Get Off My Lawn - 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!
Get Off My Lawn - The Mad Ramblings of a Gen X-er
Killer Ostrich Dinosaur, Free Grocery Stores, & 7 Million Angry Empty Nesters
Start with a sharp laugh and end with a sharper pencil—that’s the ride. We open on the “No Kings” protests and ask the one question that keeps getting dodged: what exactly makes a leader a “king,” and where’s the proof? The more we push for a concrete example, the more the answers dissolve into vibes. That gap matters, because movements that can’t define their claims can’t measure their wins, and policy built on fog tends to become expensive fast.
From there, we move into the meat: pandemic-era health subsidies that were sold as temporary relief and the renewed push to make them permanent. We walk through how enhanced ACA tax credits ripple through budgets, what it means for deficits, and how emergency rooms became choke points under overlapping pressures. The debate isn’t compassion versus cruelty—it’s compassion plus math. Someone pays, either now through taxes or later through inflation, service cuts, or interest.
New York becomes the case study. “Free” buses priced at hundreds of millions a year sound great until you stack them against an already strained budget and a mobile tax base. Add proposals to tax high earners and businesses, and you can almost hear the migration engine warming up. We unpack how costs shift to consumers, how growth stalls when capital flees, and why durable equity depends on productivity, clean procurement, and predictable rules—not just catchy promises.
To keep it human, we swerve into a wildly uneven movie night with Primitive War. It starts strong, collapses into “killer ostrich dinosaur” territory, then sprints to a glossy finale. That arc becomes a metaphor for governance: the trailer isn’t the policy, the middle act is where execution wins or fails. And because curiosity should trump cynicism, we close with USO sightings—footage, claims, and the old Orson Welles panic echoing into today’s oceans. We don’t hand you certainty; we hand you a better set of questions.
If you’re tired of slogans and hungry for specifics—with a few hard laughs along the way—hit play, share with a friend, and tell us where you stand. Subscribe, leave a quick review, and drop your sharpest counterpoint; we’ll read the best ones on the show.
#Aliens #heathcare #Satire
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_02:You don't know when I'm on. I told you when I'm too old, I'm too tired of the body. If I would have been out of walls five years ago, I'd take a five to all of this point.
SPEAKER_00:Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
SPEAKER_02:You want answers? I think that's the title. You want the through.
SPEAKER_01:Wanna talk about a lot of things today? Wanna talk about Obamacare and the uh soaring prices in reference to premiums and increases of healthcare since that debacle of a law that was passed back in the Obama era? Wanna talk about space aliens from the sea? That sounds like a bad horror movie. Also, want to talk about a really bad horror movie I just saw the other day called Primitive War. Oh dear lord. Also, want to talk about the No Kings. We won't. When do we want No Kings? When do we want it? Now okay, well, you got it. So you can stop fucking protesting. I've always shown and I've always kind of pointed out recently that if you take a look at the demographic of the No Kings protests, it's kind of weird because all I really see, and all you see the people really talk to outside of the nuts that are the Antifa idiots that are that I'm gonna wear all black and cry for anarchy, but then if I get arrested, I'm gonna go cry to mommy. But if you take a look at the crowd itself, and I keep saying this, it's older white women. White women in their 40s, and I love it because they did a study. They, they, they, they went out and they and they somehow, I don't know, somehow they looked at all this, looked at the demographics, and I guess they did a couple surveys. But it's one of these things that you look at it, and yes, they're saying that the majority of the protesters are educated white women, excuse me, educated white women in their late 40s. It's almost like it's a therapy for them. I've got I am an empty nester. What do you want? No kings. When do we want it? No. Um, but to me, it seems like they're just a bunch of empty nesters that have nothing better to fucking do. They talk about the thousands of the peoples that were drawn to these protests. There were seven million worldwide, and I think there's a lot more than seven million people in the world. Axios was the first to report this. Then the American University also tracked the protests and also started tracking the demographics. And they're seeing the same thing. It's just older white women, and to me, like I said, it's a segment of the community that's just craving attention. They're kind of lost. And when you go out and you listen to them speak, it's the idiocy of their thought process that really shocks you because these are supposed to be educated women. It's like, and I love it because it's always the same thing. Well, Donald Trump is a king. Okay, what has he done that made makes him a king? Well, there's so many things he has done. Okay, name one of them. There's too many to name. Okay, well, just give me one example. You're gaslighting me. No, I'm not gaslighting. I'm asking you to give me an example of one thing that he's done as a king. I just, there's just so numerous. You need to educate yourself. And then they get mad and walk away. Now, some of these protesters, some of the with during some of these interviews I talked to them, they equate the No Kings movement with the civil rights movement. This is how delirious. I love it because you, it's all old white women. This is the civil rights movement for old white women. What do we want? Menopause. When do we want it? Now they just seem to be so unhappy in their