Millennial: Pretend Adulting, Real Talk

Laura Tee, Pamela Gocobachi

Millennial podcast is a weekly roundtable about our Generation Y experience. From news to politics and pop culture, a panel of friends digs in on why these stories matter and how they affect millennials. If you’ve ever wondered how to maneuver student loan debt, voting, relationships, careers, or just life in general, we feel that SO. HARD. And we’re here to share our stories, along with our greatest challenges and wins, along the way. Millennial podcast is about journeying through young adulthood together.

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  1. 5 days ago

    SDCC 2026 Recap: Avengers Doomsday, Percy Jackson Season 3, Carrie Trailer & More

    Support #Millennial!⁠⁠⁠ Visit Patreon.com/millennial to get exclusive bonus episodes, live stream access, and more! Visit our merch store: ⁠⁠https://shop.millennialshow.com⁠⁠ Follow the show in your favorite podcast app and leave us a review! This week we're doing our annual SDCC download, and there is a lot to unpack. We start with Avengers: Doomsday, because obviously, and get into the very Dr. Doom-heavy footage from Hall H. From there we hop to Disney+'s Percy Jackson, which just dropped a season 3 teaser and a release date (November 20!) that has book readers buzzing about how accurate this season might actually be. Then we talking about Mike Flanagan's Carrie reboot — yes, with cell phones, yes, we have thoughts — landing on Prime October 7, plus Matthew Lillard's casting as the principal, which, honestly, correct choice. And because no Comic-Con recap is complete without a little discourse, we get into Kevin Feige comparing the Doctor Doom buildup to Thanos and why fans are very much not here for it. Rounding things out, we've got Spaceballs news (Rick Moranis showed UP, people), a surprisingly moving story about how fan campaigning got Coyote vs. Acme un-shelved and into actual theaters, and just an overall reminder that this fandom stuff still means something to people. We close things out with recs: Laura's hydrating her face with the Elf Holy Hydration moisturizer, Eric's deep in Star Trek mode with the Improvised Star Trek podcast (start on episode 85, "The Search for Sock"), and Pam wants you to buy local produce when you can to avoid the current explosive diarrhea outbreak sweeping the nation. And in this week's installment of After Dark... the girls haven't had a chance to catch up on life things in a while! So listen in as we fill each other in on all the updates, family drama, and life happenings of recent weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    SDCC 2026 Recap: Avengers Doomsday, Percy Jackson Season 3, Carrie Trailer & More

  2. 22 Jul

    Off Campus, Heated Rivalry & The Summer I Turned Pretty: Why YA Romance Is Everywhere Right Now

    Support #Millennial!⁠⁠⁠ Visit Patreon.com/millennial to get exclusive bonus episodes, live stream access, and more! Visit our merch store: ⁠⁠https://shop.millennialshow.com⁠⁠ Follow the show in your favorite podcast app and leave us a review! Grab your popcorn and your feelings, because this week we're diving headfirst into the YA romance takeover happening on your TV right now. We're joined by Christine Riccio (author of 'Thirty, Flirty, and Forever Alone' and 'Attached at the Hip', host of Those Forking Fangirls podcast) to talk through whether we're actually living in a golden age of YA romance television, or if it just feels that way because Netflix and Amazon can't stop greenlighting shows built for people who grew up on The CW and obsessed over the Twilight saga. We get into what's different about the hype around shows like Off Campus, Heated Rivalry, and The Summer I Turned Pretty, how much of this we can credit to BookTok (and social media more broadly), and whether virality now matters more than a built-in fanbase ever did. Christine also brings her perspective as a published romance author to weigh in on how this boom is rippling into publishing. Plus: why does it seem like contemporary romance is winning while sci-fi and fantasy YA (RIP Vampire Academy and First Kill) can't get a second season? We break down what we think is really going on, and what we'd love to see more of on screen. Recs this week: Laura's got Obsession, Pam's bringing author Elissa Sussman, and Christine is serving up 'Cherry Baby' by Rainbow Rowell. Where to find Christine: Instagram, YouTube, Those F%#king Fangirls, Amazon And don't go anywhere after the credits roll — After Dark is getting personal this week with a round of "get to know each other better" questions pulled straight from Teen Vogue's best-friend deep-cuts. Head over to Patreon and support the show at the OTP tier or higher to get instant access! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Off Campus, Heated Rivalry & The Summer I Turned Pretty: Why YA Romance Is Everywhere Right Now

  3. 15 Jul

    Is Mitch McConnell Dead? Plus Why Your Hobbies Cost So Much Now

    Support #Millennial!⁠⁠⁠ Visit Patreon.com/millennial to get exclusive bonus episodes, live stream access, and more! Visit our merch store: ⁠⁠https://shop.millennialshow.com⁠⁠ Follow the show in your favorite podcast app and leave us a review! This week on Millennial, we're deep in Dumpster Fire Corner territory, and honestly, we can barely keep up. Is Mitch McConnell alive? Is he not? We talk through the whispers, the hypocrisy math, and why nobody inside or outside the beltway is even surprised anymore. Add in a looming primetime Trump address that may or may not relitigate the 2020 Georgia Senate races (again), and you've got a news cycle that feels more like a fever dream than a Tuesday. Then we shift gears to something a little more grounded, but no less infuriating: hobby inflation. Turns out that pottery class or new fishing reel isn't in your head — the cost of having a personality has genuinely gone up. We talk about how TikTok turned hobbies into status symbols, why the pandemic sent everyone sprinting toward socially-distanced pastimes, and how tariffs are somehow now a factor in whether you can afford new lures. We get into what happens when hobbies price out the middle class — the community you lose, the people you no longer get to know, and how this all feels a lot like losing another third space. Basically: it's not just rent that's gotten unaffordable, it's joy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Is Mitch McConnell Dead? Plus Why Your Hobbies Cost So Much Now

