Episode 81 · The GaS Digital / Ray Kump Era
Searching For Bobby Fischer
Jan 30, 2018 · 1:09:09 · 25 segments, 165 moments indexed
- 1 min
Show intro music and Tim welcomes Ray Kump for the first live episode in a while.
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- 0:17Tim welcomes listeners to the first live episode in a while with Ray Kump.
- 1 min
The Russ Baker Interview Confusion
#Tim and Ray discuss the Russ Baker episode and how Baker, who investigated powerful families, now wants to interview Tim on Russcast, which strikes them as absurd.
5moments
- 0:33Tim asks what they thought of the Russ Baker episode he subjected them to.
- 0:50Tim questions why they should ever talk to Baker again, given how much worse the podcast gets.
- 1:03Russ Baker conducted an exhaustive investigation into one of the country's most powerful families, yet he's now interviewing Tim instead.
- 1:15Tim was at Luger's last night for his birthday surrounded by goons.
- 1:31Long Island goons frequent Luger's.
- 3 min
Peter Luger's and Long Island Trash Couples
#Tim riffs on taking his birthday dinner at Peter Luger's, mocking the overly bright lighting, the theatrical 'oohing' over the steak, and the trashy Long Island families making a big deal out of a mediocre dinner.
10moments
- 1:34Peter Luger's resembles a Bennigan's, packed with guys in their one good shirt trying to impress.
- 1:47Tim describes the setup: taking out trash couples to jumpstart their lives with a nice steak dinner.
- 2:03The couple debates hash browns with lines like 'you ate a lot last time' and 'we can share back.'
- 2:24Tim mocks the theatrical reactions when sizzling steaks arrive — 'ooh, ooh, look at this, honey!'
- 2:36Riffing a husband's promise during the Santa Reach foreclosure: 'Remember I said I was going to make it up to you?'
- 3:01The restaurant is brutally well-lit, like a fluorescent German beer garden.
- 3:26Under those lights, the clientele reveals itself: 'these people should be kept in the dark.'
- 3:39Real Long Island families arrive in Levitt Houses, kids wearing their nicest Yankee jacket.
- 3:58The father promises them: 'Order whatever you want. You'll remember this for your whole life. We're making a memory.'
- 4:12Tim's verdict: that whole 'we care about you' memory-making pitch is fucking horseshit.
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- 1 min
Back from LA and Michelle's Cat Oscar
#Tim recaps his ten days in Los Angeles and thanks fans for coming to shows, then introduces his friend Michelle's indifferent, diseased-looking fat cat Oscar.
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- 4:28Tim stayed with his friend Michelle, who he describes as a loony tune.
- 2 min
Oscar the Cat Escapes to the Pound
#Tim continues the Oscar story — the cat escaping, getting taken to the pound, and being retrieved completely unfazed — then pivots into visiting his mother in a mental institution and her only asking about egg rolls.
6moments
- 4:46Tim notes Oscar has a nervous disorder—a weird limp face that looks like palsy.
- 5:05Oscar is massive and can't express emotion, but he keeps escaping.
- 5:16When Oscar escapes one night, a woman named Michelle finds him and brings him to the pound.
- 5:29Michelle's husband can't pick Oscar up that night because he's out of town, so he gets a different cat instead.
- 5:45Tim visited his mother in a mental institution with egg rolls and she immediately asked if they were getting them.
- 6:02When Tim asked his mother what happened to someone named Pam, she said Pam fell and died—eating an egg roll with zero emotion.
- 4 min
The Egg Roll Riot at the Mental Institution
#An extended story about smuggling Chinese food into his mother's psychiatric facility, getting blocked by a shit-covered elevator, being defended by a wheelchair-bound patient, and getting accused of 'inciting a riot' by security — plus a callback to a prior incident with a tongueless patient throwing books at him.
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- 6:38Tim orders Chinese food for a visit to his mother at a mental institution.
- 7:09The facility forbids him from walking down the stairs because someone defecated in the elevator.
