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Pop Culture Preservation Society

Pop Culture Preservation Society

Pop Culture Preservation Society

The Pop Culture Preservation Society is a podcast dedicated to preserving and elevating the unsung pop culture nuggets of the classic Gen X childhood. Were you there when Marcia broke her nose? Tiger Beat delivered the news? And John Travolta was stuck in that plastic bubble? Then this is the podcast for you!

Join enthusiastic fangirls Carolyn, Kristin and Michelle — die-hard members of the Big Wheel Generation — as we discuss and dissect the crushes, clothes, books, movies, songs, tv and toys that shaped our youth. We’ll also chat about the role nostalgia plays in our lives and how recalling these positive memories increases our sense of connectedness and well-being. And really, isn’t that something we could all use a little more of right now?

We hope you’ll join us as we wrap ourselves in the comfort of many of the pop culture moments that defined us when we were younger ... and still bring us joy all these years later.

Nanu nanu, keep on truckin', and may the force be with you all!

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Pop Culture Preservation Society - Fast Times: The Soundtrack...Sort Of?

Fast Times: The Soundtrack...Sort Of?

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09/16/24 • 73 min

After discussing the unforgettable characters, scenes and lines (so many quotable lines!) from Fast Times at Ridgemont High in our last episode, it's time to go deeper --with a discussion of the unforgettable music that cemented it as a teen classic. But what many disappointed 80s teens learned was that some of the music that sent you directly to the mall record store after the movie was NOT included on the soundtrack! LAME. What's up with that?! We'll discuss the best and most important songs (even if they weren't included on the soundtrack), the scenes they supported, and how that music was used to help us understand the story in a deeper way. Which 70s rockers dominated this movie (despite protests from the director)? Which songs got buried (despite protests from the producer)? And which song accompanied the least satisfying sexual encounter(s) on film? Will there be tangents about Stacy's swimsuit and Damone's socks? You know it.

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Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.

Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here

Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here

Send us an email at [email protected]


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Pop Culture Preservation Society - The M*A*S*H Finale: Saying Goodbye to the 4077th

The M*A*S*H Finale: Saying Goodbye to the 4077th

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10/21/24 • 69 min

Today we’re saying goodbye to one of the most memorable events of the Gen X era: the finale of M*A*S*H, which marked the end of one of television history’s most popular and innovative shows. We’re breaking down the poignant finale storylines and saying farewell, one tearful goodbye at a time. Which one of us completely missed the finale on Feb. 28, 1983 and then had such FOMO she pretended she had seen it? Who loved cross-dressing Klinger best? And whose sweet memories of watching her dad cry during this finale brings her to stirring tears? Grab a box of tissues, folks, you’re gonna need all of them.

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Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.

Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here

Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here

Send us an email at [email protected]


Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use our code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Give Armoire a try and get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Just visit armoire.style/PSPS.
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Pop Culture Preservation Society - Did You Have “Dance Fever” Fever?

Did You Have “Dance Fever” Fever?

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01/15/24 • 66 min

In today's episode, we’ll be saving the competition show responsible for the rash of broken arms suffered in basements, backyards and TV rooms while trying the latest trick seen on the disco-era dance show ... DANCE FEVER. This was the pop culture nugget that gave us Deney Terrio, a name no Gen Xer will ever forget. But it wasn't just the spandex and dance moves that kept us glued to the TV -- it was also the parade of celebrity judges, awkwardly pretending like they knew anything at all about disco and/or dancing. If you were good enough for Love Boat, you were good enough for Dance Fever! Which judge focused his scoring on the contestant's legs? Which one tried to do the bump with Motion -- but missed? Who/what is Motion anyway (and what famous athlete are they married to???)? And which judge literally barked their score for the audience? Listen today and find out!

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Become a supporter of the PCPS on Patreon. Check out all the perks you get here.

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Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, “The Weekly Reader” here.


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Pop Culture Preservation Society - GenX = Generation Divorce with author Priscilla Gilman
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02/26/24 • 43 min

Following our Kramer vs. Kramer episode, we take an even deeper dive with someone who was obsessed with the movie at just ten years old: Priscilla Gilman, author of The Critic's Daughter, a memoir that dissects her experience of her parents' divorce, will join us to give her take on the movie and why it resonated so hard with her at such a young age. Her story is uniquely hers but statistics show that at least half of you will find it shockingly familiar. The first children of divorce are in their forties and fifties now and it's become clear that we Gen Xers were the canaries in the coal mine. Whether it was you, your friends, or your neighbors, divorce touched us all.

