rant · moment 13 of 17
The Great Travel Debate: Backpacking Europe vs. Staying Home
from What Does Your Brother Do In The Navy · #82
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8 minA long back-and-forth argument between Tim and Ray about whether young people should travel and 'get fucked' abroad versus Tim's skepticism of clueless backpacking kids, hitting on white privilege, the ISIS-fighter kid, and Tim's own regrets about never exploring.
- 39:14Tim on clueless travelers: there's nothing worse than a cunty kid who thinks they know shit because they travel the world.
- 40:37Tim describes David, a finance guy who travels constantly and now wants to move to Tokyo because he's bored with America.
- 41:12Why learn about the Second Punic War when you could just go to Spain and have a nice meal and walk on the beach?
- 42:05Tim admits he's all for traveling but is too busy with work now to do serious months-long trips.
- 42:43Tim gets angry at people who travel and flaunt their experiences.
- 43:27Young charismatic guys can go to Italy, bring Hershey bars, use their accent to seduce women—that's the appeal of youth travel.
- 43:53Tim argues that in your thirties, you've learned enough about the world to appreciate it without acting reckless.
- 44:23In your twenties you have freedom to travel; in your thirties you're either very successful or not successful at all.
- 45:07Being young with energy and openness to new experiences is when you should travel, go have weird moments with Europeans.
- 45:40Tim describes going upstate with friends to a cousin's house, then to the woods with torches, machetes, drinking, chopping wood.
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