30, Dirty & Dying

It's time for another installment of Millennial Mad Libs! Kourtney and Clarissa are bringing back this millennial chaos favorite from seasons past. After a trip to the early 2000s, your cohosts brush off their old grammar textbooks and make an attempt at some mad lib style generators with nothing guiding them but a little nostalgia, some freshly learned Gen Z trivia, and a lot of chaos.

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This week, your millennial cohosts are getting real about how mental health, illness, and emotional struggles have been portrayed in the media, and how those portrayals have changed from their 90s/2000s youths to now. After sharing their own recent grief...

This week 30 D&D is bringing a Chaotic Trivia episode all about internet lingo from Gen Z, Alpha, and beyond. After a trip Back in Time to 2012, Kourtney is quizzing Clarissa on alleged Gen Z trivia from cap to skibidi and everything in between. It's a millennial chaos disaster you won't want to miss as your cohosts prove just how old they are.

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This week you cohosts are channeling their inner gossip girls as they moderate an episode full of AITA and Advice posts from Reddit and from you, the listeners of 30 D&D! Kourtney and Clarissa sift through listener submissions alongside posts from AITA and Advice subreddits to give their thoughts and opinions on life, love, sugar daddies, millennial reality TV, sobriety, customer service gigs, good boys, and more. Plus, a trip back to 2013 to relive cringe social media posts and their own relationship woes.

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Hope you're hungry, because 30 D&D is back and your favorite flailing millennials bringing snacks! Clarissa and Kourtney return for Season 8 with new episodes full of the nostalgic, unfiltered, and millennial chaos energy you love. They're kicking things off with a favorite format -- the bracket -- to decide what snack from the 90s/2000s they miss the most. YoGos, Swoops, Dunkaroos, OG Snack Wraps, and more are all up for debate. Plus, they're fueling up the time machine for the new season with a trip back to 1997!

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On a special season break mini episode of 30 D&D, cohost Clarissa sits down with fellow millennial and Chief Meme Officer Jamie Jackson (you may also know her from @Humorous_Resources or @Millennial_Misery) to discuss the, wait for it ... unprecedented job market and circumstances surrounding unemployment.

Jamie, a cohost of the HR Besties Podcast, shares some insights as an HR pro who is recently facing unemployment. She and cohost Clarissa talk through their own experiences, commiserate about crazy interview problems, unpack the idea of using social media to supplement job loss, and dive into millennial anxieties...

It's the Season 7 Finale, and Kourtney and Clarissa are finishing up the "season of favorite things" with an ultimate bracket to determine their favorite episodes of their favorite millennial podcast ... this one! First, your cohosts are taking a trip back in time to 2001, and then it's on to a bracket that puts each of their top episodes of the pod head-to-head. Early seasons versus the current season. Relivings versus Real Talks. Trivia versus Drafts. It's time to break it all down and find the best (according to the in-house team of 30 D&D at least), look back at the...

If your favorite segment of 30 D&D is Back in Time, this is the show you can't miss. Kourtney and Clarissa are diving into one of their favorite parts of making the podcast for an ultimate super mega trip to relive the early 2000s. From the games they played on Gameboy Color to the glittery items they searched for at Claire's, your cohosts are reliving a bunch of their memories from Y2K onward, and making a quick stop in 1999 to set the mood.

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This week, Clarissa and Kourtney are grabbing their shovels to dig up some memories on 'Holes.' They're reliving everything from Kissin' Kate Barlow to the famous D-Tent Boys rap, plus discussing what hits a little differently watching the childhood favorite as 30-somethings. So hop on the bus and head to Camp Green Lake with your sick, sad millennial cohosts. Plus, they're making a stop in the millennium year for Back in Time!

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This week, your favorite sick, sad millennials are playing a trivia game full of quotes from the movies of the 90s and 2000s! Kourtney and Clarissa are quizzing each other on the most quotable movie moments they can remember … and a few deep cuts as well. Disney princesses, 90s classics, rap battles, and more! Plus a trip to 2014 to discuss what your hosts were doing on social media and how they felt about some pivotal pop culture moments — especially the How I Met Your Mother finale.

