Boomer Has It!
Two writers, two cities, two opinions on culture and politics from a boomer perspective. Veteran creatives JB Miller and Jim Gialamas, reporting from London and New York, offer up a surprising take on a world going somewhere on a handbasket, if not a steamer trunk. All aboard.
Jim Gialamas is a writer and former journalist, widely acknowledged as the cultural mayor of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. JB Miller is an author, playwright, and former New Yorker now haunting cafes in southwest London. Drawing on their transatlantic dispatches, they meet here to figure out what the flip is going on.
Boomer Has It!
Mad Men Is Back!
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Mad Men is Back!
Twenty years after studio executives rejected it, Mad Men is finally on HBO. Much to its chagrin, the cable network passed on the groundbreaking series, which debuted on the second-tier network AMC on 2007 and went on to win 16 Emmys, including 4 for Outstanding Drama.
Now a whole new generation is finding it along with its original audience, who are taking another look. Advertising never looked so sexy, clever, or cut-throat. But does the series have anything to say about toxic masculinity in the 1960s, about the culture clash between the Rat Pack and the Woodstock generation? Were privileged white New Yorkers really that oblivious to the civil rights, gay rights and “women’s lib” movements? Did people really smoke that much?
Join us for a three-martini lunch as Jim and JB discuss the return of a modern classic!
This week's Headquakes and vital links:
Is Mad Men just for white folk? Maya Phillips shares her rewatch experience in the NYT and sheds much-needed light.
Read Food & Wine’s excellent coverage of the SCOTUS tariff decision, reported by Ray Isle.
Explore anticipatory-crisis strategy with Michele Wucker.
Boomer Has It!
The transatlantic podcast you never knew you needed.
About the Hosts Boomer Has It! brings together two seasoned writers from two different worlds to find common ground (or a good-natured argument) in the middle of the Atlantic through an unfiltered boomer lens.
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Two writers. Two cities. Two opinions. One perspective you won't find anywhere else.