lives. That's the only thing I can think of. They're so unhappy in their life. They're so unhappy with their husband, maybe with their children, maybe with their career choices, maybe, maybe just with the direction of their lives. That that they they they go out there and and and they just make up these idiot statements. It's like they just want to be involved in something. I like one of the protesters say they want us to be violent. That was Claudia Schultz. And she at the time was wearing an inflatable pig costume. You can't get anywhere unless there's violence. Well, I thought the civil rights movement was, you know, a non-violent movement. Uh, you know, I didn't grow up in the 60s. I wasn't born until the late early 70s, but um, I thought it was a non-violent movement. I'm just I'm just I'm just throw I'm just throwing that out there. But I'm telling you, these protesters, these protesters are something. They are literally something else. So the lockdown is continuing. The rhetoric from the left is just getting more and more crazy. This lockdown, if you if you really want to spell it out, is really that the they're they're trying the Democrats are trying to hold the entire country hostage over these, over these subsidies or over these, whatever you want to refer to them as, that were included in the last the last Biden bill in reference to the American Rescue Act, where we gave out subsidies for health care. These were supposed to be temporary subsidies, but now they want to make them basically permanent, and they're fighting for legislation in a lockout. That's how that's that's what I don't understand these. And there are segments, you could people will tell you the same thing. There's there's nothing in these segments that says that illegal immigrants can get health care. Well, no, that's not right because there's basically in the entire section basically stating that illegal immigrants, if they go to a hospital, which is why our emergency rooms were flooded during the heyday of the of the of the Biden era, because of the fact that they would basically get free health care if they went to a hospital. So the emergency rooms were flooded for extended periods of time. You there was points in times you could during the highlight of the bomb, the Biden administration, you could not even go to an emergency room. It was not possible because it was so packed. I remember once having to take my wife there, and there it was so filled. I I even told her, and I'm not, I wasn't trying to be racist, I even told her, I really think and I really feel that I am in a third world country because nobody here speaks any English. And no one wants to talk about health provision 78, section 2141, which is part of their Democrats continuing resolution, which basically says that we have to basically it proposes to be repeal Medicare and other healthcare spending reductions from 2025's budget rec reconciliation, which basically is going to save us like$1.1 trillion over 10 years. And they want to repeal that. They want to take that was something that was passed into law, a bill that was passed into law, and repeal it by going out there and holding the government hostage. The resolution will permanently extend the enhanced tax credits in the Affordable Care Act. So basically, they want to re-add back$1.1 trillion onto the deficit. These are were not meant to sit there and say, okay, we need to have this every single day. No, that this this was supposed to be an aid to those suffering during the lockdowns of the pandemic. But now they want to take these and say, oh, okay. We want to make this shit permanent. And we want to make sure that, and I love it because you ask a Democrat, so you're saying that you want illegal immigrants to have healthcare. No, I'm not saying that, but I'm saying it is humane for all humans to have health care. And I love how they phrase that. I love how they I love how they phrase it. And I also love they also want to extend some types of healthcare programs to to to, of course, they say to to minorities. But then they also basically are also talking about the fact that they just basically want to give health care to everyone. They want to, they want to take something that we had already passed as a law and they want to repeal it by holding the government hostage. And yes, this is about healthcare for illegal immigrants. Let's just spell it out. We don't want to spell it out because we are heading towards in certain segment segments of this country into a socialist agenda. You got the Zolhan in New York. The Zolhan has dual citizens. I love this. I love this because everyone loves the young crowd loves loves him. He's got dual citizenship, the Zolhan. New York, I mean not New York, the United States, and Uganda. And I love it because Uganda, there is a law where you're allowed to kill homosexuals. So the champion of the champion of the underclass, the champion of the homosexual population, the LBGQ 14 to the 19th power community, has dual citizenships in a country where killing a homosexual is legal in Uganda. Do you think that he has renounced his citizenship of Uganda? No. This is a guy that's never worked. I loved it because during the debates they said he has a napkin resume, which is true. He worked for mommy, he's done nothing else, he's he's rich, but he's gonna come in here and he's gonna give you all these free things by taxing the wealthy. I'm gonna tax, I'm gonna add two more percent onto the people that are already playing paying more than 50% of their wages in taxes to the state of New York. And then I'm going, if you do business in the state of New York, you don't have to take corporate headquarters, I'm gonna tax you. So the mayor, the governor Kelly Holcomb says, Whoa, whoa, whoa, dude, slow your fucking role. You can't do these things. She basically came out and said she's not gonna allow this to happen, and you can't do these things. But don't worry, he's gonna go forward with it. He he's only he's the mayor