S2E7: Friday Night Was for More than Videos!

Remember when Friday nights didn't require checking your phone every five minutes? When plans were made in person at school and then you just showed up somewhere? Megan and Lesley take us back to their teenage weekend rituals in the 1980s and early '90s, and the nostalgia hits like a caffeine rush from those bottomless Perkins coffees (or teas) we all drank at 2am.

With their new vintage bar setup as the perfect backdrop, the hosts trade stories about the weekend social rituals that defined Gen X adolescence. From roller skating parties that required good grades to attend, to midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show (complete with toast, toilet paper, and squirt guns), they map the geography of teen hangouts in Indianapolis. Noble Romans Pizza with its mythical $99 Dom Perignon special, Denny's with "Moons Over My Hammy," and small-town cruising rituals all get their moments in the spotlight.

What's striking is how these memories reveal a different relationship with rebellion and fun. Both hosts confess they didn't drink in high school – not because they were straight-laced, but because they were genuinely having a great time without it. Megan's confession about stealing a velvet rope from a movie theater and proudly displaying it in her bedroom captures the perfect level of Gen X rebellion – just enough to feel dangerous without causing real harm. Whether you were playing Dungeons & Dragons on Friday nights, working at TCBY, or watching MTV's 120 Minutes instead of sleeping before school, you'll recognize yourself in these stories.

So pour yourself something delicious, settle in, and join us for this journey back to a time when weekend entertainment didn't require Wi-Fi, when malls were social hubs rather than dying institutions, and when the most important thing was just being together with your friends, figuring out this weird thing called adolescence. What was your Friday night ritual? We'd love to hear about it.

Chapters

• 0:00 New Bar Setup and Whiskey Introduction
• 8:09 Rocky Horror Picture Show Memories
• 13:32 Football Games and Social Hangouts
• 22:49 Dating and Mall Adventures
• 33:05 Movie Theaters and Denim Trench Coats
• 43:25 MTV and Friday Night Videos Nostalgia
• 50:37 Closing and Contact Information

Transcript

Megan Bennett: 0:00

I'm Megan Bennett

Lesley Meier: 0:01

I'm

Megan Bennett: 0:02

and this is Gen X Women Are Sick of this Shit.

Megan Bennett: 0:10

Hi, Lesley!

Lesley Meier: 0:11

Look at us.

Megan Bennett: 0:13

What's happening?

Lesley Meier: 0:13

Megan, what's going on?

Megan Bennett: 0:15

Hey, we're sitting. We're tall people, we are.

Lesley Meier: 0:19

I know We've got our chairs up real tall. We're feeling quite. We're feeling ourselves.

Megan Bennett: 0:27

Because we're so tall we can't do that on camera.

Lesley Meier: 0:29

No, I mean like in a vibe-y kind of emotional, an emotional way we could have one of those kinds of websites we could. And we could post pictures of our feet To be fair.

Megan Bennett: 0:40

it would be very unhappy. I'd be very unhappy if nobody tuned in. Then I just wouldn't post pictures of my font People pay for. To be fair, I'd be very unhappy if nobody tuned in.

Lesley Meier: 0:45

Then I'd be like aw, I just want to post pictures of my font. People pay for that.

Megan Bennett: 0:49

Gorsh Welcome, welcome, welcome, hey. New set, new set, look what you did New digs, look what you did. I did.

Lesley Meier: 1:00

I did. It looks cool. I went shopping.

Megan Bennett: 1:03

It looks super cool.

Lesley Meier: 1:03

I hung out at Midland Antique Mall in Indianapolis, Indiana, for a number of hours.

Megan Bennett: 1:11

We're antiques,

Lesley Meier: 1:12

yep, no, no.

Megan Bennett: 1:13

We're vintage.

Lesley Meier: 1:16

We are well-seasoned, we are vintage. Spent three or four hours. I sent you a lot of pictures.

Megan Bennett: 1:23

You did. There were some very cool, funky things I really like. Or four hours I sent you a lot of pictures. You did. There were some very cool, funky things. I really liked those orange chairs, they were cool. Those were amazing Space chairs yes, they were definitely nice Lava orange. Yes, those were wacky. I liked them. They looked like they were from a 70s-born palace Exactly which?

Lesley Meier: 1:41

is probably a good reason not to own them. Uh, there were some red chaise lounges that were furry, that I really enjoyed. I was like how can we record a podcast laying down on chaises?

Lesley Meier: 1:55

And then I was leaving and walked past this delicious vintage 1970s bar, 1970s home bar.

Megan Bennett: 2:04

It's cool

Lesley Meier: 2:04

, it is it was sold by Sears and Roebuck evidently

Megan Bennett: 2:08

it is fly, I don't know.

Megan Bennett: 2:14

Yep it's totally tubular. It's totally tubular, rad. Cheers!

Megan Bennett: 2:21

Uh, I guess I should drink this.

Lesley Meier: 2:22

That that's pretty tasty.

Megan Bennett: 2:27

So you have whiskey with us today.

Lesley Meier: 2:29

Yeah, because we are recording the Friday night before this goes live, because it's been a little busy. Yes, and I said let's do an episode about Friday nights, and so it's Friday night and we're old people.

Megan Bennett: 2:43

So we may as well, have a little whiskey and also a bar and we have a bar. So we're like, we're, we're opening the bar.

Megan Bennett: 2:51

Exactly. It's the first night that the bar is open, so this is great. This is really cool, welcome and we have cool stools.

Lesley Meier: 2:57

That's what's. That's.

Megan Bennett: 2:58

That's why we're tall why we're super tall and our sign shows up better, so we've got our sign back here and if you're listening cool, none of this matters none of it matters, just know that we are we like it. We're vibing in a 1970s bar type of arrangement that will get enhancements. I'm sure we'll have uh, we need a lava lamp. Yeah, we'll do, you know we need like weird shit like that.

Lesley Meier: 3:20

So black light posters, I don't know we might get like a hanging light, those kind of like stained glass, if we find one of those, um, those oil lamps, the ones that have, like the uh, like an aphrodite in the middle. And then there's strings with the oil like the hot oil?

Megan Bennett: 3:35

oh fuck, I would like.

Lesley Meier: 3:37

Yes, probably hurt somebody if nothing else, we'll get one of those like kind of rocky red glowing candles that they had on the tables of every restaurant.

Megan Bennett: 3:47

Oh, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, you could buy those at like Gordon Foods or something still.

Lesley Meier: 3:55

So that's cool. We'll have some of those Awesome Levits Anywho, yes, and we are having a little sip today.