- 7:44Tim refuses to take the shit elevator and insists on getting the egg rolls before the delivery driver leaves.
- 8:01A patient in a wheelchair defends Tim's status as a visitor and tells the security guard to treat him with respect.
- 8:24Security accuses Tim of inciting a riot when the patient starts yelling about his rights.
- 9:07Tim recalls another incident with a tongueless woman who yelled at him over food.
- 9:20He ate Oreos in front of the woman to provoke her, and she threw books in response.
- 9:40When Tim points out the lack of accountability for patient behavior, staff tell him he should set a higher standard.
- 9:51Tim concludes that visiting his mother is about getting her egg rolls and avoiding the broken elevator.
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- 3 min
The Obama FISA Memo and Post-Truth Politics
#Tim and Ray dig into the Nunes/Obama-era FISA memo controversy, comparing it to Watergate, Trump's wiretapping claims being vindicated, and how partisan hysteria on both sides (Alex Jones/Roger Stone vs. Rachel Maddow) has erased any shared sense of facts.
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- 10:00Tim asks if the guest has read anything about the Obama FISA memo.
- 10:23Tim notes that people don't realize how bad Watergate really was, with CIA cronies running roughshod.
- 10:48People in the past had balls and got things done, unlike now.
- 11:12Tim explains the memo details abuse of a FISA warrant used to illegally wiretap Trump.
- 11:27Tim gives credit to Trump for claiming he was being wiretapped, which turned out to be true.
- 11:50Republicans claim Hillary and Loretta Lynch are going to jail, but Tim wants a sober analysis.
- 12:02If the wiretapping abuse was that bad, wouldn't they have hard proof of it?
- 12:40The real problem is there are no facts anymore, just a week of conjecture about the memo.
- 12:59The memo's been around for a while, but Republicans should have released it before failing at Obamacare.
- 13:16Tim's conclusion: the media on all sides is ideologically corrupt and driven by emotion.
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- 4 min
Jordan Peterson, Chomsky, and Joe Scarborough's Dead Intern
#They discuss Jordan Peterson's viral gender pay gap interview and his strengths/blind spots on Western civilization, compare him to Chomsky's inability to thrive in modern media combat, then veer into the old Joe Scarborough dead intern story and Zbigniew Brzezinski's daughter working with him.
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- 13:21Tim used to love the conspiracy world because it had no skin in the game—just presenting facts, even when Alex Jones attacked everyone equally.
- 13:48Once Jones became Trump's campaign manager, InfoWars pivoted to defending Trump exclusively, peddling hollow predictions like 'Hillary's going to jail.'
- 14:21This post-truth era functions like a Orwellian game where leaked memos get hyped as devastating until you actually read them and find nothing.
- 14:44The Nazis were dumber than modern propagandists—they literally put their worst intentions in writing like morons.
- 15:38Chomsky never gained traction in the media circus because he was like a brilliant guy forced to argue with fucking toddlers.
- 15:56Peterson had the nerve to discuss Western civilization without acknowledging the misdeeds Western countries have committed.
- 16:30Unlike Peterson, Chomsky maintained distance and refused to play the game, only engaging with figures like Buckley.
- 16:41Joe Scarborough—remember when they found a dead woman in his office and he quit the Senate?
- 16:58Scarborough ended up on MSNBC teamed up with Brzezinski's daughter after the dead intern story broke on Gawker.
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- 2 min
Trump Thrives in Chaos, Cory Booker Can't Beat Him
#Riffing on how Democrats keep trying to out-troll Trump and fail because he doesn't care, using Cory Booker as an example of a weak alternative, and noting Trump has years left before consequences catch up.
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- 17:12Tim notes it's weird that one of the most ruthless national security advisors in the past 50 years is the daughter of that operator.
- 17:28People whose grandfathers were ruthless stay in Saudi royal family guest rooms, then show up at the Women's March talking about equality.
- 18:19Tim says he goes on Twitter for four minutes and checks out, done with it.
