christmas, Cate and Lori are giving their hearts to someone special (psst! YOU) as they revisit Wham’s chart-topping, toe-tapping hits “Last Christmas” and “Everything She Wants”.
Released as a double A-side in December 1984, the gals dive deep into the dramatic music videos, heartbreaking lyrics, and too-good trivia that make both songs karaoke favorites to this day. They also chat about the awkwardness of hanging out with an ex, the risk of breaking hip while sledding, and the pure cinematic value of strategically placed bed sheets, ah-ha ah, ah-ha ah, doo doo doo, la, la, la, la, la.
Last Christmas (Official Music Video)
Everything She Wants (Official Music Video)
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS! Cate and Lori decided to kill a bottle of wine and dish on 1989’s cult classic Heathers starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, and Shannen Doherty.
It’s no secret this film is "so very" with its dark humor and colorful characters (#teammartha), so the good time gals invite you to join their clique as they get into the red scrunchie of it all. But first, what's your damage, Heather?
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Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Pull up a chair as Cate and Lori dish on the iconic Thanksgiving episodes of Who's the Boss? and The Cosby Show!
The gals talk turkey about The Cosby Show —"Bonjour, Sondra" (Season 1, Episode 10) and Who's the Boss? — "Thanksgiving at Mrs. Rossini's" (Season 2, Episode 9).
Consider it all of the best parts of Thanksgiving as the ladies serve up extra helpings of the delicious sarcasm you love and none of the yucky side dishes you don't.
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
WE ARE THE YOUTH GONE WILD! Join Cate and Lori as they rock out to an album near and dear to their 8th grade hearts — Skid Row’s 1989 self-titled debut album.
Crank the volume as the gals discuss all the *ahem* feelings Sebastian Bach’s low-rise leather pants and high cheekbones gave them, while revisiting the music videos of the singles from this anthem-rich album.
Come for the bottle-throwing, bad-behaving Bach, stay for the candid convos involving bedside table drawers, online dating, and of course, Gilmore Girls.
Skid Row - 18 and Life (Official Music Video)
Skid Row - I Remember You (Official Music Video)
Skid Row - Youth Gone Wild (Official Music Video)
Skid Row - Live at Wembley Stadium (1991)
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Cue the glitter cannon! Cate and Lori are kicking off their Sunday shoes to dish on 1984’s classic feel-good film, Footloose, starring Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, SJP, and a red boot-wearing Lori Singer.
Join the girls as they talk about tractor chicken, the effect of rock-and-roll's "gospel of easy sexuality and relaxed morality" on their adolescence, manic pixie dream girls, and the sometimes overwhelming urge to dance your ass off in a warehouse.
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Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Cate and Lori's pop-culture origin story starts like so many origin stories ... with a virgin — Madonna’s iconic 1984 album, Like a Virgin, that is.
This was the album that started it all for them. And by “started it all”, we're talking cul-de-sac lip-sync battles courtesy of their pastel pink boombox.
Madonna - Like A Virgin (Official Music Video)
Madonna - Like A Virgin (Live MTV VMAs 1984)
Madonna - Material Girl (Official Music Video)
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