Megan Bennett: 4:00

Yeah, so tell me about this whiskey before we get started here. Yep, yeah.

Lesley Meier: 4:05

So quickly. This is a release from Keeper's Heart, which is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a distillery in the United States that blends Irish whiskeys with American whiskeys. The master distiller there is Brian Nation. This is way more than anybody will care about, unless you are a massive whiskey person.

Lesley Meier: 4:24

They recruited him from Middleton Distilleries in Ireland. He came over like right before or right in the middle of the pandemic and they've opened an incredible place. So this is a blend of Irish and American whiskey. But the reason we're talking about it today is because it was the Indy GAA, the Gaelic Athletic Association's release for their 20 year anniversary and you used to play for them

Megan Bennett: 4:47

I did.

Lesley Meier: 4:48

What did you play? Young Megan Bennett,

Megan Bennett: 4:50

Young Megan Bennett, I was old at that point. That was after my roller derby career, in which I did not break anything in roller derby.

Lesley Meier: 4:59

Not even your coccyx.

Megan Bennett: 5:01

Well, I bruised it pretty damn. Okay playing dodgeball on skates, um, but I did break my finger playing hurling, which is um not curling, which a lot of people make that mistake. A hurler with an a with a h fuck all to do with ice right, it was hurling hurling um and uh, it was great.

Megan Bennett: 5:26

Like we in indianapolis, we have a pretty big irish community yes, as you well know yep, and a lot of these guys and gals uh come out for the gaelic games and it's uh hurling camogie, which is the all women's version of hurling and and hurling. Just for those of you who are not familiar, it's considered the fastest game on grass. You've got a cool like flat oak traditionally oak mallet thing. It's called a hurl. It's got like a little hook on the end kind of. It's got like a little hook on the end kind of, and you use that to lift the slitter, which is a ball that's a little bit off size of a baseball with a really like. Anyway, this is way more information than you know. Oh no, there's so many good dirty jokes to be made. Oh, about the hurling, the slitter.

Lesley Meier: 6:17

Fast grass hurling yes, yes, it is Irish.

Megan Bennett: 6:23

Double entendres.

Lesley Meier: 6:24

Fair point.

Megan Bennett: 6:25

Nautiness yeah so, and everybody's drunk when they play. That's not 100% true.

Lesley Meier: 6:30

It would be unsafe, but sometimes there's some beers there. There's a community beer chest.

Megan Bennett: 6:35

If you're done playing, you drink. Yes, anyway, it's super fun. It's set up sort of like soccer would be, or, you know, football as we should call it.

Lesley Meier: 6:48

Yes.

Megan Bennett: 6:48

And anyway it's really, really fun. And then the women's version is camogie. And then there's also Gaelic football, which is the same basic rules as hurling, just with a like soccer ball type thing.

Lesley Meier: 7:00

It's awesome we watched some Gaelic football. Last year we went to the tournament.

Megan Bennett: 7:23

Yeah, multi-state tournament. It's super welcoming. So if you're just a little bit curious and you want to go check it out, everybody would love to have you just show up. It's a blast.

Lesley Meier: 7:33

And this bottle that the Indie GAA released is available at the Snug Snug in Irvington if anybody's interested.

Megan Bennett: 7:42

It was a.

Lesley Meier: 7:43

Surly darkness stout barrel release. So it matured its last like 30 months in a stout barrel, it's pretty tasty. It's lovely. Yeah, I like it, but this isn't a whiskey show. It's not.

Megan Bennett: 7:58

This is a pissed off Gen X chick show, but God damn it. We like whiskey and what's more and why the fuck not.

Lesley Meier: 8:05

Yeah, exactly. What's more Gen X than whiskey? Nothing, probably not, not much.

Megan Bennett: 8:10

So we were going to talk about who died. Who died?

Lesley Meier: 8:15

this week. Well, I think our gossip right, this is our hot gossip. Here we are. Our bullshit was what we just did. Yeah, so we did that. Hot guys who died this week check it off.

Megan Bennett: 8:24

Uh well, kind of a big guy. A big, well, small guy. Important title important.

Lesley Meier: 8:30

Big title, small man, small man. Big title, title uh the pope, pope francis, zip, zip up. That's a nod to saturday night live uh yeah, so pope francis passed away.

Megan Bennett: 8:43

I'm not catholic. My daughter went to catholic school, though I'm not either. My family was catholic like way catholic back in the oldie days, my grandmother on my dad's side okay well, I had two great aunts.

Lesley Meier: 8:56

Both were nuns so that's how catholic.

Megan Bennett: 8:58

I didn't know that, and then yeah, and then uh, my great, my grandmother on my dad's side, super catholic, um, do you get like a cape when you're a super?

Lesley Meier: 9:05

catholic is there. How do you and then my great, my grandmother on my dad's side, super Catholic. Do you get like a cape when you're a super Catholic? Is there? How do you designate that? A pin, maybe a?

Megan Bennett: 9:14

super, sc, sc, super Catholic, I would get a pin. She was the first lay teacher at Our Lady of Lords, which is the Catholic school that my daughter went to for elementary school.

Lesley Meier: 9:25

And when you say lay teacher, what do?

Megan Bennett: 9:27

you mean by that? She was not a nun.

Lesley Meier: 9:29

Not a nun.

Megan Bennett: 9:30

Okay, thank you. Not a nun, see, and I'm, ooh, I sound Catholic, don't I? No?

Lesley Meier: 9:34

jokes there to be made? No, whatsoever.

Megan Bennett: 9:37

Anyway, so, pope Francis. Big deal globally Born incember of 1936, became the pope march 13th 2013. And are you surprised at how long that's been?

Lesley Meier: 9:51

because I feel like they just, like the smoke, came out of the sistine chapel not too terribly long ago right, this 12 years was shorter than, but I think, the person who was the pope, prior Pope John Paul. No, tell me.

Megan Bennett: 10:07

The German guy. He was German, the German.

Lesley Meier: 10:10

Pope, the German Pope, pope Benedict, yeah, thank you.

Megan Bennett: 10:15

And then John Paul was before that.

Lesley Meier: 10:18

Okay, yeah, he was also a small man. He was a really long time.

Megan Bennett: 10:22

That was John Paul, thank you. And then Benedictict was shorter lived he's. Yeah, the jokes I just can't. There's 12, I know there's a lot, so you hear something funny. So buca di beppo rest in peace.

Lesley Meier: 10:38

Uh, but the, the italian restaurant oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I was like take me on this journey, I will will.

