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Visiting a Friend in a Sober House on Long Island
from Philosophy King · #94
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
8 minTim tells a long, sad story about visiting his friend's mother while the friend is in a sober house in Mastic Beach, describing the family smoking in a beautiful home, feral dogs and gang violence in the neighborhood, and the general decay surrounding Long Island's suburban rot.
- 38:42Tim had a sad dinner on Long Island and reflects on how living hard catches up with you on the back nine of your life.
- 39:28His friend's father passed away a year ago; the son ended up in a sober house at Mastic Beach.
- 40:04The sober house manager wouldn't allow Tim to visit because one bad actor could cause chaos with eleven residents in 24 hours.
- 41:00Tim visited the friend's mom and they sat smoking cigarettes in the living room of a beautiful home, which felt dirty and sad.
- 41:33The friend mentioned people walk around Mastic Beach with sticks to defend against feral pit bulls and rottweilers, not gangs.
- 42:37The friend's brother is a good dude who dates a pretty girl and they run marathons, but the friend himself dates wild strippers.
- 43:03Cops came to the door asking where someone named Isabelle was because she was on Indiana's Most Wanted, and the friend casually said she was in the kitchen.
- 43:47Tim drove to Chicago with a stripper whose mom ran a trucking company and screamed at truckers on the two-way radio all day.
- 44:38The friend's last girlfriend is doing heroin, and Tim questions why life got so hard that people need to resort to drugs.
- 45:21People on Long Island are living without purpose, and without some infrastructure like religion or hobbies, they end up floating and turning to heroin.
- 45:54Tim argues that instead of heroin, people should try bowling leagues and other hobbies like stamp collecting or building model trains.
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