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Join us for PCPS Book Club as we discuss "The Critic's Daughter" with author Priscilla Gilman on Thursday, March 28th at 7pm CST

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here

As always, Patreon members attend PCPS Book Club for free.

Purchase The Critic's Daughter here

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Follow PCPS on Instagram, Facebook, Threads and TikTok.

Become a supporter on Patreon. Check out all the extra perks you get here.

Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a donation here.

Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter "The Weekly Reader" here.


Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use our code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Give Armoire a try and get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Just visit armoire.style/PSPS.
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Pop Culture Preservation Society - Ode To The Mixtape

Ode To The Mixtape

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10/07/24 • 47 min

In today's episode, we’ll be saving an art form that belongs almost solely to Gen Xers – the friendship bracelet of the 80s and 90s, the analog version of posting and sharing – we’re talking about the making and gifting of mixtapes. Born in the 1980s and peaking in the mid 1990s, the mixtape truly belongs to Gen Xers. Boomers were adults and Millennials were babies when mixtapes emerged as a DIY way – a very DIY, handmade, homemade way – to share music.There might be a few older Millennials who embraced the making of mixtapes but they wouldn’t have had them very long before their desktop computers started coming with CD drives. The mixtape was, of course, about music -- but it could also be intensely personal, created with a theme and a purpose to make a connection with another person. Join us as we share our own mixtapes from friends and lovers; their names, their stories and their songs. Who learned about The Time from a party mixtape? Who had a Winnie-the-Pooh-themed mixtape? And which PCPS tagline came directly from a mixtape created in 1991? Grab a Memorex tape and hold down the play and record buttons for this tribute to Gen X's most beloved music sharing platform.

Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.

Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here

Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here

Send us an email at [email protected]


Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use our code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Give Armoire a try and get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Just visit armoire.style/PSPS.
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Pop Culture Preservation Society - The Make Out Mixtape

The Make Out Mixtape

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10/14/24 • 53 min

Join us today for a continuation of our discussion about the most beloved ancient relic that ultimately belonged to just one generation (hint: it was us): and that is the mixtape, a DIY medium exchanged between friends and lovers that was, on its surface, a way to share music but was actually a thinly veiled communication device intended to express our feelings to another person.

There is one very particular kind of mixtape that we couldn’t fit into last week’s discussion – and to shortchange it would’ve been to erase an entire generation’s yearning for something very specific...Today we are talking about the Make Out Mixtape. Because of the age we were when we were making mixtapes – whether you were in middle school, high school, or college – a lot of our mixtapes were intended to woo. Or inspire special feelings that encouraged us to get closer to another person. Possibly with our bodies. Because we were in the midst of our sexual awakening.

Even if you never got any action in high school, these tapes were aspirational. Maybe they were helping you fantasize about the things you would like to do if you were ever given the chance. Or maybe your tape was just step one in helping someone think about you in that way.

Today's episode will take you behind the curtain of both Carolyn's and Kristin's adolescent makeout sessions and the soundtracks that accompanied them. Get ready for the swoonworthy sounds of makeout masters like DeBarge, Phil Collins, Chicago, Anita Baker, Lionel Richie, and Feivel the mouse (not even kidding). Time travel with us and let's see if we can get that estrogen flowing again!

Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook an TikTok

Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.

Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here

Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here

Send us an email at [email protected]


Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use our code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Give Armoire a try and get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Just visit armoire.style/PSPS.
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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Pop Culture Preservation Society - Dear Nina: The Childhood Friendships That Shaped Us
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11/13/23 • 39 min

Have you ever stopped to acknowledge the profound impact of your childhood friendships, even the most casual and fleeting ones, on your adult identity? This week's episode is a re-share of Kristin's interview with Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship; a discussion that shows how nostalgia for our childhoods is helpful when discovering who we are today. Carolyn and Michelle help introduce the episode with their own discoveries, too -- friends who mirrored their complicated family situations, friends who showed them what wealth really looks like -- we all have people from our pasts who helped us learn about ourselves.