Megan Bennett: 10:44

Okay, so Italian restaurant. We have them in Indianapolis, or had them in Indianapolis. I think there are other places. I'm pretty sure Like anyway, there are places besides Indianapolis. Yes, that is true. Yes, I just I don't fuck Anyway. So so this restaurant has it's all like family style and everything. Yes, and there's one room that they call the Pope Room, or I don't know if they call it. We call it when we would go Amazing and we would bring friends and we would do our Friendsgiving, which is the day after Thanksgiving Right on.

Megan Bennett: 11:15

So we'd be at the Pope Room and the reason we called it that was in the middle of the table on a Lazy Susan was the head of the Pope on a lazy. Susan was the head of the pope so not not the real head of the pope. Okay, thanks for clarifying appreciation. Model of the head of the pope and three-dimensional just sitting there in a glass or and you can just turn box and you could turn it.

Megan Bennett: 11:40

So the pope was always watching. The pope would see if you were eating too much spaghetti. You could, you know, turn it and guilt people I guess that's too much tiramisu? You know, I don't know, but anyway the pope could bless you. The pope would change. So when benedict took over from john paul, all of a sudden there was a different pope head. It's just I love that.

Lesley Meier: 12:00

You know that? I've never noticed that I've been, I assume, in that room. That's know that I've never noticed that I've been, I assume in that room. That's incredible that they changed the Pope and fucking hilarious.

Megan Bennett: 12:10

Pope's head. So you know, right now did they take? I'm not sure if they're still open, but the one downtown was open, like recently. I don't think it's closed. I have no idea, I can't remember. But now that Pope francis's past, did they remove?

Lesley Meier: 12:25

his head, or is it still? Sitting there like the headspace waiting for the next pope head to be headed. Not be headed, but headed like you have to re-headed. Are you re-headed when you become a new pope?

Megan Bennett: 12:38

I don't know.

Lesley Meier: 12:38

They beheaded the pope, there we go. That's why it felt like a long time. John Paul II was the pope from 1978 till 2005. That was nearly my whole fucking life.

Megan Bennett: 12:47

No shit, that is a long, so that is why this one felt brief.

Lesley Meier: 12:50

Long popedom, there we go. Good to know, yep, if there was other information. We're supposed to shut up now though.

Megan Bennett: 12:56

I don't, you know what we could talk about. The pope for a good guy?

Lesley Meier: 13:00

Yes, I think he was a good guy and started saying important things that I hope continue to be said about the value and inherent worth of human beings and you never know Right Like the next pope could be like completely different.

Megan Bennett: 13:14

We have no idea. Be the anti-pope. Well, I mean, he's probably still the pope, he's just Anti popesta Pope on a rope. Oh God, we're probably going to hell. I'm not even worried about that, Not either. But you know, I have to believe in that in order to get there, but you know there are people out there who are like shut up, you two. You're really pushing your luck.

Lesley Meier: 13:42

I mean, they will have turned us off already.

Megan Bennett: 13:44

You are pushing your luck there they'll.

Lesley Meier: 13:45

They will have turned us off already. You are pushing your luck there, ladies. So there we go. All right, just acknowledging something important, because the pope is forever and always a constant in the world, for good, hopefully, and not for bad, but we don't know.

Lesley Meier: 14:01

Agreed never know. We'll talk about it next time as soon as we do know, right? We should stop talking about this right now. It next time as soon as we do know, right? We should stop talking about this right now. It's Friday night and we had a reason. We had a subject.

Megan Bennett: 14:11

A reason for the season. Yes, well, let's take a break real quick and then we'll come back and we'll talk about.

Lesley Meier: 14:15

Holy.

Megan Bennett: 14:16

Jesus, yes, thank you. The Gen X Women Are Sick of the Shit is supported by Lilas Love you like a sis. A Gen X Women's Social Club. What's Lilas, megan? Lilas is our off platform, off the books of faces, off all of the other traditional social media. It is our space and place for Gen X Women to come together, have conversations, meet each other. It's a social club. It is a social club.

Lesley Meier: 14:50

It's a membership-based club. Memberships are $10 a month. That does help support us in growing the platform. We purchased a platform that would host a network of women so that you could come together and meet each other in real time in a safer space yes then, than a traditional social media platform um and a much more personal space.

Lesley Meier: 15:16

So what do we do there, leslie we host movie nights where we live stream some of our favorites as they are available to us for group watches of films from the 70s, 80s and 90s. We host a space for a monthly book club. We host trivia nights once a month.

Lesley Meier: 15:40

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Megan Bennett: 16:11

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Lesley Meier: 16:42

And we're back,

Megan Bennett: 16:43

and we're back. It's Friday night, friday, friday Friday. We'll sell you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge.

Lesley Meier: 16:56

These stools are kind of just an edge.

Megan Bennett: 16:58

I have one cheek solidly on this stool and the other one's kind of like. I don't know free-falling.

Lesley Meier: 17:04

They were reasonably priced.

Megan Bennett: 17:05

I like them. I think they're great. You picked them out. They're not uncomfortable. You did great. I love them. I'm glad I like the bar. Good job you Welcome back. Hey, welcome back.

Lesley Meier: 17:14

Let's do this, salanta, salanta.

Megan Bennett: 17:20

So maybe we're a little loosey-goosey here with our conversation because we've been drinking whiskey.

Lesley Meier: 17:29

I mean mean it's Friday. It is Friday night and we've had five sips and I dumped half of mine on my left that's just that's just color, color coordination. That is not at all what. I was trying to say what was I trying to say? I don't know. That's just coordination.

Megan Bennett: 17:41

I think coordination, poor coordination that's where we are, but we have a topic we do because it's Friday night, so we were talking about what. Friday night and Saturday night like what that was like when we were wee lasses in the 80s and early 90s Very early 90s and like what did you?

Lesley Meier: 18:04

do like in middle school and high school on the weekends and I'm guessing that those two time periods were very different.

Megan Bennett: 18:10

Let's say, middle school was like sixth, seventh, eighth grade okay, so junior high, I think, and I, so I post in the facebook group. I did ask the question because I was curious, like, and what was interesting about this, this little experiment, was the number of people who said like that they did when they posted about stuff that they did.

Lesley Meier: 18:31

Yep, it was totally triggering memories for me of shit that I did, too like I was like oh, I completely forgot about that but uh, junior high, like middle school, junior high, roller skating was a big thing okay, okay, the roller rinks yes, we would roller skate like every Friday, but we would go with my school. Oh weird, okay. Well, I went to a really weird fucking middle school. I guess. There were like 50 kids in the whole school, from preschool through eighth grade.

