Gen X Men Pod

Bill got good news this week as his 5 year cancer check up came back clean. His oncologist (the fantastic Dr Wadlow) is "releasing him back into the wild". The Gen-X men talk about cancer, the journey from chemo to clean scans and how weird it is to be "set free". Anyone who has been through it themselves or seen someone else deal with chemo, etc will appreciate the humor, the...

It was a hell of a run, but Sid Krofft passed away recently, well into his 90's. You Gen Xers will remember Sid and his brother Marty basically making Saturday mornings a wild journey of our youth. "Land of the Lost", "H.R. Pufnstuf" "Bugaloos" "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl" among the shows many of us sat down and consumed while eating sugary cereal. A fa...

Bill and Gary break down the Artemis II heading back to earth and whether or not they will bring word from the beyond of more alien tech. Are the people denying space off their rockers? Or is it another conspiracy the government is behind (think MK Ultra, etc). Next, what weapon technology that saved the US airman is coming next? If the US can detect a heart beat from miles away....what else do th...

Bill and Gary are back with another round of the Gen X Men PodcastEpisode 28 leans into the past, the present, and the strange space in between. We kick things off with some all-time April Fools’ classics — Syd Finch, spaghetti trees, and Taco Bell “buying” the Liberty Bell — the kind of stories that blur the line between ridiculous and believable. Then we look up again. With Artemis II set to tak...

Episode 27: The Truth is HERE… 👽What if disclosure isn’t coming… because it’s already started? We’re talking Aliens.gov, the slow drip of information, and whether the government is finally preparing people for something bigger. If you’ve been paying attention, this lines up exactly with what we said back in Episode 15. Coincidence… or were the signs already there? Then this episode takes a hard t...

Bill and Gary are back! Episode 25 takes a trip back to the MTV era that changed television forever. We’re remembering MTV’s The Real World — the show that launched modern reality TV. But was it ever actually “real”? We break down how reality TV evolved from The Real World to today's highly produced shows like Keeping Up with the Kardashians and even the staged discoveries on Storage Wars. We...

Welcome to yet another Gen X Men podcast. Bill and Gary have a full look back at some crazy stories from the 1990s. They start off with their coverage of the Gulf War (1991) when Bill's mom gave them the head's up it was starting that night in January of 91. Their "coverage" at WGMU when they fooled a visiting professor AND the school's Program Board into thinking Gary was ac...

Episode 23: Bill and Gary celebrate the big wins for the men and women in Olympic hockey...but lament everyone trying to make it fit their political agendas. Survivor is doing its 50th season and Bill and Gary were on the ground floor when the memo came out announcing the new show (but admit, they stopped watching years ago). And with the coming reboot of "The Rockford Files" the guys de...

Gary and Bill are back and speaking of back....Bill goes back to school to guest lecture in a couple of classes at George Mason. That takes the guys down a road of note taking, typing and how general work flow has changed since the high and school and college days of their youth. A couple of great stories on broadcasting games over telephone lines and how long would a phone "ring" before...

Happy 21st episode! Do you remember turning 21 as a GenXer? Bill and Gary relive their youth, from first tastes of alcohol, to parties gone wrong and those legit Fake ID's from back in the day. Vodka slupree's were definitely a thing in high school and who can forger the tasty wine coolers (for the chicks of course...never for us dudes, right?!?!). The guys talk about the rougher edge of b...

The boys are back (thanks Thin Lizzy) and this week is a roller coaster of topics. They talk Super Bowl and how Boston has dominated sports over the last quarter century (and how annoying that is). The 37th anniversary of the greatest football franchise ever (no, not "Madden") and how it made "house rules" a thing. Bill admits the Olympics sort of snuck up on him and Gary is ex...

Gary and Bill are back! Bill recounts his travel from Providence after nearly making the flight out on Saturday before the storm. The guys talk about the piles of snow and what exactly are you suppose to do when it is growing and growing and growing. Bill shouts out Mason fan Chris D. for taking the reins and making the drive the entire way from Rhode Island to DC. Gary's anxiety was on full d...

Winter is coming....Gary and Bill discuss the impeding winter storm coming to the East Coast and how Bill is planning on getting home from Rhode Island in the event of a canceled flight. Would you stick it out in a hotel? Or make the drive from Providence Rhode Island back to the DC area? Why older people like to use "ER Uber" when things get dicey. And if you need something to watch whi...

