
Convince Me I Care
A podcast that explores the absurdities of the modern world through a series of generation-gap rhetorical dares. Ever wonder why, exactly, the Kids are up to that thing these days? Or what the hell the Olds were thinking when they created the world they’ve left us all to inherit? Convince Me I Care aims to explain the inexplicable by forcing our arbitrary representatives of each generation to account for themselves and their contemporaries. In each episode, we’ll dive into some strange facet of generational culture and try to convince each other that it does, in fact, matter. Join us as we attempt to parse the fads, foibles, fears, and fandoms of the recent past.
Episodes
17 episodes
IPAs
How did the IPA become THE most popular type of beer proliferating across the ever-growing craft brewing craze? For years (decades?), it has seemed like all the cool kids drank IPAs. This wasn't always the case; in fact, beer-drinking Boomers l...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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58:44

The Final Girl, Part 2
The Boomers might have created her but boy, howdy, what has happened to her since! In Part 2 of our conversation on The Final Girl trope in slasher movies, we interrogate many of the ways more recent filmmakers have taken the fundamental trope ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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34:36

The Final Girl, Part 1
Just in time for the Halloween season, Grace and David take their intergenerational conversation to the next level with a deep dive on The Final Girl, the movie trope that was initiated by Boomers but that has expanded, morphed and grown more f...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:02:45

IGMC: Animal House (1978)
The Intergenerational Movie Club continues with the Boomer classic, "Animal House." Lots of folks think they know this movie, but do they really? Or are they just remembering the clips and highlights? We dig into the connective tissue between t...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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56:53

IGMC: 10 Things I Hate About You
Welcome to the first edition of the Intergenerational Movie Club, brought to you by Convince Me I Care! Whether you're a millennial or a boomer, sometimes you just want to Netflix and chill. So Grace and David have given their research ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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58:08

Introducing: Didn't Read It!
Like most industrious millennials, Grace has more than one iron in the fire. With this episode, David fades into the obscurity all Boomers are bound for and hands over the reins to Grace at the helm of her new podcast, Didn't Read It: a ...
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1:02:56

Steven Seagal
Among the action stars of the 1990s, Steven Seagal's rise to fame and subsequent descent into infamy has been the most baffling. How was this man able to have a career in the first place? Who thought that giving a pathological liar money, power...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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58:26

Furbys
Artificial intelligence has been fascinating and scaring people for decades. Years before the current freak-out about ChatGPT and other SkyNet wannabes, there was something even creepier that parents were actually welcoming into their homes: Fu...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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57:20

Jam Bands
Are you, like Grace, befuddled by the idea of seeing the same band over and over again? Did you party down at Bonnaroo and are already looking ahead to Lollapalooza? Whatever you think or think you know the Grateful Dead, Phish, or any other Ja...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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50:42

Twilight
Team Edward? Team Jacob? Team Confused-Old-Guy? For better or worse (many would argue better), there is a generation of folks who missed the "Twilight" craze. But actors like Kristin Stewart and Robert Pattison stubbornly insist on having ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:03:50

McMansions
What were they thinking? A generation of homeowners have splurged on huge houses that are ugly, bad investments and an ecological disaster. In this episode, David and Grace dig deeper into the myopic belief in "bigger is better" when it comes t...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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53:36

#VanLife
David has wandered into confusing Instagram channels and Grace is challenged to go beyond convincing him to care about #vanlife to reassuring him that he shouldn't be concerned. The result is a rambling romp down the history of itinerrant lifes...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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54:24

Wine Moms
In honor of the Mother's Day that just passed, Grace and David celebrate their support of every type of mom there is by digging into the legacy of the Wine Mom. Why has the cheeky insouciant cry of "Rosé all day!" been twisted in some quarters ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:11:19

Boomer Men and Meat
Can David convince Grace to come even close to caring about MEAT as much as a boomer dad? Probably not, but it's entertaining to hear him try, and listen in to learn all sorts of surprising, maybe disturbing, facts about men and their relations...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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56:58

Nickelodeon
This time the onus is on Grace to convince David to care about the TV network that imbues the '90s with a slight orange hue for many people, Nickelodeon. As many boomer dudes may be, he's completely iClueless about shows like iCarly. But the in...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:10:38
