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Nicknames, Getting Caught High by His Mom, and Bud the Boat-Wrecking Family Friend
from The Pilot! · #15
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3 minTim recounts childhood nicknames, getting busted coked-out at 3am by his schizophrenic mother repeating 'drug addicts, alcoholics,' and pays tribute to family friend Bud Munster, who crashed two boats with Tim aboard and told him he didn't care if he lived or died.
- 45:56Bud Munster was an import-export guy who never worked a traditional job.
- 46:08Tim survived two boating accidents with Bud, the first throwing them onto a marsh.
- 46:21After crashing into a bridge piling, Bud told Tim he should stop hanging out with him because Bud doesn't care if he lives or dies.
- 46:44Long Island gin mills on the water represented a dying culture of guys who learned one way to live in the 70s and 80s.
- 46:57Those guys lived on drinking, partying, and cash—never had more than 500 dollars in their account.
- 47:48Tim argues that a guy carved out from belief in that lifestyle is very profitable but fragile in modern times.
- 48:05Such men live in fear that one mistake will destroy everything, pushing them into the woods running around.
- 48:40Tim claims successful people in comedy succeed because they can look at things many different ways, unlike people who need tunnel vision.
- 49:14A good friend of Tim and Ray's is James Baker's granddaughter.