Interview · moment 8 of 15
Ray's Vomiting-at-a-Work-Event Confession
from You Can't Have Everything · #50
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5 minGuest
Ray admits to drinking wine and beer at a Vice work event, vomiting on himself outside, being found by police, and undercutting Tim's point about authenticity and grit with his own embarrassing story.
- 25:50Ray was sitting down and vomiting a little bit at a work event.
- 26:09Tim asks what kind of work party it was and why Ray chose to get intoxicated on a half day.
- 26:38Ray explains that weed combined with drinking would make him pass out and vomit.
- 27:10It took a half hour before people noticed Ray passed out and covered in vomit outside.
- 27:41Tim was making a point about formative experiences that shape you and shouldn't all be online.
- 28:15Tim pivots to his own story about blowing someone in a pay-by-the-hour motel room with a guy training to be a firefighter.
- 28:42Tim contrasts modern gay dating apps with the Craigslist era when young gay men took serious risks meeting strangers.
- 29:39Tim stayed in the closet until age 25 and came out very late, so he was terrified about people finding out.
- 30:10Tim argues there was magic in the danger and fear of the old Craigslist days that modern dating apps have lost.
- 30:32Whether this nostalgia for risky motel encounters is genuine memory or fetishizing like pulp novels remains unclear.