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Grocery Store Pants and Louie Reflections

from Always Be Capturing · #71

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3 min

Tim riffs about taking his pants off in a grocery store, then pivots into musing about society rewarding sociopaths over good people, name-checking Cosby, Woody Allen, and Polanski, and testing produce with his ass as a bit.

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  • 17:15Tim took his pants off in the produce section of a grocery store because he was hot, planning to come back for them.
  • 17:49Louie CK had some genuinely good episodes despite the controversy surrounding him.
  • 18:10Society does not reward good people—it rewards sociopaths, liars, and cheaters who don't get caught.
  • 18:31The drive to excel at comedy comes from dark demons and deep narcissism, not healthy places.
  • 18:44Tim argues that Cosby was funny and Woody Allen and Roman Polanski made great work, regardless of their crimes.
  • 19:08It's Orwellian to retroactively declare that something you once found funny was never actually funny.
  • 19:34People struggle to accept that someone they liked did something terrible without erasing their past work entirely.
  • 19:54Tim tests produce quality by inserting items into his ass to check if they retain their shape.
  • 20:06If produce doesn't retain its shape after this test, it wouldn't be good anyway, so Tim is actually helping people.
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Bill CosbyWoody AllenRoman PolanskiLouis C.K.

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