Steve Patterson - Gen Xpat

Men having the conversation most of us are having in our heads but not out loud.

Free Will Burning is an unscripted podcast with my brother Troy Patterson. Two guys born in 1966 — heavy metal lifers, working-class background, both liver transplant survivors — talking honestly about Gen X adaptation and where we actually ended up.

I left the US. I live in Colombia now. Troy never got his passport. That gap, and everything it represents, is what this channel is about.

Identity. Memory. Music. Fear. The country we grew up in versus the one we're standing in now.

A channel that's half memory and half evidence. Where truth shows up in worn boots and bad timing. These stories aren't instructions. They are reconstructions. And none of it's fake.