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The Year They Were Twenty
Each episode rebuilds a single year between 1950 and 1985 from the ground up: what rent, groceries and a first car cost, how you asked someone out, and the rules nobody wrote down. Two hosts go back to the year your mom or dad turned twenty, check the prices in today's money, and finish with three questions you can ask them this week. It's warm, often funny, and about ordinary people rather than headlines. Every claim checked using FactUnion's fact-checking process; every source is in the episode notes.
Made by WovenPod. Hosted by June and Nate, performed by synthetic voices. Sources are in every episode's notes.
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Episodes
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After Nine, Keep It Short: Who Paid for the Call Home
Your parents timed the call home by the clock and the minute, and part of every one of those expensive minutes was quietly paying for somebody else's dial tone.
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The Night Your Birthday Became a Number
On December 1, 1969, one televised drawing turned every young man's birthday into a draft number. The box those birthdays came out of was badly mixed, and nobody's number was ever changed.
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Half a Paycheck: The Baby Letter and the First House
You've heard women couldn't get credit cards until 1974, but the discrimination that cost young couples the most happened at the mortgage desk, where a wife's paycheck might count for half, or nothing, without a doctor's letter.
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