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Hop in the backseat and buckle up, because we’re taking you on an epic road trip adventure to the GenX capital of the world — SEATTLE! So forgive the road noise and pop open your Pringles as we rehash a questionable road trip we took in high school, Lori’s first time drinking, Cate breaking and entering, very real dangers on the road, and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ”ding dong”, but not before Cate sprinkles herself throughout history and Lori asks for a better seat in a restaurant.

We don’t have a new episode this week for one very good reason! Cate and I are hitting the road for an epic road trip adventure to the home of all things GenX. Yep, I’m talking about Seattle, WA!  We’re going to try to podcast on the road (so stay tuned for that), but in the meantime, in honor of the theatrical release of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret., we’d like to offer a very special encore presentation of our Season 1 episode where Cate and I cover this Judy Bloom classic, while sharing our own coming to terms with coming of age. It’s all bras and periods and hormones, so take special care while listening!

Grab your caftan and settle into some wicker. My pal and confidant Jessica Ashley joins me to talk all about getting older, getting wiser, and getting golden in Season 5, Episodes 1 & 2 of The Golden Girls titled “Sick and Tired - parts 1 and 2” (aka “Dorothy Is Dismissed by Her Doctors”).

We’re here to warm your cold, cold hearts as we revisit 1992’s romcom comfort classic The Cutting Edge, a film about ice princesses, Pamchenkos, and of course, toe picks!  From sex in the Olympic Village, men with cutting edges, signature dude dick moves, and pounding tequila shots, to Cate getting nursey, Lori forever falling, and our mutual adoration of movie montages, we skate through our eternal love for this iconic feel-good figure skating film.

We’re taking you somewhere over the rainbow into the bowels of the Emerald City to revisit a fever dream from our youth as we hitch a ride on the gump to join Dorothy and her misfit pals in Return to Oz, the dark fantasy adventure responsible for our collective childhood trauma.

Don’t go mistaking paradise for a pair of long legs, and don’t go thinking there was ever a better Gen X love triangle than Some Kind of Wonderful. Friend of the pod and resident cool guy Kenny Stach joins us as we talk all about the risks and rewards of being in love with a friend, stalker Keith, naked girls in locker rooms, THAT KISS, kissable Watts, awkward dates, guyliner, sad paintings, and how a lack of shallowness doesn’t make you deep.

If you’ve ever pondered the sometimes fuzzy line between love vs. sacrifice … or helping vs. enabling … or beloved children’s classic vs. entitled child’s manifesto, then this episode is for you. We’re turning the pages of Shel Silverstein’s classic, The Giving Tree and exploring the themes we thought we loved (???), while unraveling the enigma of the renaissance man himself.

As a nod to the “teenage dirtbag” trend, we’re kicking it back to the good hair and bad attitude of our quintessential ‘90s queen, Alicia Silverstone and her epic Aerosmith video trilogy. From “Cryin’” to “Amazing” to “Crazy”, we dive deep into the music videos that inspired us to kick ass, love hard, and live free — all while looking sexy as hell.

Welcome-ish to (what we have so far for) Season 4! Cate, my childhood best friend and your favorite GenX cohost is here to rock your world as we to break down the sex, single life, and Seattle sound of 1992’s GenX classic, Singles. From ”the show up”, video dating, and what we can only assume is an important missing scene, to totally hating Debbie, peak ’90s adulting, and the Friends connection you never saw coming, we explore the emotional larceny of being totally lost in love.

WE ARE THE YOUTH GONE WILD! Join Cate and Lori ON REPEAT 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.

Cate and Lori are back ON REPEAT 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.

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. The ladies also talk dining and dashing, cartoon crushes, getting sweaty and sexy, and trying again until you get it right.