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Dennis, Vietnam Vet Who Lived in a Van, and 'Life in the Big City'
from 154 - The 3 AM Episode · #154
3 min
Tim describes his mother's friend Dennis, a Vietnam vet who lived in a van by the beach after his divorce and responded to every piece of bad news with 'life in the big city.'
- Tim recounts a friend walking into his house at 3 AM and giving him and another person acid, then rolling when everyone woke up for work while his mother screamed about drug addicts.
- Dennis, Tim's mother's friend, was a Vietnam vet who avoided paying his ex-wife by living in a van by the beach instead.
- Dennis would drink wine out of a Burger King plastic cup and respond to any bad news with the phrase 'life in the big city' no matter what was happening.
- Dennis would also walk around the house saying 'wheeze B's Goods,' which Tim acknowledges he doesn't know if it was racist or what it meant.
- Tim describes the appeal of the old world—smoking inside, ashing in fireplaces, eating clams—and questions how anyone could not be nostalgic for that way of living.