May 24, 2025 • 48 mins
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Remember when a birthday party meant friends, pizza, and a Mylar balloon that floated in your house for months? When financial advice was more reassuring than "we just don't know"? When the sound of race cars echoed through an entire city on Memorial Day weekend?
In this episode, Megan and Lesley dive into the unique experience of growing up as latchkey kids in the 1980s—a generation whose parents were busy "doing shit" and sometimes forgot we existed. The conversation takes a timely turn when Megan shares her recent financial advisor meeting, where the typical reassurances about market stability were notably absent. Suddenly, our grandparents' habit of hiding cash in aluminum foil and cereal boxes seems less paranoid and more prophetic.
Childhood birthday celebrations become a lens to examine generational shifts. The hosts reminisce about simple pool parties, roller skating outings, and Showbiz Pizza gatherings of their youth, complete with Rock-a-Fire Explosion animatronics and Madonna's "Lucky Star" blasting in the background. These memories stand in stark contrast to the elaborate productions many Gen Xers now create for their own children—complete with pony rides and themed extravaganzas. Is this overcompensation for our latchkey upbringing or just succumbing to party competition pressure?
The episode also pays tribute to George Wendt, known to most as Norm from Cheers, imagining his funeral where everyone shouts "NORM!" as the casket enters. As Memorial Day approaches, they explore what the holiday weekend means in Indianapolis—from the unmistakable sound of race cars heard throughout the city to family cookouts marking the unofficial start of summer.
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Megan (00:00):
I'm Megan Bennett,
Lesley (00:01):
I'm Lesley Meier
Megan (00:02):
and this is Gen X Women Are Sick of this Shit.
Hi Lesley
Lesley (00:12):
Hi Megan
Megan (00:14):
as if you were surprised that I am sitting next to you
calling.
Hi Hi.
How the heck are you?
Lesley (00:20):
I'm great.
How are you?
Megan (00:23):
I'm okay.
Lesley (00:25):
What's happening to us today?
I think I might have to do thisbecause now I'm very
conscientious of turning.
Megan (00:30):
So I'm going to narrate what you're doing.
She's moving her microphone.
Lesley (00:33):
I'm moving it Not too loudly.
I hope I can't hear, so Iwouldn't know.
Megan (00:38):
We don't have headphones on.
It's weird.
Lesley (00:47):
Why don't we have headphones on today, Megan?
Megan (00:47):
We are getting our photos taken as we do a podcast which
is hilarious
Lesley (00:49):
as we over-articulate and over-express.
Megan (00:50):
And don't lean too much and don't show your double chin
and fuck there's so many rules.
Our photographer is like ataskmaster, Head down chin out.
Lesley (01:01):
We're doing great, suck it in.
We're hanging out.
Yeah, anyway, we're doing apodcast and doing branding
photos at the same time, whichmeans we have makeup on and we
look all glowy.
We do.
We look like we're either goingto dinner or we're both the
mother of the bride.
Megan (01:15):
I'm going to Lowe's after this.
Lesley (01:17):
I'm going to go to Costco.
Megan (01:19):
We are fucking awesome.
Lesley (01:20):
That's the real life.
Yes, are fucking awesome, thereal life yes, the one and only
time of my life I've worneyelashes.
I'm going to costco.
Megan (01:34):
Hell, yes, you are .
I think you are gonna justbadass that
Lesley (01:35):
.
I'm just gonna walk around andgo up and down the alcohol
aisles
Megan (01:37):
and looking glamorous.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
you pick that up for me?
Lesley (01:38):
I'm so sorry, I would like that it's been like a fun
morning.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We had like professional grown up people
here, wonderful women.
Lesley (01:46):
Making us look grown up.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Who are much wiser about things than we are.
Things like this Like lookinglovely, precious and Consuela
and they were awesome.
They were good.
Thank you for being so generousand kind, and my favorite part
of our time together was hearingthem complain about people that
(02:07):
are younger than them.
Lesley (02:08):
Yeah, there was a little bit of that.
I'm so old.
I was like okay, that's also myfavorite thing, it's also my
favorite thing when my24-year-old daughter says the
same fucking thing yes, You'relike wait, Just wait, Just wait.
But you know like our parentsprobably would say the exact
same things about us, rightright, like really, are we
actually functionally different,as we know?
(02:28):
I don't think so no, I just knowwe like to think that we are
different than our parents.
We probably are a littledifferent from our parents.
Let's be honest.
Well, that's the truth, but andare our kids that much
different than us?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
evidenced by many an article on the internet.
The 80ss Feral man.
I mean.
We were just raised different.
Yes, latchkey kids raiseddifferent.
Lesley (02:49):
Yep, yep.
Our parents were out doing shitLots of people on the internet
and kind of forgot that we werethere.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
They just assumed that theycould be as then you know
there's probably an issue whenthere's a PSA that says by the
(03:17):
way, you old alcoholics, whereare your kids?
Lesley (03:21):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Then there could be something going on there.
Lesley (03:25):
Yes, that probably means that maybe there is an issue.
Yeah, for sure.
So, boomers, we see you, weknow what you did.
We do and we judge you for it.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We do we do Stop hoarding all the wealth Retire
you fuckers, die Don't, die,don't die.
Yet Not before, don't die,don't die yet.
Oh well, just retire, time,just retire, retire, just retire
leave the senate, stop dying inthe senate.
Megan (03:52):
Consider maybe, yes, buying a farm in the country.
Raise some chickens you'veearned it, just relax.
Lesley (03:58):
You're the only people that are going to have a
retirement period.
Go spend it that's fucking true,and so so timely and sad for me
, I can't even tell you oh, thisties into what shit you're sick
of today.
Tell me all about what shit youare sick of today.
Megan (04:14):
Well so, I'm, of course, I'm always sick of the state of
the world because of the stateof the world, um, but I went to
see.
I went to see my husband and Iwent to see our financial
advisor.
Today, you're so adult, I'm soglad you got one of those.
It's because of him.
It has nothing to do with me.
I would forget.
Good job.
You know, whatever, good jobspouse.
Yes, spouse does good.
So went to see them.
(04:37):
We have, you know, ourportfolio.
We were looking at ourportfolio, we were going over
all of our stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You hear this.
We should get one of those.
You should have one of these.
Lesley (04:47):
You should have a portfolio, you should have a
financial advisor.
Everybody should probably havea financial advisor, because,
whether or not you've saved forretirement or whatever, it's a
good thing to have yes, somebodytelling you what to do and you
can start anytime.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
As we have learned in our workshops that you have
done.
Lesley (05:04):
Yep, you do not have to wait until the bitter end, right
, you can start now.
So we went over everything.
It was fine.
It looks like maybe we'll beable to retire, maybe.
So that's good.
Great sitting with yourfinancial advisor and you're
(05:30):
saying to them I am concernedabout, maybe, the way that our
current president is just sortof throwing shit at a wall like
spaghetti and just doing shitall the time.
Yeah, and we can't anticipatewhat the hell's going to happen.
I'm a little nervous about that, certainly.
And you kind of want yourfinancial advisor to go.
You know what?
It's okay, everybody's alwaysgoing to need toilet paper.
Everybody's always going toneed you know like tampons and
(05:53):
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Right.
Yep so don't worry about it.
Lesley (05:56):
That's what you expect.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's what you hope to hear.
Lesley (05:59):
That's not really exactly how things went down.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
What did you?
Lesley (06:02):
fear.
Today he clearly is as nervousas we are.
Oh, he was like he put on agood brave face right, Put on a
brave face.
Yeah, he was like you know, wejust don't know.
I'm like that's not what.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I wanted to hear it's extraordinary, yeah, no one's
never been.
Lesley (06:21):
He's never done that Like we go every single year and
every single year I'll walk inand be like I feel like I need
to take all of my money out andput it in a gold bullion and
hide it in my basement.
He's like no, no, no.
He's like oh hush your mouth.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Everything's fine, the stock market is fine.
Just keep gambling, just keepgoing.
Lesley (06:35):
You got years before you retire, it's fine made the joke
, the bullion joke, and he wentwell, you know, if you do that
it's gonna he was.
He didn't say do it uh-huh, buthe didn't say don't do it
nearly as aggressively as he hasin the past.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
This is the moment you know, like how, when folks
die let's say like silent genfolks maybe older boomers, but
definitely silent gen and you goto like liquidate their house
and you find like a half amillion dollars in the mattress.
Yes, yes, yes.
This is why, yes, I know, andfor years we've been like that's
(07:12):
so crazy.
Megan (07:14):
Why would you have kept those?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Civil.
War bonds up there.
What did you do with all thatmoney in the mattress that burnt
down when your house burnt downand they were like do you
remember the Great Depression?
Lesley (07:33):
My grandmother would hide money in aluminum foil in
either the freezer or in cerealboxes.
So you would go and like pouryourself a big bowl of frosted
flakes and a 20 spot would fallout.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's like winning the fucking lottery.
What was the foil?
Lesley (07:45):
for I think it was to preserve it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't know Like did it keep it from getting wet it
might have been a.
Lesley (07:51):
You know, I won't forget it if it's, you know, just Fair
yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I mean you probably would protect it from the
elements a bit too, like youwouldn't have dampen it, but now
is the time.
I mean, this is the first timewhere I'm like I think we should
just stuff cash places likeyeah, I mean they you know it
doesn't.
Lesley (08:12):
If you have money in the , in the market, it doesn't make
sense to pull it out becauseyou get taxed so much on it then
it's like well, that's dumb.
So he, you know, he of courseadvises not to do that.
Yeah, he just wasn't nearly asaggressive about his advice not
to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So my favorite part of this conversation is that
there are two women who knownothing about investing in
finance really talking like weknow something, like that we're
smart about it.
Lesley (08:41):
Yeah, I don't know shit about it, but that's why I have
a financial advisor.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
This is good.
Okay, so on my list.
Financial advisor find one getone of those there we go love it
.
Get one of those brilliant,good idea.
Lesley (08:54):
Anyway, I'm sick of the fact that I can't trust my
financial advisor to just makeme feel, feel good that there's
not enough confidence in themarket currently correct.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Does that make me sound smart?
Lesley (09:05):
It does you sound very smart, thank you.
Thank you, you sound like youknow what the hell you're
talking about.
I went to college.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
At some point in my life, you smarty, smarty.
This is when we would dobullshit and hot goss, or as we
like to call it.
Who died this week?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
well, that's what seems like it's turned into
probably start to.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We need theme music for who died this week I I don't
know what it's gonna be oh, Ihope it's really gothic and dark
and you know, oh, that's fan ofthe opera, that'll get you sued
.
That's not quite what we needfor who died this?
Lesley (09:41):
week.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
That'll get you sued, that's not quite what we need
for who Died this?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Week.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That'll get you sued.
Maybe we'll have producer Timwrite a theme song for who Died
this Week.
Lesley (09:50):
Oh, a who Died this Week score.
Who Died this Theme Song Week Ascore, a full score for the Gen
X.
Women are sick of this shitscore.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
But it is a little sad because who died this week?
Norm, norm From Cheers yeah.
Megan (10:07):
He has a real name George Wendt.
Lesley (10:09):
We were reminded Don't forget, norm had a real name.
