In this episode of Generation Artax, we ask the question, what does it all mean? Kim hoards memories. 10-year old Terri has an existential moment in the shower, and Lori believes she was smarter in another life. We discuss past lives, 80s fashion, trashy eyeliner, and how outer space is basically Tower of Terror on steroids. In Unrelated, what thing do other people wish for that you would never, ever want. Welcome to Generation Artax.

• How and what inspired journal writing (two things: it was assigned and also the Gulf War)
• Kim's positive intrusive thoughts are almost too much
• Kim is a memory hoarder
• Kim sings a cabaret of happy songs
• Space, planetariums, and existential panic attacks
• Lori cannot seem to grasp the theory of relativity
• Lori was smarter in another life
• How we're falling through space at a terrifying rate
• Terri struggles with the punk to preppy style spectrum in the late 80s
• Please tell us you remember Mandees
• Terri doesn't wear enough makeup
• Lori's biggest fear is bombing, bar none
• Terri isn't trying to go to Costa Rica

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In this episode of Generation Artax, we revisit…the mall in the 90s. We cover making out in public and private with boys who weren't that hot after all. The school dance juggernaut that was Stairway To Heaven. And Lori pulls a Brenda from 90210 and leaves her boyfriend in the care of her best friend who's a model in the great boyfriend swap of '93. Welcome to generation artax.

• The sheer analog joy of going to the mall in the 90s
• Lori discovers The Color Purple
• Terri asks her friend's brother to the dance and everyone is scandalized
• Lori has a nickname for her future self
• Avoiding the Stairway to Heaven juggernaut at the school dance
• Terri's first kiss at a teen night club
• Kim has no shame and makes out on stage
• Terri gives a TED talk in 1988 about sex and the media before TED was a thing
• Kim and Lori get judgy about Terri's school dance hookup
• Lori gets to second base
• Terri pees herself while Lori tells her second base story
• Lori pulls a Brenda from 90210 and leaves her boyfriend in the care of her best friend.

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In this episode of Generation Artax, you're going to learn a few things about Kim: She played guitar in a church band, will not eat in a restaurant alone, and one time, got two hot sophomores to come over to watch Flowers in the Attic. Plus: We revisit the lyrics to Family Ties, the time Brady Bunch went to Hawaii, and the social mecca that was the high school dance. Enjoy. Welcome to Generation Artax.

• Family Ties theme song lyrics aren't wrong, but also so wrong

• Does anyone remember the show Dream On? Lori does

• Facts of Life goes to Australia and Brady Bunch goes to Hawaii

• Kim's predictable life Market Basket >> Starbucks >> Bank; in bed at 7

• The social mecca that was the high school dance

• How not knowing what would happen or where anyone was was the great adventure of childhood

• Kim's life is one big cozy sweatshirt

• Kim serves old people food

• Low bars for good-looking boys: Two hot sophomores come to visit

• Kim is metaphor impaired

• Church jams and why mass singalongs are weird

• No one knows or believes that Kim plays guitar in a band

• The hot goss at 10am mass: The place to see and be seen

• Fasting before mass: Whyyyyy

• Does something taste different when it's blessed? Turns out no

• Unrelated: The hardest you ever laughed in public

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