Soap Opera Chaos, Group Chat Drama & Victor Newman 🔥 | The Midlifers Podcast

Remember when daytime TV was basically the most dramatic thing in our lives? Before streaming, before social media and before we had a million group chats pinging our phones, we had Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful!

This week on The Midlifers Podcast, Mez and Fonz take a nostalgic trip back to the daytime soap operas we watched growing up - complete with amnesia (so much amnesia!), secret identities, love triangles and evil villains we love to hate.

We revisit some of the most unforgettable characters and storylines, including Stefano DiMera, Marlena Evans, Victor Newman, Cricket, Brooke, Ridge, Stephanie and the unforgettable Sally Spectra. We also uncover some of the absolutely bonkers plots that somehow made it onto daytime television - and yes, we do talk about THAT demonic possession!

And before we dive into the soap opera chaos, we have a very midlife Rant or Rave about group chats. Are WhatsApp, Instagram DMs and endless family, school and sporting chats keeping us connected… or completely exhausting us?

Plus: the joys of voice notes, GIFs, accidentally sending messages to the wrong chat, being left out of a group chat and why Mez takes approximately three business days to respond.

If you grew up watching 80s and 90s TV, stayed home from school and ended up watching daytime soaps with your mum or grandma, this episode is going to unlock some serious memories.

Welcome to The Midlifers - a weekly nostalgia podcast for Gen X and millennial women, filled with 80s and 90s nostalgia, funny stories, midlife chaos, pop culture and plenty of laughs.

What daytime soap opera did you watch growing up? And which character do you still remember? Tell us in the DMs!

⏱️CHAPTERS

00:00 Welcome to our show

00:54 The beauty in silence + our challenge to you!

05:11 Mez’s yearning for Rob Thomas

07:34 Rant or Rave group chats

18:02 Do You Remember these daytime TV soapies?

38:53 Wrap up and see you next week

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