Norm had a real name besidesNorm, and that is important
because but you know, at hisfuneral people are going to be
yelling that.
Oh my god, like they carry thecasket down the aisle Absolutely
, everybody at one time, as theyPeople are going to be yelling
that oh right, like as like,they carry the casket down the
aisle Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Everybody, everybody at one time, as they walk, as it
walks in will shout Norm.
So George went, played Norm andappeared on.
I didn't know this.
All 275 episodes of.
Cheers All of them.
Which started in 1982.
Thank God for the Internet andran for 11 seasons 1982, I would
(10:48):
have been 11 whole years old.
I was nine.
That's crazy.
I was an infant, yep, I didn'tget any.
Lesley (10:56):
I didn't get a lot of the jokes when I was 11.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
No, no, no probably not.
Lesley (11:03):
Didn't understand you.
You know things like drinkingtoo much and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I don't know, but those weren't on the list.
Ted Danson, rhea Perlman alwaysfunny, yes, uh, john
Ratzenberger.
Lesley (11:20):
I do so.
Cast, and crew, who all isstill standing?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
we know this is one of the Ted Danson's around
there's so many I don't knowLike right Rhea.
Perlman.
Lesley (11:30):
Rhea Perlman.
I think John's passed.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Kelsey Grammer Right.
John Ratzenberger, I think hepassed.
He died, didn't he?
Lesley (11:37):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We're looking at.
Lesley (11:38):
Producer.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Tim get on it.
Lesley (11:40):
Kelsey Grammer's around.
He's a drummer, kirstie Alley.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I heard that.
Lesley (11:46):
Shelley Long.
You can cut that out if youwant to no or not.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Whatever, Bebe Neuwirth still around.
Lesley (11:52):
Yeah, some of these other.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Of course, Woody Harrelson.
Lesley (11:55):
Were you a Shelley Long person or a Kirstie Alley person
?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I didn't realize I was supposed to have a team.
I really love Kirstie Alley asan actress, particularly then.
One of my friends in highschool, Dave, loved Kirstie
Alley's voice, Like we were allin theater together.
So when we were seniors, hewould just go on and on and on
(12:22):
about her and like her eyebrowsand he was like you kind.
Megan (12:24):
I kind of have these like Kirstie Alley eyebrows and I
was like, oh, You're like okay,buddy, but I Shelley Long was a
little annoying, I think.
Lesley (12:30):
Kirstie Alley had the like kind of sexier vibe.
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, I don't know who I would say, but like both
Her character was a littleannoying, Sure yeah.
Lesley (12:38):
I kind of I don't know, I mean, but they were supposed
to be annoying.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I'm just sorry that the women Are you getting?
Lesley (12:46):
a phone call I just got a phone call from Walgreens
because I haven't picked up aprescription.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Look at our technology.
We both have watches that callus.
It's really dumb, it'spreposterous.
I know, dick Tracy, do you talkin it sometimes?
I have before.
It's really weird.
Weird like walking the dog andlike talking in my watch.
I'm a dumbass.
Lesley (13:08):
We used to have phones that were just like on the wall
with a cord, and now we'retalking into our watches just
like star trek.
I wish no.
But then we go back to previouspodcasts where I'm like, yeah,
okay, so when do I get to beamfrom someplace to another place?
This is the thing.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
What, oh god something all I get is to talk
into my watch.
I was like I just, I just wantto beam.
Can you beam over?
I don't know what it was.
I literally said this Beam overmy door dash, beam over my door
dash.
I guess it would be beam dash,it's fine Beam dash no.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I'm so disappointed in both of you, right now.
Because you don't have to beamyour food, you replicate it in a
device in the wall.
Lesley (13:44):
Oh, of course, of course , you know what?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I'm so sorry, you make a very good point.
Lesley (13:48):
I am sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Thank you.
Lesley (13:50):
You're right, I should be replicating my food Earl Grey
, earl Grey, hot, hot, there itis.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That takes us all the way around.
So did you watch Tears as ayoung person?
Not, I mean, like in your teens.
Lesley (14:04):
Not a whole lot.
It wasn't one of my go-tos.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, like everybody knew the theme song right, yeah
, it was always on.
Always on.
Lesley (14:12):
And wasn't there like a time, in the 90s too, where it
was like reruns all day, every?
Day of Cheers, like you couldturn on any number of channels
and you'd be like, hey, cheers,cheers, any number of channels
and you'd be like, hey, cheers,it's a comfort show.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah, because what they would do is they would run
through their season and whenthe season ended, they would
start the reruns until the nextproduction because they didn't
want to lose the time slot.
Lesley (14:37):
They don't want to lose the audience.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
They don't want to use the revenue from the spots
Yep good points.
And it was funny.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I mean yeah, there you go.
It was funny.
Lesley (14:47):
That was kind of the prime time of television though
too, yes Like there were so manygood things you could watch Yep
, so there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
That's that I have a tiny Cheers related five minutes
of fame.
Lesley (14:57):
Oh, I want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I want to hear it.
Should we do it now or shouldwe do it later?
What else are we talking abouttoday?
Lesley (15:03):
Birthdays.
I think you wanted to talkabout it because, well, we'll
get into that in a second.
We'll get into that Go aheadand tell your story.
Okay, we'll do it early.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Okay.
So we did that segment and thatsegment and now we're going to
so five minutes of fame.
Woody Harrelson on Cheers right, if we were doing video, I
could like share a photo.
So I went to Hanover College inSouthern Indiana.
Woody Harrelson graduateHanover College in Southern
Indiana.
I did not know that.
(15:30):
Yes, that's where he went toschool for theater and left and
went off and made his career.
So his theater professor and mytheater professor were the same
Tom Evans, wonderful humanbeing.
So I happened to be there.
I was like a junior.
I think I was a junior the yearthat the school and Tom got
(15:50):
Woody to come back and do likean alumni show.
So, there was a class, the classof 1973 was like a big damn
deal.
At Hanover they had gone to theKennedy Center and done a play
called the Diviners, written byJim Leonard Jr, nice.
So the timing was right foreverybody.
(16:10):
Tom brought back, doc Evansbrought back some actors from
the class of 73 from thatoriginal show.
I love it.
And then Woody came back to dothe lead role, so my roommate
leila and I were the only twoundergrads cast in that show
well congratulations.
All an alumni cast and then thetwo of us.
(16:32):
So we were like we're bigfucking shit no shit in our
brains, uh.
So we hung out, so we did itduring our spring term.
We did like two weekends forthe public.
Of course we sold out.
It was a big deal that woodywas back, so, yeah, we all hung
out for like a month.
Lesley (16:48):
Everybody is sitting here thinking did you get high
with woody?
I did not.
Oh, I feel like that might havebeen a missed opportunity.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I drank a lot with everybody in the cast Like they
were all.
It was sort of like this A lotof the guys who had been in
theater in the 80s had also comeback that's when Woody
graduated and it was kind oflike this sort of like frat
theater reunion.
Like all the guys had one houseand all the women were in
another house because they werehoused, while they were intent
(17:17):
to do the show.
Uh, everybody showed up.
You were all supposed to bememorized.
Of course, woody was notmemorized, so that was my big
like running lines on the lawnhanging out.
We drank a lot of beer.
The show made no money becausethey spent it all on food and
beer and then salaries for allof the SAG-AFTRA actors.
Lesley (17:39):
So if you just ran into Woody right now, would you feel
comfortable going up and beinglike hey.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Woody, in the right situation.
Contextually, if we were at afundraiser or some sort of
something, something I would belike yeah.
Lesley (17:56):
But if you're just having dinner at a restaurant
and he's across the room.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I'm going to be 52 and I was 20.
So.
Lesley (18:06):
I was a little younger, a little hotter.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Not that you're not hot but the photo like we, we
all have like the same photostogether.
Like it was cool it was reallyfun.
That's really cute, like areally great, like a neat
opportunity for all of us to getto participate.
And he was a nice guy In that,and he was a nice guy.
Megan (18:26):
I mean he was there.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
His partner was there .
She had one of their babiesthere.
Cute it was you know, but itwas wild because then the
partners or the other adultswould leave and we were all just
fucking wasted all the time.
It was great.
I mean, it was a big fuckingparty.
Megan (18:43):
I love it, but the universe.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
We weren't a universe .
The college made nothing.
I think it lost money.
The goal probably wasn't tomake money right, Maybe I was
supposed to make a woman.
Oh wow, they shouldn't havespent more than they made.
How about that?
But it was very cool.
So, there you go.
I love it.
(19:05):
Thank you for sharing that.
Lesley (19:06):
Five minutes of fame.
I think Woody Harrelson's great.
I'm very happy to hear thathe's a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, he's a nice guy .
We had a good time Cool.
He likes everything organic,unsurprisingly.
Lesley (19:15):
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That's true.
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Well, hi, we're back.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Hi, and we're back, and we're back.
Oh my gosh, leslie.
Lesley (21:37):
Megan, and we're back, and we're back.
Oh my gosh, leslie, megan, itoccurs to me it is your birthday
coming up super duper, fastSoon the end of the month, you
sweet, sweet young Gemini Earlyearly.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Gemini.
I am an early Gemini.
I'm the freshest of the season,the freshest of Geminis.
So happy early birthday.
Cheers, thanks cheers.
I'm excited about it.
I'm gonna be the big five.
Two, uh, so technically still,I'm two inches taller than my
age, which I'm excited about.
Yeah, very nice, but at somepoint that won't be true anymore
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.
Lesley (22:14):
Yes, this year for me, I will be shorter than my age.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh.
Lesley (22:21):
Ouch Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
By a year.
Oh, I'll be 54.
The big 5'4" yeah.
Lesley (22:28):
So that's mid-June.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh, okay, so we can do a birthday episode there too.
I'm a later Gemini, that'sexciting.
Oh, you're a well-seasonedGemini.
Lesley (22:35):
That's exciting, oh you're a well-seasoned Gemini.
Yes, I'm an old crotchetyGemini.
Why did it?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
say that.
Yes, it's true, my birthday isthe end of May and birthday
party weekend would alwaysfucking correspond with fucking
Memorial Day.
Lesley (22:51):
You really have a mad on about Memorial Day, don't you?
And do you know why that sucks?
I'm going to guess yes day,don't you?
And do you know why that sucks?
I'm gonna?
I'm gonna guess, yes, it'sbecause you were overshined,
yeah, by, like you know, hotdogs and cookouts, and family
shit.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Nobody comes racing.
Gd birthday party.
I had a fucking pool.
I couldn't get people to go tomy gd birthday party.
You want to know?
Lesley (23:14):
why?
Because they went to theindianapolis 500 race yes, they
did, those motherfuckers yeah,we used to leave town.
My husband and I used to leavetown for memorial day.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, like to get away from it or just we're kind
of.
Lesley (23:28):
Now we're getting more into the race, so backstory
right for everybody like just ifyou're not from indianapolis.
You have no clue what we'retalking about um, and if you're
not a racing person, but we havea very large racetrack, two and
a half miles oval in.
Speedway Indiana, which is, yeah, it's what like a 15 minute
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drive from here, probably 20minute, maybe 20.
The thing about the racetrackin Indianapolis is it doesn't
matter where you are in the cityon race day, you can hear the
cars.
It's loud, yes, which is kindof it's kind of cool.