  4. 7 Jul ·  Bonus

    From the Vault: #Millennial After Dark, Healthcare Edition

    Hi PALs! Since we're off this week, we're releasing a recent installment of After Dark to give y'all a taste of what life is like behind the paywall. We're sharing personal medical tales, as well as reflecting on someone's lesson learned about assigning beneficiaries. If you like what you hear, head on over to https://www.patreon.com/millennial and consider throwing some support our way! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    From the Vault: #Millennial After Dark, Healthcare Edition

  5. 6 Jul ·  Bonus

    From the Vault: #Millennial After Dark, Healthcare Edition

    Hi PALs! Since we're off this week, we're releasing a recent installment of After Dark to give y'all a taste of what life is like behind the paywall. We're sharing personal medical tales, as well as reflecting on someone's lesson learned about assigning beneficiaries. If you like what you hear, head on over to ⁠https://www.patreon.com/millennial⁠ and consider throwing some support our way!

  6. 1 Jul

    Patriotism in the Dumpster Fire: America's Birthday Reflection

    We're turning 250 this weekend, and honestly? We need to talk about it. Join us as we reflect on what it means to be American right now—the good, the bad, and the absolutely infuriating. We're checking in with ourselves and our audience about where we're at as a nation and what patriotism actually means when you love your country but are genuinely horrified by what it's doing. What does patriotism actually feel like? Is it possible to be critical of America without being branded anti-patriotic? And whose history gets left out of the American story we're celebrating? And in this week's installment of After Dark: We're looking back on the participation trophy—how it became a caricature for millennial stereotyping, and why we're still hearing about it in the workplace. Come feel that generational rage with us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Patriotism in the Dumpster Fire: America's Birthday Reflection

  7. 25 Jun

    Star Wars 50th Anniversary Celebration and Real-World Analysis

    Welcome to the Millennial Special Anniversary Edition—we're celebrating 50 years of Star Wars by doing what we do best: connecting fictional universes to our very real problems. Then we get into the real meat: how the Prequel Trilogy—Episodes 1-3—basically predicted the slow-motion collapse of democracy. We draw the obvious parallels to modern executive overreach, the erosion of checks and balances, and how Congress just... stopped checking anything. We even dig into what George Lucas actually said about all this—spoiler: he was thinking about Vietnam, Nixon, and the way democracies don't get overthrown, they get given away. We're also connecting the dots between fictional servitude and the very real greed on display right now, complete with a deep dive into Walmart's electronic price tags that could—with existing tech—charge you a different price based on what the system thinks you can afford. On theme for this week, we're keeping our recommendations pop culture centric: The 'Family Guy' Star Wars parodies (Eric) and the 2009 film 'Fanboys' (Pam). In After Dark, we're getting personal with some lighter questions: What's your Roman Empire? Have you experienced a friendship breakup? What do you think you'll be like at 80? Join us as Pam and Eric get to know each other better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Star Wars 50th Anniversary Celebration and Real-World Analysis

  8. 17 Jun

    More Tools, More Problems: AI Layoffs, Grade Inflation, and the Skills We're Losing

    The World Cup is delivering, and not just on the pitch. This week we start with a genuine feel-good moment: cross-cultural chaos and connection across North America, from Cape Verde stunning Spain in Atlanta to a German tourist discovering Helen, GA and a Japanese visitor writing a love letter to free chips and salsa. Sometimes the world is actually kind of great. Then we get into it. AI is officially the number one reason people are losing their jobs in 2026. We dig into the 2026 International AI Safety Report, which finds that AI is impressive in some areas and genuinely concerning in others. These tools might be making us worse at the very things we're supposed to be getting better at. We also get into AI and grade inflation — a new Berkeley study finds professors in writing- and coding-heavy courses are handing out significantly more A's post-ChatGPT. And Pam weighs in from a journalism angle on what AI can and can't do for freelancers, and we get honest about the tasks we've tried to hand off to AI that just... made more work. And in this week's installment of After Dark, it's the AI Honesty Corner: we asked our AI platforms to profile us, roast us, and name our blind spots. The accuracy was mixed, occasionally devastating, and in at least one case, deeply funny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    More Tools, More Problems: AI Layoffs, Grade Inflation, and the Skills We're Losing
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Millennial podcast is a weekly roundtable about our Generation Y experience. From news to politics and pop culture, a panel of friends digs in on why these stories matter and how they affect millennials. If you’ve ever wondered how to maneuver student loan debt, voting, relationships, careers, or just life in general, we feel that SO. HARD. And we’re here to share our stories, along with our greatest challenges and wins, along the way. Millennial podcast is about journeying through young adulthood together.

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  • Creator
    Laura Tee, Pamela Gocobachi
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    545
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Millennial
  • Show Website
    Millennial: Pretend Adulting, Real Talk
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