What starts as a story about a man named Stinky Ronnie — the patron saint of poor decisions — turns into an existential roast of modern life. Eric and Jared spiral from e-bike crashes and vape clouds to generational therapy sessions and AI slavery math. It’s Total Recall meets Office Space, hosted by two guys who still remember Netscape, landlines, and what freedom used to smell like.

This is the Gen X gospel: we survived asbestos, dial-up, and the mall. Now we’re parenting kids on lithium batteries and pretending we’re not addicted to our devices.

TL;DR: We try to opt out, but we’re all still totally in. E-bikes crash, phones glow, and AI feeds on our memes. We cover Gen X survival skills, micro-mobility carnage, addiction as religion, mafia capitalism, and the shocking math on how many humans it takes to power a data center. (Spoiler: too many.)

Chapters

[00:00:00] E-Bikes, Trash Fires, and the Legend of Stinky Ronnie

[00:06:42] The Micro-Mobility Apocalypse

[00:12:15] Parenting on Lithium: Gen Z in the Wild

[00:18:00] Gen X: The Forgotten Survivors

[00:26:45] Boomers, Millennials, and Trophy Wars

[00:34:30] Rockers vs. Vapers: Whatever Happened to Cool?

[00:42:15] Mafia Metaphors & Donnie Brasco Economics

[00:48:10] Addiction Is the New Religion

[00:56:20] The AI Power Grid Needs You (Literally)

[01:02:45] Humans as Data Center Batteries

[01:09:33] The Matrix… But with E-Bikes

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Eric: X | SportsEpreneur NIL Madness

Jared: X | Nu Futurist

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