rant · moment 5 of 16
The Mysterious Cult-Kid Staffer and Leaving New York
from Mike Recine · #142
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4 minTim clowns on a strange new GaS Digital staffer who Lewis apparently recruited off the street, then pivots into venting about being sick of New York — the subway, Uber caps, AOC's carbon policies, and old-school NYC weirdos in the studio.
- 14:11Lewis hires staffers who look increasingly like cult members, and there's a mysterious kid sitting in the studio that nobody recognizes.
- 14:36Tim theorizes Lewis finds these kids squatting in the East Village and recruits them to work at the podcast network.
- 15:11Tim has been spending time in Los Angeles and finds it nice, though he starts to go crazy if he stays longer than five days.
- 15:28Tim is ready to leave New York, saying he's had enough and wishing pain on most of the people who live there.
- 15:47His roommate's girlfriend texted him while he was traveling about the drunk landlady calling her a whore and asking if he'll give a warning before coming back.
- 16:14Living in New York feels like having someone's foot on your neck all the time; he's lost his passion for it.
- 16:25The subway barely works, and now there's a cap on Uber cars in the city, which drives prices up for people just trying to survive.
- 16:41Tim supports taxing the rich but argues that policies like carbon taxes and car caps hurt working people trying to get to their jobs.
- 17:18If New York had a modern subway system, you could tell people to pay up for cars, but it doesn't, so capping vehicles just punishes the poor.