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It's the season of eating out on the restaurant patios, sipping drinks and splitting apps with friends. In that spirit, your cohosts are using this episode to narrow down some of their favorites between restaurant breads and appetizers -- obviously in a bracket format. This episode is millennial chaos, with debate, memories, and a flavor of fun and friendship best served on a spring day. Plus, a trip Back in Time to the late 80s for our elder millennials and friends!

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Your favorite sick, sad millennials are back for a real talk session unpacking the concept of Toxic Positivity. Clarissa and Kourtney are discussing what the phenomenon means to them, what they feel can be negative about it, what some research says about it, and how its impacted their own mental health over the years. Plus, take a trip back to 2011 to relive the days of owl jewelry, early social media, and more nostalgia!

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Unprecedented times, recessions, Y2K, nostalgia, and so much more is in the cards this week as your cohosts play a homemade game inspired by the millennial chaos we're all facing every day. Inspired in part by the Game of Life card game, Kourtney and Clarissa put together a card game to encapsulate the aging millennial/3o, Dirty & Dying experience with all the ups, downs, and existential dread. Plus, they're taking a trip back to 2017 to reflect on some pivotal moments in their own personal games of life.

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This week, Clarissa and Kourtney are remembering the early days of reality dating shows, especially the "of Love" variety on VH1. They each relived some memories from their favorites, including Rock of Love, Flavor of Love, Daisy of Love, I Love New York, and a Shot at Love, and are breaking down all the chaos. Catchphrases, characters, concerns, and more are all up for discussion -- plus a trip back to 2009!

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It’s time for book club — 30, Dirty & Dying edition. The season of favorite things continues with a chat about your cohosts’ favorite pastime. Clarissa and Kourtney are sharing their most recent reads, bookish opinions, and how being 30ish affects their tastes. Plus, a trip back to 1992!

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This week, Kourtney and Clarissa are playing a game combining their two favorite sources of nostalgia: Movies and Music! Your cohosts are finding the perfect songs from all eras of the millennial experience including late 80s, 90s, Y2K, 2000s, and 2010s, and pairing them with movie scenes you know and love. Professing love with a boombox. Fight scenes. Car chases. Betrayals. Happy endings. They're finding the track to go on he millennial movie soundtrack of their dreams. Plus, a trip back to the early 90s!

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Kourtney and Clarissa are back with a real talk where they're revisiting a conversation from back in Season One all about the pressure to have kids. This time around, they're both a little older and have some more perspective on their decisions around having kids -- including what they think a "ticking biological clock" even feels like and how it affects their choices. Plus, they're going back to 2012 for a trip Back in Time full of early Instagram days, neon green and zebra decor, and a whole lot of 2010s nostalgia!

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From aching joints and indigestion to Neopets and MySpace days, this week Clarissa and Kourtney are playing a few rounds of "Would You Rather" fit for the 30 Dirty & Dying crowd. Your favorite sick, sad millennials are weighing their options on nostalgic choices and some hypotheticals that sound a lot different once you're past 30 than they might have in your teens and 20s. Plus, a Back in Time trip to the 80s for the elder millennials!

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This week, Kourtney and Clarissa bring in a special guest to help them play another round of Chaotic Trivia Variety Show, featuring questions on everything from fried chicken and sports to LOTR. And, the millennial team is taking a trip back to 1994 to relive all the nostalgia and more.

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Your favorite millennial cohosts are back with another game in the season of fav things. This week's is somewhat inspired by the Family Feud format, and Kourtney and Clarissa are using that to guess the top spots in nostalgic categories. They're putting their knowledge to the test on boy bands, movie franchises, pop punk, 90s candies, popular millennial/zillennial names, and so much more. Plus, a trip back to 2006!

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CW: Some discussion, though often comedic, about death, dying, and accidents throughout. Be advised.

Remember that show "1000 Ways to Die?" This week your cohosts are using some of the media from their youth -- like that show and Final Destination to name a couple -- to destigmatize death a bit by talking through some of those pop culture memories and what strange ways to go stuck with them over the years. Kourtney and Clarissa are reliving some of the scenes they remember most and weaving those outstanding situations into a discussion on their own sometimes irrational fears...

