San Antonio Comedy Club Grind and the Langoliers Comparison

• 10:38The Alamo moved a block away and Tim didn't bother going inside because of the line.
• 10:59Tim doesn't care about the Alamo because too many people died there.
• 11:29Tim treats historical tragedies like Pearl Harbor with indifference if he has other things to do.
• 11:43Tim considers whether the Alamo might be a false flag operation.
• 12:05Dallas conventions moved to cheaper San Antonio because Dallas got too expensive.
• 12:38The San Antonio Comedy Club sits on the third floor of a mall with broken escalators and one hard-to-find elevator.
• 13:19Tim compares San Antonio's nothingness to Stephen King's The Langoliers, a movie about a plane landing in a tasteless, echofree version of the past.
• 14:05San Antonio feels like people walking around an outdoor mall confused, with no culture holding it together.
• 15:01People from San Antonio look confused when asked where they're from, as if they don't realize they're in San Antonio.
• 15:21Dragging information out of San Antonio residents confirms nobody has a strong opinion about the city.
• 15:46A 40-year-old feature comedian selling beer koozies at a mall comedy club for 15 people is what comedy looks like outside major markets.
• 16:18Comedy Central gets 400 half-hour submissions from people in major cities with real chances, but also from people doing comedy for the first time.
• 16:47People submit tapes for specials without questioning if they're good enough, driven by the belief that life is a contest to be won.
• 17:32Tim argues that some people get opportunities without putting in years of backbreaking work, and nothing evens out in the end.
• 18:18Tim notes that the guys who did 9-11 didn't get away with it, transitioning to upcoming 9-11 material.

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