Episode S2E28 - Fifty and Fabulous

Two hosts of the Collective Loathing podcast (with Silver Fox absent due to an early morning) celebrate Felix's upcoming 50th birthday, joke about their sporadic recording schedule, and share a Boston trip that included a Red Sox game and Salem. They play listener voicemails featuring birthday wishes and roasting, plus a segment on 1990s pagers/beepers and their history. In "As the World Burns," they discuss a California teacher placed on leave after being recorded urinating into a container in his classroom, Florida middle school boys causing park chaos while "playing real-life Frogger" and vandalizing property, and a CNBC-cited cybersecurity report claiming AI bot traffic has surged dramatically. They reflect on aging, retirement anxiety, Gen X identity, bucket lists, changing beauty standards, and celebrities who are 50 or who seemed older in classic films and TV (from Golden Girls to Cocoon).   00:00 Gen X Podcast Cold Open 01:18 Two Guys No Silver Fox 02:50 Birthday Week Turns 50 04:01 Trip Recap Boston Salem 04:55 Voicemail Segment Begins 05:19 Gen X Beeper Nostalgia 08:34 Birthday Roasts And Love 18:46 Feeling Old Beauty Standards 21:09 As The World Burns News 22:18 Teacher Peeing Scandal 25:43 Florida Kids Real Frogger 27:58 AI Bots Take Over Web 29:27 Late Voicemail Arnold Bit 30:34 Turning 50 Mortality Talk 36:31 Sweetie and Old Guys 36:54 Bicentennial Babies 37:25 Celebs Turning 50 38:36 Sports Heroes Age Gap 40:54 Kid Stars All Grown Up 41:51 Crushes and Ryan Reynolds 44:57 Actors Who Were 50 47:53 Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman 50:55 Cocoon and Miyagi Shock 52:27 Golden Girls Age Reality 54:55 Sitcom Dads Weren't Old 01:00:43 Gen X Aging and Retirement Raves 01:04:56 Kids These Days 01:06:23 50th Birthday Plans 01:07:33 Wrap Up and Plugs