Gary and Bill knock down the latest headlines. Gold and Silver continue to explode (sure wish we had dropped the cash on gold back in college). It's the 106th anniversary of the 18th amendment (Prohibition). Did you grow up with "Blue Laws"? Do you remember locked coolers at the 7-11 after midnight? They talk the latest college basketball scandal as well. Don't you have to get th...

Gary and Bill are back with Episode 16. A tribute to road trips when we were growing up X. Gary's parents loved to make stops on trips, while Bill's dad was a no nonsense "no time for stops" type. 11 people, 1 bathroom at Christmas? check. Flat tire on the Jersey turnpike in the rain? Check. First flights not until we were in our 20's? Check! Nobody back in the day was flying...

Into the New Year! Gary and Bill are kicking off the new year with a show that covers nearly everything. Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve (before Ryan took over), resolutions and weight loss for the new year, will Disclosure Day just be a way for governments to judge if humans are ready for "non human intelligent beings?". Finally, the guys give their 2026 predictions and discu...

It's the Christmas Special Podcast! Well, not really, it's just Episode 14 and it happened to fall along Christmas Eve Day. Gary and Bill talk White Christmas (for Gary in Maine) how Marey Carey has made nearly 100 million (and counting) off one song. The boys breakdown the secret to Hallmark Christmas movies and why it doesn't seem like we will get another "classic Christmas movi...

Episode 13 of Gen-X Men Podcast (no, nothing to do with Taylor Swift). Gary and Bill are back and ready for the holidays. Sort of. Gary reviews the "Heart" and "Starship" concert (hint: grandma can still rock it!). Bill recalls seeing the Osmond's when he was barely 5 and then bought an older woman tickets to Hall and Oates so she would drive him to the show back in 1984. T...

Another Gen-X Men Podcast! Gary and Bill talk 45 years since Howard Cosell told us John Lennon was "dead on arrival" while doing Monday Night Football and all the conspiracies around P-Diddy (and some others). Where the internet rabbit hole can take you if you let it. Gary laments the latest money infusion into college sports and the guys debate expansion of March Madness. The last 30 mi...

The boys are back (thanks Thin Lizzy) with episode 11. Gary and Bill talk holiday viewing, what if the Peanuts Gang aged up as Boomers? They break down the logistics of how we found friends back in the day (leaving notes, white board messages and sometimes dumb luck) and discuss a shameful HS football coaching teaching his players one awful lesson. Drop us a note (new school style) in the comments...

It's an X-tra special Gen-X Men Podcast this week. Thanksgiving week, so happy Turkey Day. Gary and Bill look at some of the numbers around Gen X. How many of us still use Facebook? How many of us are watching old reruns on the regular? Why is #GenX considered the "nostalgia" generation? We break it all down on this week's episode. Make sure you like and subscribe and tell around...

Episode 9 of the Gen-X Men podcast has Bill and Gary discussing all those celebrity rumors, playground myths and weird things your mom told you about why you couldn't swim after eating. They dive into Ozzy biting the bat (and earlier...DOVES!), Richard Gere and the gerbil, Gene Simmons and a cow tongue? What? and lots of other lost memories from the Gen-X vault. Fact or Fiction all episode lon...

Bill and Gary are back with another episode! It's episode 8 and despite being a tad under the weather, the guys talk about Veteran's Day and how Gen X was lucky not to have a generational draft, why cookie cutter neighborhoods are the worst and why Hollywood take liberties when telling great stories. Bill looks at the newest trailer for the Michael Jackson upcoming film and the guys lament...

The Gen X Men are back, and this week Bill and Gary are bringing some serious energy — because for the first time on the show, they’ve got a guest joining them at the table. The guys welcome none other than TJ Rives (you may know him as @BucSidelineGuy, the longtime sideline voice on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers broadcast network, SiriusXM, and a man who has seen more NFL sidelines than most of us hav...

Bill and Gary take a look at how Halloween became the 2nd biggest holiday in the US, why horror movies make so much cash and Bill watches a tree climber from his window...yes...really. Get a peek at some of the craziest yard decorations from X as well. Like and Subscribe to keep updated! #80snostalgia #genx #horrormovies #halloween