This week, Clarissa and Kourtney are playing fan-favorite game Millennial Music Trivia, but with their favorite spin -- and it's all about the lyrics. Your hosts are taking turns quizzing each other on 90s and 2000s song lyrics without the music to try and figure out the artist, title, and the rest of the words. From Eminem to Celine Dion, it's time to grab some favorite nostalgic playlist tracks and test some millennial memories. Plus a trip back to 2007!

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This week it's time for the first real talk of the season, and your cohosts are discussing two of the subjects closest to their hearts that they enjoy exploring most: Mental Health and Relationships. Your favorite sick, sad millennials are doing a deep dive into their own experiences with how one's changing mental health can affect romance. As two millennials with mental illnesses and histories who are navigating long-term relationships, they’ve found that the ebbs and flows of mental health issues, love, life stressors, and more often intersect -- especially reaching the 30ish age range. That, and trip ba...

This week, Kourtney and Clarissa are spelling out L-O-V-E as they relive the 1998 version of "The Parent Trap." From a young Lindsay Lohan to a wild custody arrangement, your cohosts rewatched this classic as 30-somethings to break down the good, the bad, and the nostalgic. Is it an adorable love story, or is it co-parenting gone horribly wrong? They're breaking it down, and taking a trip back to the birth year of the movie's star and the wedding year of the trapped parents-- 1986!

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Your hosts are making some lists and things are getting chaotic from there! This week, Kourtney and Clarissa are playing a millennial chaos style game they're calling list-o-mania, where they each tell each other the items on random lists and guess the category. From favorite tv quotes to flashbacks to math class, the season of favorite things rages on with a silly game that is helping your cohosts, and hopefully you too, take a breath and find some joy. Plus, a nostalgic trip Back in Time to the late 90s!

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Season 7 is here and your fav sick, sad millennials are dubbing it the season of embracing their favorite things -- including a part two to one of our favorite throwbacks from Season 1. As children of the early internet, we're no strangers to conspiracy theory rabbit holes and for this episode we dove back in to talk about some of the lighter ones we find most interesting. Now don't worry -- this is still a humorous, light-hearted millennial chaos podcast and we're still just here to have fun! We're not saying we believe any of these theories (peep the disclaimer...

It's the Season 6 finale and the 2024 holiday episode your favorite millennial podcast, and your cohosts are taking it to the dessert tray for one more bracket-style competition. This has been the season of brackets, so Clarissa and Kourtney are ending a great feast of episodes with something sweet. They're putting your favorite holiday desserts head-to-head to find out what's the best -- at least in their humble opinions. Gingerbread, cheesecake, fruitcake, pumpkin pie, and more are on the bracket this time as your favorite sick, sad millennials close out Season 6 all while reliving some nostalgic holiday memories. And, since...

Kourtney and Clarissa are back for another episode of your favorite millennial podcast, and this week they are taking a walk down memory lane with some "what-if's" in mind. Everyone has those moments where they wonder what could have been? What if you took that other job? What if you didn't meet your spouse? What if you didn't cancel that third date? This week, your cohosts are asking themselves questions just like that and more to try and think about what their lives might be had they made a few other choices. Some good, some bad, and some just...

This week as many folks are gathering around the Thanksgiving table, Clarissa and Kourtney are sitting down for a real talk episode all about what happens when the table starts to look a little different. Going no contact has become more talked about in society, and is a tough decision to make with family, friends, and other loved ones. The holidays can be an especially difficult time for those who have gone no contact or become estranged, so your favorite sick, sad millennials are unpacking the tough issue, sharing their experiences, and pointing to some psychology and motivational content...

From cartoon villains and candles to obscure movie characters, Kourtney and Clarissa are taking on the "Hear Me Out Cake" concept to discuss the fictional characters who have struck their fancy over the years. Some are conventionally attraction while others are, a stretch of the imagination. But your cohosts are breaking it all down after a trip Back in Time to 1995.

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Were you ever a guest star on Gilmore Girls? Were you an early 2000s heartthrob? Are you a singer in a band? Were you a genie in a bottle?

These are just a few of the questions Kourtney and Clarissa are throwing back and forth this week as the play a rapid-fire, homemade, and millennial-fied adaptation of the Guess Who game. With a particular focus on the early and mid 2000s, pop culture figures, actors, singers, rappers, and even a few iconic fictional characters are on the board for your cohosts to narrow down in as few...

