Get Off My Lawn - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er

NO KINGS! 7 Million People Protested Nothing, & Teddy Ruxpin Won’t Turn Off - GEN X Urban Legends

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Ever hear a crowd chant against a problem that doesn’t exist? We wade into a “No Kings Day” rally where the signs are loud, the claims are louder, and the facts are on mute. From monarchy talk in a republic to fast-and-loose definitions of fascism, we press on specifics, test assumptions, and map the rhetorical detours people take when passion outruns proof. It’s not just about scoring points; it’s about showing how questions, timelines, and definitions turn noise into something you can think with.

Then we flip the flashlight toward Gen X Halloween legends, the ones parents used to whisper at the door. Turns out a few weren’t just late-night scares. Poisoned candy? A 1974 cyanide murder warped an entire October. The babysitter with the calls coming from inside the house? A 1950 case echoes through the trope. Real corpses as props on set, Detroit’s Devil’s Night fires lighting up the sky, and a Teddy Ruxpin that kept talking after the batteries were pulled—each story proves how a single hard fact can seed decades of folklore.

Across protests and ghost stories, the theme is the same: stories guide behavior, for better and worse. Outrage can organize. Myths can protect. But both go wrong when they drift from evidence. We keep the tone sharp, the questions pointed, and the payoffs real, so you walk away with a clearer lens—on politics that confuse and legends that still haunt. If you’re ready for a wild swing from street interviews to spooky receipts, hit play and bring your curiosity.

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SPEAKER_12:

What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered irrational fun. Everyone in this room is now dumb for having listened to it.

SPEAKER_11:

You don't know when I'm on this Mr. Press. I told you, but I'm too old, Susan. I'm too tired. I'm too fucking blazed. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a fine throw to this place.

SPEAKER_13:

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

SPEAKER_16:

You want answers? I think I'm entitled. You want answers. I brought the truth. You can't handle the truth. We've said it once, we've said it before, we've said it a million times the truth. So pretty just gonna spell up my law on the mad ramblers of a Gen X, but we want to talk about No Kings Day!

SPEAKER_17:

Thank God they had it because I checked, and there's still no kings. We also want to get into a little bit Gen X Halloween legends, which kinda are actually true. Interesting. I know that's interesting to say the least. But let's talk about No Kings. It was it was such a day of protest, it was such a day of of community and togetherness, where nearly seven million people worldwide is the estimate that came together to support no kings. First of all, seven million people worldwide, that's not a lot. How many people are in the world? And seven million people worldwide came together. I love the left, and I love the idiocy of the left. I love their thought process. We don't want any kings, we're having no kings whatsoever. Well, good, because we don't have kings. There's a fundamental problem with your with your no-king process because we don't have any. We don't have a king, we haven't had a king here since we got rid of King George. But these morons are out protesting. But what you know, and the worst part is we had so we had so much video of it. What the fuck are they actually protesting? And listening to them tell you what they're protesting is even crazier than the fact that they're protesting no kings because none of these idiots have any clue or idea what the fudge they're talking about.

SPEAKER_04:

What has President Trump done to make him a monarch?

SPEAKER_07:

Uh he started to take control and do illegal things and that are not within his uh power. So that's pretty much what makes a person a monarch. They take complete control even though they shouldn't have it.

SPEAKER_04:

What illegal things has he done?

SPEAKER_07:

Come here. What illegal things? Everything that he has done except for um get elected. Every single thing since he's gotten into office.

SPEAKER_04:

So deporting illegal immigrants?

SPEAKER_17:

So I I had to stop the clip for a minute. So he's a king, he's the monarch, but he got elected.

SPEAKER_04:

Is that illegal?

SPEAKER_07:

Deporting illegal immigrants if they're here peacefully, yes.

SPEAKER_04:

If they're illegally here though, if they came illegally?

SPEAKER_07:

If he can't they came here illegally? I believe we're a country that stands for Lady Liberty. It said, give me your tired, your um, give me everybody.

SPEAKER_17:

I love it. Uh I'm I'm from Lady Liberty, and they say these things like give me your tired, um, and like other stuff. So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go with that.

SPEAKER_07:

Can possibly bring into the United States, and it doesn't say ship them back out. It says welcome.