Here's what Dear Nina has to say about this episode: Walk down memory lane with Kristin Nilsen, a middle-grade fiction writer and co-host of The Pop Culture Preservation Society Podcast, as we scrutinize our early social interactions and their lasting influence. We acknowledge the importance of these friendships, even those that were temporary, and appreciate the roles they played in shaping us. We also take a quick nostalgic dive into the central friendship themes in our favorite childhood books from Charlotte’s Web to The Secret Garden to The Babysitter’s Club series and the Sweet Valley High series. Special shoutout to Braeside Elementary School and the many classmates who made my childhood so special."

Many thanks to Dear Nina for the opportunity, the conversation, and for the friendship!


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If we get real about the books we read in the Gen X era, there might be one category that helped us the most -- the books we passed around our classrooms and hid under our mattresses because they brazenly talked about all the messiness of growing up (like bodies, babies, boobs and body odor). These were the guidebooks for our own coming of age journey. Join us as we dish about all those paperbacks from library shelves and drugstore spinners, the cautionary tales of drugs and unintended pregnancies, the portrayals of real kids (just like you) struggling with real problems (just like you), from authors like Norma Klein, Paul Zindel, and ANONYMOUS. But no conversation about coming of age is complete without the inclusion of Judy Blume; we top off this episode with an interview with Rachelle Bergstein, author of the new book The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Changed All of Our Childhoods. You might be surprised to find out just how big her contribution was and how much her work reflected a very unique moment in history.

Purchase “The Genius of Judy” at

Books and Books Key West (Judy Blume’s bookstore)

Amazon

Bookshop.org

Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.

Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here

Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here

Send us an email at [email protected]


Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use our code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Give Armoire a try and get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Just visit armoire.style/PSPS.
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Pop Culture Preservation Society - The "Free To Be You and Me" Generation: SUPERSIZED EDITION
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08/19/24 • 93 min

There's a new reason to celebrate the awesomeness of "Free To Be Generation" and we're chatting all about it in today's new opening. Kristin shares some exciting news which just might involve a PCPS roadtrip and meetup. Listen for all the scoop.

Free To Be ... You and Me was our generation's manifesto, played in every household and every classroom across the nation until we all knew that it was all right to cry, and mommies are people, and Atalanta didn't have to get married if she didn't want to. Join us for a deep dive on the album's origin story and take our hands, come along as we r-u-u-u-u-u-n-n-n-n with our own thoughts and feelings about our favorite songs and stories. Which lyrics made Kristin cry real tears ON THE AIR? And, 50 years later, how far do you think we've come? You might be surprised at some of the responses.

Watch “Stars in the House” with Marlo Thomas

Watch Trey McIntyre Dance Project

Free To Be You And Me performed by Sarah Bareilles

Follow the Pop Culture Preservation Society on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok

Support the PCPS by becoming a patron on Patreon. Check all the extra perks you get here.

Help the PCPS keep on truckin' by making a one-time donation here

Subscribe to the PCPS email newsletter, "The Weekly Reader" here

Send us an email at [email protected]


Our Sponsors:
* Check out Happy Mammoth and use our code PCPS for a great deal: happymammoth.com
* Give Armoire a try and get up to 50% off your first month, that’s up to $125 OFF! Just visit armoire.style/PSPS.
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Pop Culture Preservation Society - Marooned In The Blue Lagoon

Marooned In The Blue Lagoon

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03/21/22 • 67 min

Fresh off a group viewing of the 1980 Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins classic “The Blue Lagoon” we react, cringe, shout, and mostly, just wonder where CPS was during the filming. Does the movie hold up? Which one of us remembers it clearly? And what name do we decide to call Richard's oft-exposed lower region? Trust us, this is a conversation you want to be a part of. Loincloths are optional, obviously.

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How many episodes does Pop Culture Preservation Society have?

Pop Culture Preservation Society currently has 196 episodes available.

What topics does Pop Culture Preservation Society cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Pop Culture Preservation Society?

The episode title 'Tiger Beat’s Top 10 Teen Idol Countdown' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Pop Culture Preservation Society?

The average episode length on Pop Culture Preservation Society is 63 minutes.

How often are episodes of Pop Culture Preservation Society released?

Episodes of Pop Culture Preservation Society are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Pop Culture Preservation Society?

The first episode of Pop Culture Preservation Society was released on Nov 11, 2020.

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