I mean it's kind of cool, it is.
I think it's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But it is cool.
Yeah, I mean as an adult I cansay that.
As a child I know that, whatthe fuck is that.
Lesley (24:15):
Yeah, I was like what the fuck is that?
Yeah, I've got Father's Dayaround my birthday.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And it's like fuck you Father's.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's my birthday, so I hear that I hear that, yeah,
fuck you Father's Day.
Right, we can change it.
We could.
Let's petition.
I've heard you can just changeholidays at will.
Now, yes, this is what I'velearned.
Lesley (24:34):
Yes, because I think Memorial Day weekend now is
World War II.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Victory Day or some bullshit.
That is so Well, and you knowthe working people of the United
States.
They have too many days offanyway.
Let me tell you.
Lesley (24:50):
It sucks being plebes.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
So birthday party or not is kind of like the theme of
the day Right party or not.
Is is kind of like the theme ofthe day like right.
We were like, okay, well, whatdid gen x kids do for their
birthdays?
Lesley (25:04):
what was so okay, so nobody came to your pool party.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I mean, you probably still had eventually people did
come to the pool party, but italways conflicted with the race
I guess we were having it onsund too, which seems dumb.
Lesley (25:17):
Were you always doing a birthday I mean always doing a
birthday party at the pool, ordid you have birthday parties in
other places?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So let me give you a big long uh okay, I remember in
preschool they were just at myhouse.
This was before we had a pool.
We were a family in the 80s whoowned a pool.
That's pretty cool.
Lesley (25:40):
In ground above ground.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was an in-ground pool.
My parents.
This is in the olden days, kids, when you could save up money
to acquire things in areasonable amount of time with a
single income in your family.
Lesley (25:57):
Yeah, pools are like 20 grand now family that was well
under three digits.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Like my dad just worked for GM.
Right, we were not wealthy, butyou could afford to do stuff,
save up enough to put a pool in.
So my parents had built a houseout in the middle of nowhere.
To me it was a giant house.
In retrospect, when I go backand see it, it is a very small
house but they built a house,like in the olden days when you
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could just go build a house on alittle acre of land and I think
within the first probably twoyears that we were there, they
saved enough to at least putlike the down payment down and
have so of course, we invitedpeople over yeah and that's cool
, but I also did live very faraway from everybody.
Lesley (26:42):
I'm sure that was also a deterrent like I want to go to
the pool.
Yeah, it's gonna take me halfan hour to get there, so you're
not.
Yeah, slow your roller.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So like home parties, though, were a lot of the
things that kids did.
And then I think, like Iremember distinctly, I had a
home party.
It was probably kindergarten,okay, and the only reason I
remember this is I think it wasa boy named David gave me a
little crystal snow white, itwas really plastic, but to me it
was crystal, yeah and I justthought that surely meant that
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he had the crush, oh yeah, on me.
But I do remember getting thatgift and I have big like sensory
memories of that being in thebackyard.
And then when I was a bit olderlike over, you know, probably
like 9, 10, 11, 12 pool partieswould have been the thing, um,
but I do remember, like whenshowbiz came about, that was a
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party place.
Oh heck, yeah, I recall thatand I recall run out the.
Lesley (27:41):
I think they always had like the.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You could get a big table in there yes, like in the
performance room right yeah,yeah, yeah, you get a big table
there and you could do like thewhole rock, fire, explosion cake
and pizzas and and that's whenthey had real video games like
and I think did the rockeflierexplosion cake.
Lesley (28:01):
It didn't have icing on it.
Is that right?
Didn't they just put like?
Oh, I think they just put likelike ice cream on it I have no
memory of this I hear ourproducer tapping away.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I know he's like, he's like, well, I gotta know
this, uh, but I don, I don'tknow, was it an ice cream cake?
Lesley (28:19):
I don't.
I think it was just like here'syour cake, no icing, and your
and your ice cream.
I could completely be makingthis shit up.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I mean, we make up many things.
It could totally be possible.
I don't know.
I have no memory of that.
Oh, here's a party.
Did you ever go to a McDonald'sbirthday party?
Lesley (28:36):
Oh my God.
So I'm sure I did, I'm sure Idid.
They were weird.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Ronald was on the cake.
I mean you were at a McDonald'sfirst of all.
And you had like hats, and shit, and then you were getting
Happy Meals.
Lesley (28:50):
essentially, you had like a Grimace hat.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, and then like a Ronald McDonald cake.
Lesley (28:54):
But like that was the thing they had icing they had
icing Okay.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
All right.
Lesley (28:58):
Then I take it back.
I'm sorry.
Rock-a-fire Explosion.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I didn't mean to insult your cakes 80s cakes and
say that they were unfrosted.
Lesley (29:07):
Please don't sue me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Part of me was like who would serve a child an
unfrosted cake?
But whatever, you'll serve akid whatever and they'll take it
.
Lesley (29:15):
Yeah, and they'll take it and they'll like it.
They'll be like thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Please may I have another?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Especially in the 80s .
Lesley (29:20):
Right, we were fucking lucky, you were lucky, you've
got cake.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I I went to one showbiz party clear memories of
this I was definitely under 10years old.
It was my friend, rebeccaRobinson, and her mother who was
the most beautiful woman I hadever seen in my whole life.
She looked like Diana Ross andshe smelled so fucking good.
Gave her a to us life-size wallhanging of Michael Jackson, and
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you have never seen littlegirls lose control of their
faculties so fast as with alife-size wall hanging of
Michael.
Lesley (29:58):
Jackson, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
A, there's just the like group.
We're all going to have thesame feeling kind of experience.
Yes, and then it was just, itwas Michael Jackson.
Lesley (30:07):
You just fed off of each other.
We were just.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
And you had to like out, squeal one another.
And it was just, it was MichaelJackson.
You just fed off of each other.
We were just.
And you had to like out, squealone another.
And like she cried, you know,we were all he could have walked
in the fucking showbiz.
Lesley (30:16):
It would have been less, maybe less exciting if he
walked in.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Because we would have just shit our pants.
My God, what's happening?
So that's one party.
This is just a wild rambling.
Yeah, so that's one party.
This is just a wild ramblinghere we go.
And then the other one also aRebecca Robinson birthday party.
She used to live downtown atthe Glove Factory and that was
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posh business.
Megan (30:45):
We were probably 12, maybe 13.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And her mom rented the like rec room or something
down there and I remember thelineup of tapes included madonna
lucky star.
Okay, we were, that had justcome out, we're playing and we
were doing all the dance thedance from the video right, 12
year old girl should not bedoing.
Right, we were doing that.
And then we had prince purplerain and cindy lapper she bop.
Oh, girls just want to have fun.
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Oh, you had a full educationUnknown to us.
Lesley (31:13):
You didn't have any Raspberry Beret or anything
right, Because that would havebeen like a no, that was
probably.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
That was probably Purple Rain.
Raspberry Beret would have comeout.
Give me a date.
Lesley (31:26):
No, no, darling Nikki, this is what happens.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
No, that was on Purple Rain.
Oh shit, we had the adults thewhole thing.
Darling Nikki was on.
There was no edited tape.
Lesley (31:34):
You just bought the tape .
No, there was no radio version1984.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
84 was.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Paisley Park.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
It's Purple Rain.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Oh, nice, so I was 11 .
Okay, yep, that all lines up.
O, that all lines up.
There we go, but we justthought we were the best man
gloves and the black bracelets,the black madonna bracelets and
her lucky star album cover shewas like.
So you know, we were all tryingto be so sexy and emulate that
we were 12 little mesh over oneeye oh yeah, yeah, so fucking
hot.
(32:03):
So those are my like middleschool, like elementary to
middle school.
This is what I remember about.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome, Idon't know we did.
Lesley (32:12):
We did the roller skating birthday parties.
So we place it around thecorner from us, that the roller
cave, and we would do birthdayparties in there, so that was
pretty fun.
Is that the roller cave thatstill exists?
Yeah, you can still go to theroller cave and it looks
remarkably like the roller caveof old oh yeah I could walk in
(32:36):
there with you and be like, ohyeah, that was here and that was
here.
Like the same lockers are there.
They still have the same tablesaround, uh, around, like their
little food court thing.
Oh, I love that, I'm sure, likeyou know, the pinball machines,
the video games and stuff likethat obviously changed up, but
like the walls look the same andoh yeah oh, yeah, the
bathroom's identical.
Yeah, so pretty fun.
(32:58):
I love that so I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
But I most of my memories are like of home
parties.
I'm kind of wondering, likewhen the pivot point was for
like oh people, people doinglike big roller skate parties,
showbiz pizza parties.
Lesley (33:11):
Yeah, well, and there wasn't that like desire really
to outdo people, like it wascool just to have people come
over and stay overnight and dolike stay up and watch movies
and eat pizza and absolutely,that was your birthday, right.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes and for me.
Oh and no, fucking balloonarches.
Lesley (33:27):
No, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You might get a Mylar blow up.
Happy birthday, maybe, one,maybe.
And that sucker would like,over over the next four weeks,
would slowly like come down fromthe ceiling and like be at eye
level for a while and you'd getup in the middle of night, go to
the bathroom and it's rightthere and scares the shit out of
you.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yes, and you'd get up in the middle of the night and
go to the bathroom and it's sortof like floating and it's right
there and scares the shit outof you.
Yes, a couple feet from theground or in the middle of the
night, it's like right here.
Yeah, it's like.
Lesley (33:54):
Or your cat gets a hold of it.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, all kinds of things, I love that.
Lesley (33:58):
That mylar balloon would last into your next birthday.
Yep, just having friends comeover and okay, and you know, not
really like party party um.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I remember my 16th birthday.
Lesley (34:14):
Um, my, my aunt, my great aunt, uh, owned a bakery
and she, um, so she made my cakethat year for my, for that big
sweet 16 thing.
So I remember that when thatwas a backyard party what was on
your?
Cake I can't remember.
I wish I could remember, but itwas special.
But I know she made it and thenMade with love.
(34:35):
Yes, we just had a backyard kindof hanging out party Okay, and
my kind of not really sort ofmaybe really wanted him to be
boyfriend.
A couple of years older than me, his name was Donovan.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Donovan came over and brought me a pink teddy bear
donovan.
Yeah, and the pink teddy bearoh, I loved him kind of not
maybe, but I wanted him to beyeah kind of maybe not really,
I'm not sure, but he brought youa pink teddy bear.
He did it was very sweet.
He was that's commitment, supersweet guy.
Lesley (35:06):
So I love that yeah but it's very sweet.
That was kind of that's kind ofthe birthday that I sort of
remember.
My traditional cake, though,was yeah baskin robbins ice, ice
cream cake roll, so they makelike they rolled up with their
you know thin amount of cake anda lot of um mint chocolate chip
ice cream because it always hasto be that, and then that icing
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on top and there.
Icing is ridiculously good, LikeI.
There's something about BaskinRobbins colored ice cream or
icing that's so good so I still,to this day, get a Baskin
Robbins ice cream cake roll.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
As well you should.
Lesley (35:42):
That sounds delicious I have eaten my weight plus, I
don't know, a pack of derm inice cream cake rolls.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You talking about.
That reminds me of the veryunique 80s experience of the
cookie cake.
