A show about the forgotten generation, and everything you’ve forgotten about Generation X.

Episodes

Dec. 18, 2023

Welcome to Tangent Island

I've been dreaming of this very journey for a few years. I turned 40 during COVID and was hit with speed bump after speed bump. Situations I have never anticipated experiencing and in some cases it will be my first time shar…
Dec. 8, 2023

Ep. 114: Second Acts: The Waiting to X-Hale Finale

It’s the final episode, and there are tears shed, and personal revelations made as Karen and Wynter contemplate their favorite “second acts” in popular culture. Amidst it all, Wynter also discusses her new project dropping i…
Dec. 4, 2023

Ep. 113: Favorite Finales

In our penultimate episode, Wynter and Karen prepare for the end by reflecting on their favorite series finales including Mad Men, Six Feet Under, The Good Place and The Americans among others. Before they do, Karen insists …
Oct. 7, 2023

Ep. 112: Special Guests

This week we present our second "best of" episode featuring a collection of the lovely guests we've had over the years. You'll hear & make their first appearance since the end of (3:28), talk about the L.A. punk scene an…
Sept. 23, 2023

Ep. 111: Ahead of Our Time

We present our first "best of" episode featuring clips or topics that were ahead of the curve. From the prediction of the movie, the ahead of her time and Wynter's discovery of to darker predictions of COVID conspiracy th…
Aug. 19, 2023

Ep. 110: My favorite disaster

Wynter flies solo again as she discusses her favorite natural disaster movies as Hurricane Hilary is set to bring the rain to SoCal. She shares her thoughts on guilty pleasures she’s indulging like Baywatch Nights and gettin…
Aug. 5, 2023

Ep. 109: Gen X Grief & the Loss of Sinead O’Connor and Paul “Pee-Wee Herman “ Reubens

Wynter flies solo as she discusses Gen X grief in the wake of Sinead O’Connor and Paul “Pee Wee Herman” Reuben's deaths. She shares her thoughts Greta Gerwig’s Barbie success,  the Lizzo controversy, and recommends a British…
July 22, 2023

Ep. 108: HOTCAST

It’s the hottest summer on record, so Karen and Wynter take it upon themselves to discuss the pop culture that’s bringing all the heat,  from Barbenheimer opening weekend, to Mission Impossible and the FIFA Women’s World Cup…
July 8, 2023

Ep. 107: Threads, Bear, And Just Like That…

Wynter and KT have so much to chew on this week, including the scramble for social media life-rafts after Twitter. Wynter tells us all about the new Meta platform, Threads, while KT documents her various false starts and eff…
June 24, 2023

Ep. 106: Wynter is Back! Black Mirror and Other Current Dystopias

Wynter is back and we have an episode filled with SPOILER ALERTS for both the season finale of Dave and all of Black Mirror, season 6. Which of Streamberry’s eps do we love, or…not so much? KT has an action alert for the LGB…
June 7, 2023

Pride Bonus Episode on Ultimatum: Queer Love

Karen assembles an expert panel of queers to dish about this summer's reality phenom,  (Netflix). Authors, curators, and queers about town, Greta La Fleur (), Juana María Rodriguez (), Poulomi Saha () and Jeanne Vaccaro ( on…
June 3, 2023

Ep. 105: GenX Coffee Klatsch + 1984 w/ Scott Poulson-Bryant & Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Karen is joined this week by Scott Poulson-Bryant (a co-founding editor of , author and professor at the University of Michigan), and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, the author of . Ebony is a Detroit native who is also a professor …
May 13, 2023

Ep. 104: Met Gala and More w/ A.E. Stevenson

Fashion connoisseur and media scholar A.E. Stevenson joins KT this week to get into all things Met Gala, from the controversies around the Lagerfeld theme, to the tiniest details about some of the looks that ATE. Before all …
April 29, 2023

Ep. 103b: Nuo-Lingo and BoCo: “Touch Grass" w/ Andrew Ti

Karen and guest-host Andrew Ti take their "Asian conversation meant to be had indoors" outdoors to the soccer pitch. The two share their love of , while also discussing a controversy surrounding her hairstyle at the beginnin…
April 22, 2023

Ep. 103: Yo, is Gen X Racist? With Andrew Ti

Karen welcomes guest-host Andrew Ti (creator and co-host of Yo, is This Racist?) to discuss a recent Politico article that describes Gen X as “the Trumpiest generation.” Before getting into all that, the two discuss their mu…
April 17, 2023

Ep. 102b: Nuo-Lingo and BoCo: “Private Not Secret” w/ Guy Branum

Outtakes from episode 102 on Andy Cohen and International TV; a nuo-lingo on online displays of relationships
April 8, 2023

Ep. 102: World(ly) TV: From Top Chef World All Stars to International Netflix Offerings

Our dear Guy Branum sits in for Wynter, as he and Karen have a wide-ranging conversation about everything from #Gaylor discourse and why KT is a “Swiftie at Fifty,” to his long Talmudic catch-up with the Real Housewives fran…
March 17, 2023

Ep. 101: What Did I Miss? Spare, The Last of Us, M3GAN & More - Plus THE OSCARS

Wynter and Karen are back with season 6 to ask each other, “what did I miss?” as they cover some of the notable pop culture moments that went down during their holiday hiatus.   Before they get into Spare, The Last of Us a…
Nov. 7, 2022

Ep. 100: Turning 100 with Bob Odenkirk

It’s our 100th episode and season 5 finale!!! To help celebrate the occasion, the one and only BOB ODENKIRK was kind enough to join us for a chat about Mr. Show, comedy in the 90s, and the great Janeane Garofalo. Karen is ca…
Oct. 28, 2022

Celebrate 100 episodes with us!

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Oct. 24, 2022

Ep. 99: Queer for Fear and Our Horror Recommendations

Wynter & Karen dive into the new Shudder documentary series, Queer for Fear: The History for Queer Horror, and are inspired to make some of their own queer horror recommendations for the spooky season.   Wynter considers w…
Oct. 10, 2022

Ep. 98: Too Much Too Crime? Dahmer, The Gabby Petito Story and Blonde

Wynter assigns Karen a range of true crime offerings with varying degrees of budget and prestige, from Lifetime’s The Gaby Petito Story, to Netflix’s limited series, Dahmer and the cinematic offering, Blonde. The two discuss…
Sept. 26, 2022

Ep. 97 WRESTLING with GENX’s ANGLOPHILIA

The end of the Elizabethan-era (part II) prompted us to reflect on how British pop culture has dominated GenX’s imaginaries, from new wave and the new romantics, to Fawlty Towers and Monty Python, to iconoclasts like Bowie a…
Sept. 12, 2022

Ep. 96: 2022 Emmy Predictions

Karen and Wynter are back together again, just in time to drop their Emmy predictions for all the Comedy and Drama acting categories. They tell you who they want to win, as well as who they think will actually win, so listen…