Send us a text If you’ve ever worked in media, broadcast, production, or any industry that quietly automated itself out from under its own workforce, this one will feel very familiar. This episode is a re-visit of a long, candid conversation I recorded years ago with my old radio pal, Psycho Dave Martin. It’s an unfiltered look at what it was really like working behind the scenes in radio as the industry shrank, automated, and quietly pushed people out. We talk about remote gigs, bruised egos...
Send us a text This episode is my media origin story. I grew up in an analog world where music and media still had gatekeepers. MTV broke artists. Radio decided what you heard. Recording studios were expensive, and working in media was a profession you trained for, studied, and slowly earned your way into. Then everything changed. In this episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind, I trace my path from high school journalism and tech theater, to radio, to early streaming at Yahoo, and into today’...
Send us a text 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, host George Ten Eyck introduces the perspective behind the show. He looks back at growing up Gen X, learning to adapt without instructions, and spending decades working inside media systems during massive cultural and technological change. From early exposure to computers and the internet to a career in radio, live broad...
Send us a text At five o’clock on a Sunday morning, I woke up to a sound I never wanted to hear again. A wet, rattling breath that signaled real trouble and sent us rushing to the ER. What followed felt like living inside a real life episode of The Pitt. This episode tells the story of that morning, the chaos of the emergency room, and the calm that took over when panic would have made things worse. It is also about advocacy and how sharing the full story can change a diagnosis. A lifelong he...
Send us a text This episode is the true story of how modern streaming took shape inside a beat-up warehouse in Deep Ellum and how a corporate layoff pushed me into the most important reset of my life. I take you back to the early days of AudioNet and Broadcast dot com, the forgotten brilliance of Chris Jaeb, the Cuban takeover, and the crazy aftermath when the dot com bubble collapsed and all those overnight millionaires discovered how fast money can disappear. I share what it was really like...
Send us a text 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 James Hetfield walk into rehab in Some Kind of Monster and realizing even the strongest guy in the room can ask for help. That documentary cracked something open in me. It made me think maybe I could stop pretending ever...
Send us a text In this follow-up to My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting, I take you deeper into the shadows of one family’s brush with the Savings and Loan scandal. This episode is not just about the crimes that sent my uncle to federal prison in the late 90s. It is about the quieter mystery that came after. When I was cleaning out my grandfather’s house, I found two matchbooks in an old travel box. One was from the Grand Cayman Hyatt and one was from the Hilton Internat...
Send us a text 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 posted photos, shared milestones, and looked like he had everything figured out. Then I disappeared. No warnings. No explanations. Just gone. Well, here is the deal. This episode is the real story. The whole story. From a childhood shaped by a traumatic brain injury and undiagnosed autism, to years of masking, to the culture shock of leavi...
Send us a text Just how did Dave Martin come to be called Psycho Dave?
Send us a text George and Keith discuss the evolution and rise of mental wellness and neurodiversity in the workplace and in society at large
Send us a text In the mid-1980s I was a quiet autistic kid trying to make sense of a world that seemed obsessed with nuclear war, the Reagan era, and the Second Coming. Fourth grade turned into a bizarre blend of fear, faith, and confusion as I tried to interpret rules no one ever explained. Decades later, I can finally see why everything felt so intense. This episode is part nostalgia, part diagnosis, and part ‘What were we even doing back then?’
Send us a text 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.
Send us a text “The Rich Kids at Church” I grew up around people who prayed hard, hustled harder, and occasionally crossed lines the federal government cared about. This episode looks at how that shaped me, how BMX and rock music kept me sane, and why I eventually had to make sense of the contradictions.
Send us a text A whispered journey for a heart learning to trust again
Send us a text The pilot sleep story! Long time no podcast! Bear with me. Trying something a little different. This one is special. Just for you Babe. Relax, Enjoy.
Send us a text In our pilot episode we sit down for a 20 year catch up with the great Keith Andrews, long time Dallas broadcaster and voice actor. We'll talk about Keith's origins in the radio business, lasting three decades in the business and what it takes to stay relevant in the digital age. There's still so much to be gleaned from the century old industry that is broadcast radio. Connecting with audiences and telling compelling stories are forms of art that transcend devices and generatio...