rant · moment 8 of 10
The Potato Bread Delivery Job Fight and Rehab Friend Emily
from Who's Gonna Fix Our Lives · #16
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6 minTim and Ray argue over whose job was harder (tour guide vs. potato bread delivery), then Tim tells the story of running into his old drug friend Emily, now skeletal and just out of rehab, reflecting on addiction and lost friends from his youth.
- 44:29Tim insists it was his job, not an interest, to cut bodies in the morgue during downtime.
- 45:40Ray and Tim got in a fight last night arguing over whose job was shittier—tour guide versus potato bread delivery.
- 46:15Tim mocks the potato bread delivery job, comparing it to Russian gymnasts pushing their bodies to the limit.
- 47:07At his doctor's office, Tim encounters Emily, a former drug-using friend who's now skeletal at 115 pounds after rehab at Cfield.
- 47:38Emily complains that nobody goes out in their town anymore and that the kids are pussies, while her terrified daughter watches.
- 48:06Tim reflects that so much of life really is your decisions, noting he escaped addiction while most people he ran with didn't.
- 48:17Comedy was the one drug that didn't kill him right away—it's a slow burn that kills your soul instead.
- 48:47Tim describes hanging out as a kid with groups putting money on blunts, grabbing pills and forties, looking for places to get high.
- 49:08They'd hang out at the booth in the train station and behind Jack's pizzeria, smoking in the spots around his town.
- 49:38Tim and his friend Shay would panic when a green Ford Taurus turned the corner, thinking it was his friend's mother, only to find out it was a Chinese delivery guy with the same car.
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