Megan Bennett: 19:00

Yeah, montessori we were oddballs.

Lesley Meier: 19:03

So we were, I'm not we had a small bus and they called that the short bus. We're not gonna say that, because that has a different connotation. It does but and is not kind so we had a small bus and there were maybe 12 of us that would go, but we roller skated like every friday afternoon at the usa skate on the west side okay, oh, that was a, that was a good one.

Megan Bennett: 19:28

So, and then?

Lesley Meier: 19:29

there would be like some birthday parties that got held there and that kind of thing. So that was sort of like my, but there was no nighttime stuff.

Megan Bennett: 19:37

So the only time that I would ever skate with with people from school is we would. We would have roller skating parties.

Lesley Meier: 19:44

So that would be like you would the the.

Megan Bennett: 19:48

It was elementary school, I think, more than junior high, um, so that went up to sixth grade for me and they would like the school would rent out for, like the fifth and sixth graders, uh, roller party, roller skating party, and if your grades were of a certain level, then you would be able to go.

Lesley Meier: 20:09

Oh my gosh. So it was used to like categorize.

Megan Bennett: 20:12

It was motivation, it was supposed to be motivation.

Lesley Meier: 20:14

But really, if you had like a learning disability, you just felt like an asshole. Yeah, probably, but it's okay, we didn't know any different. No, we didn't, this was all normal.

Megan Bennett: 20:25

But that was just inspiring you to.

Lesley Meier: 20:26

You know, do do better so you can go to the roller skating party, but yes, we would have roller skating parties overcome that dyslexia just by trying really hard right. That exactly sorry, my computer wants to see my face it's really you don't do math you know well, yeah, so middle and that was like mostly sleep kind of sleepovers, like not a ton of stuff. I didn't, I didn't do it. But I lived middle school, lived really far away, I was not in the city at all.

Megan Bennett: 20:52

So it was a lot of. I did a lot of sleepovers like either at my place or I had a couple really good friends that lived around the corner, like not too far away, and we would do sleepovers and stuff here, but yeah, yeah, middle school was pretty low key, yes, and then the wheels fell off in high school well, like they do.

Lesley Meier: 21:15

I mean there's more independence. So what was, what were weekends like in high school for you? And there's probably a difference between like your freshman and sophomore year and then like junior and senior year. Yeah, and my memory is so mushy that it's really hard, and we're talking about like weekend nights in Indianapolis in the 80s man, there used to be all ages clubs in the 80s.

Megan Bennett: 21:40

What was that one called? There was one. There was one in Beach Grove. There was.

Lesley Meier: 21:45

I had friends that used to go to all the time.

Megan Bennett: 21:47

I never went I went once or twice but that music was not my, that was not my jam right on heard. You know, that was not my jam, so I god, I can't remember what it was called, uh, but yeah, so there was an under 21 club. And then, of course, you know, like all good things take only takes a couple people to screw that up, oh yeah, well, I mean because they were.

Lesley Meier: 22:13

I mean alcohol was like wildly available in all of the things oh, you could walk into a so funny 7-eleven.

Megan Bennett: 22:22

That doesn't sound right no off it does.

Lesley Meier: 22:24

I'll spend too long looking for it. But yes, I remember that those existed, but I was never allowed to go to those kinds of places.

Megan Bennett: 22:32

Yeah, I only like I said, I think I only went one or twice. One or twice once or twice and it was not uh, you know, it just wasn't my thing.

Lesley Meier: 22:40

But what was your thing?

Megan Bennett: 22:43

oh man. So we started I want to say it was probably my sophomore year, ish, maybe uh we started going to rocky horror picture show. It was every. I want to say it was every friday night, maybe. Where was it? Uh? So there were two places. You could go to lafayette square and they would have it, or you could go to uh the general cinemas at east gate. No shit, yeah, I wonder where I saw it. I remember going.

Megan Bennett: 23:17

I was a freshman in high school when I saw it I went many, many times like yeah, many, like probably too many, and one of I can't remember which theater it was, but one of the theaters, and I got shut down for a length of time because somebody drove a motorcycle through the screen. No shit, yeah, yeah, so that's. I was not there that night, I, I just remember.

Lesley Meier: 23:45

How did they get it in? I have no clue. That's the real question. Did it come in the back door? Did somebody let?

Megan Bennett: 23:52

them. When Eddie said, you know, yeah. When Eddie said he didn't love his teddy, yeah, I mean seriously, no, fucking shit. So that got shut down for a little while and then I think it might have been done forever at that theater and then I think it might have been done forever at that theater, oh sure.

Lesley Meier: 24:08

And then you know we had to go to a different one. That would have been the most metal thing ever, though I know right, totally Like you would have been like that's the fucking coolest thing I've ever seen, man oh.

Megan Bennett: 24:14

God, that's awesome. God, josh Bannett, I love that yeah.

Lesley Meier: 24:32

So Rocky Horror is? I was a freshman and I went with my youth group because my youth minister at the time she knows who she is just knew that all the kids loved Rocky Horror Picture Show and she loved us.

Megan Bennett: 24:44

Oh, she didn't know the show, though no, she loved us and believed us. Oh, she didn't know the show, though no, she loved us and believed us, but honestly, like we didn't.

Lesley Meier: 24:53

When you're watching it as a young person, you're like this is just fucking cool. You're not thinking about any of it it doesn't have no Adults apply such dumb meaning to shit. None of us were like caught up in that and so no.

Megan Bennett: 25:08

If anything, you were just watching it going. What the fuck is going on?

Lesley Meier: 25:10

here because so many parts of it are so confusing. But then it's also just like amazing and like I mean you kind of got like.

Megan Bennett: 25:17

You kind of got like frank's like super hot, like was super attracted to you know, you got like that oh, and some of the jokes I mean, and boobs and stuff like that. You were like okay, you know but right, but it wasn't like it wasn't deep, you were.

Lesley Meier: 25:38

No, it was not deep, not at all, not for 14, 15 year old kids so so she took us and god lover stayed like, and everybody knew, we knew all the things we had to bring toilet paper, toast, all rice, like we brought everything Squirt guns and the whole bit.

Megan Bennett: 25:53

Yes.

Lesley Meier: 25:54

And she like facilitated us bringing all this stuff, like this was the thing. So we all went. Oh my God, I love it. We watched the whole thing and there were a few kids who left, who were uncomfortable, and so she did go out and like sit with those kids, and I think she felt like she had to go out.

