EPISODE · Apr 2, 2026 · 1H 12M
Fool Moon Rising
from Gen X Men Pod · host bdrohland
Bill and Gary are back with another round of the Gen X Men PodcastEpisode 28 leans into the past, the present, and the strange space in between.We kick things off with some all-time April Fools’ classics — Syd Finch, spaghetti trees, and Taco Bell “buying” the Liberty Bell — the kind of stories that blur the line between ridiculous and believable.Then we look up again.With Artemis II set to take humans back around the Moon, it brings back something a lot of us haven’t thought about in a while — what it felt like to watch space launches as kids… and how quickly that feeling changed.Because we also remember Challenger.Where we were. What we saw. And how that moment stuck with us in ways we didn’t fully understand at the time.And somewhere along the way, we ask a strange question:Why do some people still think it wasn’t real?What does that say about how we process big, shared moments?This episode is part nostalgia, part space talk, part “how did we get here?”🎧 Inside Episode 28:The greatest April Fools’ hoaxes everArtemis II and the return to the MoonThe Challenger explosion and generational memoryWhy conspiracy theories take holdThe blurry line between truth, media, and memoryFrom jokes… to shock… to going back to the Moon.—If you remember where you were that day, this one’s for you.
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Bill and Gary are back with another round of the Gen X Men PodcastEpisode 28 leans into the past, the present, and the strange space in between.We kick things off with some all-time April Fools’ classics — Syd Finch, spaghetti trees, and Taco Bell “buying” the Liberty Bell — the kind of stories that blur the line between ridiculous and believable.Then we look up again.With Artemis II set to take humans back around the Moon, it brings back something a lot of us haven’t thought about in a while — what it felt like to watch space launches as kids… and how quickly that feeling changed.Because we also remember Challenger.Where we were. What we saw. And how that moment stuck with us in ways we didn’t fully understand at the time.And somewhere along the way, we ask a strange question:Why do some people still think it wasn’t real?What does that say about how we process big, shared moments?This episode is part nostalgia, part space talk, part “how did we get here?”🎧 Inside Episode 28:The greatest April Fools’ hoaxes everArtemis II and the return to the MoonThe Challenger explosion and generational memoryWhy conspiracy theories take holdThe blurry line between truth, media, and memoryFrom jokes… to shock… to going back to the Moon.—If you remember where you were that day, this one’s for you.
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