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Closing Riff: Rubes, Hucksters, and Sign Off

from The Pilot! · #15

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Tim wraps with a riff on New Yorkers being rubes who deserve to get ripped off, thanks Dana and Ray, and signs off encouraging listeners to embrace hucksters like his father.

In this bit4 moments
  • 1:00:35George Clooney putting it all on red because some guy said you're an idiot — you're a rube, basically watching The Price Is Right.
  • 1:00:51New York takeaway Chinese food is bad, but complaining about it makes you a rube — there's a lot of stuff in the city designed to rip off and beat over the head the naive.
  • 1:01:05Tim identifies what he's describing as egoism, which is what liberals hate because they hate nature and the ecosystem.
  • 1:01:19If you see a huckster, go buy something from him and listen to his story — that's all he's got, and he's probably Tim's father.
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