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Brighton Beach Walk and Russian Gangster Aesthetics
from Brighton Beach Memoirs · #96
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minTim and Ray discuss their walk around Brighton Beach, the garish mansions of Russian gangsters and their bleached-blonde wives, before witnessing a bizarre car accident.
- 0:52Turkey is not a country anymore.
- 1:15Brighton Beach walk — they went out to the area the other day.
- 1:29Multi-million dollar houses crammed together in Brooklyn with exotic, garish Eastern European castle aesthetics on suburban blocks.
- 2:26Couples walking around there have a similar aesthetic: older Russian gangster style, bald built guys in sweatsuits with bleached blonde women in big glasses.
- 2:46Tim does impression of Russian gangster complaining about seeing foxes after paying for his house in the neighborhood.
- 2:58They saw someone's car roll down the street in real time, crashing into a mailbox after the parking brake wasn't set.
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