- 18:36Trump will win again because all attempts to derail him have failed — he's the best version of what his opponents are trying to be.
- 18:47The problem is everyone tries to derail Trump by out-trolling him, but he doesn't care and you never will.
- 19:10The way people are trying to combat Trump is by being him, which won't work.
- 3 min
Crypto Bubble and the Uber Pool Crypto Bro
#Tim complains about an insufferable crypto evangelist in an Uber Pool talking about mining Mars material, then he and Ray debate whether cryptocurrency could ever replace fiat currency given central banks' resistance and reliance on money printing.
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- 19:24Tim outlines the nested bubble structure: cryptocurrency as a small bubble within the larger stock market bubble.
- 19:57Uber Pool encounter with a crypto analyst who wouldn't stop pitching blockchain and space mining.
- 20:17The crypto guy claimed they'd mine Mars materials using cryptocurrency, which Tim calls complete bullshit.
- 20:34Blockchain as a concept could theoretically work as a new currency, but Tim remains skeptical about its security claims.
- 21:08Central banks worldwide won't allow cryptocurrency to replace fiat currency without fighting back harder than believers think.
- 21:26Tim explains that Bitcoin adoption wouldn't create a gold standard scenario because central banks would still print money endlessly.
- 21:50The financial system is too far gone to deleverage; removing monetary tools would collapse everything even faster.
- 22:22Stripping central banks of their ability to manipulate the economy leaves everyone worse off without an alternative system in place.
- 3 min
Young People, Chaos, and Historical Ignorance
#A discussion of how young people, having grown up watching institutions collapse since the mortgage crisis, have embraced chaos and gender radicalism without understanding economic history, unlike Tim who plowed through Wealth of Nations on audiobook.
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- 22:42Young people drawn to chaos through gender pronouns and crypto, expecting new forces to emerge and build a new empire.
- 23:00Tim identifies Halliburton as actually positioned to thrive in chaos, not the idealistic groups hoping for it.
- 23:30Young people now feel they can't do anything, a sentiment Tim says he never experienced.
- 24:09Young people don't read history or understand the 20th century's massive achievements and failures.
- 24:45Tim argues young people have watched nothing but institutions collapse since the mortgage crisis, leading them to embrace the Wild West.
- 25:25They can't even explain why the mortgage crisis happened in the first place.
- 3 min
Ann Coulter, Radicals Who Never Fight, and Antifa Cowardice
#Tim mocks people who think a single book or tweet changes their politics, calls out keyboard radicals like Dylann Roof sympathizers, and rips into Antifa for only throwing rocks at Gavin McInnes instead of actually fighting the government.
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- 26:17Ann Coulter's books don't actually shift your thinking, no matter how provocative her rhetoric.
- 26:48Deep engagement with ideology is tedious and ultimately fills you with dread about how insurmountable real change actually is.
- 27:15In some countries, people do more than tweet about their political beliefs.
- 27:29The people who take decisive action in collectivist movements are always the worst people.
- 27:43College kids at Tufts claim to be Maoists while their fathers are dentists and their mothers order them sushi.
- 28:17If you actually believe you're a radical, stop doing street skirmishes with the alt-right and go fight the government instead.
- 28:43Tim tells self-identified radicals they need to fly a real plane into the Pentagon if they want to accomplish anything.
- 29:06Throwing rocks at Gavin McInnes accomplishes nothing—it's just posturing that fifteen-year-olds engage in.
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- 1 min
Fat Antifa Sketch Idea
#Tim recalls pitching a sketch called 'Fat Antifa' about two out-of-shape guys in all black who never do anything, and how he later realized the idea was ridiculous.
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- 29:33Tim agrees with a lot of antifa's things but doesn't think they'd actually fight anyone.
- 30:04The sketch idea: Fat Antifa — two guys too heavy to do anything, just sitting at bus stops eating sandwiches in all black.
- 30:16Tim thought it was the best idea at the time, but later realized it was actually retarded.
