The GenX Show
A podcast covering all aspects of culture from the slacker generation. Featuring guests and subjects on music/movies and more that are sure to appeal to your inner flannel-wearing teenage self. Not.
Episodes
June 8, 2023 • 35 mins
Jeff is back with another Ray Bradbury special. This time it's a Jonathan Pryce, Jason Robards and Pam Grier led movie about a father trying to be a good dad despite feeling old ... oh and an evil, borderline satanic carnival that is coming to town to make you a part of their exhibit. No big deal. Dark Disney at is purest and most meddling. Something Wicked this Way Comes is a great story with great acting that was sorta undermined...
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June 6, 2023 • 29 mins
1982's The Electric Grandmother, based on a teleplay/Twilight Zone episode/Short Story from Ray Bradbury, is a curiosity from the golden era of childrens movies/enternatinment in the early 80's. A long-forgotten TV project that gave Jeff distinct memories unlike any other. Strange how an otherwise throw away TV movie can stay with you. The early 80s were quite a different time. Jeff talks about Bradbury, the themes of the story, an...
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May 25, 2023 • 30 mins
MTV News folded shop a few weeks ago. This was to the surprise of many of us who thought that it hadn't existed for years. On today's GenX Show, Jeff talks about the cultural zeitgeist that MTV News Held in the early to mid 1990's and how they were just plain cool and were very good at telling us what was cool. Kurt Loder forever!
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May 23, 2023 • 34 mins
It's been over 25 years since the concept of "selling out" permeated culture and society in general. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the context of "selling out" withing Gen Xers and how holding your peers accountable made our music better. At least, that's what we would like to think.
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May 11, 2023 • 34 mins
Something Wicked this way Comes?
On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about Disney's so-called "dark"era. A time when the studio through it's Buena Vista distributor released the darkest kid films it ever released. From The Black Hole to The Black Cauldron Disney took risks that it never did before or since. Jeff looks back on this weird era of Disney that hasn't been repeated since and probably never will.
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On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about Disney's so-called "dark"era. A time when the studio through it's Buena Vista distributor released the darkest kid films it ever released. From The Black Hole to The Black Cauldron Disney took risks that it never did before or since. Jeff looks back on this weird era of Disney that hasn't been repeated since and probably never will.
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May 4, 2023 • 30 mins
On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the 1981 movie Dragonslayer. An amazing achievment in practical effects and "go motion" technology which was pioneered by stop motion wizard Phil Tippett. A movie that flopped upon release but is now considered a classic. Also Peter MacNicol before he got manipulated by Vigo the Carpathian.
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April 22, 2023 • 30 mins
Krull was a movie that was gorgeous. Set design, score, cinematogrophy, lighting and ambition to spare. Unfortunately it was let down by clunky and insipid dialoge, and excruciating pacing. This movie SHOULD have been better than it was but ... just wasn't. On the latest GenX Show Deep Dive, Jeff talks about this Peter Yates movies and wonders if this movie deserves re-appraisal or if it was too big for it's decidedly thin script.
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April 6, 2023 • 47 mins
Returning guest Joe Lipsett co-host of The Horror Queers joins Jeff to talk about Stranger Things season 4 episode 8 ... "The Van Scene" in particular. Does this depiction count as representation? Does the performance by Noah Schnapp heighten the scene. Jeff and Joe go through the scene, give thoughts on their own experiences growing up in the 1980's and if this rings true. Additionally does this performance fit into the Young Adul...
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March 31, 2023 • 21 mins
Hello everyone. This week is the final instalment of "Kids Movies that Scared Us" series. Everyone has seemed to enjoy this trip down memory lane. This week is a re-post from my other podcast (CSG Podcast) from 3 years ago when I was experimenting with movie podcast amongst the other things I did. The audio isn't perfect so I did what I could to improve it. The Neverending Story ranks among Wolfgang Peterson's most distinctive movi...
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March 23, 2023 • 29 mins
In 1979 Walter Murch was talking to some executives at Disney about making what amounted to a Wizard of Oz "sequel" but more in keeping with the spirit of L. Frank Baum the author of the book series. What came about was the darkest American fairy tale in keeping with the spirit of the author but failed at the box office in a big way. This week on the latest episode of Kids Movies that Scared Us month Jeff tackles the infamous Disne...
