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Kids Filming a Disabled Classmate, and Pitching a Slave-Talking Medium Show

from Dinner Pig · #99

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4 min

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Tim reacts to a news story about two teens arrested for filming a mentally disabled classmate, praising honest cruelty over performative virtue, then riffs on talk radio psychics like John Edwards and the Long Island Medium, before pitching a fake show where he's a medium who talks to dead slaves for permission to say slurs about Trump.

In this bit9 moments
  • 34:27Kids filmed a mentally disabled classmate pulling his pants down at the urinal at school.
  • 34:39Tim finds hope in the fact that kids are still just honest pieces of shit without moral posturing.
  • 34:52Tim prefers the Rush Limbaugh style of cynicism—naked and unpretentious—over sanctimonious versions.
  • 35:17He loved talk radio as a kid because all the hosts were psychotic.
  • 35:31Delilah's advice to rape victims involved finding silver linings and playing Celine Dion.
  • 36:23Before the internet, radio was the only way to access sociopaths like Limbaugh, Bob Grant, and Michael Savage.
  • 36:58John Edwards, the crossing-over fraud, gets booked as an expert to discuss current events.
  • 37:26Long Island Medium Teresa Caputo is treated as a legitimate spiritual advisor despite being provably fake.
  • 37:56Tim pitches a show where he plays a medium who talks to dead slaves and uses slurs to attack Trump, with network approval.
Mentioned here

Dr. Laura SchlesingerJohn EdwardsTeresa CaputoRush LimbaughDelilahBob GrantLuis GomezCeline DionDave SmithDonald TrumpHoward SternMichael SavageLong IslandBill Parsell

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