Megan Bennett: 26:11

Yeah, I would be so curious to know and, like, left you all to your own devices To finish. So, like.

Lesley Meier: 26:16

To her credit, she was just like nope, this is the choice we made. It was for a lock-in, this is what we're doing, and so we're all going to stay here and did not pull us out. There was no like lecture about it. I don't know if conversations were had with families or if it just happened and then we just went on with life, and it was never mentioned again, but it was it was amazing.

Megan Bennett: 26:38

I love it so much.

Lesley Meier: 26:39

We had a great time, so that was that experience for me.

Megan Bennett: 26:42

My freshman year of high school, so good.

Lesley Meier: 26:45

Yeah, so freshman year things had to still kind of be facilitated, Like I didn't have friends who drive.

Megan Bennett: 26:50

Yeah. Or drove at that point. Yeah, did you do sports?

Lesley Meier: 26:55

weekends, so we only had as they make a face about it. Yeah, I know why would you do that.

Megan Bennett: 27:00

So yeah, in high school the high school that I went to we had a. I was a, I was a freshman and we had a big named football guy. Should I say the name? I'm gonna say his name, so it was jeff george um and he was a senior, I think, when I was a final, whatever he played for the colts right he played for the colts so football was like a real big thing. Like everybody was like football, so that was the Friday night.

Lesley Meier: 27:31

Thing.

Megan Bennett: 27:32

And I did not give a shit. I think I went maybe to one or two games and I couldn't even tell you why, like it literally may have been because I was forced to, because a teacher said we had to be there.

Lesley Meier: 27:46

Oh, like you get extra credit for showing up or something like that yeah, something dumb like that. Everybody goes to the football game tonight you get 10 points yeah or it had something to do with a boy. I don't know, maybe.

Megan Bennett: 27:57

But I was like, anyway, but funny story about him. I'm going to spill some tea. I don't know where Jeff is now I I presume he's doing well, but in high school he, his mom, was my elementary school secretary, oh okay. So I knew her, um, and I won't say her name. She was a lovely lady, um she. He apparently got hurt on the field and she ran out in the middle of the game on the field. Oh, bless her heart. And that nearly destroyed his career because they're like dude.

Lesley Meier: 28:38

your mom should not run the fucking field, your mom should not go out on the field.

Megan Bennett: 28:43

Yeah, anyway, bless her heart. Bless her heart, bless her sweetheart. Anyway, she was a doll, but yeah, and she just loved her kid.

Lesley Meier: 28:51

She was just worried.

Megan Bennett: 28:52

She did yeah, she was just concerned.

Lesley Meier: 28:54

She wanted to kiss it and make it better. It was not a good thing. Moms don't run out on the field. Don't run onto the football field.

Megan Bennett: 29:01

You'll probably get them kicked out or disqualified or whatever it would not be a good thing. Or teased mercilessly. Oh, that's also true.

Lesley Meier: 29:08

It doesn't matter, you're alive. I just want to make sure you are okay.

Megan Bennett: 29:11

Mommy, you'll be fine.

Lesley Meier: 29:14

Yeah, similarly, I think I went to one football game. It was my senior year homecoming game and that was because my friend was in the lineup for homecoming queen.

Megan Bennett: 29:28

And she won.

Lesley Meier: 29:28

And she was alternative, wow, so it was kind of a big deal yeah she won the alternative girls never won and like we were. We didn't know that that's what we were, but but she was also like, universally likable. She was probably one of the most liked people and was so sincerely kind like it was insane, so it was really great so we went to support her and and that was my probably my one and only football game yeah, that sounds like the right person won.

Megan Bennett: 29:56

then what did we do for fun, fun. Well, after so at least for me, like on Friday nights, the games would end and again I wasn't going. But I knew that the cool place to hang out after that was Noble Roman's Pizza.

Lesley Meier: 30:10

So we would go to like.

Megan Bennett: 30:12

it was a place called Cherry Tree, but it was like the Noble Romans pizza there, and that place was booked.

Lesley Meier: 30:18

It was really cool.

Megan Bennett: 30:19

Yeah, and super fun and so like. And everybody from every freaking walk of life was, you know, at Noble Romans eating breadsticks because that's all you could afford to do. Sure, fair, and always looking at the menu and thinking, someday I'm going to spend $99 and get that breadstick and that bottle of Dom Perignon, that Someday I'm going to spend $99 and get that breadstick and that bottle of Dom Perignon.

Lesley Meier: 30:39

That was on the menu. Baby 99 bucks.

Megan Bennett: 30:40

I think that everybody Seemed like a shit ton of money $99. $99. The markup on that Dom.

Lesley Meier: 30:47

Perignon was probably 500%.

Megan Bennett: 30:49

That Dom Perignon had been hot and cold and hot and cold, and hot and cold.

Lesley Meier: 30:53

That shit probably tastes like piss.

Megan Bennett: 30:56

It was really awful.

Lesley Meier: 30:57

Yeah, where else did you go eat in high school on the weekends?

Megan Bennett: 31:00

Oh, that's a good question, like when you said that it made me think of a couple things that I had not thought of in forever.

Lesley Meier: 31:05

Well, there was like a Steak and Shake close to.

Megan Bennett: 31:09

I went to North Central, so there was a Steak and Shake up there?

Lesley Meier: 31:11

Yep, and a McDonald's, yeah. But I also remembered do you remember Perkins? Oh yeah, 24-hour diners.

Megan Bennett: 31:18

Hell yeah.

Lesley Meier: 31:19

And the bottomless pots of coffee or tea.

Megan Bennett: 31:21

Heck, yeah, we would go there, yeah.

Lesley Meier: 31:23

Or like I didn't like coffee, then Bottomless pots of tea, yeah, and oh, we would also go to coffees on downtown. That was like my junior senior year. I had a psychology professor that was a musician and he would play gigs there and then we would go. And then one of my boyfriends in high school had a band and he had gigs there so we would go, okay.

Megan Bennett: 31:52

I don't know where it was.

Lesley Meier: 31:53

I'm sure I could look it up on the internet. But that was kind of cool. So the abby there and then um the coffee house in broader bowl. Oh my god, I'll have to research it for a hot second, but we would go hang out there okay, okay, we did.

Megan Bennett: 32:08

Uh, we didn't do perkins, we did denny's oh right, and Denny's was right in a little strip mall area that was really close to one of my friend's houses. Hi, dawn, I think you're listening.

Lesley Meier: 32:22

Hi, dawn, that's so sweet.

