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Pop Culture Preservation Society Pop Culture Preservation Society
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5.0 • 7 Ratings
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The Pop Culture Preservation Society is a podcast dedicated to preserving and elevating the unsung pop culture nuggets of the classic Gen X childhood. Were you there when Marcia broke her nose? Tiger Beat delivered the news? And John Travolta was stuck in that plastic bubble? Then this is the podcast for you!
Join enthusiastic fangirls Carolyn, Kristin and Michelle — die-hard members of the Big Wheel Generation — as we discuss and dissect the crushes, clothes, books, movies, songs, tv and toys that shaped our youth. We’ll also chat about the role nostalgia plays in our lives and how recalling these positive memories increases our sense of connectedness and well-being. And really, isn’t that something we could all use a little more of right now?
We hope you’ll join us as we wrap ourselves in the comfort of many of the pop culture moments that defined us when we were younger … and still bring us joy all these years later.
Nanu nanu, keep on truckin', and may the force be with you all!
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PCPS Town Hall: YOUR Questions (and ours) Answered!
Join us for another Town Hall episode, where we answer some of your fun questions! Things get silly — and surprisingly serious — as we talk about everything from our favorite now-defunct mall store to who would play us in a TV movie to wondering if we’d have been friends in middle school. (And trust us, our answers are NOT what you’d expect!) Who thinks Ann B. Davis should play her in the movie? Who wore painful Candies and hobbled around like a 3-year-old in her mother’s shoes just because everyone else was wearing them? And which of us snuck into her house post-curfew and crawled up the stairs naked? It’s a fun, enlightening conversation you won’t want to miss!
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The Gen X Middle School Dance: Therapy Not Included
At no time were our full range of GenX adolescent emotions more keenly felt than the night of the middle school dance. It was a night of awkward crushes, questionable dance moves, and enough pre-teen angst to rival a Judy Blume novel. Join Carolyn, Kristin and Michelle as they share their most memorable middle school dance memories along with the songs that cemented those memories in our minds. Listen to learn who experienced the second best kiss of her entire life at a middle school dance and whose parents had the audacity to chaperone one. So hop into your DeLorean and time travel with the PCPS to the GenX Middle School Dance.
The NPR article by Linda Holmes that inspired the episode "1980s Middle School Slow Dance Songs' was the playlist I didn't know I needed."
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Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.
Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here
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Send us an email at hello@poppreservationists.com
Our Sponsors:
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USA for Africa and "The Greatest Night In Pop"
You thought you knew the story behind We Are The World, one of the best-selling songs of all time? Watch The Greatest Night in Pop on Netflix and listen to this episode, and we bet you’ll think again. We’re breaking down this incredible documentary story (which sometimes includes way too many main characters!) and bringing you our favorite revelations (Michael’s missing boa constrictor! Stevie’s face-palming suggestion! Dionne’s mysterious visitor! Lionel’s remarkable patience! The sweet and all-too-pure “yearbook” signing party … and so much more). You’ll be singing this beautiful song differently after listening, we promise, and believing that it truly was the greatest night in pop.
Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.
Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here
Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here
Send us an email at hello@poppreservationists.com
Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Visit armoire.style/PCPS to get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Never worry about what to wear again—try Armoire today!
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Benji: GenX's Top Dog
If Generation X had a dog, it would (without a doubt) be Benji, the scrappy little terrier who barked his way into our hearts in 1974 … and remains there to this day. Join us as we (rather passionately!) relive this iconic movie scene by scene and bark by bark, still getting traumatized by the sight of those kids in GAGS and that awful KICK (if you know, you know). Does this “most talked-about, highly-acclaimed family picture of our time … maybe of all time” hold up today? Do we think Benji may have been the most underrated actor of our generation? Listen now to find out!
Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.
Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here
Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here
Send us an email at hello@poppreservationists.com
Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Visit armoire.style/PCPS to get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Never worry about what to wear again—try Armoire today!
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Charlie's Angels: Which Angel are You?
Once upon a time there were three little girls who religiously followed three little girls who went to the police academy. And they were each assigned very hazardous duties – like watching TV and absorbing everything it taught them about being a woman. But growing up took them away from all of that. And now they work for YOU! As podcasters! Where they talk about things like Charlie's Angels, a show that was less procedural and more of an aspirational branding opportunity for girls growing up in the Gen X era. In today's episode, we’ll be saving our childhood identities as crime fighting private investigators with sweet bell bottoms and perfect hair by asking the question: Which one of Charlie’s Angels were you?
Great resource for Charlie’s Angels trivia here
Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.
Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here
Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here
Send us an email at hello@poppreservationists.com
Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Visit armoire.style/PCPS to get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Never worry about what to wear again—try Armoire today!
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Afternoon Delight: TV Reruns and the Gen X Childhood
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip …” You’re singing the end of that song now, aren’t you? (You’re welcome.) That’s because the TV shows from the 50s and 60s that reran constantly during our Gen X childhoods took up entire afternoons, weekends, and summer vacations. They were our after-school friends, our babysitters, and at times, our surrogate families. And today, decades after they all first aired, they still hold valuable space in our heads and in our hearts. Join us as we rank many of them in a PCPS Top 10 (14) list as voted on by both YOU our listeners, and US (because obviously). Which were our very favorites? Will yours break into the top 3? What will be #1? Listen now to find out!
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Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok
Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.
Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here
Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here
Send us an email at hello@poppreservationists.com
Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Visit armoire.style/PCPS to get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Never worry about what to wear again—try Armoire today!
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Customer Reviews
Blast from the Past
I love this podcast series. I can’t help but feel nostalgia when listening to the podcasts. The girls share their wonderful personal experiences along with interesting informative content relating to what their discussing. Kristen, Michelle & Caroline complement one another and collaborate in a way that feels like they have been friends from since beginning of pop culture days!
They're ya girls!
I'm an OG listener and should have reviewed long ago. This podcast is such a nostalgic blast, and you feel like you're hanging with your besties. I even talk back to them when I'm listening. These women are smart, fun, thoughtful, and endearing as they enthusiastically tackle topics that will take you back to your childhood and teentimes. I love that Kristin, Carolyn, and Michelle all have very distinct voices, so I always know who's speaking. I'm hoping this pod goes on for a long time. I ordered a tee and can't wait to represent! Thank you, ladies, for bringing the light amidst my concerning amount of true crime casts! 🤣
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