ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Gen X Archives is your pop culture time machine, rewinding the moments, music, movies, television, technology, and memories that shaped a generation.
From mixtapes and mall arcades to blockbuster summers, MTV, cult classics, and the early days of the internet, each episode explores the history, culture, trends, and events that defined Generation X.
This isn't just nostalgia. Gen X Archives looks at the stories behind the sounds, screens, fads, controversies, and everyday experiences of growing up in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Whether you lived it or just wish you did, join us as we revisit the iconic, strange, and sometimes forgotten stories of the analog era and the generation raised by pop culture.
From mixtapes and mall arcades to blockbuster summers, MTV, cult classics, and the early days of the internet, each episode explores the history, culture, trends, and events that defined Generation X.
This isn't just nostalgia. Gen X Archives looks at the stories behind the sounds, screens, fads, controversies, and everyday experiences of growing up in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Whether you lived it or just wish you did, join us as we revisit the iconic, strange, and sometimes forgotten stories of the analog era and the generation raised by pop culture.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 130 days
Average audio length:
23 minutes
English
United States
4 episodes
since Oct. 1, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
The Devil Made Us Do It: Inside the Satanic Panic
If you grew up in the 1980s, there’s a good chance somebody thought something you liked was dangerous.
Heavy metal supposedly contained hidden Satanic messages. Dungeons & Dragons could pull kids into the occult. Horror movies were corrupting yo…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Raised by Monsters: How Gen X Grew Up with Horror
If you grew up in the 1980s, horror movies were everywhere.
Michael Myers came home. Jason Voorhees waited at summer camp. Freddy Krueger made sleep itself dangerous. And somehow, these monsters became some of the biggest pop-culture icons of the de…
🎃Trick or Terror: The Halloween Candy Scare of the 1980s🍬
🕹️The premiere episode is dedicated to Greg, a friend since childhood. He always embodied the true spirit of Gen X. He may be gone, but the legend lives on! 🤘
Halloween night, 1980s, the streets were full of ghosts, goblins, clowns and one u…
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