We’re Clarissa and Kourtney — friends since the early 2010s who came together to cohost 30, Dirty & Dying. Clarissa is a writer and Kourtney is in higher ed with dreams of being a stay-at-home cat mom. We both deal with chronic illness, mental health, and love to cope with 90s/2000s nostalgia.

Tell us about your podcast

Did anyone else expect to be 30, flirty, and thriving at the big 3-0? So did Clarissa and Kourtney, longtime friends and hosts of the millennial podcast tackling life, death, and just getting through each day. From our cringe early 2000s social media posts and all millennial nostalgia to current feelings on getting older and mental health struggles, we’re getting real about what it’s like on this side of 30.

What inspired the podcast?

When we were in our late 20s and early 30s, respectively, we ended up settling down in the same place for the first time in our adult lives. As we started hanging out and reconnecting, we realized that we were in similar spots in life — 30ish, not feeling flirty and thriving, enjoying parts of our lives but struggling to “figure everything out,” and mostly recognizing that 30-something life isn’t what we pictured it would be. We figured we couldn’t be the only ones feeling this way, thus the podcast was born.

Where can we listen to the pod?

We’re on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GoodPods, Google Podcasts and more.

What is your favorite thing about being millennials?

The community around being an aging millennial online is really special. We didn’t grow up with the same internet and social media that exists today, but it feels like we can retroactively share a lot of experiences and perspective — especially that signature millennial dark existential humor. It’s great to not feel like you’re the only one who might not have it all figured out.

Favorite stores you shopped at growing up?

Rue21, Hot Topic, Claire’s, Limited Too, KB Toys, and so many more!

What tv theme song would best describe the 30, dirty & dying podcast?

The Lizzie McGuire theme song — we’ll figure it out on the way

A nostalgic food or drink everyone thought was good but you found disgusting

We tried some classic warheads on the podcast for one of our Halloween episodes and … these were never for us.

If you could have a movie cast as a podcast guests – which one would it be?

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — Tom Felton and Dame Maggie Smith, enough said

5 songs that would be on 30, dirty & dying playlist?

We play a lot of millennial music trivia and have an ever-growing playlist for it. Five from that are: 

1.Family Affair – Mary J Blige

2. Thnks fr the Mmrs – FOB

3. Yeah! – Usher

4. It’s Been Awhile – Staind

5. The Reason – Hoobastank

Shows you can binge watch over and over again?

1. Gilmore Girls

2. Boy Meets World

3. Criminal Minds

4. Psych

5. The Office

6. Parks and Rec

What is a nostalgic phrase you feel needs to be made cool again?

Rawr XD

Skip it or crocodile mile in the summer?

Skip It – we love a broken ankle

Cosmic brownies or Dunkaroos?

Dunkaroos

Any fun deets you can share about anything upcoming on the pod?

We’re headed into our 6th Season, which is set to premiere later this summer — look out for more toward the end of July and into August. And we are working hard to make merch available sometime during season 6!

A phrase you would leave for a nostalchick

A podcast for millennials by millennials