Megan (36:00):
Oh yeah, when you could get them at the mall all the
time yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Because that was my go-to cake and the early the
real the OG cookie cake cakeplaces you would get a two-layer
cookie cake and it was likethis really fudgy frosting that
was in the middle so delicious,and I did have this memory of
wanting a dolphin cake one year,okay.
So my mom ordered me one and ithad like it was like on a
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dolphin, but it was sort of likea frosting me with like a
dolphin on it.
I do remember that Yum.
Lesley (36:33):
That was a good time.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
But they don't.
Lesley (36:36):
you can kind of get them now, but they're like single
layer, they're like they're not,I mean maybe, maybe a producer
Tim could be on the hunt for,for an original I wonder if you
could have one special made you?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
can I mean I special made you?
Can I mean I'm sure I'veordered?
I ordered a cookie cake for myson's birthday one year because
he was super into this like veryhyper specific movie, video
game, high school, and he wanteda video game, high school cake.
So I like, sent the logos andthey screen printed it on like a
frosting thing and put it on acookie cake.
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Nice, but he got what he wanted.
Lesley (37:08):
You know, the kids like I'm thinking about our birthdays
versus like what we did for mydaughter- oh okay, yes, so talk
about that ridiculous could notbe any more over the top
Megan (37:20):
why did that happen?
No fucking reason.
Lesley (37:22):
Well, so she's my one and only right like, so maybe
there was some something there.
But I mean who gives theirthree year old kid a fucking
pony at their grandma andgrandpa's backyard and like
invites all the friends over andthey do like pony rides in the?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
backyard, you did this?
Lesley (37:38):
Yes, I did.
I'm such a dork, but yeah, likenot one year.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
You lost your mind, Not one year but multiple years
we had a pony.
Pony rides, yep, that'sadorable, perfect, perfectly
nice pony and psychotic.
Lesley (37:53):
Yes, we also took a bunch of kids horseback riding
at a state park.
Okay, that was one year, let's.
Uh, we did um place calledmonkey joe's one year with, like
the I remember the monkey joe'sbig just absolutely like a
cesspool of good germs.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
So many germs, so many buggers.
You want to talk about poop inyour pants.
Oh, I know, monkey Joes wouldhave been it.
God, you just.
Lesley (38:20):
And they must, just like they have to right, Spray that
place down every night.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
One would hope.
Lesley (38:24):
Oh God.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Sort of like the McDonald's play place.
Right, stay out of the ball pit, right, right.
Lesley (38:32):
That ball pit's got more than just balls in it Uh-huh,
hypodermic needles, whatever youwant.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Whatever.
So why did that happen?
Do you think it was because wewere so neglected that we were
like overcompensating?
Lesley (38:44):
That is probably.
Are you going to feel special?
Yes, you tell me, but I thinkthat's probably right.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I think there's that, but also, like the party,
competition.
Yeah, oh that.
Lesley (38:54):
Absolutely, absolutely.
And we, gillian, went to alittle elementary school like
tiny little Catholic elementaryschool and when you only have X
number of kids and you gothrough this every grade level
with all of these kids there,then it's gonna be like a
fucking cage match do youremember six?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
can you outdo six right?
Lesley (39:16):
yeah, wait till my eighth man I got you eight.
We're gonna be go-karting andslaughtering gerbils, that's
right, we got first, we're gonnaI'll bathe in the blood of my
enemies.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I was a violent child , I guess.
Lesley (39:32):
So On the inside First we've got laser tag, and then
we've got, you know, whateverelse.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I do remember laser tag.
Laser tag was fun.
Laser tag was so fun.
Lesley (39:42):
I had a laser tag.
I think I got it for Christmasone year and it was like a set
that you had.
Those were super hip man.
I wish I had that now.
I'd still play it.
That'd be great fun.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
We could do adult laser tag, but slow-mo, so we
don't get hurt slow-mo laser tagI'm gonna do it in a wheelchair
.
So it is memorial day weekendin indianapolis and we talked
about the race.
Do you have any memories of theindy 500 as a child?
How did you know what the Indy500 was?
When did it come into likeawareness in your life?
(40:14):
Because for some people, it'shardcore.
Lesley (40:17):
It's hardcore.
I mean, I think growing up hereit's just kind of you just sort
of know.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Like it's on the radio at the same.
Lesley (40:24):
it's always on the radio when I was really little I mean
fresh baby, baby, fresh in ahigh chair.
Um, we would take the trainright, pink and clean and clean
and fresh as a little daisy.
Uh, we would.
We would take the train fromindianapolis down to florida.
No shit, my grandma, my grandmaand grandpa, that's cool.
(40:46):
It happened that one time,either going down or coming back
, we were on the train with paulpage, who was the voice of the
indianapolis 500 for many yearswow, and that's cool.
My mom jokes like he knew my momthey both worked in the radio
world and my mom jokes that thatwas my first date.
Was I sat in my high chair withPaul Page as my first date?
(41:10):
I?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
don't know, that's adorable.
Anyway, I'm a little weird, butokay, we understand A little
creepy and it was always cutewhen small children were paired
with much older men in the 80s.
There's no reason why we'refucked up.
It was the 80s.
Lesley (41:25):
It's fine, but yeah, so like I think we growing growing
up, we would always listen tothe radio.
Memorial day weekend you wouldhave like you'd cook out, you'd
have the radio on um yeah Inever really paid a bit of
attention to it.
It was just sort of always inthe background, sure, and over,
you know.
As you get older, over time,you know, then you start paying
(41:45):
attention to oh who's racingblah blah, blah and there's a
little more interest.
And you pick your winner andall that stuff.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, I do.
I remember that, just likelistening to it on the radio.
Megan (41:55):
It was really important to my dad to listen.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I mean just to have it on in that way.
When did you first go to the?
Lesley (42:03):
race.
I have never been to the raceitself.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
I've been to practices, but I've never been
to the race Not in real life.
Lesley (42:10):
I've been to the Brickyard, which is the NASCAR
thing.
Oh fun Do you like that?
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Okay, I would not have picked going, but I had
different experiences of beinginvited to go.
Yeah, but my first time goingwas in high school.
Now I did not have a rationalidea of what it was to go to the
race because I went with myboyfriend, whose dad was a heart
surgeon, and we went on achartered bus.
Lesley (42:36):
Oh wow, that is a fancy pants.
So that was my first experience.
I bet it was air conditionedand the whole bit I had to dress
up.
Oh my God.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
As a like 16-year-old girl.
Oh my God, I remember himtelling me like you gotta dress
up, like we're going with youknow what I I kind of.
Lesley (42:53):
I kind of lied because I have been to the race, I guess,
except I didn't.
I wasn't there to watch therace, I worked, so my husband
and I okay when we were dating,a friend of ours had like a
t-shirt business or like workedwith like somebody who had like
one of the big t-shirt things,and so we were in during, like
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leading up with practice andstuff like that.
We were selling t-shirts and sowe had to get up at the ass
crack of dawn even pre-ass crackof dawn to get there in order
to open the trailer and be readyfor race day To do all the
things.
It was a long, long day,because getting out of there is
hell yeah, but you made bank.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Did you?
Oh, that's amazing.
Lesley (43:37):
For a young, 27-year-old kid that was good money.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
You're like, yes, let's do it.
I did eventually, I think,post-college with my now
ex-husband.
He won't be surprised to hearthat he's aware we would go to
the race he was super in, but itwas all about like getting up
at the ass cracker so I swear togod, we would be up at like
three or four in the morningpacking the car into the infield
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.
You know all the stuff and thisis like right out of college.
So like I can still hold my own, yeah, lots of beer With quite
a bit of things.
And so just getting getting thecar load into the infield.
We did that a couple of times.
He also went a few timeswithout me, but yeah, so that
was when I understood what therace was Right.
Really.
Lesley (44:23):
So, besides the race, what is, and your birthday, of
course, what is the whole reasonwe have may right is what else
is memorial day weekend like for?
Speaker 3 (44:33):
you guys, so that as a kiddo it was like family kind
of picnics, hanging out pool.
I think if we would go anywherewe would go visit my mom's mom
in kentucky.
So we kind of have like a thingthere because Cause I remember
my dad's family coming down likemore like 4th of July Okay,
because they would come downfrom Fort Wayne during the brief
(44:55):
period when I got to have apool before dead mom they would
come- everybody would come downto swim.
Yeah, and so that was like a bigdeal.
Um, and then like now for um,it's a, I'll be working actually
on Monday, but not not at mypractice.
Like I'll be working actuallyon Monday but not at my practice
, Like I'll be working a littlebit for the bar on Monday.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
Oh, that's cool, I'll be open.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
So we'll be doing that.
But, like, mostly it's justlike hanging out here.
It's kind of the weekend we get.
We try to get the yard andeverything done.
Lesley (45:22):
There's always yard work right, there's always something
.
It's like the official openingof outside right, it's the first
day of summer kind of thing,that, uh, or the official start
of summer, like we always did,yard work and we'll do that
again this year it'll be likeabsolutely, because we're in the
midwest so we do mulch oh yeah,you know so we'll.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Yeah, I got mulch in my backyard right now waiting
we'll mulch uh, but yeah, andwe'll go to Menards to save big
money, save big money.
Call of the Midwest?
Lesley (45:52):
Yeah, I think we did.
I want to say we had familyreunions also oh, interesting At
the Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Say more about this family reunion.
Lesley (46:04):
I mean, my family is so small now compared to what it
was, but I remember as a littlelittle kid just tons of people
know the aunts, the uncles youknow, extended, extended,
extended family and we'd go meetat a park and you know, okay,
you'd have your, your gettogether a little potluck.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
A little potluck, maybe some grilling, yeah,
something like that a grilling alittle potluck.
Lesley (46:28):
some games Amazing.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
So it's the unofficial start of summer.
Happy almost summer, Megan.
I know we made it so nice.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
We're going to love the next four months.
It was a slog, Leslie.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
You're not kidding, sister.
Lesley (46:39):
It's still fucking cold here, I know I know.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Well, we should let these fine listeners go.
Lesley (46:44):
Hey, go have an amazing Memorial Day weekend you as well
, unless you're, you know,listening to this later, in
which case I hope your MemorialDay weekend was lovely.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
Yeah, but this will come out tomorrow.
You have been listening to GenX.
Women are sick of this shit.
Hey Megan, hey Leslie, what dopeople do if they want to find
us?
Megan (47:08):
Well, we have a website that people can find us on, and
that is GenXWomenPodcom.
We also have a Facebook page.
We have an Instagram account aswell.
We have a YouTube account wherewe put YouTube shorts and other
little tidbits up there.
We have a TikTok account.
(47:29):
I don't talk the dick or tickthe tock.
You don't tick the tock, Ibarely talk the tick.
But I did put a TikTok up.
We're explaining the internetto people again.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
That's okay, though it's great, we need to know how
the internet works.
Megan (47:43):
Can people buy merch?
They absolutely can.
We have a merch store on thewebsite itself, and we also have
an Etsy store too, so it's justpretty easy to find.
It's just Gen X Women on Etsy.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
And if you are listening to this podcast,
presumably you found itsomewhere.
And while you're there, give usa review.
Yeah.
Megan (48:06):
Let us know what you think.
Throw some stars at us, that'dbe great.
