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Backtrack: Dawn of Music Videos

“Ladies and gentlemen… rock and roll.” Those are the opening words spoken on August 1, 1981 that launched MTV and the music video revolution. But it actually started before that in smaller forms with artists like David Bowie and Queen pushing video as a medium for exposing their music. In this Backtrack we talk about […]

Jon

June 28, 2018

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Backtrack: Dead Brands

About This Episode Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s there were brand names that seemed like they would go on forever: Pan Am, Woolworth, A & P. But due to bad management, not keeping up with the changing times, or competition, many have died away leaving only memories. Join us as we venture into […]

Jon

October 3, 2019

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Backtrack: Evolution of Digital Storage

Today most of us walk around with hundreds of gigabytes of storage in our pockets and think nothing of it. In the not too distant past, to have a few megabytes of storage was considered a ton! For those of us who remember 5 1/4″ floppy disks, it would take 9,532 of them to store […]

Jon

July 26, 2018

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Backtrack: Fads of Generation X

We’ve all experienced fads as part of growing up. The Baby Boomers had things like the poodle skirts, the hula hoop, and the yo-yo and GenX had things like Swatches, Rubik’s Cube and Tickle me Elmo! We do our best to cover this vast topic on the fads we most remember growing up in the […]

Jon

May 31, 2018

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Backtrack: Favorite GenX Christmas Toys

About This Episode Now that another Christmas is behind us, we thought that it would be appropriate to share with you some of our favorite Christmas gifts we received growing up Generation X! Patreon » patreon.com/genxgrownupDiscord » GenXGrownUp.com/discordFacebook » fb.me/GenXGrownUpTwitter » GenXGrownUp.com/twitterWebsite » GenXGrownUp.comPodcast » GenXGrownUp.com/podMerchandise » GenXGrownUp.com/merchTheme: “Grown Up” by Beefy » beefyness.com iTunes […]

Jon

December 26, 2019

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Backtrack: Fraggle Rock

About This Episode When I first watched Fraggle Rock, I never thought of it as a show depicting four species that are dependant on one another for their survival. I just thought that the Fraggles liked to have fun, Doozers like to work and the Gorgs were…. well Gorgs! Like all great shows, Fraggle Rock […]

Jon

September 19, 2019

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