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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 like David hardly touched an IPA on their way to passing out in their college dorm rooms. For that matter, what even IS an IPA? it's not like all of these craft breweries are located in India. Grace cracks the code on the IPA and takes us on a tour through the history of its popularity. Along the way, she provides a little bit of insight into why you might not accept the latest variation from your corner brewery and also how capitalism (of course) gets folded into the cauldron.  Grace Todd [https://grace-todd.com/] and David Timberline [https://davidtimberline.com/] are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

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 and transformed, expanded and extrapolated it in wildly entertaining ways. If you haven't watched Jennifer's Body, The Final Girls, Ready or Not, or The Menu -- or if you haven't watched all of them -- you're missing out on imaginative takes on The Final Girl. Find out why as our conversation continues. And if you haven't done so yet, listen to Part 1 because we love it when our download numbers grow! Grace Todd [https://grace-todd.com/] and David Timberline [https://davidtimberline.com/] are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

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 fascinating as explored by Millennial filmmakers. In Part 1, we discuss the origins of the trope and use three classic Final Girl slasher films as the basis for our investigation. We hope you'll take our lead and look beyond the obvious choices for your Halloween entertainment this year and perhaps explore a couple lesser known options for fright night fun. And be sure and come back in two weeks for Part 2 as we go deeper in discussion of imaginative directions The Final Girl has gone, where stereotypes from previous decades have been used to flip expectations and provide fun twists in newer movies. Grace Todd [https://grace-todd.com/] and David Timberline [https://davidtimberline.com/] are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

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 the iconic scenes, do a semi-deep dive on the female characters, and perhaps unavoidably, revel in the Belushi of it all. Along the way, we consider a number of intriguing questions: how much credit does "Animal House" get for what came after it? How do we consider a movie without a lot of actual jokes during an era when joke density is paramount? Just how problematic are the inevitable problematic parts of something 45 years old? And what exactly was so definitional about this movie for Boomers? Grace Todd [https://grace-todd.com/] and David Timberline [https://davidtimberline.com/] are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.

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 staffs a little break and will spend at least the next couple episodes talking about movies that made a profound generational impact. First up is "10 Things I Hate About You," the joke-a-minute high school movie that captured the millennial zeitgeist, or at least that's what Grace argues. Listen as she enlightens David about Letters to Cleo, Heath Ledger and the entirely justifiable rage and frustration of senior high school girls. Grace Todd [https://grace-todd.com/] and David Timberline [https://davidtimberline.com/] are your tour guides through this ongoing investigation of cultural artifacts from our collective recent past with a unique intergenerational spin. We're convinced you'll have a great time listening to Convince Me I Care.