The real Oregon Trail Generation

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Well, howdy. It's been a long time since you've seen us around these parts, but we're back with a new episode about fatherhood. Lace up your infant carry harness and mozy on over to a generational discussion about being an elder Millennial father, our parents perspective in the 1980s, and wheth...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com So, we yammered on so much about fatherhood that we had to split it into two episodes, as to not lose our ADD-ridden fanbase. We hope you enjoy it enough to send your parent a loving text and hope even more that it doesn't turn into a political argument, somehow.

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Soooooo.......we know it's been a minute since we last uploaded an episode. Without getting too into the weeds with personal business, let's just say that we've had a lot of life changes that have limited our time to dedicate toward The Real OTG. Not to mention that we're a couple of worki...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com ....previously on The Real OTG podcast: it's a continuation of the candid cartoon collaboration. We geeked out so much on 80s cartoons that we have to spoon feed it to the listener over two episodes, rather than open the firehouse into their cartoon-lovin' faceholes! We hope you enjoy the end of thi...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Growing up in the 80s and 90s, there wasn't much discussion about "mental health", unless it was crammed into a very special episode of a sitcom and was awkwardly laced with laugh tracks. Though it wasn't uncommon for people to see therapists back then, it wasn't quite normalized just...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com We're back! After a long needed holiday break, we've jumped back on the saddle and ready to ride out to the woods for a quick hunting side mission. Today's episode is a straight up, nostalgic throwback to our fellow high school graduates of 1999. This is dedicated to those TRULY 90s kids, not j...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com We're back! That's right, after a much needed break - hey, we have day jobs...cut us some slack - we bring unto you a gift just in time for the holidays, with some reflection upon the struggle our OTG has with growing up. As we discuss how various generations define maturity, we journey through how...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Today's episode will involve a frank discussion of, well...everything. Come get sauced with us and do the Urkel while we reminisce about sitcoms' we grew up with and their cringe worthy attempt at tackling tabu topics. The good, the bad, and the ugly bicycle repairman who just "wants to take so...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Like that case of Herpes you caught in Thailand, this episode is all about that 1980s tune you can't get rid of. You know, that one hit from that guy that you heard from that album on that radio station you used to listen to? What else did they sing? Oh, right...nothing. On this edition of the Real OTG,...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Costumes, drinking, Diah-beetus, and other experiences of Halloween get touched upon like a Catholic school boy for this episode. From lies about razor blades in our apples to the creation of the laziest Halloween tradition ever, Trunk-or-Treating, we talk about all the changes our generation has experienced...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Howdy all and thanks for riding along with is and continuing to tune in! In this our seventh episode, we're discussing video games, but specifically, video game consoles. We discuss the history of the different console generations established by video game historians (yeah, that's a thing) and talk...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com I WANT MY MTV!! Or at least I used to want it. Now....ehhh Remember when MTV, Music Television, actually played music and wasn't full of garbage reality shows? Well, we do. The things is, at one point and time, MTV was pretty awesome. In this episode, we'll be discussing how MTV got started (Ted Tur...

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com Explosions, gratuitous nudity, unabashed violence, quips, catch phrases,  paper thin plots! These are a few of my favorite things and are what made action movies from the 80s so fun and amazing. In this episode, we'll be full contact tackling 80s action movies, from the bad to the good and everywhere in...

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Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com This time on the trail we are discussing social media. We go into a brief history of the origins of modern social media (BBS and 6 Degrees) and how all of that led to Myspace and Facebook and all those other platforms where you can share pictures of your food, and I guess other things.

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com In this episode, we talk about porn in all of it's gooey glory! As a special tribute, this episode is dedicated to one of our closest friends who is no longer with us, but I am sure he is laughing wherever he may be in the afterlife.

Want to reach and show some love for the show? E-mail us at: realoregontrailgen@gmail.com In this our very first episode, we are going to discuss what exactly The Oregon Trail Generation is and what it encompasses. We'll be talking about various subjects from our  generational perspective, which because of when we were born, gives us a unique outlook in comparison to other generations..