of New York, so he's gonna do all these things that he needs to be passed over in Albany. But don't worry, he's gonna have free grocery store. And I love it because the free busing, well, you know what we need to have, we need to have free busing. Okay, how much does free busing cost a year? Only 700 million to a billion dollars a year. So, New York, who is running at a deficit, budget deficit by like a million, like a billion dollars. And Trump already says, I'm not fucking bailing you out, dude. I he's told Holcomb, he's told, I'm not bailing you out if you do this stupid shit. So the company this this we're running out of deficit, and I love it because of the fact that when you take a look at this, it's like, well, it's it's only gonna cost 700 million to a billion dollars a year to run the free buses. But it's gonna be better for the general citizen because we're taxing the rich the rich. Have I made any money like most people have done already? In New York, you leave. You go to Florida, you go to Texas, you go to place, you go to a place with no state income tax. And to think that you're gonna tax this, this is this is not just socialism, this is communism. The fact that you are just gonna tax people for doing business in the state of New York is it's such lunacy. And I love it because it's no longer about paying the for for the liberal left for years, it's always you have to pay your fair share, pay your fair share. It's no longer about that. Now it's just taxing the wealthy. Because I always bring up the fact that almost 48% of this country does not pay income tax, does not pay federal tax, they get they get money back. And it was something, I I forget what it was, it's something I have to look up the percentage for the next pod, but it was something like 8% of the entire country pays like 70% of the entire country's tax bill. But don't worry, like 48% of the country, they get a refund, they don't pay taxes. They basically don't pay taxes. But you middle class Americans, you dummies, you upper middle class Americans, you morons, you need to pay more share. You need to pay more. Because you know what's gonna happen if you tax these millionaires or these alleged millionaires or these companies, they're just gonna pass on the increase to the consumer. But don't worry. You know what we're gonna have? We're gonna have government-run grocery stores. Worked well in Detroit, worked well in the former Soviet Union. I want Yankee blue jeans. Worked well in Venezuela. And I always love it. You ask people where has socialism worked, and they and they point out these kinds, well, China. That's not socialism, that's communism. Vietnam, again, that's not socialism, that's communism. Figure that shit out. I watched, I also want to get uh two things I want to get to. I want to get to Aliens in the Sea, but I gotta talk about this movie I saw the other day. It's called Primitive Wars. It was, it was, it's a action horror, sci-fi movie that came over from Australia. Jeremy Pivins from PCU and the Ultra Rollers fame is in this flick. And I gotta tell you this. You see the trailer, you see the preview, and you're like, okay, this shit looks pretty good. And I was I was hanging out with one of my kids, and we were like, eh, let's watch a movie. And he's like, Oh, let's do dinosaurs. I said, great. I said, we can learn about Vietnam and learn about dinosaurs all at the same time. So I spend the$9.99 rental fee on iTunes, and the first five minutes of the movie, it's actually pretty good. The CGI was pretty good. And I'm watching this flick and I'm watching this movie. I'm like, all right, this isn't bad. But then there's a scene where they have this giant feather. So evidently there is a killer ostrich dinosaur. I I'm gonna say that slowly again. A killer ostrich dinosaur. So as the movie progresses, though, the acting is horrid. The the there it there is no sustainable plot, and they just kind of skip over things. But all of a sudden, you get about 30 minutes into the movie and you're watching the movie, and the dinosaurs start shifting. You're looking at them, you're like, okay, the CGI is getting slightly worse. And then by, and this is a two-hour and seven-minute movie, like 40 minutes into the movie, you are like, okay, this is probably now there are different levels of CGI and different levels of film in my mind. You have you have like the Jurassic Park, the beginning of this movie was below Jurassic Park, and then you have asylum films, which puts out all the you know, death meteor stories, you know, Earth 1597, the heat wave, you know, they put out all those fucking films and all the horror films. So then to me, there's CGI below asylum. So when this started out, the movie, it was it was just uh it was below Jurassic Park, but above asylum. By 40 minutes into the movie, it was like four levels of shit below asylum films. There was a CGI scene where all the dinosaurs are congregating together with elephants, and I looked at the elephant and I said, That is probably the worst fucking CGI elephant I've seen in history of my life. You couldn't rent an elephant for an hour. Then literally, it's like somebody drew a dinosaur on a piece of paper, and you got the people run, we're trying to get away from the dinosaurs. It's like, oh no, it's a dinosaur, and then all of a sudden it's like someone just went across the screen with this piece of paper and went raw. That's literally how bad the CGI was. It's like someone just took a high hand-drolled dinosaur, forgot the sound effects, and someone from the boom bike crew just went, rah. And then you get to the end of the movie. So then the CGI picks up. So evidently they had move, they had money from the beginning of the movie, and they had money for the end of the movie. So the CGI picks up again. And it was okay. And then there's this climactic scene when they're when they're battling the dinosaurs and they're surrounded by their helicopters. Now, first of all, you at some points in time