Ep. 2: Goonies vs. Stand By Me, and the Stranger Things of It All

Wynter catches up with Karen after she returns from her month-long book tour abroad, and the two get into some of the things KT missed back in the U.S. of A. , including HBO MAX, and the new series Euphoria. Karen (who saw a couple of World Cup games in France) gets into how we are all living in Megan Rapinoe's Sapphic summer, and the two debate Goonies vs. Stand By Me--the coming-of-age films that served as GenX source-texts for Stranger Things 3. Plus more "nuo lingo" and your SOTW (Song of the Week). Join our Patreon for bonus content and SWAG: https://www.patreon.com/waitingtoxhale Links To Just About Everything Mentioned: The Goonies Cold Open: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0atATbXbQ9g Women's World Cup Brazil V. Australia Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzpAtOGcUuA Magnum Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZkUgwRhweQ H'Bo's Euphoria Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziMUD0_TTg0 '80s Shopping Mall Commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnOvVBUhQC4 The Goonies Original Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2j4oWdQtU&t=60s Stand By Me Original Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUVnfaA-kpI Stranger Things Season 3 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcnHOQ-cHa0    

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A Gen X-themed show with podcast veterans Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson (Pop Rocket). W2X revisits the pop culture & social issues that defined Generation X from a (queer) woman-of-color perspective in a way that sheds new light on the pop culture from both then, and now.