Megan Bennett: 32:24

So yeah, so it was. Man. Denny's was like the hot place, so same kind of deal. You know you could get two moons over Miami pretty affordably Amazing. And yeah, Denny's was a big, big place, you would just get all kinds of like cheap ass snacks. Yeah, there was also a place in Fountain Square, which is just south of Indianapolis. It was a little sketch back in the day, but it was called the Pepe Grill.

Lesley Meier: 32:55

Oh fuck, yeah happy it was a big deal. Yeah, I think it that was.

Megan Bennett: 32:59

I was later, before I could go to peppy. So it was just a little, a little farther out of my, my range, my driving range oh yeah, yeah, I didn't even know fountsware existed.

Lesley Meier: 33:10

Yeah, as a young person, you were way up on the other side of town. So very north, I was very north. I think it was Cafe Espresso, that's not right I don't know. That doesn't make sense. My friends in Broad Ripple would hang out there all the time. So yeah, sort of, I guess actually in high school Broad Ripple was sort of a hangout too.

Megan Bennett: 33:28

Broad Ripple was the coolest place. That was where I spent the majority of my friders and saturday nights, because there's no question that's where all the skaters were. That's where there was a place called the castle, which was it was actually like a water treatment plant or whatever, and you'd have to climb down a bank and it totally illegal to be there and we did it anyway, and under the bridge yep, under the bridge, rainbow bridge, lots of I mean lots of dumb punk kids out being yes punk kids, that's if people didn't know where I was.

Lesley Meier: 33:58

Though if people did know where I was, I was at friends houses, legitimately, oh, and we were both doing theater, so we did shows, yeah, so that was a whole situation, right that would really cut down on my broader bowl hanging out time right, yep, so from rehearsal and then we're doing performances, and then after performances we'd go hang out at each other's houses and there was a lot of monty python being watched. Okay, yeah, because I could see that you would know the whole.

Lesley Meier: 34:24

You know it all sketch and you would just do all of the sketches sort of sort of like a you know sing along. Lots of musicals were watched, everything you know. That was the layman's phantom of the opera, like if you were a theater kid, and it was did all that stuff for sure. Oh my god, what's his name? The guy that did all the things?

Megan Bennett: 34:46

andrew lloyd weber thank you, jesus.

Lesley Meier: 34:49

This is your name today, producer tim. Thank you, jesus. Andrew lloyd weber you know what's in my brain. Stephen Sondheim did write musicals, did not write Les Mis. I get my theater card revoked. It's okay, especially my 80s theater kid card.

Megan Bennett: 35:02

But then if you talk about Sondheim, you have to talk about Into the Woods, which is the worst musical ever. Okay, maybe not ever. I don't think it's that bad. Maybe not ever, ever. Okay, maybe not ever. I don't think it's that bad. Maybe not ever, maybe not ever, ever.

Lesley Meier: 35:16

Oh, I don't know. I think lots of people would fight you on that one. Maybe, I don't know what they would put in that category.

Megan Bennett: 35:21

I really don't like that one. But, whatever it's my, you know that's an opinion.

Lesley Meier: 35:25

That's, these opinions being expressed are her own. These are my own opinions. It so those are some things. Okay, yes, other things. Did you ever go on dates?

Megan Bennett: 35:37

uh, so I had a blith brand, okay, uh well, not a couple boyfriends. I had a boyfriend my freshman year. His name was donovan. I adored him. Um, donovan was older than me, so he would go up to a place in Muncie, indiana called the no Bar and Grill. Okay, which was, it was under 21, but it was again just a little too far out of my range. I think he might have had to be 18 to get it.

Lesley Meier: 36:09

I can't remember 18 over places. That would make some sense. Okay, you had an 18-year-old boyfriend. He was cute too.

Megan Bennett: 36:18

Um, he's super cute. Anyway, he had a mohawk, he had a blue mohawk and he would come over to my house and I would help him get the mohawk up and, uh, sprayed and everything, and then he would go off to the no bar so you didn't have.

Lesley Meier: 36:32

you had a A hair date. My boyfriend used me to do his hair before he went out.

Megan Bennett: 36:38

He bought me a teddy bear for my 16th birthday. He was like I don't know.

Lesley Meier: 36:41

We were like it was boyfriend light, it wasn't like you know.

Megan Bennett: 36:45

And then I had a boyfriend for many years in high school and it was interesting because he was not at all like me, which was okay, it was sort of like the polar opposite. So I had friends that were always like what are you doing with him and I, you know whatever. But now you know, I don't know, we still talk. He's a great guy, that's awesome yeah are you friends with?

Lesley Meier: 37:08

like or acquaintances still with most of the people you dated in high school yeah yeah, I would say so yeah uh, but I don't.

Megan Bennett: 37:16

I don't keep in touch with a whole lot of people in high school but just you know, there's a handful. There's a handful of people that I've kept because they're awesome, they're fun, they're awesome and there are people that I think about that I just like, really really enjoyed, like the people I I was talking to you about playing penny poker, my friend sean.

Lesley Meier: 37:35

Penny poker was the best and like we would just hang out my husband was talking about that.

Megan Bennett: 37:39

They would play poker in the basement.

Lesley Meier: 37:41

It was great yeah, and we would. Just we were like such good kids, we weren't doing anything.

Megan Bennett: 37:46

I didn't drink in high school, I didn't either I was like I didn't either, and I say that and people don't believe me.

Lesley Meier: 37:51

I never drank, never drank nope college was different yes, but in high school I just didn't. I was having a great fucking time.

Megan Bennett: 37:59

Yeah, I did not care about drinking, never went to like wild parties. How boring is that?

Lesley Meier: 38:04

but never did not at all. Never got arrested, never did anything crazy like that my whole senior year I played dungeons and dragons like almost every friday night okay yeah, but we were like cool, yeah, people wanted in. I bet we did not let them, they were not allowed we did I mean we were like going at like I was more mobile, we had cars, we could do things at that point. It was a choice to do that we did the mall a lot.

Megan Bennett: 38:31

That was the other thing.

Lesley Meier: 38:32

So if we weren't like, if we weren't being, you know, hanging out in broader bowl hooligans, we weren't being hooligans. We would be at the mall being hooligans okay um and then you know, we all had jobs too, like I had a job, go eat hula hands. I do remember eating there at hula hands?

Megan Bennett: 38:51

yeah, so we would. I would have a. I had a job. Oh, what did you do? Uh, well, I think I was working at the.

