Millennial: Pretend Adulting, Real Talk

Written by: Andrew Sims Laura Tee Pamela Gocobachi
  • Summary

  • Millennial podcast is a weekly roundtable about our Generation Y experience. From news to politics and pop culture, a panel of friends digs in on why these stories matter and how they affect millennials. If you’ve ever wondered how to maneuver student loan debt, voting, relationships, careers, or just life in general, we feel that SO. HARD. And we’re here to share our stories, along with our greatest challenges and wins, along the way. Millennial podcast is about journeying through young adulthood together.
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Episodes
  • Millennials Admit to Digital Shoplifting; Barnes & Noble Books a Major Comeback
    Feb 12 2025
    Welcome to #Millennial, the home of pretend adulting and real talk! Andrew's better half Pat joins us this week! Forget the Eagles, did we watch Kendrick Lamar dominate at the Super Bowl? We're continuing to watch the first 100 days of the Trump admin, and sadly, we're continuing to report that the admin's approach is to flood the zone with ridiculous, outrageous legislative priorities and patently false information. Andrew's a baddie: confessions of a digital shoplifter, among his other crimes. Are big retailers making it too easy for consumers to take advantage of generous refund policies? What impact does this have on small businesses? To be fair, we're not just throwing Andrew under the bus - we've all used refund policies to our advantage at one point or another. Speaking of big retailers, Barnes & Noble is having a major comeback with its brick and mortar locations! Barnes & Noble will be opening 60 new bookstores in 2025 after years of decline. Their reasoning? #BookTok trends, the loneliness epidemic, and an increasing consumer demand for more third spaces. And of course, we've got recommendations hot off the press for y'all: Bookshop.org, which now offers ebooks in competition with Kindle (Andrew), 'The House in the Cerulean Sea' by TJ Klune (Pat), and downloading a copy of your student aid history at StudentAid.gov if you have federal student loans (Laura). And in this week's installment of After Dark: We're all in our mid-thirties - is it time for us to get all of our stuff our of mom and dad's house? How do we deal with family members trying to push their shit off on us? I DON'T WANT YOUR CHRISTMAS CHINA, GREAT AUNT MARGE! What do we want done with our stuff when we slip the mortal coil? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Egg Watch 2025; The “Let Them” Theory and Self-Help Book Recommendations
    Feb 5 2025
    Welcome back to #Millennial, the home of pretend adulting and real talk! In our continuing coverage of Trump's first 100 days in office, we check in on aviation safety, the silicon-valley style DOGE takeover of the Treasury's payment systems, El Salvador opening its prisons to American prisoners (so nice of them), and the biggest BEST update on tariffs everrrrrr. Just kidding, this President is a joke. But we're also keeping an eye on EGGflation and sharing weekly updates since apparently that's what matters most to American voters. Who has a morning routine, and more importantly, who is good at actually sticking to one? Mel Robbins has inspired our panel to take part in her 7-step routine for kickstarting your morning. We share our experiences - did it work for us? How can we embrace the "let them" theory to protect our own peace and inner harmony? This week's recommendations are all themed to the episode - self-help books! 'The 4-Hour Workweek' by Tim Ferris, 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck' by Mark Manson, and 'Don't Believe Everything You Think' by Joseph Nguyen (Andrew), 'How to Do the Work' by Dr. Nicole LaPera (Laura), 'Reasons to Stay Alive' and 'Notes on a Nervous Planet' by Matt Haig (Pam). And in this week's installment of After Dark: Who doesn't love a little gossip? Vox inspires us to dig deeper and reflect on why gossiping can feel so satisfying sometimes. Gossiping can go too far though, and we've all learned this lesson in some ways we share in AD. Have we ever gotten in trouble for gossiping on the show? Uh... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Forget Boomer Complaints - Here're Our Biggest Millennial Complaints
    Jan 29 2025
    Welcome to #Millennial, the home of pretend adulting and real talk! We're keeping an eye on Trump's first 100 days and giving bite-sized updates at the top of episodes. Should we apply to the White House's New Media program? Maybe we're not the voices they want to feature... Forget about boomer complaints - inspired by this tweet, we want to know what your millennial complaints are! Are millennials starting to become grumpy old people about Gen Z? We get it, you're youthful and full of life and ambition because the world hasn't broken you yet. STOP SHOWING OFF! A common millennial complaint amongst our panel and listeners is missing the early days of the internet, when it was weirder and more fun. Housing costs, student loans, and lacking friends who are also parents definitely make the list. We yearn for the comforts of the early 2000s (but leave the fashion in 2005 pls): longer TV seasons, being able to physically buy software, and all the random videos that became generational memes for millennials. As always, we leave you with our recommendations: An album and artist rec from Pam, 'Tinsley' by Tinsley, The Sims 1 and 2 re-releases coming to PC soon (Andrew), and Jon Stewarts interview with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on his podcast. And in this week's installment of After Dark: Jic Republicans force us to have babies, we imagine a world in which we are parents to Gen Beta children. What would we do differently than what our parents did? What would we do the same? For real though, we can barely take care of ourselves, so do you really trust our judgment? How would we manage raising kids at a time when children seem to have smart devices in hand from birth? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 16 mins

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