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The Daily Whatever, Jun 12: genxy meets GenXcellent

Y'all! It's our 'Brady Bunch' meets 'The Partridge Family' episode!

Chat, we had so much fun with

from today! It totally smelled like teen spirit up in the joint, full on Marsha! Marsha! Marsha! meets the Tarantula Tiki God episode times infinity +1. What am I saying?

meets was a kick in the pants! A house on fire! By the end of the hour we all agreed that there wasn’t enough time, and that we could have kept going, well, forever. Because one thing we’ve learned, if you get two or more GenXers talking about being GenX? There’s nothing that can shut us the fuck up. NOTHING.

It was great to learn Liz’s backstory in psychology, and how that led her to creating GenXellent. We talked about GenX stuff, and then dug into one of her stories

GenXcellent
What the Birth of Social Media Was Like For Gen X: the good, the bad, and the whatever
Remember what it was like back in the day when a close friend moved away? You’d feel deep sadness knowing you won’t be able to hang out with them anymore and fear you’ll both “lose touch”. You and your BFF would start missing each other before they even relocated, and a sense of anxious dread would permeate the air leading up to the separation…
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Which includes my fave pic of all time:

(The freaky thing is, the hair makes it so you think you actually remember all those girls!)

We learned about Liz’s awesome dude,

and their parenting style, and generally had a blast. Dana and Liz are working on a scholarly study, “The Prevalence of GenX Women Choosing Men Exactly The Opposite Of Their Dads For Partners Is One Hundred Percent.”

We laughed, we cried; this chat became a part of us. It was much better than Cats! We want to do it again and again.

Seriously, tho, Liz, you are fantastic, and you are welcome back to speak with us here at genXy anytime!

Thank you

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Join us as we talk to

tomorrow for Fucked-up Friday!


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