The GenX Show

Hello Hello and welcome to the GenX Show. Jeff and his guest Jon Ekstrom from the Off the Clock podcast are talking about the last John Carpenter movie to make money in his career. The semi controversial Vampires from 1998 starring the icky James Woods. What do we think 27 years later? Does it hold up? Does it give you mahogany? These are the questions.

On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the man HP Lovecraft and if it is possible to separate the art from the artist. Does a writer's personal views outweigh his influence. Jeff argues that the author's literary ideas are better than his actual writing and the people who came after made the legend what it is

On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the legendary Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. How the illustrations by Stephen Gammell shaped a whole way of thinking and appreciating being scared by a whole generation of kids. How Alan Schwartz's compilation of stories were indelible to latchkey kids.

On the latest GenX Show Jeff speaks about his mother passing away last week and how a tragedy from 20 years ago forced Jeff to think about the good in his relationship with is mom. What united them. How my mother's love of music shaped who he became.

On the latest GenX Show Jeff takes you down memory lane talking about the Sam Goody and Musiclands of the Malls in the 1980's and 90's. Buying cassette tapes and listening to all the music possible. Also Jeff goes over how the decline of malls directly affected both stores and tangentially impacted the way we consume music even now.

Hello Hello!! After a super long break Jeff is back with The GenX Show. In today's episode Jeff gives an update on the future of the podcast as well as a rant about the current state of horror movie discourse. Not everything has to be about reading between the lines. Sometimes a movie is just a movie.  Enjoy the show! 

The Cure released a new masterpiece album in 2024 called Songs of a Lost World. On the latest GenX Show, Jeff and Voltaire's Ghost leader Magnus talk about the album, how great it is, how it's better than it has any right to be and how Robert Smith's ability to edit the length of the album turned out to be a genius move. Enjoy the show about a modern classic album. 

David Lynch passed away last week. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about David Lynch's influence on both Television and Horror video games. What Lynch was able to accomplish wtih Twin Peaks influencing generation after generation of TV and Video Game creators is nothing short of astounding Enjoy the show! 

The term Xennial has come to fashion in the last 10 years or so. It's been used to apply to people born betweeen 1976-84. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about how that term should apply to those born between 1981-84. How the inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1981 started the change between GenX kids and Millennial and how parents fully started paying more attention to their children by 1984.  E...

Jeff's friend Sam Neumann joins The GenX Show to talk about restaurants, videos, Youtube and the best/favorite alcohol and steakhouses in the Denver metro area. Sam Neumann is a real estate agent and youtuber who specializes in Denver. However he is more than that as he explores the best of what Denver has to offer and goes in depth on restaurants, neighborhoods and what makes them unique.  Hope e...

American of 1980 was NOT the America of 1981-82. Pre AIDS. Pre Reagan America.  William Friedkin's Cruising is a snapshot, believe it or not, of 1980. Before the fall. A surreal police procedural and pseudo American Giallo about a serial killer in the gay leather community sparked condemnation and outrage during the production. It has been reappraised since but what makes that movie so off putting...

Dead Ringers, Night of the Demons, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Critters 2, The Gate, Childs Play, Hellbound: Hellraiser 2, Waxwork and much MUCH more.  1988 was the last, dying breath of 80's Horror....the best Horror decade. On the latest GenX Show Jeff talks about the movies released that year and how the Erotic Thriller and Classy big budget tame horror movies killed the best era for gritty...

It's spooky month on the GenX Show. It's not like we need an excuse to talk about horror films but why not, right? In that spirit Jeff takes on the 2008 Canadian Zombie/Virus film Pontypool. A movie about the loss of self, the loss of communication and the loss of purpose cloaked in the blood of virus. Special shout out to Stephen McHattie for putting on a great performance as Grant Mazzy in this...

Magnus returns to the GenX Show to review the Smashing Pumpkins brand new album Aghori Mhori Mei. A true heavy rock rifftastic pleasure that was a much needed step in the right direction after the synth laden Atum and Cyr. Did it live up to expectation? Jeff and Magnus discuss. In the second half Jeff and Magnus talk about the history of the Pumpkins post first breakup in 2000. Up and down albums...

A short episode talking about all the garbage buddy/detective/drama shows that sprang up in the 1980's. A veritable cacophany of extremely catchy theme songs, garbage dialog, ridiculous premises and ropey acting. I love them all. From Simon and Simon to Moonlighting ... here's the worst/best of the 1980's factory made dramas that tried to rip off Rockford Files. Enjoy the show! 

Debut rebrand of the former CSG Politics. Get ready for Meet the Pod, a discussion of the current state of (Democratic/liberal) politics and the current Presidential Election landscape. Episode one ... the three weeks of hell between the disastrous debate performance of Joe Biden in June, to his eventual announcment that he will not seek reelection is debated. Your hosts Jeff Morton and Pat Geheri...

In part three of Growing up Latchkey, Jeff talks to his childhood friend J.M. DeShazer about their experiences at Oberon Junior High School in Arvada in the early 90's. How it formulated their way of thinking and how it contributed to the musical obsessiveness of them and everyone they knew.  Enjoy the show! 

In part two of The GenX Show series Growing up Latchkey Jeff talks about growing up in the 80's in Arvada Colorado and how he decided that his own latchkey experiencev formed the way he is right now. In particular not packing a lunch for school.  Enjoy the show! 

Starting a new series here on The GenX Show. The next four episodes (the month of June) is all about growing up latchkey ... aka Growing up with little to no parental supervision.  This is a very short introduction essay episode where I talk about the societal factors that came together to form a generation who didn't have any parents around. What was going on with the Boomer generation and how th...

Trace Thurman from the Horror Queers podcast and Bloody Disgusting joins Jeff to talk about the Disney classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.  Along the way they talk about latchkey kids, bad parents, the history of Disney Studio's in the late 1980's and how great the practical effects were. They discuss 'the' scene with the Ant and the Scorpion and ask what in the hell was a scorpion doing in a suburb...

David Lynch's Dune from 1984 is a massive failure on both a commercial and artistic scale. It was too weird to be a blockbuster and too blockbuster to be a weirdo independent film.  Dune's lasting legacy, however, is it spurred David Lynch on to go make the movies he was always meant to make. Gritty, weird neo-noir films starring Kyle MacLaughlin. How in failing on such a large scale led to maybe...

In 1979 Dario Argento's cut of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead was a huge hit in Italy. To capitalize, Italian producers were looking to make a quick sequel. In comes Lucio Fulci and the most surreal, over the top, grotesque zombie movie of its era was born. We also talk about the "Italian ripoff cinema" era and how gloriously bad it was. From the Bronx Warriors to The Last Shark. Italian cinema...

In 1979 Greek Egyptian Oviido Assinitis gave us the craziest Italian movie of the 1970's, The Visitor. A combination of Star Wars, The Omen and Italian Giallo woven into a batsh*t crazy tapestry. It features some of the greats of old Hollywood in John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford, Mel Ferer and even director Sam Peckinhpah. That doesn't make the movie any less crazy. In the latest GenX Show...

On the latest GenX Show, Jeff talks about the history of recorded music and how record company greed in the late 1990's caused their own demise. How a cheap to make CD became so overpriced a revolt was bound to happen. Enjoy the show!

Magnus and Pat recently made a trip to Las Vegas to see the band U2 at the brand new Las Vegas Sphere. On the latest GenX Show the fellas review their experience, talk about the technicalities about being in the Sphere and U2's performance. Does the band miss Larry Mullen Jr? Is the band re-invigorated and what does that mean for the future of our favorite band. Hope you enjoy the show!