Teachers are saints, 7th grade was a prison, and the 80s were the golden years.

In this high-octane episode of The Gen-x-istentialists, Bunny and Scot put Mega Wheel the Magnificent in the corner and run a rapid-fire gauntlet through the scandals and sub-cultures of our youth. They tackle the "Evil Empires" of sports, why the Cold War made life simpler, and why Bunny still has a cantankerous bone to pick with Margaret Thatcher.

Inside the rants:

• The Cartoon Wars: Why Scooby-Doo went off the rails after Scrappy, and why the Smurfs are quintessentially 80s.
• The Burden of Knowing: A deep dive into why sharing knowledge with "developmentally unreachable" kids is a burden, and a tribute to the teachers who survived our junior high years ...