SPEAKER_04:

Awesome. Any other issues, any issues in particular that you really disagree with Trump on?

SPEAKER_07:

No, because you're just baiting me. Have a nice day.

SPEAKER_17:

I love it because these always these people always you're just baiting me. No, we're asking questions that you have a philosophical difference against, but you can't answer the questions because if you did, you would make yourself even look more stupid. Now, I like I said, I gotta play a bunch of these clips because I love this guy. This this is this this guy, this is another guy. This is a guy in Florida from one of these No Kings protests. You have to listen to the to this liberal logic.

SPEAKER_02:

Your ID is racist, yeah. Like, should you need an ID to vote? No, I don't think so. No. Is it racist that CVS asked you for an ID to buy Sudafed?

SPEAKER_03:

Well, I think that there are certain people that should not be allowed to buy Sudafed, so I think it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_02:

So it's more important that you use an ID to buy Sudafed, but not to vote for the person that runs this country.

SPEAKER_03:

I'm not exactly sure.

SPEAKER_17:

I I love it. I'm not exactly sure about that because uh this guy is dressed up as a playing card and he's a king, but he's not exactly sure what what what what we should do with that because you're you're making logical sense. These are people that have these, and I love it, these are all majority of these people are all white baby boomers that have nothing else to do besides protest a person that's actually trying to protect their social security, trying to protect their Medicaid, trying to protect their Medicare, trying to keep it solvent. But that's okay. But here is a younger protester at the Philadelphia protest. What brings you out here?

SPEAKER_05:

Rising fascism, lack of health care, billions being poured into uh ice without any accountability. 175 U.S. citizens have been arrested so far.

SPEAKER_17:

Uh uh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. A whole hundred and seventy-five U.S. citizens have been arrested? That's fucking that number that number's huge.

SPEAKER_05:

For you, there's much more.

SPEAKER_04:

Can I ask you one more question? What is fascism?

SPEAKER_05:

Well, if you look historically, when a government no longer follows the will of the people, that is a large part of fascism.

SPEAKER_17:

I would direct you so some of the follow the don't follow the will of the people, but he was elected and won the popular vote, Trump did.

SPEAKER_05:

Really good literature on the topic.

SPEAKER_04:

Can you define it?

SPEAKER_17:

Trump won the popular vote. I mean, yeah, and I love it because it's like, and then she I love it because everyone's response is I'm just gonna walk away. Because you're trying to bait me. No, we're trying to have a conversation with you, but you are so fucking stupid, you have no clue what you're talking about. Now, I love this guy. This this is a guy. We're gonna play this whole one-minute clip. This is another protester over in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, of course, is the hotbed of um uh uh of intellect. There's a glow coming from Philadelphia, and it's not coming from the zombies in Kensington. It's coming from these, these, these liberal intellects that just just they just blow your mind with their logic.

SPEAKER_13:

What is the main reason you're out here today? What do you say? I feel like the current Trump administration, administration that we are paying taxes for, that our taxes are not going in the direction that our taxes should be used for, such as health care, home care for elderly people, other such things as like helpful ideas that should be used, our taxpayer dollars should not be used for creating wars. Or now Trump what about the the the wars that that Trump has stopped? Uh, which one was that? Well, he stopped the war in Palestine, right? No, he did not. That has been going on for millions of years, and multiple entities have been involved.

SPEAKER_17:

That's just the last thing you can Of course, these wars have been going on for millions of years. Luckily, it wasn't one billion years. Now wait a minute, it's called in a US game. I thought you were a US citizen. That you were upset. You are a U.S. citizen, so in a US game, why were you referring to a game in US almost in the third person? Oh, because you're protesting, you have no clue what you're protesting about, and you're not a U.S. citizen.

SPEAKER_13:

Trump did not at all make any peace deals with anyone. All Trump has done is make money for himself, his family, and his grift.

SPEAKER_17:

It sounds pretty bad, but again, there's no explanation. There's I have to walk away from you because of the fact that you're gonna ask me a question to make sense. And we can't have that. We have another protester that we have to get. We have another new King's protest. I love that. Like I said, I woke up again now, woke up early at 6 o'clock this morning. It is now 7 43 a.m. And there's still no Kings mission accomplished.

