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Quitting Smoking and the Old Car Ride Days

from Little Anna Army · #39

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3 min

Tim and Ray discuss quitting smoking and reminisce about driving around with no heat in a crashed car, living on burritos and cigarettes during a tough period.

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  • 47:13Tim claims he quit smoking a week ago.
  • 47:32Driving home with nothing chill, career slightly better but nothing really changed—that's why the podcast works, same as those old car rides where everything was falling apart.
  • 47:50Smoking a cigarette at a drive-thru waiting for food is the ultimate level of giving up on life.
  • 48:05After crashing his car head-on in dead winter, no heat in the vehicle except from burritos and cigarette smoke.
  • 48:17The gas station stop on Northern State where he'd get a crawler, trying to remember which one exactly.
  • 48:37Those days were a real tough existence, but now things are great—doesn't even have a car anymore.
  • 48:49Doesn't feel like he's having the Brooklyn experience living there.
  • 49:06Every day someone from the industry tells him to get out, but in the nicest possible way—compliments him then kicks him out like a dog.
  • 49:36Calls his manager after being thrown out and asks how he's doing.
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