Alan Sivell's A Boomer Life

About Alan Sivell's A Boomer Life

I’m one of 74,000,000 Baby Boomers. I am writing my life story (on my blog) and narrating it (here) because if I don’t, the only earthly notice of my middle-class, middle-American existence might be a feature story in a nursing home’s newsletter when I reach 110: “Last Surviving Woodstock Attendee: ‘It was a hot, muddy mess.’”

Publisher

Alan R Sivell

Category

arts · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 May 2019

Latest episode

10 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Feb 2025

   Chapter 38: Going Out on a High Note

   Senior year, I made the Dean’s list. I finally became the student my parents and teachers had been telling me I should have been all along. I was loaded up on English and history classes to finish my major and minor and those classes required my two strengths: […]

2. 

   27 Sept 2024

   Chapter 37: Bruce and Linda

   Hampden-Sydney had a great track record of booking musical acts before they burst onto the national scene. One year, the then little-known John Denver played at homecoming. Shortly after, he became the well-known John Denver. The previously well-known Chuck Berry who had large catalog of hits in the […]

3. 

   26 Sept 2024

   Chapter 36: The Ezra Show

   As a kid, I dreamed of getting a magic lantern and rubbing it to awaken the genie who could grant my wishes. Not surprisingly, I never got that magic lantern. But when I was 10, I got a magic box. It didn’t come cheap. It cost $10. I […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

658,647

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

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Quality

17

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

51

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