Confessions of a Gen-X Mind: Culture, Media Literacy, and Personal Growth

Send us Fan Mail Freestyle Friday, but Perry? YES! This run from the AFA Masters Austin was a definitive moment! Putting Perry’s obvious talent in the spotlight and style for miles! Think of 1989, then look at the originality and pure bike command. As impactful in that era as any other flatlander and *with bashgaurd eventually putting Bully through its paces. Certainly got RL Osborn's attenti...

Send us Fan Mail Before podcasts. Before studios. Before the camera. There was a BMX bike. In this episode, I talk about growing up inside BMX Freestyle culture not as a spectator, but as a rider. Flatland. Street. Late nights. Parking lots. Bike shops. Watching real professionals up close and learning, quickly, where I stood. BMX taught me discipline without applause, humility in the presence of...

Send us Fan Mail Sportsradio 1310  The Ticket was five years old, and from the outside it already felt different. This is an off-the-cuff monologue about how I went from listener to employee, starting in promotions, working remotes, and eventually moving into engineering while everyone chased the same full-time job that barely paid thirty grand a year. It’s a snapshot of a very specific moment in...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is not about the moment my father died. It is about the long goodbye that began more than twenty years earlier, when I first learned my parents were mortal. In this episode, I reflect on my father’s first brush with death in 1999, the slow decline that followed years later, and what it means to grieve someone in stages. I talk about anticipatory grief, watching a pare...

Send us Fan Mail What happens after you finally see things clearly? In this follow-up to The Holidays After You See the Masks , I talk about the quieter, steadier phase that comes after awareness. The part no one really prepares you for. This episode is not about blame or cutting people off. It is about what life looks like once the fog lifts, old family roles lose their power, and you stop wishin...

Send us Fan Mail In this bonus episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind , I pull back the curtain on what it’s really like working behind the scenes in radio. Listeners hear a voice.  A persona.  A carefully crafted version of someone they think they know. But when you’re the person setting up the gear, fixing the signal, and making the show actually happen, you often meet a very different version o...

Send us Fan Mail Turning fifty is not a crisis.  It is a reckoning.  And it changed how I see everything. In this year end episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind , I reflect on the moments that quietly reshaped my life at midlife. What began as recalibration became a year of closure, clarity, and unexpected forward motion. I talk honestly about starting the year single and how difficult it was to...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you finally see the emotional patterns you grew up inside? In this episode, I reflect on family, holidays, and the quiet shift that happens once you gain the language to understand your own history. Through personal observation and late-life clarity, I explore how my parents’ generation understood mental health, how stigma shaped family narratives, and how certai...

Send us Fan Mail For more than fifty years, Americans have been told that energy independence is just around the corner. Drill more. Import less. Problem solved. But the truth is more complicated. In this episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind , I take a clear-eyed look at where the idea of “energy independence” came from, why it keeps getting recycled, and why it has never fully matched reality....

Send us Fan Mail This episode slows things down. No scandal. No collapse. No reckoning.   Just one summer night that stayed with me. In this episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind , I step away from corporate failures and heavy family history to tell a quieter story. It’s about a Texas Rangers game at old Arlington Stadium in the summer of 1985, and a ten-year-old kid who needed the world to make...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever worked in media, broadcasting, production, or an industry that quietly automated itself out from under its own workforce, this will feel familiar. In this episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind , I revisit a long, candid conversation I recorded years ago with my old radio friend, "Psycho" Dave Martin former and quite notable board op at Sportsradio 1310 Th...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is my media origin story.  I grew up analog.  Then the gatekeepers disappeared. I came of age in a world where music and media still had barriers. MTV broke artists. Radio decided what you heard. Recording studios were expensive, and working in media was a profession you trained for, studied, and slowly earned your way into. Then everything changed. In this episode of...

Send us Fan Mail This is the perspective behind the show.  Where it started.  And why it exists. Confessions of a Gen-X Mind is a podcast about childhood, culture, media, music, and technology, and how all of it shaped the people we became. In this trailer episode, I introduce the lens behind the stories and the questions I keep coming back to. I look back at growing up Gen X, learning to adapt wi...

Send us Fan Mail At five o’clock on a Sunday morning, I woke up to a sound I never wanted to hear again.  A wet, rattling breath.   The kind that tells you something is very wrong. This episode tells the story of that morning. The rush to the ER. The chaos of emergency medicine. And the calm that took over when panic would have made everything worse. What followed felt like living inside a real-li...

Send us Fan Mail This episode started with Metallica.  It ended with a brain scan.  And it changed how I understand myself. This is the story of how a lifelong Metallica fan, a SPECT brain scan, and fifty years of family misunderstanding collided into one overdue revelation. From learning guitar because of Metallica, to Ferris Buellering my way into the Ozzfest media pit, to watching Some Kind of...

Send us Fan Mail 2022-George and Keith discuss the evolution and rise of mental wellness and neurodiversity in the workplace and in society at large  This podcast reflects personal experience, opinion, and information drawn from publicly available court records and historical reporting. It is not intended to assert new allegations or to characterize any individual beyond matters established in pub...

Send us Fan Mail Just how did Dave Martin come to be called Psycho Dave?  This podcast reflects personal experience, opinion, and information drawn from publicly available court records and historical reporting. It is not intended to assert new allegations or to characterize any individual beyond matters established in public proceedings 

Send us Fan Mail The Church of Creative Accounting” This is the story of how I grew up around holy language and unholy balance sheets. I talk about my flashy, chaotic uncle, the fracking boom, the private jets, and the uneasy feeling that comes from realizing your childhood luxuries might have come from some very creative bookkeeping.  This podcast reflects personal experience, opinion, and inform...

Send us Fan Mail  This podcast reflects personal experience, opinion, and information drawn from publicly available court records and historical reporting. It is not intended to assert new allegations or to characterize any individual beyond matters established in public proceedings 

Send us Fan Mail Talking Bad Radio, Dale Hansen, and Inside radio, in part 2 Dave and George discuss working for The Ticket and Salem Radio Network and what it takes to evolve and survive in a ever changing, dyno-business like terrestrial radio.   This podcast reflects personal experience, opinion, and information drawn from publicly available court records and historical reporting. It is not inte...