they had real helicopters, and you could see that. And then when the CGI helicopter rolled around, you're like, oh dear lord, again, could you not spend a dollar fifty and rent the helicopter for another hour? So they're fighting the dinosaurs around these alligators. Jeremy Pivens is going out like a boss, or go, he didn't, I'm not gonna say if he died or didn't die, but he's he's fighting like a boss. And then all of a sudden, they just now these dinosaurs are gonna take over and rule the world and kill everyone. All of a sudden, they just kind of get in the helicopters and leave. And you're sitting there and you're like, what the fuck is going on here? They're just talking about that. Dinosaurs are gonna do this and take over the world and they have to stop them. It's like, all right, we're done. We're leaving. Maybe it's for a sequel. I've already talked to my friend and I. We're gonna, we're gonna write what we're gonna refer to as PW2. That's Primal War II. Jeremy Pibins, it was Jeremy Pibbins, the whole thing with Jeremy Pibbons was a cocktease. He was in it for like, he I've said this before, he was like Charlton Heston in Beneath the Planet of the Apes. He was in it for the first three minutes, and then he was gone, and then he came back for the last three minutes. And you could basically tell that now, listen, Mike, the the older actor Michael Cain, Jules for fame, I like to refer to it beyond the Poseidon Adventure, some some terrible movies in the 70s and the 80s. He basically did movies at one point in time, especially in the late 70s and early 80s, for paychecks for vacations. And he talks about it, he goes, That's what you know, that was the movie, but I did it for a paycheck. I did it to I did it for a free vacation to Antigua, and you can tell that's what he was doing. So to me, Jeremy Pibbs must must know his career must be in the crapper because he took the check for this movie. And I've already told people for PW2, I'm gonna call him back up and give him a bigger role because I all I can only assume that he that he took this role because he needs money, which means he's gonna fucking talk to anybody. So, which means probably more than likely he's gonna talk to me. We have Halloween coming up. I used to live in New Jersey, uh, not too far from Grover's Mill Pond. And Grover's Mill Pond, of course, was the setting for War of the Worlds, the Orson Wells broadcast in the 40s, which caused mass panic about an alien invasion. And it was funny because you hear the stories that people didn't know it was, it was it was uh it was just a radio broadcast, it was just drama, and especially the people in Grover's Mills. They talk about how they went out with their shotguns, and there was a there is still is, I believe, the famous tower that people saw, and they've probably seen this tower a million times, but they went out and started shooting at the tower at the windmill tower in Grover's Mill. And that was a story and speculation for years whether it was more of a government cover-up. Oh, everything's a government cover up. Listen, I'm not this, I'm not a guy into uh into conspiracy theories. I'm my wife is, I got a lot of friends are, but you know, they all said that the Orson Wells broadcast was a government cover-up from an actual alien invasion. Well, now there's a popular app that reports UFOs and records their sightings. Now, evidently they have recorded thousands of sightings of unidentified submersible objects or USOs near U.S. waterways. A phenomenon which now has high-ranking naval officials could warn a threat to national security. Now, we had the drones in New Jersey that we didn't know what they were, and we we speculated, and there was so much drama behind it. But then it turned out just recently, someone a company came out and said, Yeah, we were we were secretly testing drones. So there was no conspiracy there. But now the U.S. government's come out and saying, oh no, there are there are these underwater drones. There's this phenomenon. So reportedly this lap claims they received over 30,000 unidentified flying objects and unidentified anomaly phenomenon since it launched in 2022. But the sightings haven't been just limited to the skies. Oh no. With reports coming about strange objects rising from the depths of the sea are plunging into water without making even a splash. And I'm watching this map and I'm like, and they have all these thousands of sightings. There was um, there was 386 of these OSUs in California, there was three or six in Florida, but among the top three states that have the most occult, this these are the states that basically, of course, have the most coastline. I just would like to know how are people seeing these? How are you how are you out? And and again, they don't give you any speculation, they don't tell you about it, they just say this. Oh yeah, it happens. Now, people will talk back in 2019. The USS Omaha recorded a UFO UAP that vanished into the ocean without a trace after buzzing a naval fleet off the coast of San Diego. There is a video. The incident was verified by the Pentagon. And they talked about, of course, how this jeopardized not the government, but how the the the UFO enthusiasts, how this jeopardizes U.S. maritime security and also weakened our relative ignorance about the global ocean. Oh God. You know what? I've said this once, I've said this before. Aliens are smart, allegedly. I don't know if they are or not, because I've I've never met one. But when you live in this world and this type of stupidity, there they're why would an alien, I mean, literally, why would an alien want to come here? They land and go, you know what? Especially if they landed in a No Kings rally, they're gonna be like, okay, there's no intelligent life here. Oh, it's just the world we win in. But don't worry, things will don't worry, things will get better. And as always, the truth should always set you free. This time it's got my lawn. The Mad Ram's of a Gen Xer. And I'm out of here.