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’90s Monday Night Wrestling Wars

About This Episode In the mid-’90s, the two powerhouse wrestling franchises, WWF & WCW, were in a heated battle for viewership. As wrestling popularity was skyrocketing, both used cut-throat tactics on- and off-screen to steal one another’s audiences. In this Backtrack, we’re jumping off the top-rope with an atomic elbow of knowledge all about the […]

January 6, 2022

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The Early Internet

About This Episode Today, life screeches to a halt when your wi-fi goes down, but just three short decades ago, the internet was a brand new thing that we had no idea we even needed. In this episode we look back at the origins of the internet and how we experienced it in its early […]

Jon

October 15, 2020

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Searching, Qi Charging, & Iron Fist 2

In this week’s exciting episode, Jon brags about the Galaxy Watch’s awesome battery life, Mo is jealous of his awesome battery life and finds an old YouTube video from the MCU, and George discovers the joy of wireless charging! Plus much, much more amazing content from the perspective of GenX’ers! Facebook » fb.me/GenXGrownUp […]

Jon

September 13, 2018

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Backtrack: Playing Outside

One, two, three…. NOT IT! How many times have you started an exhausting game of tag with those words? In this week’s GenXGrownUp Backtrack we remember playing outside. Sometimes because we wanted to and sometimes because our parents banned us from the house! We talk about playing in the dirt, playing alone and other uses […]

Jon

September 6, 2018

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Berzerk

About This Episode Released in 1980, Berzerk is an iconic arcade game forever etched into video game history. Known for its pioneering use of voice synthesis, intense gameplay, and relentless enemy robots, it captured the hearts and quarters of countless gamers. So, in this Backtrack, we take on Evil Otto in his maze of robots […]

January 2, 2025

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Backtrack: One-Hit Wonders of the ’80s

About This Episode WARNING: Listening to this podcast could result in incessant humming, loud singing in your car, or in some extreme cases, earworms. The only known treatment is to listen to some of GenXGrownUp’s favorite one-hit wonders of the 1980s. Playlist and links provided below, but listen before you read further if you want […]

Jon

May 16, 2019

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