Stuck In The Middle - A Gen X Podcast

About Stuck In The Middle - A Gen X Podcast

Welcome to Stuck in the Middle - the podcast about the music, movies, and culture of Generation X.

Publisher

Jason Ek

Category

music · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2022

Latest episode

4 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

200 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Feb 2026

   200 Episodes! So, What Now?

   Welcome to episode 200, Slackers! Perhaps you were expecting bells, whistles, pomp, circumstance? Well, not quite. Reaching this milestone has left me asking: what's next? What is the future of this show? Or, is there even a future for the show? Probably not as it is today, but there will be something coming down the road. For those of you who keep listening each week - THANK YOU! Stay tuned...

2. 

   28 Jan 2026

   Snow Days Used To Be The Best Days

   It's a snow day, Slackers! This episode is all about some of the wildest weather moments the U.S. has seen from 1965 right up to now. The standout blizzards, hurricanes, and tornado outbreaks that have hit hard, shut down cities, reshaped coastlines, and left people talking about them for decades. These storms actually changed lives and showed just how powerful nature can get, especially in places you wouldn’t always expect. Take the Great Blizzard of 1978—snow piled so high (I took a sled out a second story bedroom window), screaming winds, and basically ground the entire region to a halt for days. Or jump ahead to Hurricane Gloria in ’85, which rolled up the coast and knocked out power across a big chunk of New England, including right here in Massachusetts. And then there’s the 2011 Springfield tornado, a rare beast for this part of the country that tore straight through towns and downtown areas, reminding everyone that even the Northeast isn’t immune to serious twisters.The takeaway is simple: these events keep teaching us tough lessons about staying ready. Weather doesn’t mess around, and the more we remember the big ones, the better we can handle whatever comes next. It’s a mix of respect for the Old Mother Earth and a little hope that we’re getting smarter about facing it.

3. 

   21 Jan 2026

   The Best of the Worst - The Razzies!

   Movies can suck. But movies that suck, are often the best! The Golden Raspebery Awards, aka, "The Razzies" started in the 1980s. This was the perfect time for Hollywood to get called out for its most excessive, over-the-top, and sometimes disastrous output, complete with a smirk and a deliberately tacky trophy made from a spray-painted golf ball. The deliberate anti-Oscars began as a sarcastic living-room gathering in 1981, sparked by a terrible double feature of Can't Stop the Music (fair) and Xanadu (how dare they!). It quickly turned into the annual roast of the decade's biggest cinematic failures. Disco musicals that should never have been made, bloated blockbusters that collapsed under their own weight, vanity projects, and action pictures that swung for the fences and missed badly. The 1980s supplied the Razzies with plenty of targets. It was a modest start - founder John J. B. Wilson passing out ballots in his Hollywood apartment, using a broomstick with a foam ball as a mock microphone. The event grew into something the press actually started covering by the middle of the decade. There were some recurring themes: musicals gone wrong, jungle-set misadventures, big-name stars stepping far outside their comfort zones, and the sheer nerve it took to release some of these films. No look at the Razzies of the 1980s is complete without Sylvester Stallone. He collected Worst Actor awards the way some people collect trophies: Rhinestone, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV in the same year, Rambo III, and several others. He eventually earned Worst Actor of the Decade at the 1990 ceremony, covering the full 1980s output. His female counterpart for worst of the decade? The one and only, Bo Derek! Maybe the Razzies were right, but those same movies were the ones that played endlessly on VHS, get quoted in conversations, and still have some die hard audiences. This episode is about the laughs, the sheer absurdity of some of those productions, and the reminder that even in its most ridiculous moments, Hollywood in the 1980s was actually pretty awesome.

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

1,734

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

77