We'll take one, two, three,four or five, ooh, five, maybe
ten.
And also make sure that you arehitting subscribe so that
you're notified whenever a newepisode drops.
Most important, we also have afive minutes of fame that I
think we should tell peopleabout too.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Hell, yes, we want to know your stories, your five
minutes of fame stories.
You can send those stories inon the website or you can call
1-888-GEN-X-POD and leave yourstory for us and we will play it
live in our next episode we'lllisten to it on a little red
phone, just like batman.
Megan (48:48):
That'd be cool.
Let's get a bad phone A badphone.
I think that's it.
That'd be great.
I'm Megan Bennett,
Lesley (00:01):
I'm Lesley Meier
Megan (00:02):
and this is Gen X Women Are Sick of this Shit.
Hi Lesley
Lesley (00:12):
Hi Megan
Megan (00:14):
as if you were surprised that I am sitting next to you
calling.
Hi Hi.
How the heck are you?
Lesley (00:20):
I'm great.
How are you?
Megan (00:23):
I'm okay.
Lesley (00:25):
What's happening to us today?
I think I might have to do thisbecause now I'm very
conscientious of turning.
Megan (00:30):
So I'm going to narrate what you're doing.
She's moving her microphone.
Lesley (00:33):
I'm moving it Not too loudly.
I hope I can't hear, so Iwouldn't know.
Megan (00:38):
We don't have headphones on.
It's weird.
Lesley (00:47):
Why don't we have headphones on today, Megan?
Megan (00:47):
We are getting our photos taken as we do a podcast which
is hilarious
Lesley (00:49):
as we over-articulate and over-express.
Megan (00:50):
And don't lean too much and don't show your double chin
and fuck there's so many rules.
Our photographer is like ataskmaster, Head down chin out.
Lesley (01:01):
We're doing great, suck it in.
We're hanging out.
Yeah, anyway, we're doing apodcast and doing branding
photos at the same time, whichmeans we have makeup on and we
look all glowy.
We do.
We look like we're either goingto dinner or we're both the
mother of the bride.
Megan (01:15):
I'm going to Lowe's after this.
Lesley (01:17):
I'm going to go to Costco.
Megan (01:19):
We are fucking awesome.
Lesley (01:20):
That's the real life.
Yes, are fucking awesome, thereal life yes, the one and only
time of my life I've worneyelashes.
I'm going to costco.
Megan (01:34):
Hell, yes, you are .
I think you are gonna justbadass that
Lesley (01:35):
.
I'm just gonna walk around andgo up and down the alcohol
aisles
Megan (01:37):
and looking glamorous.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
you pick that up for me?
Lesley (01:38):
I'm so sorry, I would like that it's been like a fun
morning.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We had like professional grown up people
here, wonderful women.
Lesley (01:46):
Making us look grown up.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Who are much wiser about things than we are.
Things like this Like lookinglovely, precious and Consuela
and they were awesome.
They were good.
Thank you for being so generousand kind, and my favorite part
of our time together was hearingthem complain about people that
(02:07):
are younger than them.
Lesley (02:08):
Yeah, there was a little bit of that.
I'm so old.
I was like okay, that's also myfavorite thing, it's also my
favorite thing when my24-year-old daughter says the
same fucking thing yes, You'relike wait, Just wait, Just wait.
But you know like our parentsprobably would say the exact
same things about us, rightright, like really, are we
actually functionally different,as we know?
(02:28):
I don't think so no, I just knowwe like to think that we are
different than our parents.
We probably are a littledifferent from our parents.
Let's be honest.
Well, that's the truth, but andare our kids that much
different than us?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
evidenced by many an article on the internet.
The 80ss Feral man.
I mean.
We were just raised different.
Yes, latchkey kids raiseddifferent.
Lesley (02:49):
Yep, yep.
Our parents were out doing shitLots of people on the internet
and kind of forgot that we werethere.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
They just assumed that theycould be as then you know
there's probably an issue whenthere's a PSA that says by the
(03:17):
way, you old alcoholics, whereare your kids?
Lesley (03:21):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Then there could be something going on there.
Lesley (03:25):
Yes, that probably means that maybe there is an issue.
Yeah, for sure.
So, boomers, we see you, weknow what you did.
We do and we judge you for it.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We do we do Stop hoarding all the wealth Retire
you fuckers, die Don't, die,don't die.
Yet Not before, don't die,don't die yet.
Oh well, just retire, time,just retire, retire, just retire
leave the senate, stop dying inthe senate.
Megan (03:52):
Consider maybe, yes, buying a farm in the country.
Raise some chickens you'veearned it, just relax.
Lesley (03:58):
You're the only people that are going to have a
retirement period.
Go spend it that's fucking true,and so so timely and sad for me
, I can't even tell you oh, thisties into what shit you're sick
of today.
Tell me all about what shit youare sick of today.
Megan (04:14):
Well so, I'm, of course, I'm always sick of the state of
the world because of the stateof the world, um, but I went to
see.
I went to see my husband and Iwent to see our financial
advisor.
Today, you're so adult, I'm soglad you got one of those.
It's because of him.
It has nothing to do with me.
I would forget.
Good job.
You know, whatever, good jobspouse.
Yes, spouse does good.
So went to see them.
(04:37):
We have, you know, ourportfolio.
We were looking at ourportfolio, we were going over
all of our stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You hear this.
We should get one of those.
You should have one of these.
Lesley (04:47):
You should have a portfolio, you should have a
financial advisor.
Everybody should probably havea financial advisor, because,
whether or not you've saved forretirement or whatever, it's a
good thing to have yes, somebodytelling you what to do and you
can start anytime.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
As we have learned in our workshops that you have
done.
Lesley (05:04):
Yep, you do not have to wait until the bitter end, right
, you can start now.
So we went over everything.
It was fine.
It looks like maybe we'll beable to retire, maybe.
So that's good.
Great sitting with yourfinancial advisor and you're
(05:30):
saying to them I am concernedabout, maybe, the way that our
current president is just sortof throwing shit at a wall like
spaghetti and just doing shitall the time.
Yeah, and we can't anticipatewhat the hell's going to happen.
I'm a little nervous about that, certainly.
And you kind of want yourfinancial advisor to go.
You know what?
It's okay, everybody's alwaysgoing to need toilet paper.
Everybody's always going toneed you know like tampons and
(05:53):
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Right.
Yep so don't worry about it.
Lesley (05:56):
That's what you expect.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
That's what you hope to hear.
Lesley (05:59):
That's not really exactly how things went down.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
What did you?
Lesley (06:02):
fear.
Today he clearly is as nervousas we are.
Oh, he was like he put on agood brave face right, Put on a
brave face.
Yeah, he was like you know, wejust don't know.
I'm like that's not what.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I wanted to hear it's extraordinary, yeah, no one's
never been.
Lesley (06:21):
He's never done that Like we go every single year and
every single year I'll walk inand be like I feel like I need
to take all of my money out andput it in a gold bullion and
hide it in my basement.
He's like no, no, no.
He's like oh hush your mouth.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Everything's fine, the stock market is fine.
Just keep gambling, just keepgoing.
Lesley (06:35):
You got years before you retire, it's fine made the joke
, the bullion joke, and he wentwell, you know, if you do that
it's gonna he was.
He didn't say do it uh-huh, buthe didn't say don't do it
nearly as aggressively as he hasin the past.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
This is the moment you know, like how, when folks
die let's say like silent genfolks maybe older boomers, but
definitely silent gen and you goto like liquidate their house
and you find like a half amillion dollars in the mattress.
Yes, yes, yes.
This is why, yes, I know, andfor years we've been like that's
(07:12):
so crazy.
Megan (07:14):
Why would you have kept those?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Civil.
War bonds up there.
What did you do with all thatmoney in the mattress that burnt
down when your house burnt downand they were like do you
remember the Great Depression?
Lesley (07:33):
My grandmother would hide money in aluminum foil in
either the freezer or in cerealboxes.
So you would go and like pouryourself a big bowl of frosted
flakes and a 20 spot would fallout.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's like winning the fucking lottery.
What was the foil?
Lesley (07:45):
for I think it was to preserve it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't know Like did it keep it from getting wet it
might have been a.
Lesley (07:51):
You know, I won't forget it if it's, you know, just Fair
yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I mean you probably would protect it from the
elements a bit too, like youwouldn't have dampen it, but now
is the time.
I mean, this is the first timewhere I'm like I think we should
just stuff cash places likeyeah, I mean they you know it
doesn't.
Lesley (08:12):
If you have money in the , in the market, it doesn't make
sense to pull it out becauseyou get taxed so much on it then
it's like well, that's dumb.
So he, you know, he of courseadvises not to do that.
Yeah, he just wasn't nearly asaggressive about his advice not
to do that.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So my favorite part of this conversation is that
there are two women who knownothing about investing in
finance really talking like weknow something, like that we're
smart about it.
Lesley (08:41):
Yeah, I don't know shit about it, but that's why I have
a financial advisor.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
This is good.
Okay, so on my list.
Financial advisor find one getone of those there we go love it
.
Get one of those brilliant,good idea.
Lesley (08:54):
Anyway, I'm sick of the fact that I can't trust my
financial advisor to just makeme feel, feel good that there's
not enough confidence in themarket currently correct.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Does that make me sound smart?
Lesley (09:05):
It does you sound very smart, thank you.
Thank you, you sound like youknow what the hell you're
talking about.
I went to college.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
At some point in my life, you smarty, smarty.
This is when we would dobullshit and hot goss, or as we
like to call it.
Who died this week?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
well, that's what seems like it's turned into
probably start to.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
We need theme music for who died this week I I don't
know what it's gonna be oh, Ihope it's really gothic and dark
and you know, oh, that's fan ofthe opera, that'll get you sued
.
That's not quite what we needfor who died this?
Lesley (09:41):
week.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
That'll get you sued, that's not quite what we need
for who Died this?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Week.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That'll get you sued.
Maybe we'll have producer Timwrite a theme song for who Died
this Week.
Lesley (09:50):
Oh, a who Died this Week score.
Who Died this Theme Song Week Ascore, a full score for the Gen
X.
Women are sick of this shitscore.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
But it is a little sad because who died this week?
Norm, norm From Cheers yeah.
Megan (10:07):
He has a real name George Wendt.
Lesley (10:09):
We were reminded Don't forget, norm had a real name.
Norm had a real name besidesNorm, and that is important
because but you know, at hisfuneral people are going to be
yelling that.
Oh my god, like they carry thecasket down the aisle Absolutely
, everybody at one time, as theyPeople are going to be yelling
that oh right, like as like,they carry the casket down the
aisle Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Everybody, everybody at one time, as they walk, as it
walks in will shout Norm.
So George went, played Norm andappeared on.
I didn't know this.
All 275 episodes of.
Cheers All of them.
Which started in 1982.
Thank God for the Internet andran for 11 seasons 1982, I would
(10:48):
have been 11 whole years old.
I was nine.
That's crazy.
I was an infant, yep, I didn'tget any.
Lesley (10:56):
I didn't get a lot of the jokes when I was 11.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
No, no, no probably not.
Lesley (11:03):
Didn't understand you.
You know things like drinkingtoo much and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I don't know, but those weren't on the list.
