rant · moment 2 of 18
Disastrous Thanksgiving at the Calabasas Hunting Lodge
from #176 - The Florida Project | The Tim Dillon Show · #176
14 min
Tim tells an extended story about a nightmarish Thanksgiving dinner at The Saddle Peak Lodge in Calabasas with his friend Michael: torrential rain, ambulances taking away a drunk elderly woman, a screaming customer demanding hot stuffing, terrible catering-hall food, a bar full of damned lonely people, a canceled Uber driver, and an expensive hour-long cab ride back, capped by a lackluster comedy set.
- Tim decides to skip flying home for Thanksgiving and instead finds a hunting lodge in Calabasas called The Saddle Peak Lodge.
- Going out to dinner on Thanksgiving is a mistake—you're supposed to stay home, eat stuffing, and listen to your aunt.
- 56-minute Uber ride through torrential rain and canyons to reach the lodge, with drunk drivers swerving between lanes.
- Upon arrival, there are two ambulances outside and a 90-year-old woman being carried out on a stretcher, passed out.
- Tim asks the hostess if the table is now open since the drunk woman was just taken out, but she refuses to seat them.
- The lodge is full of people without families—sad divorced parents, older people, and everyone is visibly miserable.
- The Thanksgiving food is atrocious catering-hall quality, and when Tim complains, his friend defends the restaurant.
- A man yells that the food isn't hot, forces the manager to touch the cold stuffing with his finger to prove it.
- After dinner, there are no Ubers available, and the Uber driver who does show up can't find the location despite Tim screaming into the phone.
- Back at the bar waiting for a cab, a drunk guy sits next to them discussing cancer types while a bartender keeps refilling his drink.
- Final hour-long cab ride back to Hollywood costs $100, making the entire $500 night a disaster of cold butternut squash soup disguised as lobster bisque.
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