SPEAKER_04:

How is Trump unprepared to handle the problems that the country has?

SPEAKER_17:

And do you think like Joe Biden or somebody else was more prepared or well in Joe Biden's specific case, I will say that he has 40 years of history serving his country, most of which he's got 40 years of history ripping off his fucking country, which we have detailed information about how he profited from being vice president and profited and his family profit. Listen, when you set up 11 LLCs under a family to move money around, and there is no functioning product or there's no service rendered, and the LLC is just to move money, it's called money laundering.

SPEAKER_04:

Did he allow 10.8 million illegal immigrants into the country, though?

SPEAKER_15:

Um, I don't know. That may be true, that may not be true, but he I but but again, I am part of the liberal left.

SPEAKER_17:

I don't need logic, I don't need to have information, I don't need to have any of this logic or information validated, I just need passion. Is even if that were true, no, he was the first president to allow it to happen.

SPEAKER_15:

True. Is that enough to make fifty Republican senators bow down in front of someone who wants to simply uh gather up power to do more ill? It it doesn't make sense. If that was the biggest problem we had in this country, we'd be in good shape. I don't think that's the biggest problem. I don't even think that's in the top ten.

SPEAKER_01:

Are you crazy? Or just plain stupid.

SPEAKER_00:

Stupid is stupid does mis blue.

SPEAKER_17:

Oh, and again, the majority of these people are baby boomers. Evidently, they they are baby boomers or empty nesters, they have no fucking clue what to do with their life, so we're just gonna go out and protest fascism. Ugh, there's we can't define fascism, we can't define anything that we're talking about, but you know what? We're against it.

SPEAKER_06:

Why are you supporting people who are taking away voting rights who are gerrymandering? Charlie Kirk wanted that, right?

SPEAKER_18:

Taking away people's voting rights? Like Charlie Kirk, all he did was sign people up to vote. He gave so many young people the right to vote.

SPEAKER_06:

Young white people, that's right. So young white people, right?

SPEAKER_18:

What are you talking about? That's not true at all. Him and Candace Owens were very tight. I don't I I don't think at the end they were.

SPEAKER_17:

I'm gonna give you a hint. Candace Owens is black. I'm just throwing that out there. I'm not sure she knows this. I'm I'm just throwing this out there.

SPEAKER_18:

But I'm like, Candace is one of his closest friends. What are you talking about? Like they were trying to get young black men and women signed up to vote. That's that's just not true. Don't think so.

SPEAKER_17:

So you're just unawares? I don't think so. Because I have no proof, I have no logic, but I don't think that's true.

SPEAKER_18:

Like, do you know who Candace Owens is? Yes. They have Blexit, that's part of TP USA. Blexit is all about having young black people part of the conservative movement. So that totally defeats what you just said.

SPEAKER_16:

No? Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained?

SPEAKER_17:

Oh, I I uh Maximus Desmusperidius. I know that I'm entertained. I can play these all day long, but I want to just do one more because I want to get into the other topic that I had today that I want to talk about. Uh that's of course is gonna be Gen X Halloween legends that are actually true. And some of these I remember, and some of these you you kind of freak out about. But here we go. We got one more time. I think we're I think this time we're in in the excuse me, in the No Kings protest in Florida.

SPEAKER_08:

We're out here at the No Kings protest and we're asking all important questions. Such as if Trump was elected, how exactly is he a king? Um, because he is trying to take control of everything.

SPEAKER_13:

Like What the hell are we supposed to do, you moron?

SPEAKER_08:

The his checks and balances are not working.

SPEAKER_17:

So he is just trying to like the checks and balances like aren't working. And uh when I went to the bank and I checked my balance, it was zero. So that wasn't working.

SPEAKER_08:

Um I I feel like a lot of amendments have been kind of overcome.

SPEAKER_00:

What is it?

SPEAKER_08:

Like in a way that they're not supposed to be which amendment specifically? Um It's like the First Amendment.

SPEAKER_17:

Well, what's the first amendment? Uh it's like checks and balances.