Ted Danson, rhea Perlman alwaysfunny, yes, uh, john
Ratzenberger.
Lesley (11:20):
I do so.
Cast, and crew, who all isstill standing?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
we know this is one of the Ted Danson's around
there's so many I don't knowLike right Rhea.
Perlman.
Lesley (11:30):
Rhea Perlman.
I think John's passed.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Kelsey Grammer Right.
John Ratzenberger, I think hepassed.
He died, didn't he?
Lesley (11:37):
I think so.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
We're looking at.
Lesley (11:38):
Producer.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Tim get on it.
Lesley (11:40):
Kelsey Grammer's around.
He's a drummer, kirstie Alley.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I heard that.
Lesley (11:46):
Shelley Long.
You can cut that out if youwant to no or not.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Whatever, Bebe Neuwirth still around.
Lesley (11:52):
Yeah, some of these other.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Of course, Woody Harrelson.
Lesley (11:55):
Were you a Shelley Long person or a Kirstie Alley person
?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I didn't realize I was supposed to have a team.
I really love Kirstie Alley asan actress, particularly then.
One of my friends in highschool, Dave, loved Kirstie
Alley's voice, Like we were allin theater together.
So when we were seniors, hewould just go on and on and on
(12:22):
about her and like her eyebrowsand he was like you kind.
Megan (12:24):
I kind of have these like Kirstie Alley eyebrows and I
was like, oh, You're like okay,buddy, but I Shelley Long was a
little annoying, I think.
Lesley (12:30):
Kirstie Alley had the like kind of sexier vibe.
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Well, I don't know who I would say, but like both
Her character was a littleannoying, Sure yeah.
Lesley (12:38):
I kind of I don't know, I mean, but they were supposed
to be annoying.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I'm just sorry that the women Are you getting?
Lesley (12:46):
a phone call I just got a phone call from Walgreens
because I haven't picked up aprescription.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Look at our technology.
We both have watches that callus.
It's really dumb, it'spreposterous.
I know, dick Tracy, do you talkin it sometimes?
I have before.
It's really weird.
Weird like walking the dog andlike talking in my watch.
I'm a dumbass.
Lesley (13:08):
We used to have phones that were just like on the wall
with a cord, and now we'retalking into our watches just
like star trek.
I wish no.
But then we go back to previouspodcasts where I'm like, yeah,
okay, so when do I get to beamfrom someplace to another place?
This is the thing.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
What, oh god something all I get is to talk
into my watch.
I was like I just, I just wantto beam.
Can you beam over?
I don't know what it was.
I literally said this Beam overmy door dash, beam over my door
dash.
I guess it would be beam dash,it's fine Beam dash no.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I'm so disappointed in both of you, right now.
Because you don't have to beamyour food, you replicate it in a
device in the wall.
Lesley (13:44):
Oh, of course, of course , you know what?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I'm so sorry, you make a very good point.
Lesley (13:48):
I am sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Thank you.
Lesley (13:50):
You're right, I should be replicating my food Earl Grey
, earl Grey, hot, hot, there itis.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That takes us all the way around.
So did you watch Tears as ayoung person?
Not, I mean, like in your teens.
Lesley (14:04):
Not a whole lot.
It wasn't one of my go-tos.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Right, like everybody knew the theme song right, yeah
, it was always on.
Always on.
Lesley (14:12):
And wasn't there like a time, in the 90s too, where it
was like reruns all day, every?
Day of Cheers, like you couldturn on any number of channels
and you'd be like, hey, cheers,cheers, any number of channels
and you'd be like, hey, cheers,it's a comfort show.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah, because what they would do is they would run
through their season and whenthe season ended, they would
start the reruns until the nextproduction because they didn't
want to lose the time slot.
Lesley (14:37):
They don't want to lose the audience.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
They don't want to use the revenue from the spots
Yep good points.
And it was funny.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I mean yeah, there you go.
It was funny.
Lesley (14:47):
That was kind of the prime time of television though
too, yes Like there were so manygood things you could watch Yep
, so there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
That's that I have a tiny Cheers related five minutes
of fame.
Lesley (14:57):
Oh, I want to hear it.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I want to hear it.
Should we do it now or shouldwe do it later?
What else are we talking abouttoday?
Lesley (15:03):
Birthdays.
I think you wanted to talkabout it because, well, we'll
get into that in a second.
We'll get into that Go aheadand tell your story.
Okay, we'll do it early.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Okay.
So we did that segment and thatsegment and now we're going to
so five minutes of fame.
Woody Harrelson on Cheers right, if we were doing video, I
could like share a photo.
So I went to Hanover College inSouthern Indiana.
Woody Harrelson graduateHanover College in Southern
Indiana.
I did not know that.
(15:30):
Yes, that's where he went toschool for theater and left and
went off and made his career.
So his theater professor and mytheater professor were the same
Tom Evans, wonderful humanbeing.
So I happened to be there.
I was like a junior.
I think I was a junior the yearthat the school and Tom got
(15:50):
Woody to come back and do likean alumni show.
So, there was a class, the classof 1973 was like a big damn
deal.
At Hanover they had gone to theKennedy Center and done a play
called the Diviners, written byJim Leonard Jr, nice.
So the timing was right foreverybody.
(16:10):
Tom brought back, doc Evansbrought back some actors from
the class of 73 from thatoriginal show.
I love it.
And then Woody came back to dothe lead role, so my roommate
leila and I were the only twoundergrads cast in that show
well congratulations.
All an alumni cast and then thetwo of us.
(16:32):
So we were like we're bigfucking shit no shit in our
brains, uh.
So we hung out, so we did itduring our spring term.
We did like two weekends forthe public.
Of course we sold out.
It was a big deal that woodywas back, so, yeah, we all hung
out for like a month.
Lesley (16:48):
Everybody is sitting here thinking did you get high
with woody?
I did not.
Oh, I feel like that might havebeen a missed opportunity.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I drank a lot with everybody in the cast Like they
were all.
It was sort of like this A lotof the guys who had been in
theater in the 80s had also comeback that's when Woody
graduated and it was kind oflike this sort of like frat
theater reunion.
Like all the guys had one houseand all the women were in
another house because they werehoused, while they were intent
(17:17):
to do the show.
Uh, everybody showed up.
You were all supposed to bememorized.
Of course, woody was notmemorized, so that was my big
like running lines on the lawnhanging out.
We drank a lot of beer.
The show made no money becausethey spent it all on food and
beer and then salaries for allof the SAG-AFTRA actors.
Lesley (17:39):
So if you just ran into Woody right now, would you feel
comfortable going up and beinglike hey.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Woody, in the right situation.
Contextually, if we were at afundraiser or some sort of
something, something I would belike yeah.
Lesley (17:56):
But if you're just having dinner at a restaurant
and he's across the room.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
I'm going to be 52 and I was 20.
So.
Lesley (18:06):
I was a little younger, a little hotter.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Not that you're not hot but the photo like we, we
all have like the same photostogether.
Like it was cool it was reallyfun.
That's really cute, like areally great, like a neat
opportunity for all of us to getto participate.
And he was a nice guy In that,and he was a nice guy.
Megan (18:26):
I mean he was there.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
His partner was there .
She had one of their babiesthere.
Cute it was you know, but itwas wild because then the
partners or the other adultswould leave and we were all just
fucking wasted all the time.
It was great.
I mean, it was a big fuckingparty.
Megan (18:43):
I love it, but the universe.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
We weren't a universe .
The college made nothing.
I think it lost money.
The goal probably wasn't tomake money right, Maybe I was
supposed to make a woman.
Oh wow, they shouldn't havespent more than they made.
How about that?
But it was very cool.
So, there you go.
I love it.
(19:05):
Thank you for sharing that.
Lesley (19:06):
Five minutes of fame.
I think Woody Harrelson's great.
I'm very happy to hear thathe's a nice guy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, he's a nice guy .
We had a good time Cool.
He likes everything organic,unsurprisingly.
Lesley (19:15):
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Well, hi, we're back.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Hi, and we're back, and we're back.
Oh my gosh, leslie.
Lesley (21:37):
Megan, and we're back, and we're back.
Oh my gosh, leslie, megan, itoccurs to me it is your birthday
coming up super duper, fastSoon the end of the month, you
sweet, sweet young Gemini Earlyearly.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Gemini.
I am an early Gemini.
I'm the freshest of the season,the freshest of Geminis.
So happy early birthday.
Cheers, thanks cheers.
I'm excited about it.
I'm gonna be the big five.
Two, uh, so technically still,I'm two inches taller than my
age, which I'm excited about.
Yeah, very nice, but at somepoint that won't be true anymore
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.
Lesley (22:14):
Yes, this year for me, I will be shorter than my age.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Oh.
Lesley (22:21):
Ouch Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
By a year.
Oh, I'll be 54.
The big 5'4" yeah.
Lesley (22:28):
So that's mid-June.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh, okay, so we can do a birthday episode there too.
I'm a later Gemini, that'sexciting.
Oh, you're a well-seasonedGemini.
Lesley (22:35):
That's exciting, oh you're a well-seasoned Gemini.
Yes, I'm an old crotchetyGemini.
Why did it?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
say that.
Yes, it's true, my birthday isthe end of May and birthday
party weekend would alwaysfucking correspond with fucking
Memorial Day.
Lesley (22:51):
You really have a mad on about Memorial Day, don't you?
And do you know why that sucks?
I'm going to guess yes day,don't you?
And do you know why that sucks?
I'm gonna?
I'm gonna guess, yes, it'sbecause you were overshined,
yeah, by, like you know, hotdogs and cookouts, and family
shit.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Nobody comes racing.
Gd birthday party.
I had a fucking pool.
I couldn't get people to go tomy gd birthday party.
You want to know?
Lesley (23:14):
why?
Because they went to theindianapolis 500 race yes, they
did, those motherfuckers yeah,we used to leave town.
My husband and I used to leavetown for memorial day.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, like to get away from it or just we're kind
of.
Lesley (23:28):
Now we're getting more into the race, so backstory
right for everybody like just ifyou're not from indianapolis.
You have no clue what we'retalking about um, and if you're
not a racing person, but we havea very large racetrack, two and
a half miles oval in.
Speedway Indiana, which is, yeah, it's what like a 15 minute
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drive from here, probably 20minute, maybe 20.
The thing about the racetrackin Indianapolis is it doesn't
matter where you are in the cityon race day, you can hear the
cars.
It's loud, yes, which is kindof it's kind of cool.
I mean it's kind of cool, it is.
I think it's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
But it is cool.
Yeah, I mean as an adult I cansay that.
As a child I know that, whatthe fuck is that.
Lesley (24:15):
Yeah, I was like what the fuck is that?
Yeah, I've got Father's Dayaround my birthday.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
And it's like fuck you Father's.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
It's my birthday, so I hear that I hear that, yeah,
fuck you Father's Day.
Right, we can change it.
We could.
Let's petition.
I've heard you can just changeholidays at will.
Now, yes, this is what I'velearned.
Lesley (24:34):
Yes, because I think Memorial Day weekend now is
World War II.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Victory Day or some bullshit.
That is so Well, and you knowthe working people of the United
States.
They have too many days offanyway.
Let me tell you.
Lesley (24:50):
It sucks being plebes.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
So birthday party or not is kind of like the theme of
the day Right party or not.