Lesley Meier: 38:57

Well, I worked at the record stores, mostly, okay, so, yeah, it was a pretty cool place, so that's the thing we would visit our friends at their jobs yeah, oh yeah, on friday night.

Megan Bennett: 39:05

Yeah, if you weren't working, you'd be hanging out with your, with your friends. Yeah, absolutely, I had a really good friend that worked at tracks, records and tapes at the fashion mall, so we would go up there we would see, tyler, it was a good time.

Lesley Meier: 39:18

And then I worked at tcby yogurt, because you can't just say tcby, you have to explain that the y means yogurt, right? Designer shoe warehouse, dsw. Uh-huh, I do those things. Make me ATM machine. Okay, I think we get it. Uh, so I would.

Megan Bennett: 39:35

I was like slinging yogurt in the summertime I worked at the pool, it was a lifeguard. Were you working at tcby when? When they had the outbreak, like the listeria outbreak, that shut them down for like a while?

Lesley Meier: 39:46

it was pre that it was still really super popular. So it was probably like 89, 90, okay, maybe 91, that I worked there, uh, but I did get robbed.

Lesley Meier: 39:57

Oh there, someone came in with a gun but I didn't realize it because I was up front like changing the trash liners and somebody had come in and there was like a hooded sweatshirt over their face and they had one of my co-workers and it was like this tassel, but the sweatshirt looked like the sweatshirt of my other co-worker.

Lesley Meier: 40:18

It was just a red sweatshirt, and so I was I like was doing my shit up front, and I looked up and I was like you guys stop fucking around, and I like went back to my business and then they went back to the back, unbeknownst to me what. I realized like 20 minutes later, when it was silent I think it was probably like five minutes I was like where did you guys fucking go? Yeah, and I was like started and I heard them in the freezer in the back, my two other coworkers, and I was like what? And I opened it and they were totally freaked out. And then, when I like kind of thought, I was like oh, that person had a gun, but I just didn't take it in at the time, like you don't think this is happening and nobody's screaming. So interestingly, though, there's more to this story, god.

Megan Bennett: 41:06

What did you do on a Friday and Saturday night? I called the manager.

Lesley Meier: 41:09

We called the police. Yada yada yada. The investigator literally was a detective in a trench coat Like sort of the. Uh, not matt yeah like the matlock vibe with the brown kind of.

Lesley Meier: 41:24

So he, like they spoke colombo colombo. There you go, thanks. They spoke to all of us separately and what I think in retrospect, and what I think that they were trying to prove, is that it was actually the assistant manager had set the whole thing up and that the guys that I worked with might have even been in on it. That was the theory because, like, the back door shouldn't have been opened, like we just I don't remember if that policy changed.

Lesley Meier: 41:49

Whatever we took our trash out at night and that's how they got in. Somebody's waiting right beside our back door at closing with a gun to get in shit for absolutely could have. But that red sweatshirt was very specific and I was like, yeah, that seems a little weird, but I think he had his sweatshirt. It was. They were trying to, like, create this big case. My co-workers were not that smart so I don't think that that would have happened. Well, you were all high school students.

Megan Bennett: 42:17

I mean, if you were in on it right, like that's a pretty risky thing for, like you're a absolutely you're the I don't I don't even know the term that I'm thinking of, but you're oh, the like the loose thread or whatever right like so that to me says that it wasn't a like a it wasn't.

Lesley Meier: 42:35

It wasn't a setup kind of thing, and all you really got was probably like 200 bucks. That's a lot of money back then, that's fair, absolutely.

Megan Bennett: 42:43

You didn't have those safes that you drop shit in. You know, I don't think we did, probably not.

Lesley Meier: 42:47

I mean probably not, maybe like I don't know, stuck it in the shoe box. I don't know, but in the shoebox. I don't know, but that was and I mean that did happen on a weekend.

Megan Bennett: 42:57

It was on a friday, saturday. I remember being so in charge I'm using quotation fingers. Oh yeah, for like jobs that I had where I would have to take the deposit. Like yes, like a big like those those big, thick kevlar kind of bags that locked I have to put all the deposit in, yeah, and then walk down to like the bank and deposit like who the would trust a 17 year old doofus they're just like go here's all the money go. Deposit that there were no rules.

Lesley Meier: 43:26

I could have been knocked over the bean and we were supposed to have a run off with that time. We were 17 according to our families.

Megan Bennett: 43:31

That's how it worked so you said that you, you didn't have a car. No, do you remember when you got a car?

Lesley Meier: 43:38

Okay, yeah, not until college. Probably not until, like, my sophomore year of college.

Megan Bennett: 43:43

Okay, so I had like an old car of my stepmother's. It was like some sort of Oldsmobile hatchback thing, yep, and it had bald ass tires and I should have died about six times over. I'm pretty sure heard understood. Yeah, that was my college car.

Lesley Meier: 44:04

That was my mobile. There are a lot of politics around me not having a car in high school, oh, but okay, that's for another day there's more story. So no car but boyfriends and then friends who drove Okay. So, you kind of like get picked up and you go do fun shit. Okay, I do remember going to the movies. I do remember movie tickets being like $2.75.

Megan Bennett: 44:25

I stole a rope like one of those red velvet ropes from a movie theater one Saturday or Friday night.

Lesley Meier: 44:31

What were you going to do with said rope?

Megan Bennett: 44:33

Well, it hung in my room forever one saturday or friday night.

Lesley Meier: 44:35

What were you going?

Megan Bennett: 44:36

to do with said well, it hung in my room forever, like I just, yeah, well, because it was like this big, thick, velvet ropes and I have like a little hook thing so I like hooked it and then hung it on my bookshelf and it was cool I had a one-way sign. My, it was cool as fuck. My grandmother was like what is, what is that? I'm like it's nothing don't worry about it.

Megan Bennett: 44:52

Don't worry about grandma now ask me how I got the rope. How did you get the rope, megan? I had a very long, uh, denim trench coat, as one does in the 80s particularly, and I wrapped the rope around me a couple times and walked right out with it a movie theater rope.

Lesley Meier: 45:09

They were probably like who the?

Megan Bennett: 45:11

fuck steals a movie theater room. I know and what I'm sad about bennett.

Lesley Meier: 45:14

Did megan bennett stole that room? I did what?

Megan Bennett: 45:16

I'm sad about is that I don't still have it, and I'm pretty sure that my grandmother sold it in a in a garage sale.

Lesley Meier: 45:24

Fuck no, I love your grandma and fuck your grandma.

Megan Bennett: 45:27

She sold a lot of good shit everything.

