rant · moment 9 of 10
Shouting Out Instagram Fans and Long Island's Decline
from Thoughtless Animal · #42
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
7 minTim shouts out various Instagram followers and fans (some possibly fake/FBI), then launches into a long riff about Long Island's aging population, decaying towns like East Meadow, his old junkie-landlord's son, doing comedy shows at the old Pilgrim State mental institution, and his mother's mental health decline.
- 45:59Listeners from Long Island messaged about hanging out and doing a live podcast from the island.
- 46:17Tim notes Long Island is looking haggard and worn down when visiting recently.
- 46:30When an area bottoms out, it's got nowhere to go but up.
- 46:52Millions of people under 30 have left Long Island; now more residents are over 55 than under that age.
- 47:03Long Island is becoming like an old age home, unlike Florida which attracts retirees with better weather.
- 47:43Tim lived in a basement for a while where the landlord's son, a former junkie, would intimidate him about rent.
- 48:28Tim's landlord's father was an 85-year-old stamp collector who ran mental health prisons on Long Island.
- 48:49Pilgrim State was a huge mental institution; Tim shot a movie in its rubble but couldn't get gap financing.
- 49:22Tim performed comedy shows at Pilgrim State for patients and rehab clients on Sunday afternoons.
- 50:18Some people have chemical imbalances early on while others, like his mother, develop them later in life after being eccentric and odd.
- 51:12Tim thinks stress and life structure play a role in mental health outcomes, more than predetermined fate.
Long IslandPilgrim StateLev Polikov