STEVE 
There’s a version of this story that gets cleaned up for public consumption. The one where everything builds toward a redemptive arc, the hard parts get softened, and you walk away feeling inspired in a comfortable way. That’s not this. My brother Troy and I are Gen X, born eleven months apart, raised in different … Read more
We’ve been through the Cold War, the dot-com crash, 9/11, smartphones, 2008, and COVID. Every one of those moments sorted people into two groups: the loud reactors and the quiet adapters. AI is shaping up to be another one of those moments — and the sorting is already underway. On a recent episode of the … Read more
We don’t usually do reaction videos on this channel. But when something lands the way this did, you stop and deal with it. A creator named Julian Dorey — episode 375 of his show — laid out what it’s actually been like to be born Gen Z. Not what older generations think it’s been like. … Read more
There’s a particular kind of irony that follows Gen X around, and it’s worth sitting with for a minute. We’re the generation that complains about social media toxicity, algorithmic outrage, everyone-has-a-platform chaos — and we’re also the generation that built most of it. Not in a bragging way. In a quietly-showed-up-and-did-the-work way that turned out … Read more
There’s something strange happening to Gen X men right now, and most of us aren’t talking about it out loud. We were raised in an analog world, trained for a stable one, and now we’re operating in something that looks nothing like either. The formula was supposed to be simple — learn a trade, get … Read more
The story of Montego Powers has circulated on college football message boards for more than twenty-five years, often as a half-remembered fragment that loses accuracy with every retelling. My name appears in some versions, disappears in others, and is often replaced by a simplified explanation that treats the entire situation as an early internet prank … Read more