rant · moment 12 of 17
The Corinthian Yacht Club, Sailing, and Travel Regrets
from What Does Your Brother Do In The Navy · #82
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
6 minTalk of an old-money Long Island yacht club, admiration for old-school sailors who traveled without engines, and Tim admitting he regrets not traveling more when he was young and chasing film projects in Deer Park.
- 33:18The Corinthian Yacht Club in Santa Rina is where old money lives—Billy Joel and Rupert Murdoch types on Long Island.
- 34:04There is something genuinely cool about sailing, especially for someone like his friend Bud who sailed all over to places like Bimini without needing engines.
- 34:37Tim regrets not traveling when he was younger because he was focused on trying to get movies made.
- 34:48He was shooting features in Deer Park, testing cameras to decide whether to purchase them.
- 35:11Part of him thinks not traveling saved him from ending up in a Taiwanese prison with coke he'd bought as an idiot.
- 35:24When you're sober and older, traveling just isn't as fun as it was when you were young, high, and twenty.
- 35:58If you're appreciating architecture, you're not having fun—you're trying to get laid and meet people.
- 36:21Tim's version of being open at twenty: gender non-binary, willing to do anything with anyone, even some blue-haired heroin addict in Ireland.
- 37:04He knows Long Island goons who've never set foot on another landmass outside the United States, which is instructive—people should travel and absorb culture while young and free from jobs or relationships.
- 38:02People who claim culture because they went to Italy once don't know shit; they just remember the pasta.
- 38:37You can learn about the world without traveling, but Tim travels to shitholes constantly and finds the adventure worthwhile.
- 38:50The idea that at one point in his life he could have been more adventurous.
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