rant · moment 14 of 18
Egging Houses with Johnny Manx and the Death of Real Halloween
from A Time Gone By with H. Foley & Kevin Ryan | The Tim Dillon Show #364 · #364
7 min
Tim recounts his coming-of-age Halloween Mischief Night with cool kids egging houses and using shaving cream, contrasts it with the sanitized modern 'Trunk or Treat' phenomenon, and laments that kids no longer go door to door.
- Tim's first Halloween as an older kid—throwing eggs with cool kids like Johnny Manx, feeling like he was growing up and starring in a movie.
- Trunk or Treat has replaced traditional trick-or-treating, with families decorating car trunks in parking lots during the daytime.
- Tim would rather his kids be kidnapped than attend Trunk or Treat, calling it corny and insane.
- Halloween requires a passage from costumes to a sweatshirt and pillowcase, a life-changing moment that can't happen at Trunk or Treat.
- As a teenager, Tim decided to be a bad one—stealing, doing drugs, and using every substance available to make himself happy.
- Modern drugs are too intense and kill kids before they can experience the kind of fun experimentation Tim's generation had.
- Psychedelics at seventeen or eighteen, acquired through a process and effort, were formative and part of growing up.
- A lot of people don't emotionally grow up anymore, even with apartments and money, because technology has flattened everyone and moved formative experiences online.
- Learning about yourself by disappearing into the suburban night with friends was how real growth happened.
Oil CityJohnny ManxPat McCreaAlfred Kinsey