The Gen X Teacher

Welcome to Episode 20! This will be the season finale, and I hope to pick back up in September. Watch social media if you want to know when I'm coming back. Thanks so much for all the support I've received from family, friends, and even a few kind strangers! Thank you! The Gen X M-Fer suggested NOTHING. He did, however, share his wishlist of what he WANTS to watch (how kind, yes?). Dune Wo...

It's Episode 19! Get ready to be jealous...I have a recently RETIRED Gen Xer as my guest this week. I could barely contain my envy, but I think I pulled it off. Please rate, review, follow, and subscribe on all the things! My guest recommended: Sold a Story podcast Smartless podcast Office Ladies podcast The Office show Jeopardy show Schitt's Creek show I recommended: Lost at the Smithsoni...

Happy Mother's Day and welcome to Episode 18! My guest recommended: Crime Junkie podcast Baby Reindeer show Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God show I recommended: Here We Go show starring Katherine Parkinson Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto Small Town Dicks podcast with Yeardley Smith

Welcome to better late than never Episode 17! I have a very special interview for you this week, along with the usual raving, ranting, rescuing, and recommendations! Yes, the alliteration is on purpose. My guest's recommendations: I Need the Earth and The Earth Needs Me environmental video for kids Don't Laugh At Me anti-bullying song The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides My recommendatio...

Due to a massive head cold and horrid sounding voice, I have to give you a fond memory this week instead of a new episode. See you next week with Episode 17! Episode 1 seems like so long ago! Welcome to Episode 1 of The Gen X Teacher! I hope all generations (OK, maybe not Alphas) will enjoy this podcast...even if you're not a teacher OR a Gen Xer. This week I rant, rave, and experience a We Are Te...

Welcome to Episode 16 coming to you from a remote location! Ok, it's just from my car, but you got excited for a minute, right? Join me for the usual ranting and raving and a fellow Gen Xer as we wax poetic about the good ol' 90's. My guest's recommendations: My Favorite Murder podcast Ram Dass Here and Now podcast Comedy Bang Bang podcast Smartless podcast Threedom podcast One Hun...

Welcome to Episode 15! Right off the bat, I apologize for the audio issues. We have had high winds here lately, but it should NOT sound like I was recording outside! Unfortunately, my editing skills couldn't fix it, so we are going ahead with it anyway! Thank you to The 18 Year Retiree for being my guest this week! My guest recommends: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray The Covenant of Water by Abra...

It's Episode 14 starring our first baby boomer guest! My guest's recommendations this week: A Touch of Frost on Prime Video/Britbox Inspector Morse on Britbox Endeavor on Amazon Prime (note: not the show I was thinking of! Not with a blonde actress from Happy Valley . OOPS) Books by Fannie Flagg Fun Fact: Fannie Flagg was on Match Game, the old show we referenced in Episode 13 with George...

Episode 13 is FINALLY HERE! I forgot to rescue myself, but thank goodness my guest is all the rescue I needed! Join us for the most Gen X-y interview yet! My guest's recommendations: Chips Season 3 Episodes 1 and 2! True Crime Campfire The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols My recommendations: Any book by David Sedaris @amysedaris on Instagram The Brokenwood Mysteries Stuff You Should Know

It's Episode 12! Are you READY? My guest drops the "K" word and loses a point! Will she get it back? Listen and find out! My guest's recommendations: Dateline on NBC Griselda on Netflix Arrested Development on Netflix The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides Beautiful Boy by David Sheff Ghost Boys by Jewel Parker Rhodes My recommendations: Hacks starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbi...

It's Episode 11 and we have almost made it to spring break! Don't forget to rate and review wherever you are listening. It will help get this thing off the ground...at least that's what it says on the internet! My guest's recommendations this week: Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters Feud: Capote vs. The Swans on Hulu True Detective Season 4: Night Country on HBO My recomm...

Welcome to double digits! Episode 10 is here! Tune in this week for a Millennial interview, conference woes, and a request for lunch help. Guest Recommendations: Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah How To Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair Handsome podcast with Fortune Feimster, Tig Notaro, and Mae Martin Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Prime Video My recommendations this week: Abbott Ele...

It's Episode 9 with yet another fabulous Gen Xer interview! Laugh along with us as we reminisce about a classroom INVASION and a celebrity author chance encounter! Please rate and review and THANK YOU! My guest's recommendations: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of t...

Welcome to Episode 8! Tune in to hear my interview with Headmaster Hope, a fellow Gen Xer with some wonderful insight from an administrator's perspective. Don't forget to rate and review...especially if it's POSITIVE! Here are the links to my guest's recommendations: Colleen Hoover books for a break from reality The Joe Martino Show podcast Dateline podcast Liminal Living podcast M...

Welcome to Episode 7! This is a very special episode, so if you have children listening with you, EARMUFFS. Also this week, the sound was WONKY. I apologize for still being toward the bottom of that learning curve. ENJOY! Recommendations this week from my guest: Call Her Daddy podcast The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** podcast Into The Fae by Quinn Loftis book Ted Lasso series on Apple TV The Mor...

Welcome to Episode 6 where Mr. Phil Anthropist talks about what a great high school experience he had...brag much? Recommendations this week are: Sinisterhood podcast Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt The Last of Us series on HBO (Max) starring Pedro Pascal How to Get Rich on Netflix was recommended by my guest. Come and find me on the socials! thegenxteacher@gmail.com @thegenxteacher on Insta G...

Welcome to Episode 5 of the Gen X Teacher Podcast! Thanks for hanging in there and listening! The links for this week's recommendations are: Wine and Crime (Apparently there was some drama with the gals I didn't know about and one of them LEFT! My rec still stands!) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret the movie Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret the book Spiderman 2 for PS5 We A...

Welcome to Episode 4! I hope you enjoy this and share it with whomever else might, too. Don't you just hate people who say "whomever?" Coming up next week, we have a "zillennial" interview. I think we might have made up a new word there. It'll probably go viral. Here are the links to recommendations: And That's Why We Drink Anne Tyler books A Place to Call Home Seas...

Welcome, and thanks for listening to Episode 3 of The Gen X Teacher Podcast! Tell your friends, enemies, and frenemies to tune in too! Next week, we have yet another Gen X-er willing to bare their soul in the interview. Don't miss it! This week's links: Our guest recommended a podcast that is actually called The Cold War: Prelude to the Present , not the title stated on the pod. Our apolog...

Welcome to Eposide 2: the second attempt! If you listened before today (Wed. Jan 17), you were cut off after 25 minutes and sent back to the beginning in some kind of crazy loop. If you listen now, the rest of the story is there! APOLOGIES!!!