Lesley Meier: 45:30

Damn it, grandma, I know damn it, movie theater rope. Okay, there we go. So.

Megan Bennett: 45:37

You know what you can get back? What oh? A big denim trench coat. Look at that, they're trending.

Lesley Meier: 45:43

That one is $170.

Megan Bennett: 45:46

I can promise you that my trench coat was not $170. Oh, that one's kind of sharp. I like that one. The women's casual double breasted long denim trench coat oh, I'm sorry, trench coat. Jean jacket trench coat on eBay. Which one, the one, the big picture there.

Lesley Meier: 46:03

Oh yeah, that's kind of cute with the black dress.

Megan Bennett: 46:07

Well there you go.

Lesley Meier: 46:08

Who knew, with those denim heels. There you go. I am probably not going to go that route, but so, going out in the 80s you asked a couple questions. You've got like a little bit of feedback from people in the gen x.

Megan Bennett: 46:22

Women are sick of this shit facebook group I did and uh, some, you know some folks like amanda davis boris says that she did blockbuster and dominoes. Oh, fun blockbusters, of course, love that. Uh, let's see don levy jenkins says she was cruising and cosmic, bowling movies and mall, of course, yeah, I remember cosmic bowling.

Megan Bennett: 46:46

Yeah, that was in beach grove um, I was in a band during the fall, it was football. Or I was in a band during the fall, it was football, I was in band. We didn't have all the marching competitions the kids have nowadays, but Friday nights were at the football game. So that was Sandy Baker. Oh, right on. Lots of people saying that they just cruised. So people cruising up and down streets for multiple hours. There's all kinds of that College parties keg parties on the beach. Somebody says it's pretty cool Roller skating from middle school, for sure.

Lesley Meier: 47:20

If we lived near a beach, oh my God, not just Indiana Beach.

Megan Bennett: 47:24

It would have been the best. So many beach parties.

Lesley Meier: 47:26

I would have probably been drinking then In cornfields in Indiana.

Megan Bennett: 47:30

So, to that end, there were a lot of people having parties in the woods. Okay, like.

Lesley Meier: 47:34

Lot of people having parties in the woods, okay, like lots of people Parties in the woods, parties in the woods Just in general, out in the woods.

Megan Bennett: 47:42

Yep. So Kelly Turner Kennedy says hanging out in the woods with friends and a half a barrel of beer, rock stars. I mean lots of that.

Lesley Meier: 47:50

And I know for a fact, like cruising in small towns with the town square absolutely Because you would like go to sports, and then you would go cruising Yep In Indianapolis a little bit less, but I mean Broad Ripple Avenue was kind of the place. Yes, that's true that you would like drive up and down and you would see people all and the Circle downtown, circle downtown.

Megan Bennett: 48:09

Yep, and that area that's just south of the circle that has like a lot of bars. Yeah, this was in the 90s. There was like a 24-hour cafe that was in that same block and they had a lot of board games. You could go in there and get, like go in there a little blotto and then sit and have a board game. Where was that? It's called the Red Eye Cafe. That just came to me. Oh wow, good job, just pulled that out of my hiney.

Megan Bennett: 48:41

But yeah, that was I love that that was pretty cool, that was pretty fun um a lot of people say like a few people saying that they watched mtv while babysitting oh, that's what started this whole. That's why we're here.

Lesley Meier: 48:52

Yeah, we were going to talk about saturday night, friday night friday, friday we were like what about like a friday night videos kind of episode, just like, what did you do on friday night? Did you watch friday night videos as a young?

Megan Bennett: 49:04

human, occasionally my um. My jam was sunday nights with 120 minutes mtv okay, and tv is minutes. That's why Mondays were always hard, so awful. But that's how I learned about new music. I remember.

Lesley Meier: 49:22

When did it come out? It started in 86. Okay, right on and Friday Night Videos, I think aired in 1983.

Megan Bennett: 49:29

I think that's right, which is amazing.

Lesley Meier: 49:31

And it was on NBC. We didn't have cable for a billion years because I lived in the middle of nowhere, so this would have been the closest thing that I would have gotten would be Friday Night Videos. And what I found interesting, that history down there, dick Ebersole produced it from 74 to 81.

Lesley Meier: 49:50

And he co-produced Midnight Special with the series creator, bert Sugarman. I'm pointing and reading like people know what I'm doing. He left from Midnight Special in 81 to take over executive producer of co-creation with Lauren Michaels Saturday Night Live Babies, which I found fascinating.

Megan Bennett: 50:07

Yeah, that's very cool. I thought that was great. Yeah, small, small, tiny little world.

Lesley Meier: 50:11

I know right. Very cool, Well, hey it's Friday night and you have Friday night planned. I do. I'm going to go have some dinner with some friends. Enjoy, enjoy your Friday night. Enjoy your dinner with your friends.

Megan Bennett: 50:23

I will. I will. This was fun. You have a good Friday night too. I will. Cheers One more. Let's finish this off.

Lesley Meier: 50:36

Here All right Till next time, leslie. You have been listening to Gen X. Women Are Sick of this Shit. Hey Megan, hey Leslie. What do people do if they want to find us?

Megan Bennett: 50:45

Well, we have a website that people can find us on, and that is genxwomenpodcom. We also have a Facebook page. We have an Instagram account as well. We have a YouTube account where we put YouTube shorts and other little tidbits up there. We have a TikTok account. I don't talk the dick or tick the tock. You don't tick the tock, I do not, I barely talk the tick. But I did put a TikTok up. We're explaining the internet to people again.

Lesley Meier: 51:17

That's okay, though it's great we need to know how the internet works.

Megan Bennett: 51:21

Can people buy merch? They absolutely can. We have a merch store on the website itself, and we also have an Etsy store too, so it's just pretty easy to find. It's just Gen X Women on Etsy.

Lesley Meier: 51:37

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Megan Bennett: 51:42

Yeah let us know what you think. Throw some stars at us, that'd be great. We'll take one, two, three, four or five, oh five maybe. And. And also make sure that you are hitting subscribe so that you're notified whenever a new episode drops. Most important, we also have a five minutes of fame that I think we should tell people about too.

Lesley Meier: 52:02

Hell, yes, we want to know your stories, your five minutes of fame stories. You can send those stories in on the website or you can call 1-888-GEN-X-POD and leave your story for us and we will play it live in our next episode.

Megan Bennett: 52:19

We'll listen to it on a little red phone, just like Batman That'd be cool, let's get a bat phone.

Lesley Meier: 52:29

I think that's it. I think you're right.