Growing Up Millennial

Did you ever want to star in a reality TV competition? Well, this is your lucky day because Helene and Adri are talking about the 2003 Dualstar Entertainment Production The Challenge. Join your hosts in their spiritual (ahem, TV) journey to Mexico as teenagers (from 2003) battle it out for scholarship money (those student loans can be a drag, iykyk). Starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, this movie...

Hope you like espressos because we're headed to Italy in When In Rome (2002). Starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, this Dualstar Entertainment Group production centers on young mailroom interns from across the world who are competing for two New York summer internships. Adri and Helene talk Starbucks, lackluster boys, love of food, and The Lizzie McGuire Movie.  Pass us a note in class. Type up yo...

Behold, the longest ever advertisement for the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, Holiday in the Sun (2001). Starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, this Dualstar Entertainment Group production is all about the boys, the music, and the fashion. Helene and Adri talk about cringe-worthy parental moments, private jets, krispy kreme, Meghan Fox, and boys with guitars. Pass us a note in class. Type up your n...

Cross the pond with your hosts, Adri and Helene, as they reminisce about our latest Dualstar Entertainment film, Winning London (2001), starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Helene and Adri talk about the tower of London, useless montages, Peter Pan, Shakespeare, toilet paper, British pizza, and hairstyles from the early aughts. Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or re...

Happy Thanksgiving! We weren't going to publish an episode today (what with the holiday and all), but Adri and the resident white man (Seth) recorded a bonus episode about that one joke in Our Lips Are Sealed (2000) that went over his head, as well as the movies we've rewatched so far, and what Seth has dubbed Chardonnay Rock.  Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or re...

G'day mate! Adri and Helene are headed to Australia as they talk about Our Lips Are Sealed (1999), starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Join them for an episode of reminiscing about the Kneel Diamond, Emil Hatchew (bless you!), and our favorite outfits in the Dualstar universe yet! Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or record a voice memo) and send them to us at gummy...

Helene and Adri continue their nostalgia-filled Olsen twin journey with yet another Dualstar Entertainment production, Switching Goals (1999). Not known for our knowledge, or (frankly) passion, for sports, this episode is full of non-sporting observations with the occasional bone thrown at those of you who actually like sports.  Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or r...

Get your passports ready, we're headed to Paris! Well, more like Parisian streets with a heavy dose of California interior and exterior shots, but you get the picture. Join Helene and Adri as they dish all about the 1999 Dualstar Entertainment / Tapestry Films classic that made us want crossbody backpacks, Passport to Paris.  Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or reco...

In this inaugural episode of the podcast, hosts Adri and Helene talk about how they grew up, how media impacted their lives, their hopes for season one of the podcast, and what the show will cover in the future. Pass us a note in class. Type up your notes in the computer lab (or record a voice memo) and send them to us at gummypod@gmail.com We're also a newsletter. Subscribe to get a weekly dose o...

Season 1 is Launching November 1st, 2023 Season one of Growing Up Millennial holds a really special place in our hearts: the direct-to-DVD movies made by the Olsen Twins in the '90s and early aughts. These films were a staple of our combined childhood (even with our seven-year age difference), and Adri and Helene are here to dissect, discuss, and reminisce about all of them. We go through the plot...

Mark your calendars with glitter gel pens! Growing Up Millennial is launching on November 1, 2023. We're a podcast about all things nostalgia from the 90s to the early aughts. Remember that feeling you got when you’d rush home after school, wearing those butterfly clips and/or chain wallets, to watch your favorite TV shows and movies? Do you remember that thrill you’d feel at talking all about you...