The Senior Rebellion

Every bucket list is written by the same person. The person who is not going to do any of it. And every one of them was written by somebody waiting for permission.

Waiting for the kids to grow up. Waiting for the money to be right. Waiting for the knee to feel better. Waiting for somebody to say, go ahead, you have earned this.

Nobody is coming with permission. Nobody has ever come with permission. They are too busy writing their own list.

This week: Book Three, The Official F*CK IT Bucket List. Why the list gets smaller, weirder, and much sooner once you stop asking. Why a list with sections inside the sections is a better sign than fourteen things you will never do.

Then the money question. If your whole financial life is arranged so your children get a slightly larger number after you die, you have not been saving for your life. You have been saving for your absence. Spend some of the inheritance. On yourself. On a Wednesday.

Plus a woman who kept a list in a drawer for twenty eight years, and the granddaughter who asked the only question that mattered. Which one is easiest?

Mailbag: a woman from Knoxville whose family thinks she is having a crisis because she cut her hair and bought a motorcycle. She is not having a crisis. She is having an afternoon.

Offense of the Week: the restaurant that prints calorie counts on the menu. I did not ask. Highlight the fries. Leave the numbers alone.

Send your offenses and your homework to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Books and the 2027 wall calendars at [shop.meridianmogulmedia.com](https://shop.meridianmogulmedia.com). Calendars are twenty nine ninety nine, and they need to be ordered by December fourth for Christmas.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Cold open

00:55 Ten minutes, every Friday

02:06 Why the list gets smaller

04:06 The inheritance question

05:56 Twenty eight years in a drawer

07:58 Mailbag and the Offense of the Week

09:09 Homework

09:57 The 2027 calendars

11:01 Close

Book One gets its deep dive. This week: the Politeness Tax — the emotional currency you've been paying your whole life just to keep strangers comfortable — and the Uncomfortable Stare, the two-word weapon you already own. Mid-episode we open the mailbag: Brenda from Ohio retired from ten years of organizing the neighborhood block party with a single sentence — "The block party is dead. I burned the signup sheet."

Then the debut of a brand-new segment: THE OFFENSE OF THE WEEK. A nice dinner out ends with no menus, a QR code, a proprietary dining app, a microscopic font, and a demand for a credit card on file before anyone saw a glass of water. A chicken basket is not a security clearance, and we said so.

Homework: the laminated menu protocol. "My phone doesn't have a credit card, and my stomach doesn't have patience."

Send your offenses, your victories, and your homework reports to [email protected] — the best letter gets read on the air. The worst one gets read twice. The Offense of the Week doesn't take weeks off.

The books — "Let the Motherf*cker Burn," "Throw That Sh*t Out," and "The Official F*CK IT Bucket List" — are on Amazon for $14.99 each. The merch lives at shop.meridianmogulmedia.com. The rebellion lives at meridianmogulmedia.com.

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The premiere. I'm The Instigator, and this is ten minutes of permission for anyone who's spent decades being reasonable. In this episode: the three Rebel Rules, this week's Offense of the Week (the phone scammer who thinks you're sweet), your first homework assignment, and the match strike heard round the world.

New episodes every Friday. Subscribe, leave a five-star review, and keep the matches handy. 🔥

The books — "Let the Motherf*cker Burn," "Throw That Sh*t Out," and "The Official F*CK IT Bucket List" — are on Amazon for $14.99. The merch lives at shop.meridianmogulmedia.com. The rebellion lives at meridianmogulmedia.com.

Send your offenses, your victories, and your bucket list items to [email protected] — I read letters every week.