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Sy Hersh, Bin Laden, and Media's Missing Follow-Up Questions
#Tim discusses Sy Hersh's claims about the ISI holding Bin Laden and how interviewers never ask the obvious follow-up questions, connecting it to Patrice O'Neal's joke about burying Bin Laden at sea and his own detached reaction to 9/11.
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- 30:31Sy Hersh's book about the Bin Laden raid was largely ignored by the media.
- 30:46Tim's frustration: when people get interviewed with major revelations, nobody follows up on them.
- 31:23In Hersh's interview, the host asks if he felt his story was ignored instead of probing the substance.
- 31:53If the military didn't want interrogators talking to Bin Laden, why hasn't anyone asked why they made that decision?
- 32:24The lack of follow-up questions from interviewers is what turns him into a conspiracy theorist.
- 32:37Patrice O'Neill once asked on air why the Navy would flush Bin Laden's body in the ocean instead of following Islamic burial practices.
- 32:53Tim notes the absurdity of claiming cultural sensitivity to Islam while invading their countries and bombing mosques.
- 33:23People cheered in the streets when the government announced they'd killed Bin Laden.
- 34:47This failure to ask hard questions is why credible journalists and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones both fill the vacuum.
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- 4 min
Watergate, Russ Baker, and Truth Without Reward
#Extended riff on how a once-legitimate press corps that broke Watergate has degraded into partisan tribalism, and how truth-tellers like Russ Baker and Nick Bryant get no reward for their diligent research.
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- 35:07No one calls bullshit until the country becomes completely fractured and there's no objective information left.
- 35:40Bob Woodward worked for the CIA, but during Watergate there was at least a pretense of a legitimate press corps willing to investigate.
- 36:36The problem is truth is meaningless and not rewarded by anything—there's no monetary compensation for being right.
- 36:46Russ Baker uncovered major facts about one of America's most infamous presidents and received no great reward for it.
- 37:06Tim compares pursuing truth to the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark: you can find everything and explain it, but people just put it in a pile and ignore it.
- 37:37People choose to believe what they want to believe anyway, just like religion—explaining facts doesn't change their minds.
- 38:08During the mortgage industry frenzy, people were rewarded for not living in the world of facts, and those who questioned it were attacked.
- 38:34When the country is in a stampede, anyone coming out with a sober rational take from the other side gets exiled from society immediately.
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- 3 min
The Mortgage Crisis, Bubbles, and Immigration Overcorrection
#Tim draws on his mortgage industry sales background to explain how people ignore obvious bubbles (housing, crypto, stock market), then connects institutional failure and lack of planning to the harsh immigration crackdowns under Trump.
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- 39:05Bitcoin is obviously a bubble, yet people keep debating whether it is.
- 39:17People like bubbles—America itself is a bubble filled with motivational nonsense.
- 39:41Tim traces current political chaos back to economic bubbles and lack of real policy solutions.
- 40:07Trump thrives in chaos and can't explain nuance, making bold moves without considering humanity.
- 40:29Immigration overcorrection happens because no one dealt with the issue for years with actual plans.
- 40:53People's inability to understand how economic cycles create scapegoats dooms them to repeat the pattern.
- 41:19Border states face real pressures—larger class sizes, busier hospitals, potential job losses and drug trade violence.
- 41:43Dismissing all immigration concerns as racism ignores legitimate problems people are experiencing.
- 41:56Tim argues politicians should address problems organically rather than with radical overcorrection.
- 42:07The Wire functions as more than television—it's supposedly Obama's favorite show and arguably better than The Sopranos.
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- 2 min
The Wire vs. The Sopranos
#A tangent comparing The Wire and The Sopranos as the best TV shows, with a detour into a roach found in a Blimpie sandwich, before returning to praise The Wire's systemic complexity.
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- 42:40Tim recalls working in mortgages next to a Blimpy and witnessing an employee drop a tomato on a roach crawling across a sandwich.
- 43:07The Wire's genius is that it proves complex problems have multiple variables and accountability on different sides, not simple binary explanations.
