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In the final installment of My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting, the paper trail leads through trusts, lawsuits, coal deals, and family silence. From post-prison ventures to the overdose that changed everything, this episode explores the long shadow of white-collar crime and what it leaves behind. A story about cousins, collapse, and the cost of never telling the truth out loud.

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Some stories don’t end with a conviction. They just go quiet. And that’s where this one begins.

In this follow-up to My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting, I go deeper into one family’s brush with the Savings and Loan scandal. This episode isn’t just about the crimes that sent my uncle to federal prison in the late 1990s. It’s about the unanswered questions that came afterward.

While cleaning out my grandfather’s house, I found three matchbooks tucked away in an old travel box. One from the Grand Cayman Hyatt. One from the Hilton International in Zurich. One from the Amsterdam Hilton. Not exactly standard destinations for a small-town Texas bookkeeper. But very familiar names if you know anything about offshore finance in the 1980s.

This episode explores a hypothetical but highly plausible theory about hidden assets, offshore havens, trusts, and what happens when someone becomes a non-person long enough for their past to cool down. It’s not an accusation. It’s an examination of patterns, incentives, and the way white collar crime often fades quietly instead of ending cleanly.

The story blends investigative storytelling, eighties nostalgia, forensic accounting, and the particular Gen-X humor that comes from growing up on Ferris Bueller, the Beastie Boys, and Gordon Gekko energy. There’s curiosity here, but also discomfort. The kind that comes from realizing how close these systems can get to ordinary families.

If you’re drawn to true crime, family secrets, financial intrigue, and stories where the most interesting part is what was never fully explained, this chapter is for you.

Sometimes the question isn’t where the money went.
It’s who waited long enough for everyone to stop asking.

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This episode sits at the foundation of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind. It’s not about diagnosis. It’s about the environment that shaped one. If you’ve come here for the ADHD, ASD, or chosen-family episodes, this is the backstory that makes them make sense.

I was nine years old.
Suddenly surrounded by wealth.
And something felt off.

In this episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind, I tell the true story behind My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting. It begins with a Detroit kid raised on BMX bikes, MTV, and pop-culture rebels, and then drops him into the middle of 1980s Texas wealth during the height of the Savings and Loan era.

Overnight, I went from watching Silver Spoons and Dallas on TV to standing in driveways with real Mercedes, jet skis, private planes, and adults who talked loud about Jesus while quietly bending the rules. My uncle lived big. He talked smooth. Money seemed to appear out of thin air. Even as a kid, I could tell something didn’t add up.

As an adult, I came to understand what I was witnessing. Land flips. Inflated appraisals. Shell companies. Trusts and proxies. A textbook case of white-collar crime wrapped in piety and respectability. When the system finally collapsed, the legal consequences came late and incompletely. The damage to the family came fast and lasted for decades.

This isn’t a story about nostalgia or crime trivia. It’s about growing up rich-adjacent inside moral contradiction. About how greed, charm, and intelligence without ethics leave collateral damage behind. About what it does to kids when adults treat the rules like a game.

It’s also how those early contradictions shaped my voice, my skepticism, my dark humor, and my instinct to notice the cracks beneath polished surfaces.

This is a Gen-X story about money, faith, family mythology, and learning early that not everyone who looks blessed is playing fair.

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There’s a bright orange wristband sitting on my desk.

“Entering moshing area is at your own risk.”

I’ve seen Metallica live fifteen times. From Texas Stadium in 1992 to Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, two rounds of Summer Sanitarium in the brutal Texas heat, a New Year’s Eve flight to Detroit for Y2K, and eventually into the photo pit at Ozzfest with press credentials.

This episode isn’t just about a band.

It’s about friendship.
It’s about growing up Gen-X in the effort era, when seeing a concert required money, travel, and commitment.
It’s about the friends you stand next to in the front row — and sometimes run into again in a crowd of 50,000 nearly twenty years later.

It’s about Jerry.
It’s about Aaron.
It’s about becoming the person you were going to be.

Before streaming. Before social media. Before everything was available instantly.

Nothing Else Matters.

…For the fans.

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Today would have been my dad’s 86th birthday.

In this short bonus episode, I share a few memories from our basement on Brookline Street. N-gauge trains. A stool next to the layout. The first piece of gear he trusted me to operate. And the day I ignored his warning and shattered the rear hatch glass on my ’87 Blazer.

My dad believed in encouragement. He warned you when you were heading for disaster. Then he let you learn the lesson.

This one’s about mentorship, responsibility, and the quiet strength of a steady man.

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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 mastery, and how to recognize moments that mattered before anyone labeled them as history. BMX media pioneers like Windy Osborn, Mike Daily, Mark Eaton, Eddie Roman and Spike Jonze were the true inspirations for where I eventually went in my career.

Standing in a field in Oklahoma in 1993 at Mat Hoffman’s ramp, camera in hand, it finally clicked. BMX wasn’t just something I rode. It was the reason I studied journalism. The reason radio felt natural. The reason TV and media production didn’t intimidate me.

This episode is about roots. About knowing where you came from. And about how a teenage obsession with BMX quietly shaped a lifetime in media.

If you rode, you’ll recognize this story.
If you didn’t, you’ll understand why it still matters.

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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 time.
The promotions grind.
The old-guard engineers.
The pressure to impress the chief.
The shows, the voices, and the culture that made people stick around long after the math stopped making sense.

This isn’t a polished radio essay.
It’s a firsthand memory from inside the building.

If you worked at The Ticket, or listened closely back then, you’ll recognize this immediately.

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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 parent lose independence, and how the center of moral authority in a family can quietly shift when a strong voice fades.

I also explore how my relationship with my father existed separately from the rest of my family, how his absence exposed long-standing dynamics, and why shared DNA alone does not always guarantee lasting connection.

This is a story about masculinity, dignity, and inheritance. About fear that hums quietly for decades. And about what remains when the man who taught you how to stand is finally gone.

Themes include anticipatory grief, aging parents, family systems, neurodivergence, mental health, and navigating loss in midlife.

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