Occult Digression, Prince Philip, and the Great British Bake Off

• 19:28Secret societies were mostly just rituals to captivate people's minds, like the Catholic Church's big steeples.
• 19:53Some secret societies were just chambers of commerce for making contacts, or fronts for people's sexual appetites and affairs.
• 20:27Tim describes what a secret society merchant meeting might sound like—trading in spices, carpets, saffron, and organizing orgies.
• 20:54Back in the day you had almost no entertainment—barely any books or kindles—so intellectual guys wrapped themselves in occult stuff to do at night.
• 21:26Tim tried getting into Aleister Crowley but then realized some people promoting it were just crank art teachers at City College.
• 21:50Tim got an email from an MIT guy he thinks might be interesting for the show, though he doesn't know if he'll come on.
• 22:08Two kids in an Uber after Tim's Boston show looked exactly like what Tim would imagine tech or intelligence kids to look like—swimmers' build, shaved heads, good-looking.
• 22:31Tim was eating a chocolate bomb from Bova's bakery in the front seat while the two silent kids sat in back, covered in ganache and cake.
• 23:20The two kids just stared at Tim eating the pastry and asked to be let out, then Tim joked to the Uber driver about whether they might have killed him.
• 24:27The two MIT kids weren't interested in hearing Tim's take on The Great British Bake Off.
• 24:41Mary Berry, one of the judges on The Great British Bake Off, seems drunk all the time and walks around funny.
• 25:03In the UK when you tell people you don't drink they look at you like you're psychotic.
• 25:39Prince Philip married into the royal family and isn't the king—he's just a powerless man living in Buckingham Palace.
• 26:01Tim argues Prince Philip is a powerless loser living in a windowless room in Buckingham Palace with no control over anything.
• 26:28Tim was promised an industrial fan in his room but they never put it in, comparing his situation to Prince Philip's powerlessness.

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