SPEAKER_14:

Take away freedom of protesting. I would say that it's because even though he was elected, I agree, you know, due process. He got what he, you know, he got elected fairly, sure. But he's doing things that make him a king. Like he's taking away, you know, civil rights.

SPEAKER_00:

I got news for you, pal. You ain't leaving but two things right now. Jack and shit. Jack left town.

SPEAKER_07:

I don't particularly think he's a king.

SPEAKER_17:

Now, this is a woman that is wearing a fuck Trump the King shirt, but she doesn't think he's a king.

SPEAKER_07:

People are doing that.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh actively switching levers of power and versus appropriations.

SPEAKER_07:

And what does that mean? Uh things such as uh now.

SPEAKER_17:

This is a guy wearing stilts dressed as Donald Trump, so you know he's someone that we need to listen to. I have trouble coming up with words because of the fact that I can't think of anything. Hmm.

unknown:

Remain calm. Always calm.

SPEAKER_17:

These are the these are the future leaders, some of these people, because some of these are young people. These are the future leaders and the future leaders of idiocy. It's amazing that they protest, they have the they have this passion, but the problem is with their passion becomes the fact that they have zero logic. I I there there's just something, there's just something very wrong here.

SPEAKER_01:

There's just something IQs just dropped sharply while I was away.

SPEAKER_17:

Ripley, I wasn't even away and I think IQs dropped sharply, but I want to talk about one of those things that you'd never want to talk about. It's Halloween legends that Gen Xers had to grow up with. There are movies that are made out of these legends, but the problem is a lot of these legends are actually true. You heard stories, you heard whispers, you you you heard innuendos about these stories from the 70s through the early 90s. They were used to scare children to do certain things or not to do certain things. And you you you you you you didn't want to go in the mirror and say bloody Mary, bloody Mary. But these are things that are actually steeped in truth. First one I want to talk about is the poison Halloween candies. Always heard the legend of strangers will hand out poison candy or candies with razor blades in them. Oh, don't eat that Snickers box. They might have a razor blade in it. Make sure your parents check all your candies. Well, that story, that legend, is actually steeped in truth. In 1974, Ronald O'Brien from Texans, Texas, excuse me, Texas, poisoned his own kid, his own eight-year-old, with pixie sticks that were laced with cyanide. And he did this to collect the insurance policy on his kid. He blamed, of course, the random neighbor. It was that random neighbor in House 476. The story spread nationwide, and for decades, it created this Halloween paranoia. Now, I will not, I will say there were probably other instances because there are crazy fucking people out there for the last over the last 30 years. But this is the origin of the story of the poisoned Halloween candy. So while it it is the urban legend, there again, it is steeped in Halloween truth.

SPEAKER_10:

What I got to say, you really don't want to hear because honesty ain't too high up on your people priority list, right?

SPEAKER_17:

Honesty? You want honesty? Well, honesty, we're gonna go with another great story. The babysitter. Oh, there's a man in the house. We saw the movie about it. The phone rings. You sit there and you hear, I'm in the house. Oh, and of course the babysitter freaks out all these creepy calls because they're in they're they're in the house. They're in the house. How could how could that pop? How could oh, what do we got? We got something going on here. We got we got music coming in, and I'm not even ready to call a quit yet. So, you know what? We're gonna let that music play for a second because it's gonna it's gonna go away real quick. But you have the babysitter in the house. You get that creepy phone call, classic Halloween movie made about it. Well, the problem is with that classic story, it's actually true. It was inspired by a story of 1950 by the murder of Janet Christman, or Christman, I'm sorry. She was a 13-year-old babysitter in Columbia, Missouri. She was attacked while watching a couple children. The police found the phone off the hook, the case was never solved, and for years it fueled generations' fears of the babysitter and somebody in the house. The phone rings and there's somebody in the house. And I love it because it's 1950. So it's not like you have multiple phone lines in the house. That's that's one of the things with this story that always confused and befuddled me. That you you literally had you would have to have two phone lines in the house to call from the house. Unless, of course, you're using a cell phone, but in 1950, they didn't have cell phones. There's also the story, that spooky story, of corpses actually being used as Halloween decorations, dead bodies mistaken for a Halloween prop. Oh, oh, don't go over there. Now, you know what's you know what I do find is interesting in the early 90s, um, especially in cinema and movies when they, you know, when you made movies, a lot of times, especially in horror movies, the skeletons you see in horror movies, and I and I go back to the movie Return of the Night of the Living Dead, they are actual skeletons. It turned out, especially in the early 90s, it was cheaper to buy skeletons directly from India and use them in films instead of using these plaster recreations that were so expensive to make. So, in some ways, right off the bat, the urban legend is true, but in 1976, on the set of the six million dollar man, the crew discovered a funhouse dummy that they were using. What was actually the mummified body of Elmer McCready, an outlaw who died in 1911. How that happens, don't I don't even want to know. There's also stories and rumors, not stories, but there's actually uh stories and uh police reports of multiple people who died by suicide outdoors while hanging themselves during the Halloween season, which were mistaken as props. That's kind of fucked up. Don't go to that house because I have a feeling there might be some razor blades in that candy. Ho! Oh, I'm gonna try to think what else. Um one of my favorites. One of my favorites is the hitchhiking ghost. We have a story here in Pennsylvania about this road with that as this ghost that wanders the road. She she is a uh she is a young woman or a young girl uh dressed in a gown, probably from an evening frock from the 1900s from the 1800s, that can be seen on certain roads on certain nights leading up to Halloween. There's a legend that we see this this this this go this ghost. Well, the legend actually is kind of steeped in a little bit of truth. It's a story, of course, of a young woman in white who hitches rides near a cemetery, then vanishes. The truth that this legend also has come out of is is in 19 uh I think it was the 1930s, in Chicago, Resurrection Mary became one of the most documented ghost legends in America. And it has been since 1930. Dozens of drivers have reported nearly identical encounters along Archer Avenue near Resurrection Cemetery, with police and eyewitnesses consistently saying the same chilling aspects. So once again, we have another we have another legend steeped in truth. One of my favorite movies is The Crow with Brandon Lee. R.I.P. Brandon Lee. And in Brandon Lee, they had what they referred to as Devil's Night. And it was in the movie, it was a big thing that was, you know, you have the night before Halloween is mischief night. Or the night before Halloween in this movie was Devil's Night, where they burned everything to the ground. Where they burned that was the whole thing of Devil's Night. We set everything on fire. Now a lot of people laughed and a lot of people scoffed at this, but from 1970s through the early 90s, arson fire spiked every October 30th in Detroit. Sometimes hundreds, hundreds in a single night, which is then was known as Devil's Night. So that frightening urban legend that us Gen Xers grew up with was actually true and documented. The last one I want to talk about is, of course, the curse or possession or possessed or possessed toys. A lot of times you have toys that, you know, we we've said we've all seen Chucky. Chucky, hell, Chucky even got married. You got the bride of Chucky. But there's always been those legends and stories of dolls and toys that move or talk on their own. That they're possessed. But in 1980, or in the 1980s, there was a spooky story about a Teddy Ruxpin. Now, first of all, if you know Teddy Ruxpin, Teddy Ruxpin is spooky enough as it fucking is. Teddy Ruxpin was this animatronic doll, of course, that you put a tape in and you play it and he talked to you. Well, there's a story that somehow this Teddy Ruxpin started to speak. Even after his batteries were removed. It was still speaking with no batteries. And this is actually a proven legend. And I love it because of the fact that this freaked the family out so much. Of course, there was a Teddy Ruxman investigation, and it turned out there was a circuit glitch that still maintained some type, somehow still maintained some type of power. This was verified by the makers of Teddy Ruxman. And the glitch allowed Teddy Ruxpin to still continue to work even with the batteries removed. There was a recall of these dolls as well, because of the fact there was there was a period of time where the Teddy Ruxpin voice changed. So again, it's about that evil possession of dolls and the changing voice. But this was again, this was a manufacturer malfunction, freaked kids out, but you know what? It went, it, it, it, it was just or was it a myth and a mystery. Oh, we got another lot of big shows coming out this week, so make sure you stay in tune for it. And as always, don't forget to like, don't forget to follow the channel, give that five-star review. And this is Tim. This is Get Off My Lawn, the Matter Realms of Gen Xer. And I'm out of here.