Is is kind of like the theme ofthe day like right.
We were like, okay, well, whatdid gen x kids do for their
birthdays?
Lesley (25:04):
what was so okay, so nobody came to your pool party.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I mean, you probably still had eventually people did
come to the pool party, but italways conflicted with the race
I guess we were having it onsund too, which seems dumb.
Lesley (25:17):
Were you always doing a birthday I mean always doing a
birthday party at the pool, ordid you have birthday parties in
other places?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So let me give you a big long uh okay, I remember in
preschool they were just at myhouse.
This was before we had a pool.
We were a family in the 80s whoowned a pool.
That's pretty cool.
Lesley (25:40):
In ground above ground.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It was an in-ground pool.
My parents.
This is in the olden days, kids, when you could save up money
to acquire things in areasonable amount of time with a
single income in your family.
Lesley (25:57):
Yeah, pools are like 20 grand now family that was well
under three digits.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Like my dad just worked for GM.
Right, we were not wealthy, butyou could afford to do stuff,
save up enough to put a pool in.
So my parents had built a houseout in the middle of nowhere.
To me it was a giant house.
In retrospect, when I go backand see it, it is a very small
house but they built a house,like in the olden days when you
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could just go build a house on alittle acre of land and I think
within the first probably twoyears that we were there, they
saved enough to at least putlike the down payment down and
have so of course, we invitedpeople over yeah and that's cool
, but I also did live very faraway from everybody.
Lesley (26:42):
I'm sure that was also a deterrent like I want to go to
the pool.
Yeah, it's gonna take me halfan hour to get there, so you're
not.
Yeah, slow your roller.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
So like home parties, though, were a lot of the
things that kids did.
And then I think, like Iremember distinctly, I had a
home party.
It was probably kindergarten,okay, and the only reason I
remember this is I think it wasa boy named David gave me a
little crystal snow white, itwas really plastic, but to me it
was crystal, yeah and I justthought that surely meant that
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he had the crush, oh yeah, on me.
But I do remember getting thatgift and I have big like sensory
memories of that being in thebackyard.
And then when I was a bit olderlike over, you know, probably
like 9, 10, 11, 12 pool partieswould have been the thing, um,
but I do remember, like whenshowbiz came about, that was a
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party place.
Oh heck, yeah, I recall thatand I recall run out the.
Lesley (27:41):
I think they always had like the.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
You could get a big table in there yes, like in the
performance room right yeah,yeah, yeah, you get a big table
there and you could do like thewhole rock, fire, explosion cake
and pizzas and and that's whenthey had real video games like
and I think did the rockeflierexplosion cake.
Lesley (28:01):
It didn't have icing on it.
Is that right?
Didn't they just put like?
Oh, I think they just put likelike ice cream on it I have no
memory of this I hear ourproducer tapping away.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
I know he's like, he's like, well, I gotta know
this, uh, but I don, I don'tknow, was it an ice cream cake?
Lesley (28:19):
I don't.
I think it was just like here'syour cake, no icing, and your
and your ice cream.
I could completely be makingthis shit up.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I mean, we make up many things.
It could totally be possible.
I don't know.
I have no memory of that.
Oh, here's a party.
Did you ever go to a McDonald'sbirthday party?
Lesley (28:36):
Oh my God.
So I'm sure I did, I'm sure Idid.
They were weird.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Ronald was on the cake.
I mean you were at a McDonald'sfirst of all.
And you had like hats, and shit, and then you were getting
Happy Meals.
Lesley (28:50):
essentially, you had like a Grimace hat.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, and then like a Ronald McDonald cake.
Lesley (28:54):
But like that was the thing they had icing they had
icing Okay.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
All right.
Lesley (28:58):
Then I take it back.
I'm sorry.
Rock-a-fire Explosion.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I didn't mean to insult your cakes 80s cakes and
say that they were unfrosted.
Lesley (29:07):
Please don't sue me.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Part of me was like who would serve a child an
unfrosted cake?
But whatever, you'll serve akid whatever and they'll take it
.
Lesley (29:15):
Yeah, and they'll take it and they'll like it.
They'll be like thank you.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Please may I have another?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Especially in the 80s .
Lesley (29:20):
Right, we were fucking lucky, you were lucky, you've
got cake.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So I I went to one showbiz party clear memories of
this I was definitely under 10years old.
It was my friend, rebeccaRobinson, and her mother who was
the most beautiful woman I hadever seen in my whole life.
She looked like Diana Ross andshe smelled so fucking good.
Gave her a to us life-size wallhanging of Michael Jackson, and
(29:47):
you have never seen littlegirls lose control of their
faculties so fast as with alife-size wall hanging of
Michael.
Lesley (29:58):
Jackson, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
A, there's just the like group.
We're all going to have thesame feeling kind of experience.
Yes, and then it was just, itwas Michael Jackson.
Lesley (30:07):
You just fed off of each other.
We were just.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
And you had to like out, squeal one another.
And it was just, it was MichaelJackson.
You just fed off of each other.
We were just.
And you had to like out, squealone another.
And like she cried, you know,we were all he could have walked
in the fucking showbiz.
Lesley (30:16):
It would have been less, maybe less exciting if he
walked in.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Because we would have just shit our pants.
My God, what's happening?
So that's one party.
This is just a wild rambling.
Yeah, so that's one party.
This is just a wild ramblinghere we go.
And then the other one also aRebecca Robinson birthday party.
She used to live downtown atthe Glove Factory and that was
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posh business.
Megan (30:45):
We were probably 12, maybe 13.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And her mom rented the like rec room or something
down there and I remember thelineup of tapes included madonna
lucky star.
Okay, we were, that had justcome out, we're playing and we
were doing all the dance thedance from the video right, 12
year old girl should not bedoing.
Right, we were doing that.
And then we had prince purplerain and cindy lapper she bop.
Oh, girls just want to have fun.
(31:08):
Oh, you had a full educationUnknown to us.
Lesley (31:13):
You didn't have any Raspberry Beret or anything
right, Because that would havebeen like a no, that was
probably.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
That was probably Purple Rain.
Raspberry Beret would have comeout.
Give me a date.
Lesley (31:26):
No, no, darling Nikki, this is what happens.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
No, that was on Purple Rain.
Oh shit, we had the adults thewhole thing.
Darling Nikki was on.
There was no edited tape.
Lesley (31:34):
You just bought the tape .
No, there was no radio version1984.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
84 was.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Paisley Park.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
It's Purple Rain.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Oh, nice, so I was 11 .
Okay, yep, that all lines up.
O, that all lines up.
There we go, but we justthought we were the best man
gloves and the black bracelets,the black madonna bracelets and
her lucky star album cover shewas like.
So you know, we were all tryingto be so sexy and emulate that
we were 12 little mesh over oneeye oh yeah, yeah, so fucking
hot.
(32:03):
So those are my like middleschool, like elementary to
middle school.
This is what I remember about.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome, Idon't know we did.
Lesley (32:12):
We did the roller skating birthday parties.
So we place it around thecorner from us, that the roller
cave, and we would do birthdayparties in there, so that was
pretty fun.
Is that the roller cave thatstill exists?
Yeah, you can still go to theroller cave and it looks
remarkably like the roller caveof old oh yeah I could walk in
(32:36):
there with you and be like, ohyeah, that was here and that was
here.
Like the same lockers are there.
They still have the same tablesaround, uh, around, like their
little food court thing.
Oh, I love that, I'm sure, likeyou know, the pinball machines,
the video games and stuff likethat obviously changed up, but
like the walls look the same andoh yeah oh, yeah, the
bathroom's identical.
Yeah, so pretty fun.
(32:58):
I love that so I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
But I most of my memories are like of home
parties.
I'm kind of wondering, likewhen the pivot point was for
like oh people, people doinglike big roller skate parties,
showbiz pizza parties.
Lesley (33:11):
Yeah, well, and there wasn't that like desire really
to outdo people, like it wascool just to have people come
over and stay overnight and dolike stay up and watch movies
and eat pizza and absolutely,that was your birthday, right.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes and for me.
Oh and no, fucking balloonarches.
Lesley (33:27):
No, no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You might get a Mylar blow up.
Happy birthday, maybe, one,maybe.
And that sucker would like,over over the next four weeks,
would slowly like come down fromthe ceiling and like be at eye
level for a while and you'd getup in the middle of night, go to
the bathroom and it's rightthere and scares the shit out of
you.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yes, and you'd get up in the middle of the night and
go to the bathroom and it's sortof like floating and it's right
there and scares the shit outof you.
Yes, a couple feet from theground or in the middle of the
night, it's like right here.
Yeah, it's like.
Lesley (33:54):
Or your cat gets a hold of it.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, all kinds of things, I love that.
Lesley (33:58):
That mylar balloon would last into your next birthday.
Yep, just having friends comeover and okay, and you know, not
really like party party um.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I remember my 16th birthday.
Lesley (34:14):
Um, my, my aunt, my great aunt, uh, owned a bakery
and she, um, so she made my cakethat year for my, for that big
sweet 16 thing.
So I remember that when thatwas a backyard party what was on
your?
Cake I can't remember.
I wish I could remember, but itwas special.
But I know she made it and thenMade with love.
(34:35):
Yes, we just had a backyard kindof hanging out party Okay, and
my kind of not really sort ofmaybe really wanted him to be
boyfriend.
A couple of years older than me, his name was Donovan.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Donovan came over and brought me a pink teddy bear
donovan.
Yeah, and the pink teddy bearoh, I loved him kind of not
maybe, but I wanted him to beyeah kind of maybe not really,
I'm not sure, but he brought youa pink teddy bear.
He did it was very sweet.
He was that's commitment, supersweet guy.
Lesley (35:06):
So I love that yeah but it's very sweet.
That was kind of that's kind ofthe birthday that I sort of
remember.
My traditional cake, though,was yeah baskin robbins ice, ice
cream cake roll, so they makelike they rolled up with their
you know thin amount of cake anda lot of um mint chocolate chip
ice cream because it always hasto be that, and then that icing
(35:28):
on top and there.
Icing is ridiculously good, LikeI.
There's something about BaskinRobbins colored ice cream or
icing that's so good so I still,to this day, get a Baskin
Robbins ice cream cake roll.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
As well you should.
Lesley (35:42):
That sounds delicious I have eaten my weight plus, I
don't know, a pack of derm inice cream cake rolls.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
You talking about.
That reminds me of the veryunique 80s experience of the
cookie cake.
Megan (36:00):
Oh yeah, when you could get them at the mall all the
time yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Because that was my go-to cake and the early the
real the OG cookie cake cakeplaces you would get a two-layer
cookie cake and it was likethis really fudgy frosting that
was in the middle so delicious,and I did have this memory of
wanting a dolphin cake one year,okay.
So my mom ordered me one and ithad like it was like on a
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dolphin, but it was sort of likea frosting me with like a
dolphin on it.
I do remember that Yum.
Lesley (36:33):
That was a good time.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
But they don't.
Lesley (36:36):
you can kind of get them now, but they're like single
layer, they're like they're not,I mean maybe, maybe a producer
Tim could be on the hunt for,for an original I wonder if you
could have one special made you?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
can I mean I special made you?
Can I mean I'm sure I'veordered?
