In My Footsteps: A Gen-X Nostalgia Podcast | Podcast Guru

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Attention lovers of nostalgia! The buffet is now open! The In My Footsteps Podcast fills you up with a heaping helping of Gen-X nostalgia. Covering the 1960s through the 1990s the show is sure to fill your plate with fond memories. Music. Movies. Television. Pop Culture. Oddities and rarities. Forgotten gems pulled straight from your childhood. There is so much to enjoy. New England author Christopher Setterlund hosts the show. The best part? You can binge all you want and never need an antacid. Bell bottoms, Members Only jackets, torn jeans, and poofy hair are all welcome. Come as you are and enjoy a buffet of topics you'll love to reminisce about.

Recent Episodes

Episode 265: The Many Halloween Movie Timelines, What Was Ong's Hat?, Best 2000s Horror Movies(10-21-2026

Send us Fan Mail The many confusing timelines of the Halloween franchise. The story behind an early internet mystery. Some of the best horror movies from the 2000s. Episode 265 continues down the horrifying path of spooky season with a fresh batch of GenX nostalgia. We start by going through a maze. That maze consists of the many confusing timelines of the beloved Halloween movie franchise. It all begins with the classic original, then it goes in all different directions. The question is, why...

56 MIN

Episode 264: The Evil Dead Turns 45, Insane Stories of Action Park, Best Low-Budget Horror Movies(10-14-2026)

Send us Fan Mail The anniversary of an influential horror film. Some unbelievable stories from an unbelievable amusement park. The best horror movies made for little money. Episode 264 kicks off Spooky Season proper with some haunting GenX nostalgia. It starts with the story of Action Park, an amusement and water park where coming out unscathed was a bonus. For decades, visitors entered the grounds in New Jersey looking for a fun day creating memories. Some got what they paid for, while many ...

58 MIN

Episode 263: Super Mario Bros. 2 & 3, Saturday Night Live, Famous Backup Singers On Famous Songs(10-7-2026)

Send us Fan Mail A pair of beloved Super Mario Bros. sequels. The premiere of Saturday Night Live. Some famous people singing backup on other famous songs. Episode 263 kicks off the month of October with a lot of fun GenX nostalgia and pop culture. We begin with a double dose of video game classics. Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3 are so connected that it felt wrong to not talk about both. One was experimental while the other became one of the best-selling games ever for the NES. Both of them...

61 MIN

Episode 262: Nickelodeon's Double Dare, Worst After School Specials, Weird 1980s PC Games(9-30-2026)

Send us Fan Mail Celebrating 40 years of Double Dare. Some of the worst after-school specials ever. A collection of weird and wild 1980s PC games. Episode 262 ends the month of September with all shades of GenX nostalgia and pop culture. On your mark, get set, go! The show sprints from the start with a look back forty years at the debut of Nickelodeon's sloppy fun game show Double Dare. Every 80s kid who watched the show either wanted to be on it or wanted to find ways to replicate it in our ...

55 MIN

Episode 261: Pee-Wee's Playhouse Turns 40, Famous Fictional Bands, The US Festival(9-23-2026)

Send us Fan Mail The simultaneous success and failure of the US Festival. Pee-Wee's Playhouse hits the Big 4-0. Some famous fictional bands. Episode 261 welcomes fall with a show featuring varying shades of GenX nostalgia. It all begins with what could have been the next big evolution in music festivals. The US Festival had some of the biggest names in music and technology in the early 1980s. In many ways it was a resounding success, but financially it was an abject failure. What happened? We...

58 MIN