F*ck Your Sensitivity - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
"This is the true story of a Gen X-er picked to do a podcast and give his personal views on Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more, So find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. - ‘Get Of My Lawn’ As we grow into an ever changing world and new Generations are born, only one stays the same with their distain for all others - ‘Gen X’. We survived riding bikes without helmets, No cell phones, understanding you go home when the street lights go on. We lived through Hair Metal and watched the birth of Grunge. We witnessed ‘Two’ Bush’s become President (That’s what she said.) and the First African American take office. We watched in horror as the Towers fell and rejoiced at the Socialize Digital Age. (‘The Internet’ - Sorry Al you didn’t invent it.)But all in all, We lived our lives with the understanding that playing it safe is not the way to go through your existence. As the world is facing more turmoil than we have every seen before and as we witness a clear division of our Society a voice of ‘reason’ and ‘sanity’ needs to be heard. To bad that ain’t me … Hear me ramble daily about everything from Pop Culture, Politics, Sports, News and more and get the clear as ‘Mud’ perspective of this Rambling Gen X-er. Enjoy!
F*ck Your Sensitivity - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
Dems get on the Omnibus & Why this Holiday Classic is REALLY F*cked up!
Politics rarely hands us clean answers, and the bills keep coming due. We open with the hard numbers behind healthcare promises—family premiums that climbed across the last decade, subsidies that eased out-of-pocket pain while shifting more weight onto taxpayers, and a shutdown standoff where a clean CR collided with demands to extend tax credits. Crossing the aisle without guarantees sparks a fresh round of blame, but the real question lingers: who pays, and what did the launch promises miss? If you’ve ever stared at your healthcare statement and felt gaslit by slogans, you’ll find plenty to underline here.
From there, we pivot to another kind of turbulence: mass flight cancellations and a holiday classic that isn’t as cozy as memory suggests. Planes, Trains and Automobiles looks different once you watch the deleted scenes. Susan’s clipped replies and cold distance turn into a full narrative about suspicion, marriage, and a test of trust. The final embrace reads less like pure sentiment and more like relief that a feared affair never existed. Del’s backstory deepens too, moving from lovable wanderer to a man defined by loss, rumor, and rootlessness. When those scenes return, the movie stops being just a road comedy and becomes a story about grief, doubt, and how kindness can be both genuine and transactional.
That’s the thread tying policy to pop culture: remove context and you can still enjoy the surface, but you risk misunderstanding the stakes. Whether it’s a family budget or a favorite film, honesty requires us to look at what got cut and who carried the cost. We wrap with a rebrand and a renewed cadence—more episodes, more receipts, and fewer polite fictions. If you value clear arguments, uncomfortable truths, and a fresh lens on the familiar, you’re in the right feed.
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What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational fun. Everyone in this room is now dumb for having listened to it.
SPEAKER_00:You don't know when I'm on this price. I told you when I'm too old, I'm too fine with the water. If I would have been out of walls five years ago, I'd take a five throat of this place.
SPEAKER_01:Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
SPEAKER_03:You want answers? I think I'm the title. You want answers. Wanna talk about the You get on the bus, we get on the bus, we all get on the omnibus. The Dems starting to fracture in reference to the shutdown, which is now 40 days long. And we also want to talk about that holiday classic: planes, trains, and automobiles, and how if you break down the movie itself and the deleted scenes and the original intention of the film, that holiday classic is kind of well fucked up. Oh, but let's get to the Democrats first. The Democrats now have crossed the line with certain uh Republicans, or all the Republicans. You might say they caved a little to a path to reopening the government. Several Democrats, of course, crossed the picking line despite getting no guarantees on the Obamacare subsidies. I want to talk about Obamacare a second because Obamacare is just a fucking mess and a wreck. And anyone that saw this bill and saw what it was going to be and knew when it was passed, we're not even going to get into the fact that they also took the student loan market and basically blew it up and made it a government run. We're not even going to get into that, but I want to get into some of the Obama lies.
SPEAKER_02:It will actually reduce the deficit by$4 trillion over the long term. Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan. It will slow the growth of healthcare costs for our families, our businesses, and our government. There will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize.
