WTAF was my childhood?

It's 1988 and somethings are just considered not just accpetabled but actual chart on top 40 radio. Today we read the lyrics to a little song called Seventeen by the band Winger. Winger was a hair metal band from NY that wrote all kinds of songs ranging from....Well we don't really care because this isn't a behind the music antholgy. We're just going to read the lyrics from this one and let you decide how you feel about it. f

Did you ever have that “talk” with your mom or dad? You know the one. Well, we never actually had the talk in my house. Instead, we had incident that forced uncomfortable conversations and led to outcomes that were equal parts hilarious and painfully cringy. Looking back, I’m not sure if those moments made things better or worse, but they definitely made them memorable. And honestly, I think those ridiculous exchanges taught me more than any formal sit-down ever could. Funny how the most embarrassing situations end up becoming the stories you tell for the rest of your life.f

On this episode Justin and Eric talk about "dating" you'll understand the quotes once you listen because it was really just a big disaster from our teen years. Both stories involve lots of alchol, a little dancing, some vomit and... it goes down hill from there. Mild trigger warning, Justin's story is about him at age 13 and a statutory situation he was a victim of but we don't go into details. Please leave us your feedback, rate and review and tell us how much you love the fact that your intro to dating was hopefully better than ours. f

In celebration of Halloween, this first episode features Justin and Eric discussing the scary movies they watched way too young. Eric shares how Poltergeist affected him, and we reminisce about the creepiness of Zelda Rubinstein, who played the medium that cleanses the house. Justin also confesses his discomfort around short people. The mythos surrounding Poltergeist ranges from alleged curses to the use of real human skeletons during filming. Justin’s pick is Phantasm—and if you haven’t seen it yet, spoiler alert: it’s a psychedelic fever dream masquerading as a horror movie. Justin does his damndest to explain the unexplainable, but you’ll just have to tune in to understand how a Tall Man, flying spheres, Jawas, a skullet, and tuning forks all tie together.This whole episode is a Poltergasm if you will ;)f

Take a trip down memory lane. Gen X, elder millennials and even you youngsters.  In this debut, Eric and Justin talk traumatic stories, questionable supervision, and the strange ways kids tried to impress older peers in the 80s and 90s. It’s amazing any of us made it out of childhood alive.f