rant · moment 21 of 21
Closing Riff: Rubes, Hucksters, and Sign Off
from The Pilot! · #15
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1 minTim 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.
- 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.