Alvin Shultz and Jack Eichler

Midlife Crises

Society EN ↓ 31 episodes

This is a podcast where where two guys from Generation X try to navigate this trying stage of life. You might laugh and you might learn something, even if you have not yet had that midlife crisis. Your hosts are Alvin Shultz, an epidemiologist and public health professional, and Jack Eichler, a Professor of Chemistry and education researcher at the University of California-Riverside (and thanks to our friend Aaron, for helping come up with the name of the pod). Email: midlifecrisespod@gmail.comFacebook: contact/friend Jack Eichler or Midlife Crises

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Alvin Shultz and Jack Eichler

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Episode 7: Special Guest - Listener Feedback on the Midlife Crises Podcast (including vampires) 18.08.2023 1:17:50

On today’s episode we have on as a special guest Mike Miller. He is a long time friend of Alvin and a loyal follower of the podcast. Mike is a fellow graduate of the University of North Carolina, has been an educator for 25 years and is currently an administrator at a private K-8 school in Asheville, NC, and his listener submitted stories have been twice nominated for a poddy award on the Carolina...

Coping with Midlife Issues 21.07.2023 1:12:15

In this episode we have on as a guest Adina Fox, a licensed clinical social worker from Ashland, Ohio. After some initial banter about whether we would prefer to identify as Gen Xers or millennials, we talk to Adina about the general notion of midlife crises and whether they would be related to actual mental health disorders, what types of remedies she seeks with her patients, how she determines w...

Episode 5: Coping with Death 27.06.2023 1:00:35

In this episode Alvin and I catch up on recent life events, give a run-down of our current podcast listener statistics, quickly discuss a recent news article about unstructured play-time for children (which builds off our previous discussion on helicopter parenting), and introduce the topic of coping with death. If you are interested in hearing the Making Sense of Death podcast with Sam Harris y...

Episode 4: Helicopter Parenting & Introducing the Life Happiness Curve 16.05.2023 1:14:33

In this episode we briefly follow up on our iGen/Gen Z discussion and talk about helicopter parenting (3:48), reflect on our podcast venture up this point (23:35), introduce the life happiness curve (37:04), and finish up with a Are You Not Entertained segment (55:47) where we report back on previous streaming recommendations (and provide a couple of new ones as well).

Episode 3: iGen - How Do We Deal with Young People from Generation Z? 08.05.2023 1:20:45

Episode 3: In this episode, we introduce a new segment called "Real or Fake" in which we have to guess if ridiculous sounding journal articles are real research articles or fake articles from The Onion. We also discuss a book called "iGen" by Dr. Jean Twenge. We attempt to figure out how to deal with kids and young adults from Generation Z.

Episode 1: Introductory Episode 08.05.2023 58:29

Episode 1: We briefly discuss (in a non-political way) the recent Cochran Reviews meta-analysis about the impact of masking on Covid-19 transmission, explain our goals for the podcast, introduce your podcast hosts Alvin and Jack, and introduce two of our segments: "Where Were You When" in which we reminisce about a famous day in history important to Generation X, and "Are You Not En...