SPEAKER_03:Well, none of that fucking happened. And don't forget, you can keep your own doctor. You like your doctor, you can keep them. You're gonna save$2,500. The average family is gonna save$2,500 a year. Well, we just got our healthcare premium and it actually went up about$1,700. I can't blame the companies because of the fact that they're only passing along the cost because there's almost, there's only so much a company can incur in regards to paying out medical. It's been a disaster. We we talked about it last week in reference to how if you if you take a look at the chart, and the chart basically shows, and we've talked about this before, that there's been from 2013 pre-Obamacare, the without subsidies, with an open marketplace, average families were spending about$2,300. Average family. That's usually saying a family of three for the year,$2,300. That was in 14. And excuse me,$13, before. In$14, premiums jumped up 64%, excuse me, 68.4% to over 4,000. Then in 17, they jumped up to 6,000. In 18, they jumped up to 8,000. They leveled off until about 2024 when they jumped up to 10,000. And now in 2026, they're estimated to be over$10,000 a year for a family of three earning twice the poverty above the prop poverty level. And if you and if you take a look at it, the taxpayer share for these premiums and for these people on Obamacare, the enrollee in 2026 will only pay 19.7%. The taxpayer share for the soaring cost of these premiums will be 80.3% next year in 2026. So all these people are worrying, they're complaining that these COVID credits, which came into existence in 2021 and ran through 2025, only really counted as a percentage of maybe you're taking a look at maybe about 8%, 9% of the total cost. 80% is still going to be paid by the taxpayer. And like I said before, we talked about the soaring premiums, 19.7% is only going to be paid by the enrollee. And that's when the subsidies expire. Now remember, this these subsidies were not put in place by the Republicans because Republicans had nothing to do with this. These dates, these end dates had nothing to do with the Republicans. Because of the fact that the Republicans had nothing to do with these bills in reference to Obamacare or the last big COVID bill that was passed in 2021, which had these subsidies that were supposed to expire. So the Democrats, in their own stupidity, in their own mind, think okay, well, we need to blame the Republicans for all this because of the fact that we are the ones that did this. So eight senators cross, eight Democratic senators cross the aisle getting no guarantees on the subsidies, which which they shouldn't, which they shouldn't whatsoever. You should not be fighting legislation through a budget reconciliation or a budget. I shouldn't say reconciliation. I should say clean CR. Senator King of Maine said it best says the question was: does the shutdown further the goal of achieving some support for extensions on tax credit? Our judgment was no, it would not produce that result. And the evidence for that is almost seven weeks of fruitless attempts to make it happen. Now, Senator Schumer, who was trying to bow down to the radical left side of his base and hold off AOC as a as a challenge to his throne, which would be great because she is a fucking moron wrapped in her riddle. He panned the compromise and charged that when Republicans rejected it, their own counterproposal that he extended, that they extend this, excuse me, the expiring the expiring subsidies for a year. They showed they're against any health care reform, he said. Ooh. Oh. The Democrats really make my fucking head hurt when they're not in power. I thought when they were in power, my head hurt because they just do stupid things. But they just do even stupider things when they're not in power. They're putting the they're putting the onence on the American people in reference to the shutdown and trying to blame the Democrats, excuse me, the Republicans, who just wanted a clean CR. They didn't want to add all these things in. They just wanted a clean CR. They didn't want to all of a sudden re-extend all these things that were cut out of the big beautiful bill that made no sense that the government should be paying for so that we can have continue to have big government. It's just, it's it's an enigma wrapped in a riddle. Let's hope that we get this fixed. Nearly 1,600 flights were canceled, over a thousand delays as of Monday morning, according to the FAA, and that's because of the shortages in reference to uh air traffic controllers. And I love it because that kind of leads me into my next uh topic because planes, trains, and automobiles, John Kennedy, Steve Mountain. It was one of those films that you know you kind of loved. It's a hollow, it's people say it's a holiday classic. You know, it's that travel film, it's kind of it's not a buddy film because they're not really friends. They become friends, of course, at the end of the film. It's not like I'm gonna spoil something for a uh you know, 40-year-old film, but there is a darkness to this movie. There really is, and it's a darkness that people don't understand and don't see because the fact that there are so many missing scenes that kind of change the whole dynamic of the film of the entire film. There, there is there there is something that has always bothered me about this film for years. Now, it's not just about Neil and Dell, you know, and their travels, it was the whole thing with Neil's wife, Mrs. Page. And I couldn't figure it out. And I actually got to watch the deleted scenes, and so now it makes sense to me. So Mrs. Page is always, I always thought she had this aloofness to her, this air about her that just didn't make sense. And also she just seemed kind of bitchy. You know, at the one point in scene, one point in time in the scene where they're in Wichita, and um Dale calls, I'm excuse me, uh Neil calls home, and the wife is like, um what is what does a snowstorm in Chicago have to do with Wichita? And it's like, honey, you don't understand it. And you should know this because your husband evidently travels that if it snows in one area, your flight has to get diverted to another area. And she had this this this ominous sense of sadness throughout the entire in the entire film. Almost like there was something going on with Neil. And then, of course, there's a wife named Susan, like there was something going on that she wasn't buying the whole story about Dell. Well, as it turned out, if you watch the deleted scenes, and it's interesting because Susan Page to me was extremely passive-aggressive and makes kind of these weird offhand comments up to Neil. And it just seems like she's pissed off all the time. But if you watch the deleted scenes, it turns out that Susan Page thinks that that Neil