Strangers With Kittens Eileen Kelly
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- Comedy
Gen X stories from the least parented generation.
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Jugglers, Strugglers & Smugglers
A juggler at kids' birthday parties, an annoying survey-taker at the mall, a hairnet-clad cocktail weiner maker. No job was too weird or too humiliating for Generation X. Emmy award-winning director Kimmy Gatewood joins Eileen and Maryanne for a game of who had the worst first jobs.
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Heavy Breathers & Abducting Fathers
Comedian Carolyn Castiglia joins Eileen and Maryanne to talk heavy breathers, abducting fathers, and the GenX-perience (see what we did there?) of suffering alone.
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The Golden Age of the Bully
Behold the predator in his natural habitat. Schools in the 70s and 80s, abounding with nerds, asthmatics and softer souls just trying to get through the day, were fruitful hunting ground for the bully. Eileen, Maryanne, and improv actor Ray Barnhart talk surviving apathetic school staff and scheduled fist fights.
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Walk It Off
Glass in your butt? Tell no one. TV writer Charlie Shanian joins Maryanne and Eileen to discuss why for Gen X, it was better to keep your injuries to yourself.
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Hello? Is Gen X there?
Perhaps you shared yours with three, six, twelve people? Eileen Kelly chats with playwright and filmmaker Cristina Pippa, author and three-time Moth StorySlam winner Kimmi Berlin, and comedian Maryanne Murray about life with the family phone.
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A Gen X Christmas
Host Eileen Kelly and comedian Maryanne Murray remember Christmas Gen X style, when the dangerous holiday chores were assigned to nine year-olds, you got in trouble for getting hurt, and a ride to the hospital was the greatest gift of all.