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

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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 without instructions, and spending decades working inside media systems during periods of massive cultural and technological change. From early exposure to computers and the internet, to a career in radio, live broadcasting, and streaming media, this show traces how curiosity and creativity became survival skills.

I also share how late-in-life diagnoses of autism and ADHD helped reframe my personal and professional story. Not as limitations, but as context. Language that finally made sense of experiences I carried for a long time without explanation.

This podcast isn’t about romanticizing the past. It’s about understanding it. About finding words for experiences many Gen Xers learned to carry quietly. And about making sense of how media, music, technology, identity, and work intersect over time.

If you ever felt like you were expected to figure everything out on your own, this podcast is for you.

 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 

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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-life episode of The Pitt, only without the comfort of knowing how it would end.

This is also a story about advocacy. About slowing things down long enough to share the full history. When the whole picture finally came into focus, a lifelong heart condition made sense for the first time.

What changed wasn’t just the diagnosis.
 It was the understanding.

This episode is a Gen X reflection on fear, clarity, and the sound you never want to hear twice.

 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 

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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 Monster and realizing that even the strongest guy in the room can ask for help.

That documentary cracked something open in me. It made me wonder if I could stop pretending everything was fine and actually look inward. So I did something I never expected to do. I went to the Amen Clinic and had my brain scanned, like I was auditioning for a late-night PBS science special.

The results said the quiet part out loud.

 I was suffering the after effects of TBI and ADHD the whole time.

This episode weaves together music, grief, dark humor, family patterns, burnout, confusion, and the scan that finally told the truth everyone else missed. Not as a diagnosis hunt, but as clarity. Context. And relief.

Six minutes that changed the story I’d been telling myself for decades.

 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 

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I disappeared for a reason.
 No warning. No explanation.
 Just gone.

In this episode, I open the vault on the last three years of my life. If you knew me before 2022, you probably remember the version of me who shared photos, milestones, and moments that suggested everything was fine. Then I vanished. This is the real story of what happened.

I trace the arc from a childhood shaped by a traumatic brain injury and undiagnosed neurodivergence/ADHD , through years of masking and adaptation, to the culture shock of leaving Detroit for a Texas evangelical school. I talk about a long detour into cannabis that triggered sleep loss, mania, and psychosis. I talk about losing my father. Losing my marriage while I was still hospitalized. And what it meant to rebuild a life from zero.

I also share how brain scans at the Amen Clinic finally brought clarity to my neurology. Not as a shortcut or a cure, but as context. Information that helped me understand who I actually am, and why life had always felt slightly out of sync.

This is a story about collapse and clarity. Trauma and healing. Hitting bottom and learning how to climb out with a map I never had before. It’s about discovering I’m on the autism spectrum, understanding my brain for the first time, and slowly building a life that finally fits.

If you ever wondered what happened to me, this episode answers the question.

 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 

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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 

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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 public proceedings 

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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 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 

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 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 

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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 intended to assert new allegations or to characterize any individual beyond matters established in public proceedings