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Mom Calls From the Mental Institution

from The Big Booth (with Devan Costa) · #141

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2 min

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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.

In this bit7 moments
  • 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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