- 43:36People hear Louis C.K. did comedy for 25-30 years and internalize that as a template, ignoring that he was a late-night head writer within three years and actually making a living.
- 44:01Most viewers walk away from The Wire thinking 'oh shit's fucked' rather than understanding its deeper systemic exploration.
- 2 min
LA's Fake City and Persian Beverly Hills Mansions
#Tim describes LA as a fake city built into crumbling hillsides, mudslides and fires, and the ostentatious Persian mansions of Beverly Hills with gold Bentleys and pet flamingos.
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- 44:57L.A. is something nice because it's a place dedicated to only one thing where 99 percent of people fail.
- 45:23The whole city is like a fake city — houses fall off hills when it rains, mudslides, fires.
- 45:35Houses are literally built into the sides of dirt hills.
- 45:49Beverly Hills is beautiful but very ostentatious — gold Bentleys, very Persian.
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- 5 min
LA Burnouts and the Ambitious 23-Year-Old Pitch Kid
#Tim describes the jaded, defeated energy of longtime failed LA pilot writers versus a pragmatic 23-year-old comedian who cynically pitches identity-based content, including an absurd riff on a fake non-binary disabled romance show.
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- 46:30LA attracts people who get how fucked everything is, but that awareness doesn't help them—they're trapped in darkness like they've read too much about kings.
- 47:12Failed TV pilots have left some LA comedians perpetually on the edge, starting every sentence with a nervous laugh and smile.
- 47:38Tim had dinner with a 23-year-old comedian who's pragmatically willing to write a show about an Arab guy since networks won't make one about a white guy.
- 48:27The kid's pitch: people mad they can't get shows should stop complaining and just write what networks want instead of waiting.
- 48:48Describing the kid's actual TV pitch: two non-binary, mixed-race characters, one with a clubfoot and one in a wheelchair, falling in love.
- 49:32The show then pivots to the couple researching dark conspiracy material like Nick Bryant stuff, discovering the world isn't sunshine.
- 49:48The comedy premise is fucked-up people finding even worse shit—like someone with six months to live choosing to investigate pedophile cults instead of watching sunsets.
- 50:02Tim explains everything depends on execution: you can make a movie about trans people if you do it right, and that's what the kid understood.
- 50:33The kid's edge is being emotionally detached enough to see how things actually get done in the industry.
- 5 min
The Sociopathic Kid, LA Food, and Netflix Taping Plug
#Tim continues the story of the emotionally detached LA kid ('that's a gangster'), pivots to defending New York food culture against tourists, then plugs his upcoming Netflix taping in Atlanta.
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- 50:41Tim describes a walk through Hancock Park in LA with someone he calls a rough businessman who simply said "friends" when Tim asked about having people around.
- 51:40Everyone in Malibu and beach areas is kind of a dirtbag despite having money, but Tim respects that some wealthy people still live hard like Spicoli instead of acting like typical rich people.
- 52:23Tim explains it's not the guys making the money in LA but the sons of the brothers, and jokes about flying someone's wife out and getting meetings with Sony executives on the Paramount lot.
- 53:02Tim mimics being a Hollywood producer moving locations because it's too windy and demanding crab salad immediately, calling himself Cecil B. DeMille.
- 53:17The conventional wisdom that New York has the best food is going to be smashed, and Tim was more of a proponent of it than anyone else.
- 53:48Tim admits he still thinks New York is the most influential food city if you have the money, though he loves LA food too.
- 54:01People from Iowa who move to New York go to bodegas at 3 AM to get turkey and pickles on a roll with bodega sauce—which is just ketchup and relish.
- 54:30Tim plugs his Netflix taping in Atlanta on February 8th and asks listeners to email him their email addresses and whether they want a plus-one to try to get tickets.
- 55:09February 8th is a Thursday, and Tim jokes that he prefers people not take a bus to the Netflix taping and not be involved with it at all.
- 55:29Tim makes a comment about disabled and trans people just grabbing things and slobbering before the segment ends in confusion about finding someone.