On this episode, your favorite sick, sad millennials are trying to distract themselves from crushing existential dread with a quick trip to the internet for a podcast favorite -- AITA! Your cohosts are diving into the infamous subreddit to give their thoughts on infidelity, family wedding drama, monogamy, and literally some spilled milk. Plus they're taking a super nostalgic ride Back in Time to 1990 to talk movies, TV, tornadoes, and some chart-topping songs.

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It's the final Spooky Season episode for October '24, and Kourtney and Clarissa are getting in the holiday spirit with 2007's cult classic "Trick 'r Treat.” It's a movie all about how to survive a scary Halloween night, and for that they needed an expert -- Mike the Angry Clown! Kourtney's husband rejoins 30 D&D for this episode reliving one of his self-proclaimed favorite Halloween movies and talking through all things spooky including his yearly Haunted Manor. Plus, the gang takes a trip back to 2008 for nostalgic music, movies, and millennial moments!

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Being lost at sea. Sleep paralysis. Porcelain dolls. Birds.

This week, Kourtney and Clarissa are continuing their Spooky Season episodes with a show dedicated to all the things that make their skin crawl and their spines shiver. Being creeped out is a bit different than being outright afraid, and your favorite flailing millennials are breaking it all down, discussing popular creepy phenomenon, confessing their own creeps, and turning to the internet for more. Plus, they take a trip Back in Time to 2010 to relive fashion moments, ask themselves why they posted boring and cringey FB updates, and...

Let's play Fright Ball!

That's what Kourtney and Clarissa are calling this spooky, chaotic draft-style game continuing their block of October episodes. Your millennial cohosts are going through a list of categories -- vampire movies, slashers, found footage, DCOMs, and more -- and picking their favorites draft style. From 90s and early 2000s favorites to black-and-white classics, this one is going all over the horror, Halloween, and otherwise spooky genres. Plus, a trip back to the 90s!

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This week, Kourtney and Clarissa continue their spooky season celebrations with some chaos trivia filled with ghouls, ghosts, scary movies, and more! A favorite format, your cohosts take turns posing trivia questions to each other with plenty of tricks, treats, and good old fashioned nostalgia in the mix. Plus, they take a trip Back in Time to 2005 to talk crushes, favorite books, movie theater memories, and all the songs they had on their iPod shuffles.

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It's officially spooky season and you can call Kourtney and Clarissa the ghosts of millennials past this October! All month long, your favorite sick, sad millennials are getting into the ghoulish spirit, starting with a super nostalgic trip down memory lane talk about some favorite Halloween special episodes that aired in the 90s and 2000s. Even Stevens, Lizzie McGuire, Friends, Psych, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air are just a few of the spooky specials your cohosts are revisiting on this episode, plus a trip back to 2001!

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NSYNC or BSB? Christina or Britney? Juicy Juice or Capri Sun? This week, Clarissa and Kourtney are answering a whole bunch of binary questions -- deciding if they can deal with this or they can deal with that! From millennial pop culture to nonsensical pairings, your cohosts are playing a chaotic game to share their favorite things, bask in nostalgia, and gear up for impending Spooky Season episodes! Listen now for all the millennial chaos and for a trip back to the early 2000s!

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The continuation of the 30 D&D season premiere is finally here! Back in episode 1 of this season, Kourtney and Clarissa promised to use their fav bracket format to decide the best Disney and Nick cartoons from the 90s and early 2000s era and then let them go head-to-head. That day has arrived with this episode of your favorite millennial podcast. Your cohosts are reliving classics like As Told By Ginger, SpongeBob SquarePants, Kim Possible, Rugrats, The Proud Family, and so many more to see how they stack up against each other. Will Disney Channel take another victory like in...

This week it's time for another real talk, and Kourtney and Clarissa are discussing mortality and health anxieties and acceptance that comes with getting to the 30-something stage and beyond. They're putting the sick and sad in "sick, sad millennial" this episode, getting real about how their own health issues and outlooks have evolved, and about watching loved ones experience age and illness. Grief, loss, preventative care, and so much more are up for the 30 D&D treatment this week, plus a trip back to 2009 to remember pop culture moments, meme-making, and social media cringe that definitely won't make...