is cheating on her. And he's cheating on her with a woman named Dell. And it's kind of weird because, and there was another scene that they don't show where she literally has a conversation with her mother saying that she is leaving. Now, this is happening during the Christmas, excuse me, Thanksgiving holiday. This is happening as this guy is busting his ass to get home. She has a conversation with her mother saying that she's thinking about leaving Neil. So if Neil shows up at home, now the whole story is that you know he's he is he is he is doing everything that he can to get home. He's with Dell. So the whole thought process is in Susan's mind, the the wife, Susan Page, that if he shows up alone, Neil, at home without Dell, then he is she is going to leave him. This is an ambush waiting to happen. This this is literally, you you saw this whole thing with Del and Thanksgiving dinner as a true act of selfishness and kindness. It's not that. It's the fact that if Del doesn't show up, and Neil doesn't know this, if Del doesn't show up, the bitch is leaving him. She's gonna divorce him. It's really kind of weird. And there's that whole scene at the end where where Susan introduces herself to Del. And there's this this long hug, and there's this there with uh excuse me, with Neil, and there's there's this cute little smile, like everything is alright, like like she is not going to leave him now because he was telling the truth the whole time that he would that Del isn't a woman and Neil wasn't having an affair. And I and I'm thinking about this, going this is kind of fucked up. I'm watching it, going, uh really. So this whole time, and you kind of knew there was this distance between between Neil and Susan, and you you kind of kind of got you kind of got stuck in your head that you didn't understand why. But now when you watch the deleted scenes, it makes a hell of a lot of sense that Susan Page, who had been passively aggressive the entire film, and like I said, makes these kind of weird offhand comments, is thinking the fact that she is going to leave her husband on Thanksgiving because he is having an affair with a woman named Dell. And then there's another scene that was taken out where Susan and her mother again, where Susan kind of lays this all out. This whole this whole thought process about how Del is how how Neil is cheating on her. And go and lays out her whole thought process. And then she is not buying that Neil is hanging out with some random guy trying to get home. And that he has to clear this situation up, or she is leaving him. She is leaving him, and that's when they have another conversation where she comes back and says, not only is she gonna leave him, she is gonna divorce him. So this act of kindness for the Thanksgiving, the wife is laying in wait to ambush Neil. It started to make sense now because it didn't make sense before. Then there's the whole Del Griffin story with his wife, Marie. That she had passed away eight years earlier, and that um that Del doesn't Del doesn't have a home. Which I didn't understand for eight years that he's always traveling. He's always traveling. He's he's never in one place, he doesn't have a home anymore. He must have had a home at one point in time with Marie, but now he no longer has he no longer has a home. And there are there are so many different, we'll say, fan opinions on this. And I I went down that rabbit hole, and I probably shouldn't have gone down the rabbit hole, but I did. I went down the rabbit hole. I went down the rabbit hole, and the rabbit hole is a scary place. There are some fan ideology saying that Dell killed Marie, that he murdered her, and that he went to jail for eight years and had just got out and gotten his job back. There's another fan thought process that, of course, that she passed away from cancer, and that Dell went into such a deep depression that after Marie passed away, that he burned down his entire house, or has burned down his house. So that's why he doesn't have a home. It's funny because there are over, and that's it, it's a tough watch. And I did watch the whole thing. I I was lucky enough to get the have the ability to watch the whole thing. There it's a tough watch. There's over 75 minutes of deleted scenes in planes, trains, and automobiles. How they cut this down to where it should be, I got no clue. I got no clue whatsoever. But there are 75 minutes of deleted scenes. I don't know if it's out on Blu-ray yet. I actually got a copy from a friend who uh who let me borrow it. And because I I did what I wanted to do this week. I wanted to do a I wanted to do a show about playing strains and automobiles because it was one of those holiday classics, but then I'm looking at it going, there's there's there's a darkness to it. There's a there's a darkness to it, there's there's a fucked upness to it, if that's a that's a new word, fucked up atness. Uh but and and I couldn't ever figure out why. But now I know why. Dell killed his wife and burned down his house, and Neil's wife, Susan, was gonna divorce him because she thought Neil was cheating on her with a with a woman named Dell. It starts making a lot more sense if you think about it. Not really. Uh, I wanted to talk briefly talk about the name change. We we have been get off my lawn, the mad ramblings of a Gen Xer for about a year and a half now, a couple a couple years now, because we haven't we have not done the shows in in any type of consecutive format for years, but we're gonna try to get into doing that now, and we're gonna push it. We're gonna go with a full schedule in um 2026. We're gonna do a minimum of two shows a week. Um, so we're working with some other people, and they've decided, and I kind of agree with them because of my attitude, because of my personality, because of the fact that I like to wear my hat and my shirt and my mug that says fuck your sensitivity, that we should change the name to Fuck Your Sensitivity, the Mad Ramblings of a Gen Xer. So you can now find us on YouTube, Rumble, every other place that you find podcasts under Fuck Your Sensitivity, the Mad Ramblings of a Gen Xer. I want to hope everyone stays along on board with the show because it's gonna be the same great content, the same great generational perspective that we love doing over and over again. And and like I said, I hope everyone stays on board. Make sure if you if you're following on YouTube, make sure you like and subscribe. Same thing on Rumble, make sure you follow us on Rumble. And again, if you find us on any place that podcasts are available, make sure you leave a five-star review and give us a thumbs up. And as always, the truth show I such as free. This is Tim, also known as Get Off My Lawn. Now, fuck your sensitivity. Bad Ramblings of Gen Xer, and I'm out of here.