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Burying more than our feelings: the time capsule episode

April 8, 2026·40 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Send a FanMail to the GenX Stories gang via text message! Before Google Drive, Gen X processed artifacts the way we handled most everything else: by burying it and hoping future people would care. Yup, you guessed it - this episode is all about time capsules — a concept so ironically Gen X it practically comes with a side of Twinkie and the sense of impending doom. From bicentennial school projects we definitely forgot about, to NASA flinging a gold record into deep space like 'here, aliens, ...

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