I ordered a cookie cake for myson's birthday one year because
he was super into this like veryhyper specific movie, video
game, high school, and he wanteda video game, high school cake.
So I like, sent the logos andthey screen printed it on like a
frosting thing and put it on acookie cake.
(37:06):
Nice, but he got what he wanted.
Lesley (37:08):
You know, the kids like I'm thinking about our birthdays
versus like what we did for mydaughter- oh okay, yes, so talk
about that ridiculous could notbe any more over the top
Megan (37:20):
why did that happen?
No fucking reason.
Lesley (37:22):
Well, so she's my one and only right like, so maybe
there was some something there.
But I mean who gives theirthree year old kid a fucking
pony at their grandma andgrandpa's backyard and like
invites all the friends over andthey do like pony rides in the?
Speaker 4 (37:37):
backyard, you did this?
Lesley (37:38):
Yes, I did.
I'm such a dork, but yeah, likenot one year.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
You lost your mind, Not one year but multiple years
we had a pony.
Pony rides, yep, that'sadorable, perfect, perfectly
nice pony and psychotic.
Lesley (37:53):
Yes, we also took a bunch of kids horseback riding
at a state park.
Okay, that was one year, let's.
Uh, we did um place calledmonkey joe's one year with, like
the I remember the monkey joe'sbig just absolutely like a
cesspool of good germs.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
So many germs, so many buggers.
You want to talk about poop inyour pants.
Oh, I know, monkey Joes wouldhave been it.
God, you just.
Lesley (38:20):
And they must, just like they have to right, Spray that
place down every night.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
One would hope.
Lesley (38:24):
Oh God.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Sort of like the McDonald's play place.
Right, stay out of the ball pit, right, right.
Lesley (38:32):
That ball pit's got more than just balls in it Uh-huh,
hypodermic needles, whatever youwant.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Whatever.
So why did that happen?
Do you think it was because wewere so neglected that we were
like overcompensating?
Lesley (38:44):
That is probably.
Are you going to feel special?
Yes, you tell me, but I thinkthat's probably right.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
I think there's that, but also, like the party,
competition.
Yeah, oh that.
Lesley (38:54):
Absolutely, absolutely.
And we, gillian, went to alittle elementary school like
tiny little Catholic elementaryschool and when you only have X
number of kids and you gothrough this every grade level
with all of these kids there,then it's gonna be like a
fucking cage match do youremember six?
Speaker 3 (39:14):
can you outdo six right?
Lesley (39:16):
yeah, wait till my eighth man I got you eight.
We're gonna be go-karting andslaughtering gerbils, that's
right, we got first, we're gonnaI'll bathe in the blood of my
enemies.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I was a violent child , I guess.
Lesley (39:32):
So On the inside First we've got laser tag, and then
we've got, you know, whateverelse.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I do remember laser tag.
Laser tag was fun.
Laser tag was so fun.
Lesley (39:42):
I had a laser tag.
I think I got it for Christmasone year and it was like a set
that you had.
Those were super hip man.
I wish I had that now.
I'd still play it.
That'd be great fun.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
We could do adult laser tag, but slow-mo, so we
don't get hurt slow-mo laser tagI'm gonna do it in a wheelchair
.
So it is memorial day weekendin indianapolis and we talked
about the race.
Do you have any memories of theindy 500 as a child?
How did you know what the Indy500 was?
When did it come into likeawareness in your life?
(40:14):
Because for some people, it'shardcore.
Lesley (40:17):
It's hardcore.
I mean, I think growing up hereit's just kind of you just sort
of know.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Like it's on the radio at the same.
Lesley (40:24):
it's always on the radio when I was really little I mean
fresh baby, baby, fresh in ahigh chair.
Um, we would take the trainright, pink and clean and clean
and fresh as a little daisy.
Uh, we would.
We would take the train fromindianapolis down to florida.
No shit, my grandma, my grandmaand grandpa, that's cool.
(40:46):
It happened that one time,either going down or coming back
, we were on the train with paulpage, who was the voice of the
indianapolis 500 for many yearswow, and that's cool.
My mom jokes like he knew my momthey both worked in the radio
world and my mom jokes that thatwas my first date.
Was I sat in my high chair withPaul Page as my first date?
(41:10):
I?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
don't know, that's adorable.
Anyway, I'm a little weird, butokay, we understand A little
creepy and it was always cutewhen small children were paired
with much older men in the 80s.
There's no reason why we'refucked up.
It was the 80s.
Lesley (41:25):
It's fine, but yeah, so like I think we growing growing
up, we would always listen tothe radio.
Memorial day weekend you wouldhave like you'd cook out, you'd
have the radio on um yeah Inever really paid a bit of
attention to it.
It was just sort of always inthe background, sure, and over,
you know.
As you get older, over time,you know, then you start paying
(41:45):
attention to oh who's racingblah blah, blah and there's a
little more interest.
And you pick your winner andall that stuff.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, I do.
I remember that, just likelistening to it on the radio.
Megan (41:55):
It was really important to my dad to listen.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
I mean just to have it on in that way.
When did you first go to the?
Lesley (42:03):
race.
I have never been to the raceitself.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
I've been to practices, but I've never been
to the race Not in real life.
Lesley (42:10):
I've been to the Brickyard, which is the NASCAR
thing.
Oh fun Do you like that?
Speaker 3 (42:14):
Okay, I would not have picked going, but I had
different experiences of beinginvited to go.
Yeah, but my first time goingwas in high school.
Now I did not have a rationalidea of what it was to go to the
race because I went with myboyfriend, whose dad was a heart
surgeon, and we went on achartered bus.
Lesley (42:36):
Oh wow, that is a fancy pants.
So that was my first experience.
I bet it was air conditionedand the whole bit I had to dress
up.
Oh my God.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
As a like 16-year-old girl.
Oh my God, I remember himtelling me like you gotta dress
up, like we're going with youknow what I I kind of.
Lesley (42:53):
I kind of lied because I have been to the race, I guess,
except I didn't.
I wasn't there to watch therace, I worked, so my husband
and I okay when we were dating,a friend of ours had like a
t-shirt business or like workedwith like somebody who had like
one of the big t-shirt things,and so we were in during, like
(43:13):
leading up with practice andstuff like that.
We were selling t-shirts and sowe had to get up at the ass
crack of dawn even pre-ass crackof dawn to get there in order
to open the trailer and be readyfor race day To do all the
things.
It was a long, long day,because getting out of there is
hell yeah, but you made bank.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Did you?
Oh, that's amazing.
Lesley (43:37):
For a young, 27-year-old kid that was good money.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
You're like, yes, let's do it.
I did eventually, I think,post-college with my now
ex-husband.
He won't be surprised to hearthat he's aware we would go to
the race he was super in, but itwas all about like getting up
at the ass cracker so I swear togod, we would be up at like
three or four in the morningpacking the car into the infield
(44:04):
.
You know all the stuff and thisis like right out of college.
So like I can still hold my own, yeah, lots of beer With quite
a bit of things.
And so just getting getting thecar load into the infield.
We did that a couple of times.
He also went a few timeswithout me, but yeah, so that
was when I understood what therace was Right.
Really.
Lesley (44:23):
So, besides the race, what is, and your birthday, of
course, what is the whole reasonwe have may right is what else
is memorial day weekend like for?
Speaker 3 (44:33):
you guys, so that as a kiddo it was like family kind
of picnics, hanging out pool.
I think if we would go anywherewe would go visit my mom's mom
in kentucky.
So we kind of have like a thingthere because Cause I remember
my dad's family coming down likemore like 4th of July Okay,
because they would come downfrom Fort Wayne during the brief
(44:55):
period when I got to have apool before dead mom they would
come- everybody would come downto swim.
Yeah, and so that was like a bigdeal.
Um, and then like now for um,it's a, I'll be working actually
on Monday, but not not at mypractice.
Like I'll be working actuallyon Monday but not at my practice
, Like I'll be working a littlebit for the bar on Monday.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
Oh, that's cool, I'll be open.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
So we'll be doing that.
But, like, mostly it's justlike hanging out here.
It's kind of the weekend we get.
We try to get the yard andeverything done.
Lesley (45:22):
There's always yard work right, there's always something
.
It's like the official openingof outside right, it's the first
day of summer kind of thing,that, uh, or the official start
of summer, like we always did,yard work and we'll do that
again this year it'll be likeabsolutely, because we're in the
midwest so we do mulch oh yeah,you know so we'll.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
Yeah, I got mulch in my backyard right now waiting
we'll mulch uh, but yeah, andwe'll go to Menards to save big
money, save big money.
Call of the Midwest?
Lesley (45:52):
Yeah, I think we did.
I want to say we had familyreunions also oh, interesting At
the Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Say more about this family reunion.
Lesley (46:04):
I mean, my family is so small now compared to what it
was, but I remember as a littlelittle kid just tons of people
know the aunts, the uncles youknow, extended, extended,
extended family and we'd go meetat a park and you know, okay,
you'd have your, your gettogether a little potluck.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
A little potluck, maybe some grilling, yeah,
something like that a grilling alittle potluck.
Lesley (46:28):
some games Amazing.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
So it's the unofficial start of summer.
Happy almost summer, Megan.
I know we made it so nice.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
We're going to love the next four months.
It was a slog, Leslie.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
You're not kidding, sister.
Lesley (46:39):
It's still fucking cold here, I know I know.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Well, we should let these fine listeners go.
Lesley (46:44):
Hey, go have an amazing Memorial Day weekend you as well
, unless you're, you know,listening to this later, in
which case I hope your MemorialDay weekend was lovely.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
Yeah, but this will come out tomorrow.
You have been listening to GenX.
Women are sick of this shit.
Hey Megan, hey Leslie, what dopeople do if they want to find
us?
Megan (47:08):
Well, we have a website that people can find us on, and
that is GenXWomenPodcom.
We also have a Facebook page.
We have an Instagram account aswell.
We have a YouTube account wherewe put YouTube shorts and other
little tidbits up there.
We have a TikTok account.
(47:29):
I don't talk the dick or tickthe tock.
You don't tick the tock, Ibarely talk the tick.
But I did put a TikTok up.
We're explaining the internetto people again.
Speaker 3 (47:39):
That's okay, though it's great, we need to know how
the internet works.
Megan (47:43):
Can people buy merch?
They absolutely can.
We have a merch store on thewebsite itself, and we also have
an Etsy store too, so it's justpretty easy to find.
It's just Gen X Women on Etsy.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
And if you are listening to this podcast,
presumably you found itsomewhere.
And while you're there, give usa review.
Yeah.
Megan (48:06):
Let us know what you think.
Throw some stars at us, that'dbe great.
We'll take one, two, three,four or five, ooh, five, maybe
ten.
And also make sure that you arehitting subscribe so that
you're notified whenever a newepisode drops.
Most important, we also have afive minutes of fame that I
think we should tell peopleabout too.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
Hell, yes, we want to know your stories, your five
minutes of fame stories.
You can send those stories inon the website or you can call
1-888-GEN-X-POD and leave yourstory for us and we will play it
live in our next episode we'lllisten to it on a little red
phone, just like batman.
Megan (48:48):
That'd be cool.
Let's get a bad phone A badphone.
I think that's it.
That'd be great.
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