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Falling Through the Cracks and Bringing Out the Real Dance Fighters

from Happy Wife Happy Life · #115

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5 min

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They discuss how poor families evade government oversight, Moses' perspective that his siblings had it worse, and then Tim brings out Michael's actual capoeira dance-fighting troupe onto the stage as a bit.

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  • 31:18When you're poor as shit in America, people don't give a shit about you—as long as you're not fucking up rich people's lives, you can do whatever.
  • 31:52Tim describes meeting Moses as encountering something legitimate—a person who genuinely went through something, unlike his own acting denial which he frames as a sob story.
  • 32:24Moses's siblings took the brunt of the weird childhood and now rebel by becoming the greatest parent, going to every student council meeting to fight for their kids' education.
  • 33:05Brazilian dance fighting team Michael and the Way interrupts the show—described as a full show with no fucking, all virgins in their 30s.
  • 34:22Moses on what he'd say to Michael: no anger, just honest questions, because everything he's told Tim could be bullshit and is all perception.
  • 34:44Moses's siblings remember living in a nice house in Shaker Heights, Ohio with a pool and their dad working for GM, contradicting Moses's entire bus narrative.
  • 35:18Moses's dad now claims he was never gay, but Moses's mom says she caught him in a bath with a man on their wedding day—a logistical impossibility Moses finds suspicious.
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