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Here we continue with our series The Age of Vinyl (8-Tracks & Cassettes). Links to podcast Please listen and then come back here for LOTS o’ Show Notes: Saturday Night Fever ParcoSam: It started with an article in New York magazine, “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night” by Nik Cohn, all about the thriving … Read more
One link to rule them all (this leads you to all our podcast pages)! ParcoSam here. I’ll be honest with you, kids: I had a hard time editing this episode. In fact, there is a whole other version you’ll never hear. It included sound samples of pretty much every song or artist discussed on the … Read more
And now…. Part 2 of revisiting our childhood toys! This time we also look at The Most Baffling Toys of Our Generation! CLICK HERE TO GO TO PODCASTS! On with the Show Notes… Me too! Lite Brite – ParcoAnn I want one of these fine precursors to the laser light show. Okay, yet another wrong … Read more
There are few things that so define the shared experience of a generation like the toys we all played with (yeah I know, I ended a sentence with a preposition, take it up with Merriam Webster). Especially those of us in the U.S. who grew up when the commercials played during children’s TV programming were … Read more
Our first Best of Gen-X episode “Did We Really Wear That?” recounts the sometimes misguided and often experimental fashion choices of our burgeoning womanhoods in the 80s and 90s, and raises some compelling questions, like: What is a Mod? Is there such thing as too much AquaNet? When your your secondhand garments come from a … Read more
Note: Our apologies for the technical issues with this episode. There is a fan hitting one of the mics periodically and we promise the overall sound recording quality will improve with each subsequent episode. Thanks for being patient with us as we get into this podcasting thang! — The Parcos Here we are! The second … Read more
Welcome to the very first episode of Hey Parco! “It’s a Miracle We’re Still Alive” (Part One). We originally recorded this to be a single episode, pondering our lives’ journeys through the perils of being Gen-Xers – but one episode just couldn’t contain it all. Here are the links to the audio-only podcasts: Apple Podcasts: … Read more
ParcoAnn here, we are both excited about launching this podcast. One thing that Parco and I have done aside from perfecting being silly together, is perfect the art of the phone conversation. I do believe the longest time we ever spoke was 7.5 hours. My mom (rest her soul) would often ask what on earth … Read more
Samantha here. I’m nervous. We’re due to launch our podcast Hey Parco! on Wednesday, the first of September. THIS coming Wednesday! Eeek! We’ve put soooo much work into our current batch of episodes (and videos), and while I’m really proud of them…. I’m frustrated the sound isn’t better in the first few episodes. There were … Read more
ParcoSam here! It’s Monday! It’s time for a walk down Meme-ry Lane!
