The Many Meanderings Of The First Gen X Man
Hi, I'm Wil Boudreau, AKA The First Gen X Man. Did I ever tell you about the time I made a pizza commercial with a certain very recent ex-president? Or how about the time I was fired by a New Jersey mobster? Or that summer when I definitely did not become a movie star? Of course not. We've never met. But now you can hear these funny stories and more. Ripped from the endless adventure that is my life.From growing up in the shag carpeting covered suburbs in the 1970's.To working as an advertising "madman" for a couple of decades.To raising four boys under house arrest during COVID lockdown. It's all been a hysterical, stressful, story, untold until now. My stories will make you laugh a lot and cry just a little. You know, just like your hair in 1985.
Episodes
16 episodes
The Middle Ages
My favorite excruciating tales of middle age. Hear about that time I dyed my beard, that other time I got a hair transplant, and that other time I got what I will call "The Big Snip". It's a lot of fun that the kids these days would call ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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27:53
The Brotherhood of Fatherhood
This one's for the Dads. Hear about fishless fishing expeditions and whale-less whale watches, and mountains that we cannot climb due to sinus pressure. Plus Dad School and the horror of my Dad's Birds and the Bees talk.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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33:50
Sunday Best
This episode we're putting on our Sunday best, stories that is. Hear about the "embarassing bell incident" and random surprise funerals when I was an altar boy, the pageantry of midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, and a rare recording o...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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29:56
S2E2 Bonus Track "Virtual Agency Tour"
Here's a bonus track that didn't quite make it onto S2E2 Work, Work, Work. Recently I took some prospective clients on a tour of the home office space of my virtual ad agency. It didn't go quite as well as I'd hoped. Sev...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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6:26
Work, Work, Work.
Stories about work, and home, and working from home. A rare recording from 1978 of a phone call to my mom at work, from her loving and somewhat belligerent children. The strange but true story of that time I really, really ann...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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32:46
Dog Tales
This week, I'm telling stories all about our friendly four legged friends. Hear about how my Dad secretly ordered a puppy from a magazine ad in the early 1940's, the video that proved to us exactly how tolerant our dog Tilda is and the ca...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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27:56
Thank God For Thanksgiving
This episode hear the inappropriate but funny story my Dad once told at Thanksgiving Dinner, plus the joys of Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce and an incomplete list of things I'm thankful for, including this year finally ending.
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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30:38
Falling Leaves and Rising Blood Pressure.
It's October 2020. Leaves are falling and stress is rising. Learn all about what's really scary this Fall, including spinning the Wheel of Stress, why horror movie monsters aren't returning this year, and the time my Mom made me wea...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:26
Screaming All About Ice Cream
Continuing our stories about summer, here's an episode entirely devoted to ice cream. From Erikson's Ice Cream in my hometown, to my job as a Soda Jerk at Brighams, and finally, I find myself discussing what it's like to eat ice cream on ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:22
Musing About Amusement Parks
This week we talk all about amusement parks from the Maynard Town Carnival, to the DEC picnic at Canobie Lake Park, to Disney World in 1974 and the 2000's.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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28:46
Trailer for Episode 5, Packing the minivan.
A clip about what it was like to pack a minivan for a trip when we had four boys under five years old. It wasn't easy!
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Season 1
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0:52
Road Trip! Summer Family Trip Stories.
In this episode hear stories of adventure, of family bonding, of untimely pee breaks while on the road with the Boudreau family circa 1975 and circa 2020.
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:51
Being Sixteen in 1981 and 2020.
In this episode we learn all about my epic sixteenth year. The high school dances, the high school musicals, the driver's license debacle and, of course, the legendary Marc's basement. And how different it was for me at sixteen than...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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25:30
Getting Fired By A NJ Mobster and other stories.
In this episode we learn all about my profound lack of handiness during the Covid pandemic and my suburban Massachusetts childhood. Plus we hear about the unusual circumstances under which I met tech giant Ken Olson, founder of my...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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28:57
The Summer I Did Not Become A Movie Star, and other stories.
In this episode we learn about "Going Outside" then and now. Then we hear a Zoom meeting gone horribly wrong, And finally we learn all about the summer that the First Gen X Man did not become a Movie Star.
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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33:09
Blizzard of '78, Trump Pizza Hut Ad and Other Disasters.
In this premier episode I meander about disasters I have known, including the great Blizzard of '78, which led to me skiing downtown with my Dad to get supplies. Then I tell you all about my Pizza Hut commercial that I shot with a certain very ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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26:49