In My Footsteps: A Gen-X Nostalgia Podcast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 213
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 113: BONUS - Interview with Producer Frank Durant: What He's Been Up To, New Projects He's Working On, Life After the Lady of the Dunes Documentary and the Case Being Solved(9-20-2023)
Episode 113 sees the return of film producer Frank Durant for a third interview. It is an all-encompassing chat as we look at what he's been up to over the last year. Frank speaks about…
Episode 112: My Cape Cod Roots; Celebrating 3 Years of Sobriety; Bob Barker & Price Is Right; Weird Vermont Laws(8-13-2023)
Episode 112 begins with a segment I've wanted to do and share for quite a while. Straddling the line between two generations has allowed me to see things the way they were and the way t…
Episode 111: Finding My Great-Grandfather's Biological Family; First Favorite TV Shows; Weird Connecticut Laws; Road Trip - Machias, ME(9-6-2023)
Episode 111 sheds some light on a very important discovery that happened during the podcast's hiatus earlier in 2023. I am the resident family historian. For years I had been searching …
Episode 110: Restaurant Storytime VI: Prep Boys Rock; Being A 90s Mall Rat; Weird Maine Laws; Meet Chester Vermont(8-30-2023)
Episode 110 begins with a return to Restaurant Storytime. In this chapter, we go back to the beginning of my time working in hospitality. The days of food prep in a rustic barn, loud mu…
Episode 109: BONUS - A Cape Cod Summer Vacation In 1923(8-23-2023)
Episode 109 is a special Bonus Episode. This is going to be a fun and unique episode.
We are going to take a deep dive into what it would have been like for someone coming to visit Cape …
Episode 108: My Friend Barry; The First X-Games; Weird Rhode Island Laws; Scituate, RI(8-16-2023)
Episode 108 is very Rhode Island-centric as we celebrate the smallest state in the country.
It begins with a bit of pulling back the curtain. I spoke at length in Episode 30 about my fri…
Episode 107: Remembering the Christmas Tree Shops; 1980s Cape Cod Stores We Miss; 1993 Year In Music; Bridgeport, CT(8-9-2023)
Episode 107 is filled with Cape Cod nostalgia.
It begins with a bittersweet look back at the New England icon the Christmas Tree Shops as the company gets set to close all of its stores …
Episode 106: Cape Cod's First Air Disaster; Google's 25th Anniversary; Summer Vacation Movies; Rye, NH; Jimmy Hoffa(8-2-2023)
Episode 106 takes a look back at Cape Cod's first air disaster. During the dawn of passenger air travel a company set its sights on Cape Cod for air tourism. This story goes from a spec…
Episode 105: What I Thought Was Cool Growing Up in the 1980s and 1990s(7-26-2023)
Episode 105 is an extended trip down memory lane. It's a hybrid episode, part list, part Back In the Day, with some embarrassing stories sprinkled in.
Growing up we all have our differin…
Episode 104: My Infamous Radio Program; Beanie Babies 30th Birthday; Top 5 Creature Feature B-Movies; Madawaska, ME(7-19-2023)
Episode 104 is a return to the full-length format. It begins with a story that needed to be told.
For a time, a very brief time, I was part of a show on a college radio station. That was…
Episode 103: BONUS - Aloha, Where I've Been(7-12-2023)
After six months on hiatus, the podcast is back with Episode 103!
This is a special bonus episode that will pair well with Episode 102. So much has happened since that episode dropped an…
Episode 102: BONUS - Season Finale, Aloha for Now(1-19-2023)
Episode 102 is the special monthly bonus episode. It also acts as a de facto season finale, but not a series finale.
2023 is shaping up to be a tremendously busy year with three books be…
Episode 101: A Disney World/Cape Cod Connection?; An Ounce of Prevention 80s PSA; Weirdest Music Videos; Remembering My Uncle Eric(1-12-2023)
Episode 101 fully kicks off the new year. We'll look at some intentions for 2023 and perhaps a little preview of coming attractions.
It begins with a look at The Dome Restaurant formerl…
Episode 100: Lady of the Dunes - The Case, the Documentary, the Book, and the New Revelations(1-5-2023)
The 100th Episode of the podcast is a special super-sized show.
This episode focuses on everything to do with the infamous Lady of the Dunes Cape Cod murder mystery.
We dive deep into the…
Episode 99: Crazy Nights at Cape Cod's Compass Lounge; Weird Movies Made Into Video Games; Favorite Holiday Songs; Manchester NH(12-29-2022)
Episode 99 puts a bow on 2022. It starts off with a little look back at some of what made the year unique.
Next, it's time to look forward to the dawning of a new year. This is done by …
Episode 98: BONUS - Cape Cod's Forgotten Chain Restaurants of the Past(12-22-2022)
Episode 98 is the monthly bonus episode. The Christmas holiday is near, the season is in full swing. However, the bonus episode is leaving something far different under the tree.
This …
Episode 97: Goodbye Lady of the Dunes, Producer Frank Durant Interview Pt. 2; Restaurant Storytime V: Lucky to Be Alive; Forgotten 80s Trading Cards; Unusual Discontinued Cereals(12-15-2022)
Episode 97 is a special show. It kicks off with a second interview with Lady of the Dunes documentary producer Frank Durant. It was recorded on location in Provincetown, with part of …
Episode 96: Edaville Railroad, Top 5 Christmas TV Specials, Old School Kids/Teens Magazines, Shelburne VT(12-8-2022)
Episode 96 dives headlong into the Holiday Season.
It begins with a look at a spot near and dear to my, and many other New Englanders, hearts. Edaville Railroad in Carver, Massachusetts…
Episode 95: Hair Metal Glory Days; The Great Hyannis Fire of 1904; 1970s Product Fails; Pawtucket RI; First Auto Race(12-1-2022)
Episode 95 kicks off December and the Holiday season.
We start off with the sad yet inspiring story of the Great Hyannis Fire of 1904. Longtime Cape Codders likely don't recall a time…
Episode 94: Visiting Plymouth for Thanksgiving; A Forgotten Icon of Cape Cod Nightlife; Michael Jackson's Thriller Album at 40; Weird Old Thanksgiving Recipes(11-17-2022)
Episode 94 is knee-deep in Thanksgiving festivities.
The place where the Pilgrims ultimately settled, Plymouth, Massachusetts, is featured in this episode's Road Trip. It is chock full …