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Defending the Russ Baker Episode and Getting Kicked Out of a Wake
from Little Anna Army · #39
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4 minTim defends the Russ Baker conspiracy episode against criticism, then tells the story of accidentally attending a wake at the house of a comedian he'd insulted on the show, leading to being asked to leave.
- 14:12Tim defends the Russ Baker episode as substantive and recommends listeners read the original article first.
- 15:12Russ Baker didn't come on the show to speculate wildly—Tim and the guest actually asked him to make things up for the bit.
- 15:51Tim was asked to leave a wake because of something he said on the podcast.
- 16:25He described a woman who attended negatively on a past episode, which led to her family kicking him out at a funeral in Montreal.
- 16:42Tim went to his uncle's wake—a folk singer from the Irish traveler side of the family he doesn't know well.
- 17:04Tim's family splits into two Irish types: ultra-liberal Brooklyn Irish with names like Oona and Seamus, versus Americanized, wealthy, alcoholic Irish.
- 17:31His father always calls with the same line when any Irish relative dies: 'She had a hard life.'
- 17:49At his grandfather's brother's wake, the family claimed he was a poet and had written poems nobody knew about.
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