rant · moment 9 of 19
Anti-Friendsgiving Rant: Cold Brew, Nostalgia, and Corporate Brunch Culture
from This Is No Way To Live · #72
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
6 minTim goes off on modern 'Friendsgiving' culture as a hollow corporate-lite tradition compared to the original queer/outcast Friendsgivings of the East Village, then expands into a broader rant about brunch culture, gender reveal parties, and everything being corporately designed for you.
- 28:35Tim's rant against Friendsgiving: stop with this shit, it's just office mates sharing turkey.
- 29:11The original Friendsgiving was people disowned by families doing coke in the East Village, not corporate brunches.
- 29:48Young professionals discussing Kendrick Lamar while eating overly ambitious menus that suck is worse than the old version.
- 30:30Friendsgiving stretched across multiple days is weak; it should be one night, not an extension of this generation's nostalgia obsession.
- 30:56People are choking down a nostalgia cock because childhood was the only time they felt safe.
- 31:52Tim's sick of New York City young professional culture and the brunchification of every weekend.
- 32:26Young Goldman Sachs guys in the East Village doing brunch every other day, getting high at music festivals—it's fucking annoying.
- 32:47Upwardly mobile drunks destroying their lives in old man bars represents a loss of shared musical experience like Zeppelin or Smashing Pumpkins.
- 33:19Every music festival, brunch, and vacation has been designed on a spreadsheet by marketing groups to control how you live.
- 33:40Corporate design sucks the spontaneity and excitement out of every fucking experience people have.