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- 2 min
Tim runs through his upcoming tour dates (LA, Mohegan Sun, Zanies, Magooby's) and plugs the double-decker bus tour show and mailing list sign-up at timdilloncomedy.com.
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- 56:08Tim imagines bringing Johnny Gosh into the podcast universe and thinks he'd leave.
- 56:25New tour dates added, with limited February availability due to Netflix deal.
- 56:50Summer dates confirmed at Mohegan Sun, Zany's, and Magooby's in Baltimore, plus festivals.
- 57:07Bus tour signup: double-decker tour bus experience in New York or LA, email announcement 24 hours before public sale.
- 5 min
Ray plugs his new sports conspiracy show and they discuss chess champion Bobby Fischer's unhinged, antisemitic radio celebration of 9/11 while a producer searches for the audio clip.
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- 57:32Ray Kump announces a new sports conspiracy show coming out on Vice Sports
- 57:43Tim suggests pushing Bobby Fischer as a guest for the conspiracy show
- 58:00Bobby Fischer called a Philippine radio station on the morning of 9/11 to celebrate attacks on the United States
- 58:34Ray doesn't know the name of his own show and has to direct people to Go90
- 58:47Ray's father apparently owns raykump.com as a squatter
- 59:26Bobby Fischer's well-documented hatred for Jews kept appearing in search results
- 1:00:03Ray plugs his show Laughs on Tap at the Tap in Tarrytown on January 29th at 7:30pm
- 1:02:22Tim jokes that Bobby Fischer's 9/11 rant sounds like an original Trump State of the Union speech
- 1 min
Shannon gives an update on the new studio build with viewer seating, joking about how that policy will immediately go wrong, followed by the PO box address for fan mail.
5moments
- 1:02:59Tim compares alt-right complaints about Jews to losing a summer job at an ice cream stand in Southampton.
- 1:03:17Shannon announces construction on a new studio with two recording spaces and audience viewing areas, targeting mid-March completion.
- 1:03:28Tim calls the idea of letting listeners watch shows live a bad idea.
- 1:03:43Tim imagines someone having sex and dying in the studio rafters during the live taping experiment.
- 1:04:02Tim asks Shannon for the mailing address so fans can send in mail and gifts.
- 4 min
Planning a Live Show at a Bennigan's
#Tim and Ray riff on where to hold their next live show, mocking suburban chain restaurants, comparing notes on friends' unimpressive vacations, and joking about Uzbekistan sex tourism versus lounging in Puerto Rico.
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- 1:04:41Tim and Shannon decide to do a live show next week and start brainstorming venues.
- 1:05:15Tim wants to aim lower than comedy clubs and do it at a restaurant instead.
- 1:05:36Tim proposes doing a live show from Bennigan's, modeling it after hijacking a restaurant's pizza lunch buffet.
- 1:06:02A Bennigan's manager told Tim he heard on another podcast that Tim doesn't have a driver's license.
- 1:06:17Tim tells the guy to stop listening to podcasts because that's all he does.
- 1:06:32Shannon talks to young professionals who bore Tim with stories about vacations in Puerto Rico.
- 1:06:44Tim tells Shannon to go to Uzbekistan instead of bragging about Puerto Rico beaches.
- 1:07:31The nearest Bennigan's is two hours away in Vinland, New Jersey, though there used to be closer locations that closed.
- 1:08:05They settle on doing the show at Old Country Buffet in Levittown with their mobile recording setup.
- 1 min
Tim closes the show reminding listeners to follow on social media, subscribe for $6/month, and rattles off other Rooster Teeth network shows.
3moments
- 1:08:26Tim plugs Tim Dylan DIY on Twitter and Facebook, along with TimDylanComedy.com and the mailing list.
- 1:08:41Tim mentions The Jester Show as one of several projects to follow, including Roastmasters Live at The Stand and Hammerfisting.
- 1:08:53High Society Radio gets a final plug before the segment ends.