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Welcome to Growing Up Geek, the podcast where we journey back in time to explore the movies, music, TV shows, comics, and books that defined a generation.I’m your host, my name is Steeven, and I'll be your pilot on this temporal odyssey through the geek-centric cultural zeitgeist of my youth. From the 70s, through the 80s, and on into the 90s, we’ll dig deep into the geeky gold that shaped my childhood and—let's be honest—probably yours, too.

Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late '80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring Deadhead. Peter discovered the Grateful Dead in 1985, at the age of 15, through friends who exchanged bootleg tapes of live Grateful Dead concerts. A teenager living in the suburbs of Rochester, New York, he became exposed to an entirely new way of life, and friends who were enjoying more freedom and less parental guidance.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Well-Tempered Listener: Growing Up with Musical Parents and learn about Toronto's musical history.