Interview · moment 12 of 14
Surfers, Hog Size, and the Immoral Left
from Living on the Edge of Death · #112
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
8 minGuest
A tangent about tall muscular surfers and their anatomy leads back into Tim ranting about the left's condescending refusal to engage with the right, comparing LBJ's effective ruthlessness to Kennedy's charisma.
- 39:41Tim discusses the rise of neo-fascism in Germany and Sweden, connecting national identity to recent political movements.
- 40:09National identity as a concept only became significant around the 1800s; before that, people identified more with regions and villages.
- 40:41Medieval warfare worked differently from modern total warfare — armies would fight in fields, and the winner would claim territory rather than destroy it.
- 41:21Modern warfare's absurdity: countries destroy nations in order to liberate them.
- 41:53Growing up in the 1990s felt different — there was pride in America between the Cold War's end and 9/11, which shattered that feeling.
- 42:31Tim returns from a technical issue and pivots to describing the desperation and lack of ambition he sees in Los Angeles.
- 43:25People in LA float around doing various gigs without real jobs, running their bank account down to zero each month.
- 44:18Tim went to Malibu with a friend, but the water was too cold to swim and his friend wanted to just sit and talk.
- 44:39Tim doesn't understand people who want to just sit on the beach doing nothing when they could be making something or being productive.
- 46:47Surfers are attractive — tall guys with long hair, muscular but not huge, and specifically the way their genitals look in a wetsuit.
- 47:20Tim describes the appeal of a surfer's anatomy as being like a dumb puppy that won't learn, a stupid animal quality.