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March 9, 2023 • 59 mins
Next in our Kids Movies that Scared us series, Molly Smith from Did that Age Well? Podcast joins Jeff to talk about the Don Bluth animated "What would happen if super smart lab rats helped out a field mouse in need" movie The Secret of Nimh. Along the way, Molly and Jeff discuss about how messed up the movie is, the rat murder that happens, harrowing lab scenes and a casual conversation with an owl over the bones of mice.
A one of ...
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March 2, 2023 • 50 mins
Kicking off Kids Movies that Scared Us month, Jeff sits down with TV Writer (Netflix Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and movie short director Joshua Conkel to talk about the Jim Henson cult 1982 masterpiece The Dark Crystal.
Jeff and Josh talk about the fascinating pre-production of the movie and how it went through some changes before it hit the big screen. What scared us the most? And in a brand new segment the two ask themselves...
Jeff and Josh talk about the fascinating pre-production of the movie and how it went through some changes before it hit the big screen. What scared us the most? And in a brand new segment the two ask themselves...
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February 25, 2023 • 33 mins
Jeff takes you on a journey through the extremely dark underbelly of America's rural farms and sees Christopher Walken and Sean Penn in At Close Range (1986). A brutal, extremely dark yet eerily melancholy movie about family, crime and having a sadistic yet charming father/crime boss. This movie contains potentially Walken's best performance and Penn is at his early years peak.
Also, this movie is more famous for containing maybe Ma...
Also, this movie is more famous for containing maybe Ma...
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February 16, 2023 • 47 mins
Twitch streamer and former Youtube Let's Player Helloween4545 joined Jeff to talk about one of the most sneakily influential video games of the 2000's, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Along the way they talk about Bloodborne, Amnesia, Lets Playing and the Silent Hill games. Always a great conversation with a great friend.
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February 10, 2023 • 29 mins
Sit back and listen to Jeff as he has a couple glasses of Pinot and waxes nostalgic about Classic Rock Radio and how it fundamentaliy influenced the music of and listening habits of Generation X. Without Classic Rock Radio there's no Grunge, No Gangsta Rap, No Techno, No Country. The influence of Gen X listening to our parents music produced what you heard in the 90's. Jeff talks about it all.
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January 26, 2023 • 55 mins
Two titans of rock music, Jeff Beck and David Crosby died within 10 days of each other in January 2023. On the latest GenX Show Jeff and Magnus talk about the legacy of Jeff Beck and what being a musician's musician means. They also talk about his legacy as an iconoclastic instrumental music player and why he could never seem to keep a band around him.
Lastly the boys mention the death of David Crosby and the marking of time that th...
Lastly the boys mention the death of David Crosby and the marking of time that th...
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January 21, 2023 • 55 mins
This week, John Carpenter's Starman (1984) is discussed in a new occasional series called "Old Guy makes Young Guy watch an old movie". This episode Trey Mitchell from Mile High Cinema joins Jeff to talk about Carpenter's SciFi Romance classic starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen and Charles Martin Smith.
Along the way they discuss Jeff's sentimental attatchment to this movie, the complicated history and lead up to filming and compar...
Along the way they discuss Jeff's sentimental attatchment to this movie, the complicated history and lead up to filming and compar...
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January 14, 2023 • 77 mins
Jeff's friend, actress and all around lovely person Lala Sloatman joined the GenX Show to talk about her daughter, life, and how being a parent changed her perspective on things. Along the way they talk about Tang, Tab and Crystal Pepsi. All in all a great talk with a wonderful human being.
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January 6, 2023 • 15 mins
Happy 2023! Jeff re-emerges in January to talk about Stranger Things Noah Schapp coming out as Gay in the most Gen Z way. This is likely why his van scene in episode 8 of season 4 of Stranger Things was so damn convincing right?
Also Jeff gives a teaser of what is to come in 2023 for The GenX Show. Exciting stuff coming down the pike.
Enjoy this brief episode!
Also Jeff gives a teaser of what is to come in 2023 for The GenX Show. Exciting stuff coming down the pike.
Enjoy this brief episode!
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December 22, 2022 • 61 mins
Jeff and Magnus team up to talk about the 1984 Christmas slasher classic...Silent Night Deadly Night from 1984. Is the controversy this movie engendered legit, or was it just angst about the anti-catholic sentiment in the movie? Jeff and Magnus do a deep dive and give their theories.
Also, the VHS boom of the mid 1980's allowed those who wanted to see these movies access in a unique time that has yet to be replicated. The VHS revolu...
Also, the VHS boom of the mid 1980's allowed those who wanted to see these movies access in a unique time that has yet to be replicated. The VHS revolu...
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