Interview · moment 5 of 17
Mom Calls From the Mental Institution
from The Big Booth (with Devan Costa) · #141
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2 minGuest
Tim's mother calls mid-podcast from what is implied to be a mental institution, leading to a bit about her not understanding what podcasting is and a riff about Long Island comics performing shows there.
- 11:04Tim describes the pre-9/11 mentality where nobody cared—you could ride the Long Island Railroad without a ticket and no one would stop you.
- 11:22Tim explains his philosophy: he tips well, compensates people fairly, and just wants help getting what he wants without being treated like an animal.
- 11:40His uncle Stan has been banned from multiple restaurants and still goes places anyway.
- 11:57Stan is an eighty-year-old man who doesn't seem eighty and still works in his garden constantly.
- 12:11Stan uses the fake service dog papers to tell people they can't make him leave—his way of having power over places that would reject him.
- 12:36Stan brings the fake service dog into restaurants just because he likes having the dog with him.
- 12:56Stan talks to waiters about their sex lives, calls them losers, and genuinely makes people hate his guts.
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