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Vine Stars and a CIA/Nixon Tangent
from Bribes and Bruschetta · #19
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2 minA brief tangent about Vine influencers being forced off the platform and monetizing elsewhere, followed by a quick joke riff about the CIA wanting Nixon out.
- 56:18Tim's travel preferences: beaches over Europe's churches and ruins, just wants to read Danielle Steel.
- 56:57Oyster Bay connection — Tim's aunt and uncle live there, and he worked for a corrupt boss from the area.
- 57:13Town supervisor John Venditto implicated in the scheme — Tim notes the name itself sounds suspect.
- 57:28The defendant wears a fancy watch and got new hardwood floors while pleading not guilty.
- 57:42Tim compares current corruption to historical New York figures like the Genoveses and Leavies, then shifts to Trump's appointees.
- 57:52Giuliani made his reputation stopping stop-and-frisk arrests of Black men, then took credit for 9-11 by sending fire trucks to Ground Zero.
Rudy GiulianiJohn VendittoDonald TrumpOyster BayMike PenceWildwood